Tom Welch,
Those Supra videos you posted bring back some memories! The Supra races around here ALWAYS go the same way. The driver is in the staging lanes playing with his car for 20 minutes before "the race". He is icing the intake, pulling off a headlight and putting his intake there, putting in some race gas, asjusting his boost controller, letting the car flow oil thru the turbos, adjusting his electronics and making sure his tires are at the perfect PSI and temperature, and all that other crap.
The Supra lines up against the Viper... the Supra does a massive burnout while bouncing up against the boost controller. They line up... they launch. The Supra launches horribly... they had to rev it up to get the boost and it overpowered the tires. It spools up and takes off. After all that tinkering, and all that noise, and all that commotion, the Supra ran a 12.4@118mph, and lost to the stock Viper that ran a 12.0@120.
Of course, the Supra rolls back into the staging lanes and the excuses start "my boost controller messed up" and "I am not running enough race gas" and "I need to cool the intake" and "I spun once I hit boost".
I've never seen a variety of car that needs to much tinkering to be fast, and requires such a perfect state of tune to put up a good number.
Tom, you proved a very important point... it's not who puts down the bigger dyno number, and it's not who can pull the quickest in a rollon, and it's not who has more tricks to play with their car before the lights go green, it's about who crosses the finish line first... and most BPU++--++-++!++~= Supras still don't hang with stock GTS Vipers, IMO. I've never seen a Supra BPU++--+=__++~!!! break out of the 12's.... not at my track anyways.
