Calgary Jeep Association
General Forums => Chit-Chat => Topic started by: Vinman on March 28, 2012, 06:41:18 PM
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Too bad it's not the civilian model.
http://www.motorauthority.com/news/1074469_2013-dodge-dart-and-travis-pastrana-ready-for-rallycross
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1.9 seconds seems really far-fetched. I won't believe it til they post a video of it! lol
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600 HP out of a 2-liter. I remember when it was "holy cow" when Lotus was getting 400HP out of the 2 liter in the Turbo Esprit. Frack, I'm getting old.
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Frack, I'm getting old.
Agreed.
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Agreed.
I hear you get shorter too, as you get older. You're going to need some wood blocks like Short Round pretty soon. :o
As for the car, I remember when half the hp in a car twice the size was fun.
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You can make anything fast... With enough money. I remember a guy by the name of toma, he had a dodge omny that
annihilated a viper at race city (very low 11s). There was also a k car in the low 11s, and a rather large lady drove it (when she sat in it it leaned to the d side).
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I hear you get shorter too, as you get older.
Well then, you're waaaaay older than me. Watch it Mr, or I will sit on you.
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You can make anything fast... With enough money. I remember a guy by the name of toma, he had a dodge omny that
annihilated a viper at race city (very low 11s).
Wrong.
Toma's Omni ran 13.12 vs the Vipers 13.26 ( not an annihilation in my book) Still an impressive feat considering that the Omni had a stock bottom end but the Viper owner/driver was a newb at the track and spun at the lights while Toma has been racing since he was a teenager and launched well at the tree.The Omni was built for under $3000 . Big Turbo and tuning FTW.
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Wrong race Noel. The one i have on VHS was 11.2 vs 15.6. That is an annihilation. But then again this was 10 years ago it might not be toma. :o
Edit: Tomas car had to be quicker than that. I did a 12.9 at 110 in my POS civic crap car, and his was way faster
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Wrong.
Toma's Omni ran 13.12 vs the Vipers 13.26 ( not an annihilation in my book) Still an impressive feat considering that the Omni had a stock bottom end but the Viper owner/driver was a newb at the track and spun at the lights while Toma has been racing since he was a teenager and launched well at the tree.The Omni was built for under $3000 . Big Turbo and tuning FTW.
That's funny. My wife and I are together because of toma. He was a bouncer at the taz when we first met him. It was my 19th b day. And he helped hook us up
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Wrong race Noel. The one i have on VHS was 11.2 vs 15.6. That is an annihilation. But then again this was 10 years ago it might not be toma. :o
Edit: Tomas car had to be quicker than that. I did a 12.9 at 110 in my POS civic crap car, and his was way faster
15.6 in a Viper? Did the driver know he was racing?
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No terrible launch. He bucked it like a bronco if I remember correctly. Those were fun days. I wonder what my yj would pull. Hmmm... 23 at 65 :-[
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4G05hHm4p74
giggles like me when im riding my friends ZX11
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thats disgusting. Man that thing can PULL.
Love the spaceballs references. "Rocket fuel, and Schwartz"
Awesome
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Is this the one....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yoaMEaCK-40
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Ayup. That's the one.
I was racing that day and I'm pretty sure it wasn't ten years ago when that race went down considering that Viper was a 2003
model and Toma only started fiddling with the Omni in 2005. That YouTube vid is the same one Toma has on his website and he only raced that Viper once to my recollection .
Ps. Hey Mike, I bounced on first street at 3 different bars including the Tasmanian Ballroom, but Toma was bartending by the time I worked there. We street raced(oh my goodness) once and his burgundy notch 5.0 (with Powerdyne blower) ate my 69Chevelle(NA) for lunch. Those were fun times.
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Edit: Tomas car had to be quicker than that. I did a 12.9 at 110 in my POS civic crap car, and his was way faster
Track was wet that day. I remember spinning at the lights with my slicks and having to let off mid-track because I was getting squirrelly that day when Toma raced that Viper. The Omni was capable of faster times in future Friday night races when the track was dry.
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Are you still in contact with him?? Tell him I say hi. He could have been a bartender that night (to drunk to remember). I puked all over the back by the pool table and him and some other guy were going to throw me out, but me and my friends pleaded with toma and told him it was my b day. And they let me stay. Then later that night I met my wife and for some strange reason I through her up into the air and she hit her head on the roof and got a concussion. They still didn't throw me out. That place was awesome. They never should have closed it down. Soooo many memories.
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Oh and that must not be toma. On my tape the viper was red and lost by a landslide. It's on an old vhs-c. I have it somewhere. I don't know why but I want to say 2003 max. I would have fallen out of the seen in 2003 (blew the 3rd motor and called it quits). I totally thought it was toma all these years.
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Are you still in contact with him?? Tell him I say hi. He could have been a bartender that night (to drunk to remember). I puked all over the back by the pool table and him and some other guy were going to throw me out, but me and my friends pleaded with toma and told him it was my b day. And they let me stay. Then later that night I met my wife and for some strange reason I through her up into the air and she hit her head on the roof and got a concussion. They still didn't throw me out. That place was awesome. They never should have closed it down. Soooo many memories.
I would have punted your arse out that night, birthday or not via the back door. Remember the fire escape stairs that lead to the alley? I usually gave young punks the " bumpy ride out" to smarten them up. I'm glad you didn't have to deal with me that night and things worked out for you.