My friend is gonna be finishing up a total restoration on his 79 super carrera. What will it take for me to have a car capable of killing his? A V-8 may be an open option. If I end up keeping my SA, I want to be able to take him. I realize my the easiest thing would probably to aim to kill him in a straight line but I only have 100hp or less right now.

 

to kill a 79 carrera, use the 1974 carrera rsr (duck tail) one of my favorite cars

 

or a gsl-se stock

 

i hate to break your heart gregs, but not even close. think about it.

 

Drove a 79 Porsche 911 in a driver's school at Roebling Raceway. Its basically a stronger, faster car than my 7s. But you can give her a Hell of a run in the turns if you are good.

 

what'll it take?? another 50 hp should close the gap a little, makes a huge difference in an 1100 kg car, dont go v8 (my opinion) stay with the unique rotary =)))

 

Remove your rear sway bar and sucker him into a decreasing radius corner.

 

~T.J.

EDIT: I guess it really depends on what was done to the engine, which block was used, etc.

I also couldnt find a weight, so its a little hard to calculate horsepower to weight ratios or anything like that, but Im sure its possible with a few mods. Good luck!

 

I always thought the Porsche 944 and 924 was a more likely "target" to beat than 911's and 928's for modded but streetable 12A and 13B Rex's.

The stock but potent Carrera will post 13.4 to 14.6 in the quarter mile. The late 70's and early '80's were usually over 14 seconds.

Alot of ways you can handle his ***. Pick your poison.

 

The sad part is, - I am old enough to know exactly what you're talking about.

 

I beat one in my 85 SE. Before ECU upgrade.

 

Here you go.

http://www.automotiveforums.com/vbulletin/t195341.html

Pick your prey !

 

Wait...Is there more to it than just the RX-7 performing better? Was there a fault with the Porsche or something?

~T.J.

 

try a magic carpet....

 

If it's straight line....................nitrous..........

 

You don't have to be very old to know that slowing down in a corner in a heavily rear-biased car is just like swinging a hammer, for all the same physics reasons.

As they say... "Been there, Done that, Got the T-shirt, Cleaned my shorts!"

 

What he said.

 

Yeah...Thats why I was laughing in my first post, but then the way DF said it I started thinking that maybe there was something I was missing, like a flaw in the car like an exploding gas tank in a car from before my time or something

~T.J.

 

Those 70's to mid 80's Porsche's used to swing their *** out and do a 180, anytime
you looked at them funny.

My Stepfather at the time used to have a lot of "Scarface" type friends (Miami/80's) and
almost every single one of them wrapped their car around a pole on entrance ramp when
when getting on it.