i was comming from work and i was at a red light then i hear 2 cars reving their motors, i automatically look around me thinking its for me.... no not this time ok whatever. then i see that the light that goes east to west goes green.(im going north) then i see an rx-7(FC model) peel out and take off but i hear no turbo and next to him is a 96 mitsubishi galant with a wing so big it makes the one on my SRT look like it was never there.as they made their way across me i see the galant gets the lead by half a car and keeps pulling on the RX-7 and the last i saw of them racing was the galant put a car on the RX-7

lol, aw he got owned by a ricer. I would like to see the reaction of the rx-7 driver.

Or he didn't went for it like the other one and just cruised along. :tongue:

:lol: :rofl: :lol:

That was great. Did the rx7 blow up, or what?

maybe the rx7 wasnt racing? lol and the gallent got him real good off the line! nah but ud havta see the look on the 7's owners face!

That would have been great to see. I bet you he was pissed.

Ricers owning racers?? Since when? OOOOhh. Maybe they were both ricers o...ok. pheeew.

Maybe the Rx-7 ran out of turbo?

Gotta fill them up everyonce in a while, just like washer fluid.

This has been a quick tip from RedNeck383:thumbsup:

FC's aren't all turbos... and they are not really that fast...

Since when Rx-7's "are not really that fast..."?

Anyhow, I don't think that the Rx-7 guy was really racing, or maybe he just went easy on the Gallant dude. :dunno:

Maybe it was one of those newer VR4 Galants? I've heard those things can move decently.

The RX-7 did peel out. So there's your sign that he was racing. It's not that hard to believe the RX-7 was beat by a Gallant. Especially if it was a non-turbo RX. Geez. It's like OMGZ RX-sevenz CAN't B pwNZd!

Shoite happens. The RX got beat by a ricer. Probably would have been funny to see. But whatev. Funny story.

yeah fc's arent that fast.

Since when Rx-7's "are not really that fast..."?


Ever since the non Turbo MkIV Supras weren't all that fast.

Maybe it was one of those newer VR4 Galants? I've heard those things can move decently.

Exactly, maybe it was a modded vr-4. I can see that taking an rx-7. Did you hear a turbo or BOV?

stock NA FC's only had 160 hp in a package that wasn't the lightest in the world, I can even see a V6 Galant beating one.

Exactly, maybe it was a modded vr-4. I can see that taking an rx-7. Did you hear a turbo or BOV?

Negative Ghostwriter NO BOV from Neither Just burnt tire

my friends vr4 doesn't have a BOV sound...just the dump tube and if you listen very closeley, the spooling of a turbo, but its very hard to tell

Could be that the Galant was just running properly. We are talking about a 15 year old RX7 that is known to be one of the least reliable cars on the road, its quite likely that it wasn't running corretly. I have seen those old RX7s run and they are usually not that fast anyway, although i have seen some fast ones that were definately not stock. I would definately believe that one of those old RX7s would be beat by a Galant.

i never lost to a galant.

and i have the n/a FC.

stock NA FC's only had 160 hp in a package that wasn't the lightest in the world, I can even see a V6 Galant beating one.

its 160 hp but the weight ranges from 2600 lbs (like mine) to 3000 (for convertable). (note: you can get like 20hp from an exhaust on an n/a with cats removed, its really that restrictive)

all i can say is that i think the galant would have the upper hand if that FC was not running right. honestly the n/a model is not that fast compared to todays cars but we are talking about a car that was considered to have decent performance in 1988, which is slow compared to modern cars. really the race should have been even. sadly its a drivers race. (he must have been a shitty driver because a galant weights 2700 lbs and has 140hp), and to add a side note, there was no 96 galant v6 (and the vr4 was only a 92 model of a different bodystyle).

also might i add the n/a RX-7's are EXTREMELY reliable, the only time i was left stranded on the side of the road was when i ran out of gas (damn gauge wont work). just gotta defend the slow car for now.

i guess i missed the 96 part, even so though, 96's have the 4g64 engine (? prety sure) which except for the extra cam is the same as a 4g63 except upped to 2.4 liters so you can turbo one pretty easy (2g turbo parts interchangeable)
the GVR-4's were made in 91 and 92 and both the same body style 2k in 91 and 1k in 92

i guess i missed the 96 part

Same here

Eh, maybe it's just one of those things you gotta let go with "anything can happen on the street".