Lighter Camaro??

[ACiFiC]

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Nauce sauce

[Bird_Of_Prey]

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Sack the F up.

[WarShrike]

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Flintstone mod FTW!

[ACiFiC]

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so. who won the rayce?

[Docta]

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Why is there a y in race?

[ACiFiC]

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Why is there a y in race?

sounded cooler and i was just emphasizing on some stupidity or something.

[Rob Bell]

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To me this exercise does not sound worthwhile. To do all of this work, for one race? Just race him and have fun. If he wins, well.... He has a much newer car that has 70 more horsepower. It's an apples to oranges comparison thing.

If you were planning to race people all the time, then sure, I could see modding the car and investing in nitrous, tuning, etc. But not for one race.

If you race him and keep up, even if you don't actually win, that's a testament to your car and your driving, and/or his car's shortcomings and/or his lack of driving skill.

Oh yeah, I forgot to add, if you totally strip your car down to nothing and still get your rear handed to you, then you'll really look stupid, because it will look like you really tried to do everything to beat him and still lost. The most I would do is pull the spare and race on a nearly empty tank. That's probably 100 lbs right there and it's easy to put back. And if it's nice out leave the T-Tops at home. You'll look cool and it's a few more pounds lost.

[Bird_Of_Prey]

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To me this exercise does not sound worthwhile. To do all of this work, for one race? Just race him and have fun. If he wins, well.... He has a much newer car that has 70 more horsepower. It's an apples to oranges comparison thing.

If you were planning to race people all the time, then sure, I could see modding the car and investing in nitrous, tuning, etc. But not for one race.

If you race him and keep up, even if you don't actually win, that's a testament to your car and your driving, and/or his car's shortcomings and/or his lack of driving skill.

Oh yeah, I forgot to add, if you totally strip your car down to nothing and still get your rear handed to you, then you'll really look stupid, because it will look like you really tried to do everything to beat him and still lost. The most I would do is pull the spare and race on a nearly empty tank. That's probably 100 lbs right there and it's easy to put back. And if it's nice out leave the T-Tops at home. You'll look cool and it's a few more pounds lost.

Aerodynamics much? T-tops off would be worse for him.

[Blizzard242]

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He can just duct tape some cardboard in place of them.

[LETZRIDE]

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Aerodynamics much? T-tops off would be worse for him.

I doubt the speeds he would hit it would make a difference for him to be honest...I know if he races at a track though they will boot him off without a top.

[EarlR]

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50 shot + 4.10 gears - that's the recipe for killing those V6 rice-burners.

[Bird_Of_Prey]

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I doubt the speeds he would hit it would make a difference for him to be honest...I know if he races at a track though they will boot him off without a top.

It would be enough to affect a 90mph trap speed. Most def, no track would let you do that without having all the convertible safety equipment in place.

[LETZRIDE]

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It would be enough to affect a 90mph trap speed. Most def, no track would let you do that without having all the convertible safety equipment in place.

Even with convertible safety equiptment in place...over here you can't even have your windows cracked open, and you certainly can't run with your top down.

And it might effect it at 90mph, but how much? more so than the weight that was taken off? I think both (lack of weight/aerodynamics caused by removal) would be so negligable they would offset themselves.

Although I remember someone who was really big on bicycles telling me that the nipples on the tires can add somethign rediculous like a 30% drag to a bike...

[Blizzard242]

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What about nipples?

[techsan23]

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Definitely take the nipples off of your tires then.