Stasis
E-Thug
- Location
- Now: MTL, Jan: LA
- Car(s)
- MKV GTI
Hmmmm...
I went to a car meet tonight... a bunch of my old friends I used to run with when I had my Eclipse. Was fun seeing them, and fun seeing a nice 60+ car turnout. There were a lot of pos cars there, but some real decent ones too... a 500whp civic for one, god damn that thing is fast. I ran into my neighbor there, surprise surprise. I had always thought he had a Corolla S with an XRS badge for fun, but I was wrong I guess. I didn't know there was a high revving 170hp Corolla XRS available. He was leaving at the same time as me, so we decided to hit the highway together.
We didn't do any dig pulls, nor triple honks side by side, but he took off wot at one point, all the way up to 130mph, and I followed. While he did take off before me, and I had to catch up, I was still very stunned at how this engine performs. While I'm convinced I would kill him from a dig... even with his lackluster torque numbers I still saw the potential of that engine in the Corolla. I was wot and bridging the gap rather slowly. I finally started gaining faster and moved over to pass him, but we both had to let off due to oncoming traffic. Where we were when we got on, the road was barren, but there were cars further down and I didn't have enough room to catch up and pass him.
Either way, the outcome is that we're faster (I hope so, loads more torque, more hp, a turbo...) but not as much as I'd expect. Oddly enough, I did better against a Celica GT-S which has a slightly more powerful version of this same engine. Maybe that was the driver.
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I went to a car meet tonight... a bunch of my old friends I used to run with when I had my Eclipse. Was fun seeing them, and fun seeing a nice 60+ car turnout. There were a lot of pos cars there, but some real decent ones too... a 500whp civic for one, god damn that thing is fast. I ran into my neighbor there, surprise surprise. I had always thought he had a Corolla S with an XRS badge for fun, but I was wrong I guess. I didn't know there was a high revving 170hp Corolla XRS available. He was leaving at the same time as me, so we decided to hit the highway together.
We didn't do any dig pulls, nor triple honks side by side, but he took off wot at one point, all the way up to 130mph, and I followed. While he did take off before me, and I had to catch up, I was still very stunned at how this engine performs. While I'm convinced I would kill him from a dig... even with his lackluster torque numbers I still saw the potential of that engine in the Corolla. I was wot and bridging the gap rather slowly. I finally started gaining faster and moved over to pass him, but we both had to let off due to oncoming traffic. Where we were when we got on, the road was barren, but there were cars further down and I didn't have enough room to catch up and pass him.
Either way, the outcome is that we're faster (I hope so, loads more torque, more hp, a turbo...) but not as much as I'd expect. Oddly enough, I did better against a Celica GT-S which has a slightly more powerful version of this same engine. Maybe that was the driver.
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