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road racing/drag racing....possible?

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Old Dec 30, 2004 | 12:27 AM
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sorry
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running 10's on a street driven ROTARY is going to be a trick.
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Old Dec 30, 2004 | 12:37 AM
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Originally Posted by rs_1101
sorry
in response to the original post
running 10's on a street driven ROTARY is going to be a trick.
sorry for the confusion

oh and heres a tidbit to leave you guys

not that the hinssioncars are road racers but they have video of a 9.8 1/4 mile @140mph and still are getting 27mpg.... on the highway.

thats on 26x10.5 ET streets and 16x4's up front...

heres a video when the car was stock...

http://www.hinsonsupercars.com/LS1RX7tracktesting1.WMV

night ladies and gents look forward to see what everyone says tommrow...

Thanks

Chad
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Old Dec 30, 2004 | 12:53 AM
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thats not rotary.
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Old Dec 30, 2004 | 01:04 AM
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I've got a street driven 11.3 car that still gets 24mpg, does that count? And, a 13BREW weighs quite a bit more than the 13BT.
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Old Dec 30, 2004 | 01:57 AM
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An LS1 might not weigh much more than a 13B Turbo, but how much do the T56 trannies weigh (since that's what he said he was going to use)? And how big are they?

I think with how fast you want the car, it's pretty much going to HAVE to be either a drag car or a road race car. Any road race setup would probably be too stiff for drag racing, and you would have a hard time getting traction, and any drag setup would be too soft to use for road racing.

This is how I think it would work out. You could either have a car that is really good at one type of racing, or a car that is not very good at both of them. You have to compromise somewhere. Unless you got a lot of money, in which case forget everything I just said.
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Old Dec 30, 2004 | 02:00 AM
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An LT1 weighs a good 150lbs more than a TII block.
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