Lightning vs WRX
 

I dont own a rx7 but hey, im here so ill post the story

Ran into a lightning I saw the other night. Gave it a couple runs, roll and dig.

Lightning has i/e/12ish lb pulley
wrx - vf34 injectors exhaust blah blah

He wanted to go from 20 so ok, 1st gear he honks
......1.........2.3 get him by 3 or so cars up to 100ish

Then he wanted a dig, never raced a lightning from a dig before so I said ok.

3 honks and we go, I gave it waaaaay too much clutch and had to let off the gas....then smashed it down again, got him by maybe 4? up to 70ish or so.

Fun runs nice vehicle and cool guy.

no you didn't.............. 4 cars from 0-70 you're dreaming

A nearly stock WRX beating a decently modded lighting? :lol:

With those mods, he'd be looking at easy 12s w/ a bad driver. Maybe an STi would win from a stop? not a WRX, especially not from a roll.

Oh and welcome to RX7club.com home of the worlds most logical nay-sayers.

LIES!

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lol

what is a lightning?

really? its a pretty fast ford truck

It's a supercharged v8's truck. I can't believe you haven't heard of a lightning. They are pretty damn quick the wrx would be lucky to hang with one but he isn't putting 4 car lengths on one.

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LOL Maybe if the Lightning was sleeping. You probably beat some poser F150 with a Lightning badge, seems to happen alot.

If you only have injectors and exhaust like you claim, and he was running 12 lbs of boost, you would have had no chance from a roll. And 4 cars from a dig with a bad launch? sure..

it is also possible it wasnt a supercharged lightning and he just claimed to be running boost...did you hear that tell tale whine?

I don't think he is going to come back to back up his post.

actually, he claims a VF34, injectors, exhaust, etc. a VF34 is a larger-than-stock turbo. depending on supporting mods, mainly if he has an upgraded intercooler and a good tune, he could should be putting down about 350 AWHP.

As I said, it was probably a normal F150 with a Lightning badge on it. Lots of retards seem to do that. Not very likely it was a true Lightning running w/out the charger belt, no reason to do that.

Its not that it wasnt running the belt....they just didnt always supercharge the lightning...

Um.
http://www.fordlightning.com/statistics.htm

Yes they did.

go back a few years earlier...such as the 1995 Ford lightning, the only difference was an SVT Engine, now that we are so off topic of the thread...

Nah, those don't count LOL Sorry, when I hear "lightning" I think the 99+, and when I hear "Cobra" I think 03/04. The other ones just don't really matter much

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okay guys, instead of just calling BS on him, why not try to analyze it... according to this site http://www.fordlightning.com/statistics.htm a stock WRX could take a Lightning to 60. stock WRX does 0-60 in 5.4s, Lightning does it in 6.2s. a WRX with a VF34 and supporting mods could do 0-60 in about 4.5s, if not a little faster. i don't know how the mods the OP listed for the Lightning will change its performance. however, i do know that the added power will worsen its ability to launch. from 0-60, it wouldn't be a contest for the WRX (with similar drivers). from 0-70, the Lightning would probably be catching up, but the WRX would still be ahead. did he take the Lightning by four lengths? i don't know, and he did put "4?" so there's a good chance it was less. but i don't have any doubts that he could take the Lightning.

My buddies lightning. He blew the engine a couple of months ago and is about $23k into a 650HP build on it with a new setup.

Don't think those pictures are up yet though!

http://www.hyperfiberbbq.com/gallery...ing/?g2_page=1

GG

hmmmm my friends sti put 350 awhp down with a gt35r (waiting till his water injection is in to take full advantage of the turbo) and with an easy launch he obliverated a lightning both from a stop and from a roll. IF that wrx is putting down the same power as my buddies sti, it's possible he took him by a few... 4's a stretch with a bad launch... but wrx's arn't reliable at that power, lack of forged internals and a weak gear box is scary

ROFL Nice try. All 2nd gen Lightnings came Supercharged from the factory. You could not buy a non-supercharged Lightning (99-04).

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Gotcha. I've seen 'em before. I just tend to think "car" instead of "truck" on here. I really don't know trucks at all.

Only putting down 350 with a 35r?? Sti's are weeeeeak.

that's not because it's an STi... STi's with 35R's put out a lot more power than that. but from the sound of the post, he's running a very conservative tune.