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Old Feb 10, 2007 | 10:06 PM
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Just raced a friends modded WRX. He's running about 290 whp ( more than what STI's run). Ran from a 60- 65 pull. No contest, just pulled him everytime right off the start and then would pull up to about 2-3.5 car lengths and hold it all the way. Pretty fun I know he'd take me off the line but I'd catch him.
Old Feb 10, 2007 | 10:46 PM
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nice kill
Old Feb 10, 2007 | 10:56 PM
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sounds like your having fun with your car now, lightweight rawks eh?
Old Feb 10, 2007 | 11:02 PM
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haha oooooooo ya . Still alot of stuff I want to do with the car though.
Old Feb 10, 2007 | 11:08 PM
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damn...are you serious?
Old Feb 10, 2007 | 11:20 PM
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ya
Old Feb 11, 2007 | 10:27 AM
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Nice! 230whp WOW! Ive taken stock sti's with my sub-200whp. But yea off the line sux. Nice kill!
Old Feb 11, 2007 | 11:10 AM
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Yeah, I was walking STIs back when I had only 220whp. I was kind of amazed how slow they were for all the power they supposedly had.
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AWD power loss FTL!!!
Old Feb 11, 2007 | 04:12 PM
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just had an encounter with a evo 9 today. Went from a 50 pull. It was very close, I pulled about 1- 2 car length off the start then he pulled closer and held about .5-1 car length behind me. He was very impressed ... we went to the gas station and talked to him for a bit. He just wasn't some spoiled kid that parent's bought an evo and then they think they are hot stuff ( like almost all the evos in my area). Nice guy.... but nicer kill

P.S. was not stock he said was running around 270 whp.
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