SCENARIO:
Ok i'm returning home from school, nightime, i'm on a local intersection waiting for the light to turn green.
THE CHALLENGE:
Well i'm in my 2nd car, 95 jeep grand cherokee laredo w/90k on it. and this idiot guy in 01 ford windstar pulls up next to me and revs his engine at me. I'm like wtf is he doing! especially in a windstar. So, i'm like ok...sure...whatever...and ignore him. THen once again he revs his engine even higher. I'm like talking to myself in my mind "godammit stop being gay!".
THE ACCEPTANCE:
So, of course he got on my nerves and i reved back at him. I have never raced against a ford windstar especially in my jeep! But, yes!, i have raced other suv's for the hell of it, cuz they started it, but that will be another story. And i know the jeep hauls ass w/ its 4.0L I-6.
THE COURSE/STRIP:
Well, after the main local intersection up to my house there is a straight b4 you hit the hill, i'd say i could hit 60mph b4 i hit the steep hill, i'd say 1mile or so long with a constant 40 degree angle and slight curve. So this was the battle of sheer torque!and some.
CAR SITUATION:
OLD CAR(7yr. old) VS. NEWER CAR (1month or so). I had 1/4 tank full
GO GREEN!:
The light hit green and both of our cars flew back as the rpm jumped! I'd say I redlined the jeep at 5K in short amt of time (felt kinda low knowing i hit 10.8k (aprox) on my GS-R). Well, me, pretty good auto driver, got off a better start on the line. I'd say i had a car length. but as soon as i got 1/3 way up the hill i could see the MINIVAN gaining. I was seriously panicing, it would suck to get beat by a MINIVAN no matter waht! Ok so as we hit the 1/2 way mark, the ford was jsut inches away from side by side. by this time we were hitting 70mph!
THE KILL:
With 1/3 of the way left of the hill he started gaining on me! all of a sudden he was in front of me! i was like oh crap! that minivan hauls ass! i back by a car length or so traveling at 75 and when we got up to more of the flats (1/4mile or less) i'd started to gain on him. We were hitting 95mph and he turned on his hazArds cuz there was an intersection local intersection comming up. I was so close if i had a couple more sec. Well n e wayz he got himselft a kill.
This race like lasted 1min at most, my guess.
LAST WORDS TO THE UNAWARE:
"MINIVANS HAUL ASS!BEWARE!"

Oh well it was fun, yet depressing lol. Time to retire/trade in the Jeep...
I need to make up for this loss...VTEC TIME!

THE SPECIFICATIONS:
02 FORD WINDSTAR LX:
3955 (APROX)curb FWD 3.8L V6
HP 200@4900RPM
TORQUE 240@3600RPM
0-60: 9.4s c&d
1/4: 17.2s "
1k miles
max speed: 113 mph

(driven HARD) 95 JEEP GRAND CHEROKEE LAREDO
4000 CURB
4WD 4.0L I-6
HP 195@4600RPM
TORQUE 230@3200RPM
0-60: 9.7s C&D
1/4: 17.3s "
90k miles
max speed: 107.5 mph

some of those vans are hella quick you gotta watch out for em. ask 13secondcivic he races his odyssey all the time and kicks ass.

so ya win some you lose some.

battle of the soccer moms

good old "ford racing" vs "mopar power"

a true american muscle shootout.

ldelaysionl

U R hilucinating take some drugs

I like how you broke it all down into sections...

also, Its nice to see people who post a loss. Dosent happen too often apparently..

Originally posted by SickLude
I like how you broke it all down into sections...

also, Its nice to see people who post a loss. Dosent happen too often apparently..

Some people's cars are just too fast!:D
Like mine for instance. ;) :rolleyes: 150 horses of fury!!!!!:devil:

Originally posted by NEED4SPEED
I'm like talking to myself in my mind "godammit stop being gay!"
:bloated: huh.. dude, u got some issues

HA!

my civic would probably get beaten by a minivan lol...

my friend would drive his parents a while ago... 94 Grand Caravan.. 3.3l V6... we make fun of him a lot for his quote when driving it.. "Effortless acceleration" it was retarded... accelerating onto a hiway in a minivan and he says that..... right.... well, i guess the other car he drives is a stratus so he ain't used to anything fast lol....

I'll race my friends CJ-7 in my civic soon :)

Its true, minivans CAN haul ass:sun: . Ive actually taken my stepmom's 2001 toyota celica and that thing can get some speed. Just watch out next time though because theyre faster than most people think:frog:

what are you talking about......:D :D .......first you say minivans are fast then you say your stepmoms celica is fast........last time i checked, celicas were 2 door sports cars.......i don't know if that's what u meant, but it sounds like it.........or maybe im just confused:confused: :confused: ..........sorry if i sound like an ass......

Wow they run 17's that's fast. Come on guys that is not fast sorry. Now if you get that Van to run 13's then that would be fast. I thought my car was slow and right now it will prob run 13's

May dad used to have one of those Chrysler turbo mini-vans, and some people have theirs doing 10s in 1/4 mile. But they aren't that fast. One night back in Colorado I has headed towards main street in Longmont when some kid pulls up next to me with his parents Ford Windstar, so he speeds up like he wants to race, so I toy with him for a few seconds. Then I got bored and left him in the dust. He tried to keep up but I left him like he was standing still and I didn't even have to downshift. Some are kinda quick for the size but if you get beat by a mini-van, unless it is like the aforementioned turbo van, time to mod or get a new car. Just my .02.

well my moms minvan is fast as hell. its a 3.8 L v6 chrysler town and country. the only problem is the piece of shit breaks all the time cause its a chrysler. and those straight six jeeps have a ton of torque. me friends brother in law worked at a jeep dealer and he said that the straight six jeeps have more torque than the v8's.

Originally posted by Frostbyte
Wow they run 17's that's fast. Come on guys that is not fast sorry. Now if you get that Van to run 13's then that would be fast. I thought my car was slow and right now it will prob run 13's

13's? then your mods list in your sig must be out of date right?

Originally posted by brads94accord
well my moms minvan is fast as hell. its a 3.8 L v6 chrysler town and country. the only problem is the piece of shit breaks all the time cause its a chrysler. and those straight six jeeps have a ton of torque. me friends brother in law worked at a jeep dealer and he said that the straight six jeeps have more torque than the v8's.

Yep, mine breaks all the time, so does my dads jeep, and my moms 300M. Yeesh :rolleyes:

Originally posted by SickLude
I like how you broke it all down into sections...

also, Its nice to see people who post a loss. Dosent happen too often apparently..

I agree, it is nice to see some losses once in a while if not more. Let me share a similar one with you all I had a while ago back, this one was me in my '00 Civic DX coupe, vs. a newer Jeep Wrangler with some huge arse mud slinger tires on it (that's the part the baffled me) So one night i'm headed over to my g/f's house, and I'm at an intersection about 2 blocks (1/3 of a mile) away from her street she's on. These guys in a Jeep Wrangler with a slight lift to it, and huge mud tires pulls up next to me, music blaring from it. I'm sitting there minding my own business, my tach or motor rather is doing the thing where it's idling low enough (about 600 rpm) the needle flutters a little, and the car gently vibrates, so I put my auto into neutral and rev it a couple times to about 3000 RPMs (nothing major). Well the guys look down from the Jeep, and I guess assumed I was challenging them (doh *smacks forehead at this point*) and me not backing down, when I see them leave the line when the light turned green, in a quick fury, I chirp the tires, and take off after them, I'm about even to them before the end of the intersection (it's about 200 feet from one end to the other, I'm crossing a big 4-lane each direction street), and by the time I catch up to them, they just take off, I'm dumbfounded, not because they beat me, but because they were raised, had HUGE mud tires, and beat me. I'm figuring that Wrangler must have had the 4.0L I6 under it's hood, because I'm for sure I would have smoked it with the 4-cylinder. It was an interesting race though, still fun even if I did lose. :) When I was coming up even with them, before they took off from me, I could hear their engine getting close to redline, just as I was hitting mine, once I hit mine or close to it, I couldn't hear their motor anymore over mine, but damn, hearing a Jeep hit redline is VERY intimidating for sure! :eek:

And don't underestimate minivans, before I got my Civic, I used to roll my mom's '91 Mazda MPV, and that thing HAULED ass! Especially with it having RWD and all, flick the button on the column shifter into "power" mode, hit the gas, and it slams you back into your seat. Even without torque launching, I got it to peel out a 10 foot patch of rubber once, so I was in turn when I did it) but it still left smoke and rubber all over the ground, and was loud as heck! And even with only 150hp under it's skin, I still managed to crush a few early 90's Bimmers with it, and some other various cars. Import power RULES, even if it IS in minivan form. ;) But can't knock, any Mopar made van kicks butt too in many cases. :eek:

u got beat by a wrangler too? i was racing an integra gsr one night and this wrangler pulled up to me, he had mud tires, chrome brush guards front and rear, a winch, and he challenged me. naturally i laughed and said "alright if u really want to" stupid me ignoring the rumble and the aftermarket headers showing under the lifted frame. well to make the story short he kicked my ass, he even beat me on takeoff :eek: which is VERY rare for somebody to beat me off the line. i talked to him afterwards, he had a chevy 350 with k&n air filter, hooker headers and dual flowmasters, no cats. so were saying about 260hp in a light little wrangler with 4wd to get it off the line. i talked to somebody else at a later date that knew him, this guy said he was riding in the jeep and the owner floored it, let off, then stomped it again and he popped a wheelie!

yea well i bought a ford windstar for my first car and tore it up pretty bad from drifting, hill jumping, hitting cars, and inadamate objects and ive done a few races too but i was wondering if anybody knew a place were i could get performance parts and body kits for it and any cheap ways to acheive more horse power.

Ibl

As much as I'd love to hear more about that...