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WhiteOut
04-09-2004, 03:53 PM
Okay so this dork at work has a riced out 98' Escort ZX2. I wish I could post a pic of it since its so friggin ugly, but alas my household is stuck in the SLR film age (digital wha???). To give you an idea of what it looks like, just picture an Escort (ewww) with a huge wing, a fart can, and an entirely whited out exterior (including tail lights and headlights). Plus in an effort to beef things up even more he's got 1.2 million stickers and a grey vinyl interior he's painted white (OOOOOOO AAAAAHHHHHH). So anyways, he claims that he has a 3" cat back exhaust, a chip, some special intake and a bunch of other crap. He generally goes around work talking up his 200hp car, although I'm guessing since the exhaust appears to be stock other than the gay muffler he's a big fat liar. The one thing he does have going for him is a five speed manual and HUGE 14" rims...

He's been bothering me for weeks to "see what I've got under the hood" and race him, but I've resisted untill last night since I deemed it a total waste of time.

So anyways on the way home from work we found a nice straight section of road and stopped to make sure no one was coming first. We lined up he counted it down and we took off. Keep in mind I didn't do any brake stands or anything since I wasn't willing to hurt my car in a race with an Escort. I got a slightly late start since he counted it down, but by the time we were at 40 I'm a good car length ahead, and by 60 its almost two lengths. I don't even know how badly I spanked him in the quarter, but it had to have been 4 or five lengths. It was just pitiful. So after that debacle he stops behind me at the stop sign ahead and flashes me a couple times. He wants a rematch...fine...a rematch it is. This time I did a brake stand though, and surprise surprise I kicked his ass again.

I thought getting his ass kicked would shut him up, but when I went to get my check earlier today he had told everyone in the store how slow my car was and how he could have beaten me with ease, but he wanted to "see how fast my car was". I'm like God buddy get over it, I've got a 15 second car and you've got a 19 second car. Deal with it. There's nothing you can do to your Escort to overcome a 100hp deficit, short of buying a new car.

Stupid ricers.

TeeJay3800
04-09-2004, 04:06 PM
Good kill. Shows how immature ricers are when they can't even admit when they loose :roll:

You must have a 5-speed and some serious mods to have a 15 second convertible!

rudefyet
04-09-2004, 04:06 PM
um i woundlt diss a ZX-2 too hard....it must have been an auto

A stock 5-spd will run a 15.7

which would have gave your DOHC a good run...if not won

TeeJay3800
04-09-2004, 04:09 PM
Oh, I thought by 15 he meant 15.0. Yeah, LQ1/5-speeds run 15.7 stock. Although I bet he has an auto and Auto/DOHC Convertibles run 16.5 stock.

rudefyet
04-09-2004, 04:12 PM
Oh, I thought by 15 he meant 15.0. Yeah, LQ1/5-speeds run 15.7 stock. Although I bet he has an auto and Auto/DOHC Convertibles run 16.5 stock.

I was referring to the Escort running the 15.7

1998 Ford Escort ZX2 0-60 7.4 1/4mile 15.7
that with a 5 speed

a stock auto DOHC vert would run about a 16.5 like you said...there was never a 5-speed/3.4 vert made unless it was a swap

anyways...glad you killed it...riced out scorts are fugly :wink:

TeeJay3800
04-09-2004, 04:15 PM
Gotcha. I just re-checked and the Z34 5-speed ran a 15.8, stock.

rudefyet
04-09-2004, 04:17 PM
Gotcha. I just re-checked and the Z34 5-speed ran a 15.8, stock.

I need to inform Sean then :lol:

i always thought the auto Z34 ran a 15.8

You think a 3.4 5 speed cutty would be the same?

TeeJay3800
04-09-2004, 04:48 PM
Gotcha. I just re-checked and the Z34 5-speed ran a 15.8, stock.

I need to inform Sean then :lol:

i always thought the auto Z34 ran a 15.8

You think a 3.4 5 speed cutty would be the same?
I got the 15.8 from the 06/94 issue of Motor Trend. They introduced the Monte Z34 in that issue and gave the times for the car it replaced, the Lumina Z34. It listed the Lumi 5-speed's time as 15.8 @ 89.1 and a 0-60 of 7.5.

No, I don't think an auto Z34 would be near as fast. A motor with no low-end like the 3.4 needs a manual to be quick. For comparisons sake, a '91 GP STE 3.4 ran a 16.5 @ 86.1 and a 0-60 of 8.7.

digitaloutsider
04-09-2004, 05:20 PM
Unless my car is some sort of factory freak, or every ZX2 I've gone against had some sort of deficiency, I've kicked both ZX2's asses I raced. They're not blazingly fast to run against.

rudefyet
04-09-2004, 05:31 PM
hmmm....i questioned that time myself...i got it from site i used for 0-60 times run by a University

i checked some other sources....got a time from Road and Track


Ford Escort ZX2 - I4 2.0L (130 hp) 5spd. + ABS

0-60
8.40

1/4 mile
16.54

still faster then my gp

an auto would run mids 17s is my guess....riced out it'd be even slower

pblunt_
04-09-2004, 05:52 PM
People come to your senses....why are we debating escorts? Let us all come to the realization that Escorts are super fugly, Ford sucks, and riced out fords are even worst.

rudefyet
04-09-2004, 06:20 PM
*comes to senses*

I wouldn't be caught dead driving an escort...especially a riced out one

Everytime i see a riced out escort i wanna beat the shit out of the kid that owns it...first because he did it...second cause he thinks it's "cool"

sonyman87
04-09-2004, 06:26 PM
15second exort my ass..

at the track in springfield for the 2003wbody gathering there was a modified exort zx2 that was running 17s.. not low 17s but like 17.5! with exaust and god knows what. i guess he thought all the vinal would get him there faster..

jmacks92ste
04-09-2004, 06:49 PM
my 1992 GP STE 3.4 auto ran 16.2 stock...those stats for that 1991 seem a bit off if you ask me.

excelsior
04-10-2004, 01:25 AM
i kinda doubt an escort is running 15 anything or even 16 anything.....debating escorts is pointless but seriously people even a 3.1 w body should be comparable to an escort....ye Gods my ol Grand Am which ran an 11.1 0-60 took out a Focus which uses i believe the same powertrain as escort....

93CutlassSupreme
04-11-2004, 12:13 PM
i know, thats fucking bull shit those times for an escort, if a totally stock 3.1 can destroy a escort, which i and many others have done.

there was a post a while back about a 3.1 taking out an escort...

91oldscutlass
04-12-2004, 02:42 PM
I ran my truck into an escort once....wasnt pretty for the escort!