Okay, so I'm parked outside someone's house stealing wireless internet and this is what's going on in front of me...
They rolled up on identical bikes wearing identical clothes, did some stretches together and got into almost identical cars and drove off in opposite directions. I didn't know which one to follow so I stayed put.
How dare I comment on the absurdity of it all when I'm sitting in a parked car hijacking internet...
They rolled up on identical bikes wearing identical clothes, did some stretches together and got into almost identical cars and drove off in opposite directions. I didn't know which one to follow so I stayed put.
How dare I comment on the absurdity of it all when I'm sitting in a parked car hijacking internet...
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The jap/euro guys mostly use super unleaded, as will anyone with a high performance engined car as that's what they're designed for. It has a higher octane rating than regular unleaded, which is required in higher compression engines that output more power to stop the fuel detonating instead of burning. Some of the real passionate guys fit Nitrous Oxide kits to their cars also, also called NOS (although this is actually a particular supplier of nitrous and nitrous systems), which pretty much originated in the drag racing circles as a way of making much more power. You need to be able to provide the engine with more fuel if you use much of it, or the whole lot will melt rather quickly!
To be honest, I think a lot of those guys just bullshit about their cars. But, I do know some guys with Nissan Skylines and the like who are pretty serious and have spent mega bucks on their cars. A guy from up here won a Jap shootout down in England last weekend with his Skyline, 9.5s over the quarter is pretty damn fast!
Me, I won't touch nitrous, mainly because it's so tricky to run. All the Pro Mod series drag cars here have moved to supercharged alcohol engines from gasoline/nitrous motors, because they're so much cheaper to buy and run, and they produce much more power without melting themselves every so often!
Why be jealous of me working on hotrods and dragsters...? If you're a real hard worker and know your engines, it's not hard to get into it. All it took for me was a phonecall to the right guy, and a weekend of hard graft on the dragster. 7 years on I'm still there!