The mighty C4 got it's first real kill today! I pulled up behind a 2nd gen MR2 at a stoplight, both of us turning left. When the light changed and we made the turn he was holding me back staying under the 45mph limit, so i went around him to pass. As soon as I got beside him he nailed it, the huge fart can making that annoying buzz. Now i couldn't let this one go, so I nailed it and promptly dispatched one rice-not -a -rocket. I had about 5 or 6 lengths on him and let off the gas. He never quit, he went by at full throttle. My Escort was silent and I wasn't about to let 'em go. I punched it again and he quickly learned about sbc torque and hp, I went back by like he was parked. After I slowed back down he wouldn't come even w/me even if I dropped under the limit. I think he was properly ashamed(the blow-past after I slowed down was probably his attempt to be able to tell his buddies he wasted a Vette-TOO BAD!) Just had to share my fun w/y'all!

Eric
84 C4 Z51 Auto
05 CBR1000RR Repsol Replica
00 TLR 1000

 

I don't get why a lot of the Vette guys keep bragging about beating 4 bangers. I, for one, would be embarrased for even messing with one.

 

4 banger or not its always fun to put another notch under your belt and have a little fun, especially when some guy in a 4 banger is cocky enough to even try to take you on. Oh and yeah, he was definitely trying to do a ricer fly-by on you so he could tell his friends he smoked a Vette.

 

Yeah but it's sort of like me going to the Special Olympics and beating everyone just to put another win under my belt. Or fighting blind, one legged, retarded, school girls. Whether the school girl started it or not. LOL

 

W/the lack of respect the 84 gets it seems to belong in the "special olympics" according to a lot of the rest of y'all-but I'm enjoyin' it. As far as the ricer goes: he made the move and even an old tech outta date low tech sbc still won out! So it may have been the special olympics in your book but at least a vette still won.! Maybe next time he'll know better than to pick on a C4. I'll be upgrading but in the meantime my crossfire, excepting ram air mod, exhaust, and K&N is still stock.

 

Hey those damn school girls can be mean

 

Thanks Pay!

 

that era of vette doesnt have the best rep among non-vette people, and many people who dont know anything about cars will simply assume that it "must be slow"...

 

a lot of things people dont think about ricers too is that quite a few of them are turbo. even though that might not sound like much, i go to the race meet-ups almost every weekend here in virginia beach and there are guys in turbo civics out here pushin more than 300 hp which in a car as light as it is, would blow the doors off of any stock c4 or c5 for that matter. i dont know wether the mr2 was turbo or not, but if it was, that is a good kill. if not, it was probably still fun.

 

To a certain extent, the turbo Civics and Neons are fast, but my experience is not as fast as one would think for the measured dyno power . . .

Remember the famous (or notorious) Car and Driver "Fourgasm" issue several years ago? They invited about a dozen+ Japanse, Neon, and German (GTI) tuners to send there best for an all-car shoot out. If you remember the article, you recall that most cost about $50-$80K with all their mods, some had close to 500 HP (claimed) and the best were very fast and fun, while the worst were nearly as fast but very "unfinished" and difficult to drive/unreliable.

Regardless, a half-page sidebar in that article made the following observation: you could take the very best performance figure from all of the tuner fours, regardless of car: the best 0-60 done by any of the,, best quarter mile time, best quarter mile speed, best time around a road course, etc., etc., for the lot regardless of which car did what, and a stock ZO6 C5 (405 HP) of the time would beat all of those figures quite handily. The point they were making is that it is possible to upgrade performance but not really as effective as if you design the car from scratch to have that power.

My own experience is that extreme Civics and Neons (that what i call one with 300 HP) can't use the power. I've heard of but never seen Civics and Neons that will do better than about 13 in the quarter. And I won't race against them at the track or on the street because I had a Neon stray into my lane at the track due to extreme torque steer when he hit his nitrous at about the 60 foot line: only the fact I was already a length ahead saved a nasty accident.