My friends has a '97 VR4 with the same configuration and the only thing I have that you don't is the exhaust. I beat him soundly every time we have ever run. He was convinced it was the conditions, bad gas, bald tires and just about every excuse he could conceive. I've run against him from a dead stop, from a roll and anything else he wanted to try...I beat him by 2-4 car lengths every single time. The VR4 is nice....but it's a total pig weighing 2 tons which will never, ever be a Z. Enough said...