New Trends for 08

mike93hatch · Post by **mike93hatch** » Wed Jan 02, 2008 3:36 am

RyanA;88145 wrote:For 08, I predict a trend of a shitload more broken trannies for Mike.....

:ohnoes: booosheet

Phate · Post by **Phate** » Wed Jan 02, 2008 3:40 am

mike93hatch;88143 wrote:as for new for 08... i predict a 10 second d16 100% street car..(no cage)

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I predict Mike getting kicked off a lot of drag strips, lol.

Potts1 · Post by **Potts1** » Wed Jan 02, 2008 4:29 am

leg warmers

mike93hatch · Post by **mike93hatch** » Wed Jan 02, 2008 4:53 am

Phate;88157 wrote:I predict Mike getting kicked off a lot of drag strips, lol.

i only goto kcir. and there are 10 second hondas that run there with no cages and countless domestics. wont be a problem. one day ill get a cage..when im deep into the tens hahaa. tydo racecars will do a chromoly cage for me installed for about $550.. but its a street car.

gateway is just too strict on everything and getting really lame all together. and their management SUCKS.

ozark dragstrip isnt so bad but i had a bad experience there so i have since boycotted them. that and you have to take some back country roads out in the middle of bumfuck to get there that suck.

and hopefully someday they will start building the track here in midmo.

2nrsOfSpringfield · Post by **2nrsOfSpringfield** » Wed Jan 02, 2008 6:19 am

mike93hatch;88122 wrote:if you want my opinion... (you probably dont, right? LOL) FUCK E85!! you guys probably dont notice the prices of alot of certain things going up... think hard, youll figure it out..

as for the performance side of E85. i dont like it either. you gotta run 8 1600cc injectors, massive fuel systems, then you have to worry about the amount of ethanol you get in your tank everytime you fill up.. yes its different everytime you fill up.. but yea ive seen some people start making some little dash electronics that measure your amount of ethanol you have in the tank so you can retune for it, etc..

imo, once again, fuck all that. ill run my $4.59/gallon 111 octane race gas (at the pump) and not have a worry in the world about anything. yea a daily driver might be different, but who has 500+whp daily driver ??? (they also have 114 and 118 at the pump here as well)

/rant haha

We test the E85 down here all the time since we tune, test, and race on it so much and the E85 we get is very stable. Not sure why the E85 you guys have up there would be so unstable but that sucks. How many different places have you tested it at? When a few of the station first started carrying E85 down here it wasnt very stable but that was some time ago. Also from what I have found when I have tuned cars on E85, an all motor car running on say 440cc injectors and gas will only need to go to 550cc to run E85. The last turbo car I switched to E85 and retuned went from 880cc on gas to one set of 1000cc and got a better idle than he had on the 880cc. One set of 1600cc and a good pump should support up to 700hp. We have also had very good luck with the 255 intank pumps up to 500hp on E85. Anything more and you will need a better pump. One more thing we have found is with E85 a boosted car spools WAY sooner than they do with gas. Since it takes a bigger volume of E85 to run the engine than it does for gas, the engine also expels more volume out the exhaust spooling the turbo sooner. Seems to help some cars that have a problem falling out of boost between shifts. These are things we have found threw our own experiences and testing with E85 and I can tell you its not for everyone. Like anything it does have its pros and cons. Right now I dont want to see it lots of daily drivers running E85 until they start making it from something other than corn. I really like milk and bacon and that sh1t getting expensive lol. At least when we spend money on E85 it is staying here in the US and not going over seas.

mike93hatch · Post by **mike93hatch** » Wed Jan 02, 2008 6:41 am

yup it does have its pros and cons but its not for me...

and my little dinky sohc has no problem falling out of boost between shifts thanks to the full throttle shift.

Kage87 · Post by **Kage87** » Wed Jan 02, 2008 6:45 am

Potts1;88168 wrote:leg warmers

If we're going retro....head bands maybe?

But on a more serious note, I see road racing / auto x / time attack becoming more prevalent again.

Nat X · Post by **Nat X** » Wed Jan 02, 2008 5:44 pm

I see a old cartoon I used to watch becoming cool again.

"And I'll form the head"

Reverend · Post by **Reverend** » Tue Jan 15, 2008 9:38 pm

I predict the following fads for 2008:

- Chocolate covered watermelon
- Purple will be the new black
- The new Metamusil diet craze
- Victoria's Secret will change their "pink" logos across the butts of their pants to simply the image of a vagina
- hula-hoop earings will be retro
- Jeff Goldblum will reign as 2008's most popular celeb