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I've toyed around with a WRX before, but I never found an all out race. That changed last night. 
I saw what looked like a stock WRX sedan on the highway late at night and I ran up alongside him and got him to race. We started out somewhere around 70. I was in 3rd, buzzing around 6200rpms. I pulled on him decently through the end of 3rd and he was at my back bumper when I shifted to 4th. He made ground through 4th gear and managed to pull so my front bumper was at his front door. We stayed that way until 5th and we were pretty even until I think he hit his speed limiter and I shot past him. We were coming up on traffic anyway so I backed out. It was a good 70-135 race.
Postscript. I had not reset my damn ECU in a while so I bet it had "detuned" my mods. Drag racers say that resetting your ECU can give you as much as .5 seconds in the 1/4. If that is true, then I definitely would have smoked him badly if I had reset my ECU.
I saw what looked like a stock WRX sedan on the highway late at night and I ran up alongside him and got him to race. We started out somewhere around 70. I was in 3rd, buzzing around 6200rpms. I pulled on him decently through the end of 3rd and he was at my back bumper when I shifted to 4th. He made ground through 4th gear and managed to pull so my front bumper was at his front door. We stayed that way until 5th and we were pretty even until I think he hit his speed limiter and I shot past him. We were coming up on traffic anyway so I backed out. It was a good 70-135 race.
Postscript. I had not reset my damn ECU in a while so I bet it had "detuned" my mods. Drag racers say that resetting your ECU can give you as much as .5 seconds in the 1/4. If that is true, then I definitely would have smoked him badly if I had reset my ECU.