whateverjames
01-12-2002, 11:19 PM
my friend josh let me drive his 300ZX Twin Turbo because he has some rack and pinion work done and wanted to see what i though of it. well, i drove from i-70 to 370 doing 112mph and could have gone a little more. my car has a record of 97. then we hit only 120 in fourth gear coming out of the turn because of the slipping clutch could have gone faster. so we decided to take it home.
driving back to my house i get stopped at a light with two lanes turning left and i told my friend that i like challenging cars around this turn when i have the inside lane. so what pulls up? an 87-93 mustang. i thought wow this should be easy. i look over, and he has drag lites for wheels. i'm like hmm. maybe he has some stuff done. i crack the window, and i asked my friend (who was probably regreting that i'm driving his car) is that a supercharger i hear? he said yeah, and it says 5.8 on the side. i look at the driver he won't look over and acknowledge us, but i see gauges on his pillar.
we take off, and instantly he switches to cool guy mode and has to be 4 feet ahead of us at all times, so i give it gas and fly around the turn and pull ahead, and he downshifts two gears, and i keep it in third. still in third we're totally out of the turn now, he gives it a little gas and pulls away when i'm trying to get lined up, but he's being annoying and won't let me. so i give it more gas and he floors it a second or two before me. i floor it. take it all the way from 3700 rpms in third to 7000. and he's a car length ahead, then shifts and makes it a car and half ahead. 1000 rpms after he shifted, it was my turn to shift into fourth. as i do that, he instantly stops pulling and i start gaining barely but there's a truck up ahead so i slow down.
i get next to him at the stop light and honk my horn to congradulate him and say nice car but he takes off from the flashing red light with the car in front of him, he didn't stop. so i kept flooring it until i got up next to him in second at 7000 rpm and let off that gas next to him "pfffffffffttttttt!!" the sound of the bypass valve. now instead of third, i have it in second. as soon as he downshifts to second again i punch it, to have the advantage like he has last time. goodbye mustang!
finally he rolled down his window and said "that must be turbo.." "yep and that's supercharged right?" "yeah.." then we told him it was a nice mustang, and he said nice car or whatever, and we said it's near stock (well, kinda) and he said, ya i've only done a few things. (ya i believe that or something)
and remember, the 300ZX had an extra person and a slipping clutch. not slipping as in when i shifted, but slipping when it got to about 5000 RPM. i still think he would have won if we took off at the same time, but with about 2 PSI more (raising it to only 11psi) and a different clutch would be a different story. ahhh too much adrenaline must relax now.
here is josh's page <a href="http://300zx.whateverjames.com" target='_blank'>http://300zx.whateverjames.com</a>
(Edited by whateverjames at 2:29 am on Jan. 13, 2002)
driving back to my house i get stopped at a light with two lanes turning left and i told my friend that i like challenging cars around this turn when i have the inside lane. so what pulls up? an 87-93 mustang. i thought wow this should be easy. i look over, and he has drag lites for wheels. i'm like hmm. maybe he has some stuff done. i crack the window, and i asked my friend (who was probably regreting that i'm driving his car) is that a supercharger i hear? he said yeah, and it says 5.8 on the side. i look at the driver he won't look over and acknowledge us, but i see gauges on his pillar.
we take off, and instantly he switches to cool guy mode and has to be 4 feet ahead of us at all times, so i give it gas and fly around the turn and pull ahead, and he downshifts two gears, and i keep it in third. still in third we're totally out of the turn now, he gives it a little gas and pulls away when i'm trying to get lined up, but he's being annoying and won't let me. so i give it more gas and he floors it a second or two before me. i floor it. take it all the way from 3700 rpms in third to 7000. and he's a car length ahead, then shifts and makes it a car and half ahead. 1000 rpms after he shifted, it was my turn to shift into fourth. as i do that, he instantly stops pulling and i start gaining barely but there's a truck up ahead so i slow down.
i get next to him at the stop light and honk my horn to congradulate him and say nice car but he takes off from the flashing red light with the car in front of him, he didn't stop. so i kept flooring it until i got up next to him in second at 7000 rpm and let off that gas next to him "pfffffffffttttttt!!" the sound of the bypass valve. now instead of third, i have it in second. as soon as he downshifts to second again i punch it, to have the advantage like he has last time. goodbye mustang!
finally he rolled down his window and said "that must be turbo.." "yep and that's supercharged right?" "yeah.." then we told him it was a nice mustang, and he said nice car or whatever, and we said it's near stock (well, kinda) and he said, ya i've only done a few things. (ya i believe that or something)
and remember, the 300ZX had an extra person and a slipping clutch. not slipping as in when i shifted, but slipping when it got to about 5000 RPM. i still think he would have won if we took off at the same time, but with about 2 PSI more (raising it to only 11psi) and a different clutch would be a different story. ahhh too much adrenaline must relax now.
here is josh's page <a href="http://300zx.whateverjames.com" target='_blank'>http://300zx.whateverjames.com</a>
(Edited by whateverjames at 2:29 am on Jan. 13, 2002)