haha a white one with black rims, hid lights and tint rolled up next to me like an hour ago and floored it at the green light, me in my I4 09 coupe was like wow, i pushed the gas until v-tech kicked in and flew by the fricken thing, he got so pissed looking. i was like(in my head) umm hybrids arent supposed to beat really anything probably haha

hahaha:lmao::lmao:

Hahahaha!

Coincidentally, I was driving home from work today. Come to a stop light and a pretentious snob (read Audi driver) pulls up besides me. I'm assuming his A4 was newer cause it had the LED lights under his headlights. Anyhow, long story short, as the light is about to turn green, he is like inching up and he's all ready to go. I decided to see what my 6-6 is made of, and gave him a run for his money. I didn't need to engage into 3rd, because even at then end of 2nd i was more than a car ahead of him. However, I know that i'm not a good enough driver to perfectly launch my 6-6, so question goes out to you good people:

1. Can any A4 ever beat the Gen 8 6-6?

2. How do you do a perfect launch in a 6-6?

haha a white one with black rims, hid lights

The Prius comes with HID from the factory. Nothing unusual.

OP (Theo I presume),

Did you forget this thread http://www.driveaccord.net/forums/showthread.php?t=25576 where you were reminded that street racing discussion is against forum rules? How quickly do we forget........

YRMed, now you know too.

Folks, please kindly take your "Kill" stories elsewhere, thanks.

Ooops!

Can i still ask about how to properly launch the car?

haha i had the same experience...some what

around late december i was comming home on the highway when all of a sudden a toyota yaris came up behind me and started ti high beam be i was like "wth?"

then he changed lanes and passed me so i floor my car and i passed him in like 5 seconds and he stilled tried to keep up but once i hit 135 mph he was gone lol

damn toyota's hybirds XP

Dude, did you not read the posts above you?

Ooops!

Can i still ask about how to properly launch the car?


Sure.

Except there is no one right answer, depending on tire compound, surface traction, ambient temperature, weight distribution at the time, etc.

I have read somewhere in the past that about 15% slip (wheel spin) gives best launch, however there are likely exceptions, perhaps some of the old timer drag racers could share their thoughts of what they've learned on the track.

Well, it is my opinion that the stock Gen 8 EX-L V6 tires are inadequate in the case of acceleration. I find that the VSA system is a marvelous invention, not only in the case of preventing unwanted wheel spin during hard acceleration, but from safe driving perspective overall. I can't wait till warmer weather when i'll have a reason to buy tires that have higher levels of grip. I will say that the stock tires are excellent overall, but they obviously were not designed with the driving entusiast in mind.

In regards to the launching, I just can never see myself revving my car past 3k rpm and dropping the clutch. I actually prefer rolling starts because they are much easier on all of the drivetrain parts.

Any opinions?

1. Can any A4 ever beat the Gen 8 6-6?


Maybe off the line since the a4 has more of a top end due to the turbo, but thats talking a stock a4. Now a gen8 with mods and a a4 with only a chip.. you can kiss the a4 goodbye. Just for the simple fact the a4 has turbo a APR tune will have it boosting alot more and he will not only fly out of the hole but will put out some crazy top end numbers.

A friend of mine has on his A4 a custom exhaust, stage 2 APR tune and a high temp oil pump. His cars top speed shown on the dyno was if i believe correctly give or take around 160mph.

Thanks for the reply. However, out of respect for this forum, i don't really wanna discuss what the Gen 8 6-6 will beat or won't beat.

However, still interested in hearing about your car launching techniques, since those can be applied at a track.

lol i dont think the forum has problems with cars racing?.. its street racing thats not permited but there is such thing as legal racing (track racing)

Just wanted to be clear, one of the forum rule is against street racing, which is stupid and immature, however racing on tracks, be it auto-X, drag racing, drifting, SCCA racing etc. are all good, since that's the decision a mature individual would make.

Gen 8 6-6 Accord vs. A4 discussions are perfectly fine, provided no reference to street racing is made, ie. "I beat a Prius (or an Yaris) an hour ago coming home."

Hope this clears the air on this issue.

YRMed, thank you for understanding our concerns.

:thmsup:

i pushed the gas until v-tech kicked in

Borrowed from a previous posting by RTexasF. :) :D :yes:

... i pushed the gas until v-tech kicked in

http://img158.imageshack.us/img158/5735/vtecqk1.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

(all in humor/humour... :D)

you guys didnt know? those are the worlds fastest phones.. they got VTEC! lol

His cars top speed shown on the dyno was if i believe correctly give or take around 160mph.
You're forgetting an itsy bitsy detail: WIND DRAG :naughty:.

what about it?

i am sick and freakin tired of all these ricer threads, speeding on highways above 100mph, and everything else.....

ANOTHER WORD FROM ANYONE ABOUT STREETRACING, AND THE BAN HAMMER WILL BE COMING DOWN HARD!!!!

i have seen and heard enough.... posts will be deleted, and infractions given. failure to do so and you can kiss ur membership goodbye.

the wrath of the ban god has spoken!!

or you can just make 5 more like are buddy the finance guru lol

:lmao:

up to this point, i have been a nice guy, as most of the mods here have.... but if people don't follow the rules, there won't be any more excuses.... PERIOD!

oh and by the way

STEELERS ALL THE WAY!!

StreetRacing

Ohh noo runnn!!


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neochron has been banned...

the rules are here for a number of reasons...

1. to make this place enjoyable

2. to help people out with problems more efficiently

3. to avoid any kind of legal litigation against the administrator of this site

all we are asking here as moderators is that the rules are followed. it's not hard to ask here. please follow them, enjoy yourself, and keep it friendly here.

if you refuse to, you can leave on your own accord, or with help from the mods / admin....

the choice is yours.

- DA moderator

Dangle the steak in front of the lion and you're gonna get bit.

Swift and merciless, the way I like it!

The Prius comes with HID from the factory. Nothing unusual.

they were like 6,000 k blue i dont think those are stock

jeez i didnt mean to cause i riot i didnt even say anything about racing all i said was that my car was faster than a prius and idk why someone would try that. 60 on a 55 mph street is not racing by anymeans

http://rachelleb.com/images/2004_04_03/cookies_close.jpg

but just take one please OP

lmao those things actually look good schu.



holy crap neochron actually got banned lmao i took it as him eating crap but ok, sometimes you have to actually be serious for people to listen.

Talking/doing street racing :thumbsdow

Bragging that you whipped a Prius :lmao::lmao::lmao::lmao::lmao::lmao::lmao::lmao:

Pissing off a moderator :scratch::screwy:


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What is with these Priuses, Ive had atleast 15 in the last 3 months pull up to me and want to race. Most of the drivers are in there 40s and 50s also. I thought I was done with this when I sold my Mustangs.

They're just jelous cuz our cars are hotter than that Al Gore Mobile.

Those cars are ugly.

^ We should make a thread so we can post pics of the ugly things. I saw one with some nice rims. The rims look good but not on a Al Gore Mobile........

^ We should make a thread so we can post pics of the ugly things. I saw one with some nice rims. The rims look good but not on a Al Gore Mobile........

Go for it...but we do have a ricer thread going on somewhere :D

they were like 6,000 k blue i dont think those are stock

the HID's on a Prius are actually bluer than other stock HID's in halogen bowls. i don't know why, but i've noticed it in every Prius i've seen.

you didn't say anything about racing, but saying "i pushed the gas until v-tech kicked in and flew by the fricken thing" states nothing about 60 in a 55. it just says you hit the gas to rev your car beyond 3000 rpm, which is sufficient enough for daily driving not to pass. (i shift at 2k)

i'll put it this way. keep the excessive acceleration on the track, not on the streets.

the thing that annoys me about prius' is that the 40 - 50 year olds think they are special casue they drive one and get the right of way cause they are hybrid i'm always like **** that, we should get a bumper sticker that says Prius=OVERRATED, but no way ould i putt it on my new car haha

then in my opinion, let them go make a fool of themselves. adults excessively accelerating on public roads doesn't mean you have to show them up. it only proves that you're no better than they are. i get it lots on the road, but just ignore them and let them go. they're not worth my gas or my tires.

haha a white one with black rims, hid lights and tint rolled up next to me like an hour ago and floored it at the green light, me in my I4 09 coupe was like wow, i pushed the gas until v-tech kicked in and flew by the fricken thing, he got so pissed looking. i was like(in my head) umm hybrids arent supposed to beat really anything probably haha

That's funny, when I'm out cruising in my vette I get that all the time from winged Civic’s etc. Like you I ignore these folks and go about my business.

What is with these Priuses, Ive had atleast 15 in the last 3 months pull up to me and want to race. Most of the drivers are in there 40s and 50s also. I thought I was done with this when I sold my Mustangs.

I don't know but I see them flying passed me on the highway all the time, defeating the whole saving gas idea.

once they pick up speed, they save gas like none other. they could be going 90 hit cruise, and the engine will still shut off and just hold speed with the electric engine. so technically... they're still saving more gas than us haha. yes, it ****s.

I don't know of any Prius that will do 90 MPH only on its electric motor.....

if the prius isn't accelerating or going uphill? from what i remember from the idea of the prius, once you hit a crusing speed, the car only reactivates the engine if it needs to accelerate uphill or you hit the gas again. i thought the idea was to use the electric engine to maintain cruise on a flat road, but i could be wrong. inputs, steve?

That is only true up to about 40MPH. Highway speeds use both the electric motor and the gas motor to maintain speeds as the electric motors are not powerful enough to keep the car at those speeds.

No current production hybrid will do 90MPH on the highway with only the electric motor.

No current production hybrid will do 90MPH on the highway with only the electric motor.
Probably not even with BOTH :lmao:. Well, downhill maybe :naughty:.

gotcha. i guess i thought the electric could hold speed in highway speeds too, since the car already has most of the momentum going. i guess i can see that the car would slow down faster at higher speeds, requiring more power to maintain its speed.

The equation for the force required to combat air drag is:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/math/7/6/1/7613c56c8438ae8fa328dcbd4f4f4e7c.png

The important part to understand is the "u" is velocity and you see it is squared.

Drag increases by the square of its velocity and therefore you need a lot more power to maintain high speeds verses low speeds.

Probably not even with BOTH :lmao:. Well, downhill maybe :naughty:.

When being towed by a diesel pickup truck :nuts::biggrin:

Thanks for clearing that up, Steven. You guys do have a point. How could I ever think such a car as a Prius could hit 90mph. That'd go in the Guinness Book of World Records.

The Prius might be able to hit 90, just not on the electric motor alone.

We joke about the car being slow...that's all :D

As was I. The Prius electric engine tops out at 42mph. The entire car itself tops out at ~100mph. some are only getting 97-98mph tops, and others get 104mph on a downhill. So in essense, possible... with a lot of work, and a lot of open road lol.

all in all they look lame and i wouldnt want to be seen driving one.

I drove a Prius for 3 days just this week while on buiness out-of-town.

It won't maintain speed on electric alone above only 15 MPH or so even if you are very light on the throttle, if that, and you can certainly see via the charging graphics that the engine does a lot of work at regular speeds, but shuts down on extended deceleration or sitting at the lights.

I admit I thrashed the car a little bit just to see how the power flow between the engine, the motor/generator, and the battery, it's quite fascinating, got calculated 34 MPG over about 150 miles of driving.

Although the headlights on the Prius I had were just conventional halogen rather than the HID as some people on this thread have posted, I am pretty certain since I had to clear the slush off the headlights a couple of times and they are definitely not HID on the Prius I drove.

jeez i didnt mean to cause i riot i didnt even say anything about racing all i said was that my car was faster than a prius and idk why someone would try that. 60 on a 55 mph street is not racing by anymeans

When you "floor it" in an attempt to prove the other driver that your car is faster then his/hers, then it's called racing, whether you say the racing word, or not, is academic. Check with your local police department if you don't believe this, better yet try it out in front of your local police station and see what happens.

Stop digging the hole you are already in any deeper.

Talking/doing street racing :thumbsdow

Bragging that you whipped a Prius :lmao::lmao::lmao::lmao::lmao::lmao::lmao::lmao:

Pissing off a moderator :scratch::screwy:


:lurk:


No offense but the guy was just joking. Mods abuse their power too much. I admit that he did at first talk of street racing but then it stopped and the mods got mad that not everyone was bashing the guy. Calm down he was going the speed limit. As for the guy that got banned all he did was SAY street racing. So by those rules all the mods who said "Street Racing" in this post should go away too

OP (Theo I presume),

Did you forget this thread http://www.driveaccord.net/forums/showthread.php?t=25576 where you were reminded that street racing discussion is against forum rules? How quickly do we forget........

YRMed, now you know too.

Folks, please kindly take your "Kill" stories elsewhere, thanks.

I think I read somewhere that it was somewhere in Mexico...:D

If a "street race" occurs in "mexico" does that circumnavigate the rules as it does on some other forums?

No offense but the guy was just joking. Mods abuse their power too much. I admit that he did at first talk of street racing but then it stopped and the mods got mad that not everyone was bashing the guy. Calm down he was going the speed limit. As for the guy that got banned all he did was SAY street racing. So by those rules all the mods who said "Street Racing" in this post should go away too

Sesame Street Forums?

No offense but the guy was just joking. Mods abuse their power too much. I admit that he did at first talk of street racing but then it stopped and the mods got mad that not everyone was bashing the guy. Calm down he was going the speed limit. As for the guy that got banned all he did was SAY street racing. So by those rules all the mods who said "Street Racing" in this post should go away too

You missed it all didn't you......you have no clue whatsoever. If this forum doesn't suit you then go find one that does and don't let the door hit you on the way out.

As for the guy that got banned all he did was SAY street racing. So by those rules all the mods who said "Street Racing" in this post should go away too

The point isn't that saying a certain word or phrase is wrong, but that he did it deliberately because he knew it would irk the mods. It's like when you tell a little kid to stop touching something and they touch it just because you said not to.

The point isn't that saying a certain word or phrase is wrong, but that he did it deliberately because he knew it would irk the mods. It's like when you tell a little kid to stop touching something and they touch it just because you said not to.

Omg i know he did it to mess with the mods. They cant take a simple joke? Wow. This is pathetic. Mods you can close my account i dont want to be a member here anymore. Everyone is too uptight.

Anymore cookies left?

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Close this thread please, it has no point, only gripes from newbies that have no clue what this forum is about.

Omg i know he did it to mess with the mods. They cant take a simple joke? Wow. This is pathetic. Mods you can close my account i dont want to be a member here anymore. Everyone is too uptight.


You too can take a hike if this place doesn't suit you. The way I see it is at YOU are pathetic......you can't, or won't, live within the rules . PLEASE continue to fight. That will ensure your departure.

if you've been on enough forums, most should realize that the post that says "street racing" may not have just been the words street racing, but an actual post that was written over by a mod because he did post something about street racing.

btw, excessive acceleration even to a "speed limit" is still considered street racing. one of my best friend's got arrested for just that, including 120hr community service, $2000 fine, and 4 points on his record. don't think just because you stop at 40 in a 40, you can get away with redlining your car at every red light.

and i agree with RTF, this thread is pretty much done.

As per the wishes, the thread is closed.