Is my car slow??

[oooggss]

i raced my friend's rsx type s starting from a 40mph roll. he has exhaust and CAI, i have intake, uppipe, and downpipe (all catless) but stock exhaust. and i barely pulled on him..i mean like...1 foot maybe. i was pretty shocked...is something wrong with my car or does the wrx just suck starting from 40mph?

[JDM 3SGTE]

the rsx is not a joke from a roll. people have hit 13s with just intake exhaust and hondata.

[josnroh]

Yeah,that Acura has a lot of top end.He's just getting into his powerband around 5000 RpM.

[WiCkeDrEx]

RSX-S can be deadly up top, but seems like some people on this forum doesn't believe so...

[Jmd777]

Originally posted by oooggss
i raced my friend's rsx type s starting from a 40mph roll. he has exhaust and CAI, i have intake, uppipe, and downpipe (all catless) but stock exhaust. and i barely pulled on him..i mean like...1 foot maybe. i was pretty shocked...is something wrong with my car or does the wrx just suck starting from 40mph?

Nahh RSX-S are just very even cars for us to race from a roll and the outcome is highly dependent on the skill of both drivers.

[B|2imstone]

i think you should have beat him by a lot more, especially since ur modded.

[DrewToTheC]

ya there fast from a roll but then race him from a stop

[SRT THIS]

You should have won by more than that, if the RSX only had Exhaust and Intake.

[jungdragon]

you pulled on him?....

rsx-s is not so slow as people might think. specially with intake/exhaust

[Trainrex]

It's not too surpring to me. If the driver in the RSX is any good it will be a good race. Get yourself a boost controller, and it will be all over

[capt'n'caveman]

i remember a show where they dyno'd an rsx-s, there was only like an 11% loss in the drive train.....it dyno'd at 179whp

so yeah, very nice top end

[WRB03WRX]

maybe you cant drive, having a catless exhaust should cancel out the mods he has. ive raced rsx-s from a 40 roll and he had an intake whereas im stock and i pulled pretty hard on him.

[ymmit]

hey now I happen to dirve a type s at the moment and srry to tell you guys this but with hondata cai and exghaust it's quite a competitor....the new K series is gonna kick some serious ass when the aftermarket really gets goin..... sadly I'll be parting with mine soon for an STI...although I should keep it, supercharge it, and race you all from a roll start first to prove its potential....that was originally the plan but i drove an sti and saw the beauty of all wheel drive

[WiCkeDrEx]

Originally posted by jungdragon
you pulled on him?....

rsx-s is not so slow as people might think. specially with intake/exhaust

That's what i've been trying to say...

[dsel]

So much of this is about the driver. I've had launches where I could whup a 911. I've also had launches where the city bus got 1/2 a car length on me. Might have been changing the radio station though.