At 10:44 AM -0400 5/25/01, Matt Ritter wrote:
> > You guys can add your high altitude badges, your chrome wheels
>and your bass
>> subwoofers and such, but you ignore the importance of yellow paint and
>> stickers at your own peril. The carefully-devised ricer formula for speed
>> and power clearly enunciates the importance of both of these. If you leave
>> them out, you will lose all the stoplight drags at any altitude.
>
>You forget the Fire extinguisher bottle and Japanese writing on the
>back. Oddly enough I was still
>able to take one in my 97 cherokee( straight sixes forever!!!!)
However...I watched a SpeedVision show of Imported Car Drag Racing,
Honda Civics turning 9 second quarters at 150 MPH is pretty
impressive, of course the RiceRockets were turbocharged and running
Nitrous, generating (according to SpeedVision) 600 HP!!! I doubt
however if you would ever run across one on the road <G>
--
Bill Pugh
1957 TR-3
aka Casper
TS16765L
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