Well, tracks were you live must be far better than where I am, cause at moroso, you get no traction in front wheel drive cars, where on the street, it's just the opposite.

As far as the word stock goes, stock, means exactly that, as in, you drive it off the show room floor and go straight to the track, that's what a bone stock ITR runs.

As far as removed exhaust and lightened being stock, that's a big difference. The whole reason why a EG hatch back is so much faster than an ITR given the same motor is the huge weight difference, and when you talk about taking a good amount of weight out of a car, it has the same type of effect. Rule of thumb, for every 100lbs you drop, it's 7hp for the first like 30(give or take 10)percent of the cars wieght. So by that same scale, keep in mind that removing stuff isn't exactly decisively stock. As far as running without an exhaust, that's about the best free flow exhaust you can get, figure by getting a high flow exhaust you scoop up a couple hp, imagine on that same scale how much you'd get by removing it entirely. Aside from sounding terrible, it'd give you a nice bump in performance. If there's any argument, I'll take my nieghbors stock GS-R into work one day and dyno it with and without exhaust. I think you'll find you loose a bit of low end torque, but get a pretty good deal of high end hp especially through vtec, and in the case of the track, you don't want low end torque for reasons of traction any way, and aren't using any low rpm anything after the launch regardless, you should be in Vtec the rest of the way down the track.

I guess everyone's idea of what stock is, is a bit different, but I think you're a bit off on this one.....14.0 bone stock, the way you pull it off the show room floor, I think sounds a little bit outta wack. Just my opinion, given, anything is possible.

Later,
Aj