Anyone Here Drive A Fast Car?!?

[cockerpunk]

Unless its a Miata with a V8 swap I'm really not interested in seeing it here. I know the engineer in you cringes at these backyard basterdizations, but I find them amazingly fascinating.

on the contrary, v8 miatas are amazing, and i love them.

SO much fun to drive. ironically, not much faster than a well built normal miata, except maybe on tracks with a long front straight, but mighty fun to drive. v8 944 swaps are actually even better IMO, thats a chassis with a bit more control than a miata has at those kind of power levels.

also, sidenote, love how people think they can just slip in my opinion, without me noticing.

[OPBN]

fast cars are for driving.

paintball equipment is for playing paintball with.

this isn't a crazy idea.

So car culture is only about fast cars and racing? If this is your contention than you're doing it wrong. There are tons of aspects of car culture that are not speed and/or race related. And yes paintball equipment is for playing with, but there is also a preservation side of paintball and the car culture that is about collecting and preserving certain examples of both of these hobbies. If you don't see this then you're being obtuse at this point as usual.

[cockerpunk]

So car culture is only about fast cars and racing? If this is your contention than you're doing it wrong. There are tons of aspects of car culture that are not speed and/or race related. And yes paintball equipment is for playing with, but there is also a preservation side of paintball and the car culture that is about collecting and preserving certain examples of both of these hobbies. If you don't see this then you're being obtuse at this point as usual.

the thread is called "anyone drive a fast car"

not preserving cars. not restoring cars. not fixing cars. not building cars.

about driving fast cars.

[OPBN]

the thread is called "anyone drive a fast car"

not preserving cars. not restoring cars. not fixing cars. not building cars.

about driving fast cars.

[boo]

I'm in my mid 30's, as I said before, I gave up trying to compete in the top of my class at anything competitive a long time ago. I think I speak for most of us here. There is always somebody with more time, money, and youth to devote to be the best at any activity under the sun. And quite frankly, even in my youth I saw such pursuits as pointless, why devote your life to one thing when there is so much out there. Just do it to have fun.

I'm always suspect of people that talk up their skills, always unsolicited, at anything. People love to brag about skills on the internet because it's nothing they ever have to prove. They're always haters of the more humble people that do have real skills.

And like your cross post try's to say when they get jealous of someone else's skill they change the game. "Welp, I don't have the skill to build a fast car so I'm going to blame it on people sucking for having extra money to buy fast cars", or changing the topic around to "fast cars are pointless unless you race them against the clock. Look at me, I have more skill then you because I race slow cars against the clock". You know, because the topic had nothing to do with "who's a better driver".

[cockerpunk]

how else to do you determine what fast means?

[cockerpunk]

I'm in my mid 30's, as I said before, I gave up trying to compete in the top of my class at anything competitive a long time ago. I think I speak for most of us here. There is always somebody with more time, money, and youth to devote to be the best at any activity under the sun. And quite frankly, even in my youth I saw such pursuits as pointless, why devote your life to one thing when there is so much out there. Just do it to have fun.

I'm always suspect of people that talk up their skills, always unsolicited, at anything. People love to brag about skills on the internet because it's nothing they ever have to prove. They're always haters of the more humble people that do have real skills.

And like your cross post try's to say when they get jealous of someone else's skill they change the game. "Welp, I don't have the skill to build a fast car so I'm going to blame it on people sucking for having extra money to buy fast cars, or changing the topic around to "fast cars are pointless unless you race them against the clock. Look at me, I have more skill then you because I race slow cars against the clock".

i have no idea where you think i've been bragging. if you are insecure, i can see how my posts come off as judgmental and bragging. but if you are not insecure about your skills, then they wouldn't be. come to an event! everyone is there to learn!

im a mid-pack driver locally. that makes me better than some folks, and not better than lots of folks too. there is always someone faster, which means there is always more to learn. another great thing about racing head to head, you know in the pecking order exactly where you are, so bravado/ego isn't required. you just look on the time sheets, and its right there in black and white.

[Ragu310]

I think this was a car thread at one point. Anyways I don't have the fastest car but I love it and it gets me where I'm going. 2012 Camaro SS.
426 HP and when my warranty is up, I'll bump it up to at least 550 HP.

[cockerpunk]

this came up in my facebook feed today. its a running joke in our club, this guy built a v8 miata, and sometimes comes to our local autocrosses. hes a weird dude, and its a decent enough i guess v8 swap, but mostly he makes videos like this humble bragging about his autocross skills in it. it, at this point, has everything in the sun done to it. LS2, full aero package, BBK, i think hes running 17 inch wheels (no idea why lol), homemade flares, its pretty insane build:

i watch so many videos of good driving, and by all reasoning it should be a fast car. i mean he has 400+ rwhp in a ~2300 pound car, thats a recipe for speed any way you cut it. buy oh my .... a classic lesson in poor driving.

and its not even that the guy is bad at driving, everyone who starts really actually driving is pretty bad when they start, we were all there. its that he insists on thinking he actually is a good driver, and is perpetually in the so-called "cobra wars" becasue he runs in a class that a cobra replica with even worse drivers drive.

for example, i was driving a 944 with a 5.0L from the fox in it, so, roughly 200 hp less, about 600lbs more, and a total of at least 10 inches less tire, and beat him by something silly like 4 seconds. the 944 owner, beat him by at least 2 seconds.

[flampaint]

I think this was a car thread at one point. Anyways I don't have the fastest car but I love it and it gets me where I'm going. 2012 Camaro SS.
426 HP and when my warranty is up, I'll bump it up to at least 550 HP.

It never was about who is the fastest driver or who has the fastest car. Just about "who here drives a fast car" and THAT is a fast car! ("gets me where I'm going" is quite the understatement IMHO )
Really like it!

[boo]

for example, i was driving a 944 with a 5.0L from the fox in it, so, roughly 200 hp less, about 600lbs more, and a total of at least 10 inches less tire, and beat him by something silly like 4 seconds. the 944 owner, beat him by at least 2 seconds.

Wait, your 944 has a 5liter swap? That's something worth posting!

[Ragu310]

It never was about who is the fastest driver or who has the fastest car. Just about "who here drives a fast car" and THAT is a fast car! ("gets me where I'm going" is quite the understatement IMHO )
Really like it!

Thanks Flampaint!

[cockerpunk]

Wait, your 944 has a 5liter swap? That's something worth posting!

no, its a friends. fun car. actually slower than my turbo, but dat instant torque doe.

in the club its known as "the fastest slow car in the world" you will go out on a run with it, and think you've laid down this insane speed with it, and then look up at the clocks and go "seriously? so slow" its quite a challenge to modulate the throttle and not just drift the thing everywhere, and its non-abs, with a hydroboost setup for the brakes, so they are super prone to lock up without good petal control there too. SUCH an easy car to overdrive. which is why its such a good car to learn to drive with it. it will punish you for everything you do wrong, and reward you wonderfully every time you get it right.

its a sweet car, i very much enjoy driving it.

[cockerpunk]

some pretty insane street driving here:

hes cornering in 4th most of the time, thats 100 mph in a s2000 ....

[cougar20th]

some pretty STUPID street driving here:

hes cornering in 4th most of the time, thats 100 mph in a s2000 ....

Fixed it for you.

As almost with anyone Ive messed around on the street.

But have come to realize the street is absolutely not the right place for that type of driving. Keep it on a Track.

Yup still fixing the damage from the last time I played on the street with my camaro.