sea-scooby

The local track in having a "neighborhood grudge match" next month, and I've been asked by a couple neighbors If I'd like to step up and run against them.

Here are the cars that I would be going against:

2000 Jetta VR6. Basically stock, but he said he has a CAI and a new exhaust goin on. I'm not to worry about this car, but the guy talks so much trash I'd love to show him my tail lights.

2005 Acura RSX Type S. The car has quite a bit of mods including a FMIC and a turbo pushing 6psi. He won't say much else about the car, so I'm not sure what these things can do when turboed. He just says "it's crazy fast yo".

1998 mustang Cobra SVT convertible. It is stock, and the owner says "no lunch box looking thing can hang with an American V8 musclecar!!".

I've only done 3 passes in my XT at the track, and I ran 13.16, 13.01 and a 12.94 (smooth shifting really makes a difference). Do you think I'll have any problems with the above cars?

I'm currently running 18's, should I switch to a lighweight 16 or 17, or are the 18's ok? any suggestions from the pros would be a big help! It will probably be hot around that time (90s), is there anything I can/should do to help prevent heatsoak?

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