sooo im goin down the street and this lil ford focus zx3 pulls up next to me... i think oh no not another one. so he revs i rev we go... i had him till he hit 3rd gear and i was just gettin out of second. then he pulled, he had me by a half a car length. but still if that 3rd gear had any power i would have beat him.... so do you guys know of anything at all that can cure this auto problem. besides a 5 speed swap?? PLEASE HELP MY BABY IS TO SLOW... maybe those cars are faster than i thought.
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you could get a better car. i mean serisouly you have a 17 second car. i feel confident my moms mazda minivan would smoke your car.
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yea the celicas third gear pulls like a little girl.
there isnt much you can do to the 7afe engine without the use of force induction. what makes me sad is the 5600 rpm redline.
you can try putting smaller tires on the front to lower the gear ratio on all the gears.
there isnt much you can do to the 7afe engine without the use of force induction. what makes me sad is the 5600 rpm redline.
you can try putting smaller tires on the front to lower the gear ratio on all the gears.
Weren't you bragging about how your auto is just as good? Oh maybe that's just when you and paul walker go canyon racing
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My third gear hauls ass! thats where i always win a race is in third. and anyway the redline is 6200 >
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But the best part is, when you bitch about having a redline at 6200, you dont know a thing about your car.. an thats why you loose.. you need to learn your power band.. I have beaten so many cars that should have spanked me, just cause i know my car, an they dont know theres. The point is to stay in your power band, theres no reason to take it to red at all.. your doing nothing but slowing yuor self down.. and with having an auto st, your scewed.. you have like an 18 sec car.
-Digndoug+Oct 29, 2004 - 8:30 AM
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I went from a 94 ST auto, sold it. Next year boutght my 95 GT 5 Speed, night and day man. Even without weight reduction measures Im sure it would make short work of some punk in a Focus hehe. Also yes know your powerband
I went from a 94 ST auto, sold it. Next year boutght my 95 GT 5 Speed, night and day man. Even without weight reduction measures Im sure it would make short work of some punk in a Focus hehe. Also yes know your powerband
-sinner96ST+Oct 29, 2004 - 12:07 PM
-gh0st_d0g+Oct 29, 2004 - 4:25 PM
Shouldn't you be doing a RWD 7AGZTE swap? What are you racing for?
It's exactly as I said isn't it?
It's exactly as I said isn't it?
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-Digndoug+Oct 29, 2004 - 12:32 PM
i was just making a statment that it redlines at 6200 rather then the 5600 someone had stated, but yes ur right no need to take it that high, i usally shift right around 5800, or at least i try to. >>
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the 1.8L has a powerband?? Umm...not much...Its slow no mater how you look at it... I think the car is just as fast when you drive it normal and drive it to redline >> Just race it to be funny. I got beat by a newer corolla S in my ST 5spd.
> Just race it to be funny. I got beat by a newer corolla S in my ST 5spd.
Contrary to the numbers... the 7AFE delivers a very flat torque band, although peaking at 2500 rpms... doesn't dramatically drop off till about 5000 rpms. The 7AFE better utilizes the delivered powerband in acceleration than say the 5SFE. I always shift at fuel-cut... which is around 6700 rpms for my ST (some models redline at 5600 with a 6200 fuel-cut. Some redline at 6200 with a 6700 rpm fuel-cut.) and I've consistantly run faster times that way.
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dude seriosuly I have an ST (auto) and I'm pretty sure a Toyota echo could smoke my ass.
yes a echo could..just about anything can take a ST...i dont think there is a newer car out that couldnt. even i hybrid would take it i bet. Now a older car not running in prime condition can be had by a ST...for instance my friend has a 88' grand prix 2.8L v6 with 180k miles and i can take him. 1st and 2nd we are even and 3rd i pull him. BTW, he runs 19's are the track >> hahaha
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-bufferdan+Oct 29, 2004 - 9:56 AM
-Kwanza26+Oct 29, 2004 - 12:37 PM
hows it taste motha f*cka
-Sev408+Oct 29, 2004 - 8:36 PM
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-Kwanza26+Oct 29, 2004 - 9:37 AM
red sun i did that and more. theres alot you can take out of the celi. member i was up at the chino meet. i can keep up with alot of the canyon runners out here. so im good to go i just thought it was a shame that a focus zx3 beat me . but no one ever answered my question... can you do anyhting to the auto in my car to make 3rd gear have more tq.
-shadycrew31+Nov 4, 2004 - 2:03 AM
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-shadycrew31+Nov 3, 2004 - 6:03 PM
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i had an auto st also. boo sold it for the gt standard. night and day. like he said before. sell the car. i was getting beat buy 90whp eclipses lol.
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-fastgt+Nov 4, 2004 - 12:18 AM
what is the GT's powerband? at what rpm should you shift it?
if i'm ever racing i usually shift at 6k from first to second and shift around 5600 in the other gears. the car just chirps harder when i rev it up higher in the first gear. Because of our cars high torque(but i dont understand why i thought it peaks at 4400rmp??), i usually jump up quite a bit from just shifting from 1st to 2nd. Ive even hung with a trans am for the first gear and half. then i got owned, but i was pretty surprised we were side by side for a second or two. but when i hit third and fourth gear i get pulled on by pretty much everything except civics. I always take the intergas at first and then by the time i'm in 5th gear there 2-3 cars a head of me. Our top end just blows.
This post has been edited by ssnake86: Nov 4, 2004 - 1:51 AM
if i'm ever racing i usually shift at 6k from first to second and shift around 5600 in the other gears. the car just chirps harder when i rev it up higher in the first gear. Because of our cars high torque(but i dont understand why i thought it peaks at 4400rmp??), i usually jump up quite a bit from just shifting from 1st to 2nd. Ive even hung with a trans am for the first gear and half. then i got owned, but i was pretty surprised we were side by side for a second or two. but when i hit third and fourth gear i get pulled on by pretty much everything except civics. I always take the intergas at first and then by the time i'm in 5th gear there 2-3 cars a head of me. Our top end just blows.
This post has been edited by ssnake86: Nov 4, 2004 - 1:51 AM