My friend has wrx. And i beat him with my 05 G35 from the 10-80 mph

 

My friend also had a WRX, he jumps out ahead of me in he beginning (about 1/4 car length) but once we hit 40 mph i pull way ahead. I am also not an expert at driving stick, so I imagine someone with better skills would be able to pull even harder.

 

Like Rayfield, I had a VF34 equipped rex (though I was making more horsepower with my custom tuned UTEC then he made with his accessport ). It would've tromped on my G from a stop and a roll. It was running 12's in the quarter.

As for a stock rex, it will run 0-60 right with the G IF properly launched. Most people out there are unable or unwilling to really launch the WRX right. It takes some skill and it's hard on the relatively weak stock tranny. Launched correctly though, the WRX will take a quick lead and then the G will start to reel it in as 60 approaches. Past 60 the G will walk away from the rex.

I miss my old WRX, but I'd take the G over it any day.

 

Yeah Paul, and you spent about 3 times as much on your EM, too, so I should hope that you would have more hp...

 

I had a moded WRX messing with me this morning. At the next light I pulled away from him by at least a car lenght to 60.

On the track with my 150whp SE-R I raced a few WRX's, never lost to them. I have never been that impressed with them.

 

WRX has one of the worst gear ratio's for rolling starts. I know cause I had one.
And on any day above 75F, say byebye to any kind of real power. it felt like
a Corolla. The wrx was very powerful in 25F-40F range though... excellent thrust
with Utec and all. but i prefer my G35C's consistent performance over the rex
anyday.

 

Does anyone know how tough the G35x's tranny is? Lets say you put a APS TT into a G35x (go with me here).. would you need to do anything with the tranny? If you wanted to beef up the tranny could you?

(i am very interesting in the above questions, I am still learning about this stuff)

 

ran my stock 05 6mt sedan at race legal last friday at qualqom stadium(san diego 1/8 mile drag racing). I dusted an Sti and only posted a 9.7 1/8 mile which i thought was pretty good for bone stock G sedan. I'm sure he just f/u but oh well. i still won!

 

Had a run with a modded WRX at a two-lane traffic circe that looks like "?" at Golf and Wolf. I come home everyday and look forward to testing my suspension upgrades here. We both hit it and I immediately take the lead. Then the bend comes and I lose him completely. I was ahead so much, that I actually took his lane. He gave me a thumbs up and the next light. I did the same thing to a V8 Firebird today.

 

sorry for the newbie question but when you guys are on the highway and say you are in 6th gear, do you shift down to 5th and then down to 4th or do you just go straight from 6th to 4th? Please no flaming...

 

depends on what u doing, or what u want to do? also, depends on what RPM you are at? but YES, u can down shift from 6 to 4.. or any gear that is necessary!

 

yes you could. as long as you're at a speed where the gear ur shifting to wont redline. the nearer to redline to that gear, the more you have to revmatch or ull feel that awful 'thud' in ur tranny. i think 4th goes up to 110?(someone correct me) so unless ur running almost or over that speed, then u could.

 

A number of you may have had run-in's with 'modded' WRX's and pulled on them - especially from a roll. The WRX is now an inexpensive car and there are a lot of uneducated kids driving around with useless mods like a BOV and CAI (which will hurt the performance of a rex). The majority of rex's that you will come accross won't be much of a threat from a roll.

Still, I've never heard of a N/A G (or SE-R) that is any competition for a decently modded rex from a dig. Just look at the racing forums here. You see guys with thousands of dollars in mods that "just broke in to the 13's!!" If you head over to the WRX forums you'll find that guys with only a few K in mods are regularly posting timeslips in the high 12's and below. The STi is a 13 second car bone stock.

I'd still take the G any day though...

 

My previous car was a 03 WRX and my current car is a 03 G35 Coupe MT6. I've taken both cars to a local track this past year and I must say that the WRX is faster. This is stock for stock. Turbo lag does suck so anything under 3500 rpm = nothing. But once you hit boost, you're in another world.

53hp and torque more than the WRX will not make up for the 500 extra pounds the G35 carries.

G35 Coupe = 12.5 hp/lbs
WRX = 13.2 hp/lbs

Don't get me wrong. The reason I got rid of my WRX was b/c the interior did lack big time and I think I've moved on.. away from the "boy racer" stage... G35 Coupe was the perfect fit.

 

The WRX will be slightly faster my friend has one, BUT you have to brutalize the WRX tranny when you shift to get in the 5.5-5.7 range and I found most WRX owners don't want to do it quite to that point even in stop light races.