I had several good runs at the strip in good 'ol Fernley, NV even though the timing system was messed up resulting in no timeslips or tree. I had beaten a WRX earlier in the night, so his buddy in an '08 Sti stage 2 asked me if I wanted to race, but he demanded a carlength. I thought it was funny and figured I had already won no matter the outcome. We lined up, and he made sure the starter staged him a carlength. The starter did the hand-drop and the Sti bolted out hard. I bogged, and by the time I hit second he was at least 5-6 lengths ahead and moving out strongly. As I ripped into third, I thought there was no way I was going to catch him even though I was starting to pull hard. I pulled even harder in fourth and passed him just before the finish, winning by maybe a carlength going through the traps at @115. It was a great end to the night!

Afterwards he and the WRX crew came over and were real cool about it and complimentary about the my plain-jane '92 SE-R. Times like these make all the hours in the garage and driveway seem somehow worth it

From now on whenever anyone asks what's done to my car, I'm going to tell them it's a stage 2. Thanks for the idea!!

^Lol. All the rice boys locally always ask what stage is this and that. That shit kills me.:rofl:

Maybe I should tell them it's a Nissan NX stage 2000!!!!!

Yeah, it seems all the newer turbo cars have pretty much cookie-cutter mods, so they talk "stages." It's basically so many dollars for so many horsepower. $2-3K in an Sti gives 50hp and 85ft/lbs. We do so much crap to our cars, it would be worthless to talk about stages. I just tell 'em it's a DET motor, mostly stock, as they stare blankly into my engine bay which looks absolutely stock to the untrained eye. Even the tech at the NHRA track didn't notice I have a turbo or direct port nitrous.

the best part about this post is... you were at the track! keep up the safe racing and good job on the winz

lol all i can think about it racing games haha.

going to put on stage 2 brakes, stage 5 tires, stage 2 tubo, stage 4 clutch, stage 5 weight reduction, and my neons and vinyls give me 45 respect points!








lol good job on beating the sti though