93 accord vs. SS cobalt

[Ralphie]

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[owequitit]

This is kind of funny, but it stops now.

1)If you weren't there, you don't know whether it did or didn't happen.

If he says it did, I am inclined to believe it did. Doesn't matter when, where, why or how. I have better things to do than worry about it.

2) Cobalt SS's aren't god. They run high 14's to low 15's all day stock. They only have 205 HP, and top end is not their thing.

Add in a semi bad driver, semi bad circumstances etc etc etc, and 14's or 15's can quickly become 17's.

A car is only as capable as its driver.

3) I have seen a bone stock F22A6 run a 15.2 fully loaded with nothing more than a 35 dry shot. That was with severe wheel hop, on 17's with shitty Wan Li tires, on heavy 17" wheels, with a FULL stereo in the car.

With the right set of bolt ons, it wouldn't be impossible to get another 35HP which would be equivalent to a 35 dry shot.

Hell, a Delta cam is worth 15-20WHP all by itself, and that is conservatively.

4) The average Cobalt is about 3000-3200 lbs. Curb weight. The CB7 is 200-300lbs curb weight lighter than that stock. So the Cobalt needs more power to achieve the same power to weight ratio.

5) Gearing is EVERYTHING. The Cobalt has tall gears. I imagine they are also fairly widely spaced. If you get stuck at a speed that falls between 2 gears, you are screwed.

Don't know if that is the case, but with tall widely spaced gears, it is very possible.

6) The only thing dumber than street racing stories, is arguing that it didn't happen when you weren't there, because you don't have any more facts about the race than the person racing may about the car they beat.

I have personally seen some big cars get taken down by stuff that wasn't as powerful. Sometimes it was driver, sometimes it was gearing, sometimes it was just dumb luck.