Street racing question

[JRussell]

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So I post on a bodyboarding message board that only has like 200 registered members. Someone asked about street racing in San Diego and I replied with this question and nobody answered and so I look to you OOT to enlighten me...

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I don't really understand street racing. Isn't it just whoever spends the most money wins? Couldn't I buy like a ferrari and just smoke everyone. Or buy a civic and just put a V12 into it? Can you even beat someone who has a better car than you? It seems like its just whoever owns the best car and should hardly be considered racing.


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Money does not = speed. [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]

[AncientPC]

There's more to launching than just rev and dump, but it's not terribly difficult.

In the end it's not just who's the fastest, but it's also about customization and maximising a car's potential.

It's also a very DIY industry. A lot of complications come with modding your own car and if it's something rare or new you're going to have to DIY.

But like Fatt Albert says, there's lots of different ways to achieve the end goal. Every forced induction/naturally aspirated setup has its own advantages/disadvantages.

[slipoker]

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So I post on a bodyboarding message board that only has like 200 registered members. Someone asked about street racing in San Diego and I replied with this question and nobody answered and so I look to you OOT to enlighten me...

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I don't really understand street racing. Isn't it just whoever spends the most money wins? Couldn't I buy like a ferrari and just smoke everyone. Or buy a civic and just put a V12 into it? Can you even beat someone who has a better car than you? It seems like its just whoever owns the best car and should hardly be considered racing.


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Psh, c'mon, haven't you seen The Fast and the Furious? Paul Walker totally owned that guy in the ferrari with his souped up little Supra. [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

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It's way better to see something like this in person. I saw a mustang saleen (735 hp) conversion up here absolutely destroy some idiot in his gallardo.

[SBR]

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So I post on a bodyboarding message board that only has like 200 registered members. Someone asked about street racing in San Diego and I replied with this question and nobody answered and so I look to you OOT to enlighten me...

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I don't really understand street racing. Isn't it just whoever spends the most money wins? Couldn't I buy like a ferrari and just smoke everyone. Or buy a civic and just put a V12 into it? Can you even beat someone who has a better car than you? It seems like its just whoever owns the best car and should hardly be considered racing.


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Psh, c'mon, haven't you seen The Fast and the Furious? Paul Walker totally owned that guy in the ferrari with his souped up little Supra. [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

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It's way better to see something like this in person. I saw a mustang saleen (735 hp) conversion up here absolutely destroy some idiot in his gallardo.

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I'm guessing they didn't go around corners.

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So I post on a bodyboarding message board that only has like 200 registered members. Someone asked about street racing in San Diego and I replied with this question and nobody answered and so I look to you OOT to enlighten me...

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I don't really understand street racing. Isn't it just whoever spends the most money wins? Couldn't I buy like a ferrari and just smoke everyone. Or buy a civic and just put a V12 into it? Can you even beat someone who has a better car than you? It seems like its just whoever owns the best car and should hardly be considered racing.


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Psh, c'mon, haven't you seen The Fast and the Furious? Paul Walker totally owned that guy in the ferrari with his souped up little Supra. [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

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It's way better to see something like this in person. I saw a mustang saleen (735 hp) conversion up here absolutely destroy some idiot in his gallardo.

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I'm guessing they didn't go around corners.

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Of course not, are you kidding me? I'm just saying the look on the guy's face was priceless when he realized the car he spent a couple hundred thousand on was getting destroyed by "good ol fashioned american muscle" as the owner of the Saleen said. It was quite hilarious.

[Jorge10]

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However I was in the street racing scene for over 4 years, and not one person died, there was 1 crash out of 4 years of racing.

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Thats 1 crash too many and for what? So you bunch of wannabe racers can say, "man I smoked that idiot"? [censored] that.

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I understand you want to blame all street racers, but for the most part the people that are racing light to light, getting into crashes and killing themselves or others etc. are looked down upon by the rest of the scene. Street racing on the street in the right enviroment is still relatively safe whether or not you believe it.

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There is no safe street racing. There is no way it can be safe unless you are racing in a controlled environment such as a track. As long as its street racing its not safe. Its not possible for street racing to be safe because its not a controlled environment. People are going to use those streets.

If life was fair the cars of street racers would immediately explode killing them and everyone in them whenever they tried to street race.

[milliondollaz]

sponger,

you do not address the passion and excitement in your OP. it is like decribing sex as "inserting the penis into the vagina. you do it till your done. what's the big deal?" the difference is that everyone here knows the thrill, pleasure, etc. associated w/ sex, but most don't know what it is like to really be in a race, with the sound, speed, danger, pride.

money is part of the equation, but integrating your modifications, and utilizing them correctly is not a guaranteed thing. also, there is some intrinsic benefit to doing something yourself, and seeing it work. kinda like setting your own schedule and working out, eating right. you could pay a personal trainer, hire a dietition, take clenbuteral, build a gym in your house, whatever, but you might actually get less respect in bodybuilding circles. same w/ buying a ferrari vs. building a supercharged miata.

and mentioning the fast and furious is pretty much going to trigger a backlash from the people who will be most likley to give you a real answer to your question, if you are even interested.

sorry for the randomness, did that help at all?

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So I post on a bodyboarding message board that only has like 200 registered members. Someone asked about street racing in San Diego and I replied with this question and nobody answered and so I look to you OOT to enlighten me...

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I don't really understand street racing. Isn't it just whoever spends the most money wins? Couldn't I buy like a ferrari and just smoke everyone. Or buy a civic and just put a V12 into it? Can you even beat someone who has a better car than you? It seems like its just whoever owns the best car and should hardly be considered racing.


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Psh, c'mon, haven't you seen The Fast and the Furious? Paul Walker totally owned that guy in the ferrari with his souped up little Supra. [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

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It's way better to see something like this in person. I saw a mustang saleen (735 hp) conversion up here absolutely destroy some idiot in his gallardo.

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Crappy car beats a good car (NSFW ads on the sides)

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sorry for the randomness, did that help at all?

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Yes it did thank you. I was actually hoping I would get some more info into street racing over what I had actually asked but I didn't really have a specific question for.

[d10]

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Couldn't I buy like a ferrari and just smoke everyone.

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A Ferrari could smoke most cars, but there are much better platforms for straight line speed. It's not terribly difficult to put 1,000hp into a Supra. All of the parts you need are mass produced.

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Or buy a civic and just put a V12 into it?

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That's at the opposite end of the impractical scale as the Ferrari. But I get the point you're trying to make, it's not hard to build a fast car, especially if you have cash.

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Can you even beat someone who has a better car than you?

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If the difference is not that great, someone who is very good might be able to beat some guy who has no clue every time. Other than that, only if the guy driving the faster car makes a mistake. Michael Schumacher wouldn't stand a chance if he was driving for Super Aguri.

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It seems like its just whoever owns the best car and should hardly be considered racing.

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That's pretty much it. You can still consider it racing, because whoever goes faster wins. It's just not very competitive. There are plenty of reasons why someone would still want to do it, a lot of them have already been discussed. For a guy who's spent months working in his own garage, smoking a car that was twice as fast as what his car used to be could validate all the work he's done. There's still a certain amount of respect some people get for having a faster car.