me getting arrested for my burnout with my e30

[analogjesus]

I would just like to chime in and say one thing: I think someone mentioned HP/L before when we were talking about Hondas. This statistic literally means nothing. A 200 lb, 100 hp, 1 liter engine has no advantages over a 200lb, 100 hp, 2 liter engine. A more accurate statistic to use would be hp/lb or hp/mpg or something along those lines.

Although I find it funny that some BMW guys rag on Hondas when their engine design principles have many parallels (or at least they used to). The f20 in an s2000 is a high revving, low displacement, NA engine with a lot of power up top. The s54 (and many M engines) is a high revving, low displacement, NA engine.

Hondas can be good in their own right but they could never compare to an e30 in driving feel and affordability (for me at least, show me a Honda I could buy rust free and running for $700 and have it last a long time)

[JasonC]

Yes. I think alot of these guys are just misguided - the offspring of puberty, media portrayal of motorsports, and too much hydro. That posting (as above/below) will be my automated response to all things Mall Racing.

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But the OP of this thread wasn't racing anyone.... Just burned the tires in a crowd of people.

[Widm3r]

Ive been good man, I miss my first Breyton Kitted car. But yea, I bought Gary's car. Kept it for a year and than took a huge loss on it. It was a really sweet car though.

Both cars were really nice even though i have only seen them in pictures. Maybe you are just a good photographer.;)

Please tell us all your joking?

That's quite obviously an undercover, and I'm sure he knows a whole lot more about whats going on around there than these idiots could imagine. There pretty good at what they do.

There was at least one, maybe more officers driving an e46 m3 during that sting operation here in NC.

Yeah these idiots were coming from week on end, he is just as bad as one of the b20vtec forum single cam civic guys who try and race all. And this guy leaf is just as retarded as the people burning out in a crowd.

so you're one of the reason the best buy meets got locked down
:tsk:

Yes it is, although i have never seen you there ;)


Whats up with that man?

[structured]

This was in Westbury on old country rd at the bestbuy. I have an idea who would have told you in elmont. Whats the kids name with the swapped white e30 over there. I know him from when i attended hofstra. He got banned from the Hofstra Lots for setting up his own auto-x.

I almost spit out my coffee when I read this. F'ing lol. At least he was doing something cool when he got busted.


As for the you, OP:
I guess that doing a burnout in a crowd of people makes you the coolest person there. The only problem is that when the crowd is a bunch of douchebags, you are only the coolest douchebag. You still lose.

[Widm3r]

I almost spit out my coffee when I read this. F'ing lol. At least he was doing something cool when he got busted.


As for the you, OP:
I guess that doing a burnout in a crowd of people makes you the coolest person there. The only problem is that when the crowd is a bunch of douchebags, you are only the coolest douchebag. You still lose.

Now you have me laughing like a clown in front of my group at work.

Hofstra has some great lots that are not used during the summer since we did not have a high attendance for the summer program and this was the furthest lot from the student center.

Circled in red is the hofstra lot where he set up his one man auto-x and circled in blue is where SCCA, BMWCCA, and PCA hold our auto-x.

[bmws50b30]

Yes it is, although i have never seen you there ;)


Whats up with that man?

i went a couple of times and it was good. thursday night wasn't working with my schedule. i have to get up really early the following day.

[HarryPotter]

Think about it for a second, its a daily driver, which means you don't always need your max power every waking second maybe you want to go for MPG, so keep it in the low band, you don't need 600hp to go from stop at a red light to 35mph..... But if you do want some extrapower rev it to 6k. If you really wanted to you could program Vtec to kick in at 1.5k but that would kill your MPG. The car was designed to be a sporty DD, not a race car...

You may be semi right, but wheres the tq? Non existent. tq is very nice for a DD I miss my eta's for this sole reason.

[Widm3r]

I know your pain, i still havnt seen your 330 yet. I would love to see it rip around at nassau during the spring for auto-x

[toointoxicated60]

Ive been to the best buy meets but not recently. Its getting too much attention just like the bp or whatever it is on the conduit

[napabavarian]

erm. rAtard? It's speeled with an "a."

Back on topic, what did they charge you with? Did they just give you a talking to and/or ticket and let you go?

In CA burnouts are cited under "exhibition of speed" which is a subset of the street racing code, similar penalties as a DUI, although they aren't usually enforced to that degree, you can serve significant jail time, big fines, and it's a misdemeanor, if you own the car they can impound your car for 30 days, just a good idea to not do them anywhere.

In Oakland sideshows were huge a few years ago, a few times a year one of the cars went somewhere it shouldn't and smoshed a few of the instigators and onlookers into pine box filler, so the cops take it pretty seriously, I have a friend who used to build crazy fast 60's mustangs when they were cheap, he was doing something similar when the tires heated up, got traction, shot him over the curb across an intersection and into the next parking lot, just luck no one got hurt.

[Number73]

Totally Kewl

But the OP of this thread wasn't racing anyone.... Just burned the tires in a crowd of people.

Don't worry - I was told the 'Racing' in Mall Racing is just a marketing slogan - like 'dingaling' or 'queef'. You're definitely right though... 0-3 miles per hour is a prerequisite for running in this class. My rulebook is outdated and from the Smithaven Mall, anyway... or at least the Panda Kitchen coupons are expired. I have seen safety stewards and corner/flag workers will allow lower speeds but usually only when early braking without use of crossovers to the subwoofer.

Here is a picture of last season's totally kewl/phat Jamba Juice Championship:

[napabavarian]

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[JasonC]

Don't worry - I was told the 'Racing' in Mall Racing is just a marketing slogan - like 'dingaling' or 'queef'. You're definitely right though... 0-3 miles per hour is a prerequisite for running in this class. My rulebook is outdated and from the Smithaven Mall, anyway... or at least the Panda Kitchen coupons are expired. I have seen safety stewards and corner/flag workers will allow lower speeds but usually only when early braking without use of crossovers to the subwoofer.

Here is a picture of last season's totally kewl/phat Jamba Juice Championship:

I'm lost to whatever your rambling off about . My only guess is that you think the op was warming his tires up getting ready for a race in a parking lot???? But all he was doing was showing off with tire smoke...

[Fidhle007]

I'm lost to whatever your rambling off about . My only guess is that you think the op was warming his tires up getting ready for a race in a parking lot???? But all he was doing was showing off with tire smoke...

Dude, he just made a really funny joke and you let it get right by you! He was implying that doing burnouts and revving in parking lots was a form of racing and such, yada yada, so on and so forth. It made me laugh...

[JMil86]

I would just like to chime in and say one thing: I think someone mentioned HP/L before when we were talking about Hondas. This statistic literally means nothing. A 200 lb, 100 hp, 1 liter engine has no advantages over a 200lb, 100 hp, 2 liter engine. A more accurate statistic to use would be hp/lb or hp/mpg or something along those lines.

Although I find it funny that some BMW guys rag on Hondas when their engine design principles have many parallels (or at least they used to). The f20 in an s2000 is a high revving, low displacement, NA engine with a lot of power up top. The s54 (and many M engines) is a high revving, low displacement, NA engine.

Hondas can be good in their own right but they could never compare to an e30 in driving feel and affordability (for me at least, show me a Honda I could buy rust free and running for $700 and have it last a long time)

Statistically speaking, you are right. BUT hp/l a car that can make 100hp/l is a more impressive design than a car that makes 50hp/l. The new Ferrari whatever claims it is the first production car to make 127hp/l from natural aspiration. I don't know if this is true or not.