[BlitzBlue1032]

YouTube - Si vs. xA

Watch that video and that will prove my point to you. That is a very good friend of mines XA that is the camera car, running against a stock SI. His XA is fairly close in numbers compared to my TC. Almost same horsepower and torque ratings (his XA has about 10 less horsepower and torque) and we run almost identical in the 1/4 mile. Only difference is his car weighs roughly 2200 pounds and the TC weighs roughly 3100. As you can see he pulled about 3+ cars on the SI off the line. I dont even need to go any further. A 1/4 mile drag race comes down to who can get off the line first and fastest(if the power rating are somewhat similiar). You may run a 15.0 and i run a 15.4, but if i beat you off the line by .3-.4 tenths of a second then your going to have one hell of a time running me back down before that finish line. And thats not even factoring in the reaction time. One thing i havent mentioned yet though is it also depends on the driver. Im sure you did beat the tc and the rabbit when you raced them, as you should have. But i guarntee that its because the driver of the tc did not launch the car correctly(im assuming yall raced from a dig). If you launch the tc anything above 2500-3000rpms your either going to light em up through 1st or just bog so badly that you might as well just have lit em up. And im not saying that the tc is a race car by any means because its not. But we are comparing the tc to the si right now. Another thing that i bet you didnt know is that a tc is geared very very low. 1st, 2nd and 3rd gear in a tc are very short torqey gears, but toyota might as well not even put a 4th or 5th gear in our car because they are about as useless as a poopie flavored lollypop (sorry i had 2).