chickenmanq
02-18-2002, 09:43 AM
So I went home for my buddy's wedding this weekend, and dad gives me the keys to his 91 NX2000. Hella fun. My friend Chris back home is a little weasel and has a new WRX. So the guys don't really know how fast the NX is and want me to race him, and I tell them, it's only got a 7-8.5 second 0-60, and that Chris' WRX would easily beat me. However, 0-60 would be straight line, and so we're all going out to Mike's house, and Charlie's leading in his Subaru, which is just a legacy, (not fast) and pretty soon he pulls out to let me in front and Chris in back around 'cause it was racing time.
Yes this was street racing, however, it's Idaho, and out in Cougar Gulch, which is country roads, though they happen to be paved. There's hardly any cars, ever.
So I take off, knowing that the NX only has what 140 hp, and the WRX is 227. Funny thing is, whatever they did to the WRX suspension, (I think for more off-road dirt control) made it a lot less responsive through corners. In short, with a tightly cornered road (about 3 miles long), I was leading him by about a car length and more in some sections. In the straights he would catch up, but the corners I had him beat, hands down. Oh yeah, about 70 around hairpin corners throwing the back end out. <img src="http://www.zilvia.net/f/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':)'> heheheheh, sooooo fun. Dad was a little cranky about me wasting his studded tires. Oh yeah, that was the other thing. 70 mph with studded snow tires. Had I road tires, I probably would have left him even farther in the dust.
So Chris the weasel was impressed with the little tiny much less expensive Nissan. Just thought you guys should know, in case a WRX ever challenges you to race on a twisty road. And for added info, my Dad did test drive a WRX and found the suspension to be not very nice. We have a subi wagon (165 hp), and that seems to take corners under load a lot better. Just so you know I'm not talking out my ass. <img src="http://www.zilvia.net/f/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/wink.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=';)'>
Yes this was street racing, however, it's Idaho, and out in Cougar Gulch, which is country roads, though they happen to be paved. There's hardly any cars, ever.
So I take off, knowing that the NX only has what 140 hp, and the WRX is 227. Funny thing is, whatever they did to the WRX suspension, (I think for more off-road dirt control) made it a lot less responsive through corners. In short, with a tightly cornered road (about 3 miles long), I was leading him by about a car length and more in some sections. In the straights he would catch up, but the corners I had him beat, hands down. Oh yeah, about 70 around hairpin corners throwing the back end out. <img src="http://www.zilvia.net/f/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':)'> heheheheh, sooooo fun. Dad was a little cranky about me wasting his studded tires. Oh yeah, that was the other thing. 70 mph with studded snow tires. Had I road tires, I probably would have left him even farther in the dust.
So Chris the weasel was impressed with the little tiny much less expensive Nissan. Just thought you guys should know, in case a WRX ever challenges you to race on a twisty road. And for added info, my Dad did test drive a WRX and found the suspension to be not very nice. We have a subi wagon (165 hp), and that seems to take corners under load a lot better. Just so you know I'm not talking out my ass. <img src="http://www.zilvia.net/f/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/wink.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=';)'>