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MK
03-14-2002, 04:17 AM
I have a bit of respect for the old Toyota Soarer now, always thought the V8 was a nice engine, (even though your an idiot if you dont get the inline 2.5L TT 6cylinder in one.. scary motors them!<img src="http://www.zilvia.net/f/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/wink.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=';)'>
10:30pm, on my way home from work after a very late, late shift and Im sitting on the lights, apparently people spend two weeks of their lives sitting in traffic lights on average.. anyway, Mr Low and White pulls out from the left turn and follows me in to the set of lights he was at. Sort of worried me a bit as cop cars here are mostly white but I take a second look and figure it must have been a late model celica or something and go back to being semi-awake.
Didint pay much attention to it, until the traffic dies off in the opposite direction and Mr L&W inches forward a bit, twice, "trying to judge a lunch eh?" my dribbly brain comprehends and the anti-social violent retard part of MK's brain thinks 'must go faster than neighbour.. ug!' Much like primative MK's would have done when chasing down prey with a spear and wearing a bearskin loincloth...

Opposite lights turn red we're next.
Count to 3, lights change to green after red in three seconds.
Rev to 3500
Drop clutch and we're away, slightly sideways but getting traction.
Short shift throw into second at 55km/h as I want longer legs
...shit, the guy is still next to me!

This hasnt happened in awile, most of cars of any note in my area will either whip me silly skylines or are piece of shit try hard in honda type rices who you dont even bother with.

Screech into second, peak boost starts dying off at 6000rpm and its time to find more again in third, 110km/h and Im about half a car length ahead.

Im 70km/h over the speed limit, its one of those times where if the cops turn up you just keep going moments.

Double clutch it into 3rd cause the syncro's are fucked on my poor little tokyo princess and they the clutch is not in any condition for 5000rpm silly-buggers. Mr L&W is still there but he's on my bumper now, Start picking up boost again at 4800rpm and we're away. damn, third gear is so sweet you'd almost marry it and its do not pass go, pick up a huge fine and go to gaol time if any coppers comming over the rise cause we're doing 140km/h.

This seems to have been sufficient for Mr L&W who pulls off the road into a bus lane, rather than continue the humiliation in the S turns comming up and sits there somewhere in the distance.

Well, until I hit the anchors realising that theres a speed camera up ahead and Ive got about 150m to slow down to 60 after going some stupid speed that will just mean the cops will haul out and plug my ass.
Stupid, illegal, anti social yeah it is and its naughty to do it kids. <img src="http://www.zilvia.net/f/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':)'>

But a cranky old guy with 2L and half the oppositions cylinders has to make a point though <img src="http://www.zilvia.net/f/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':)'> eheh!

whateverjames
03-14-2002, 05:32 PM
cool story. funny too. yeahhhuhh those soarers man, i give them a good run. ok so we don't have soarers or 2.0L turbo engines stock. but i give eclipses (turbo models) and some mustangs a good run. i've beat two turbo eclipses but lost to one, GSX

transient
03-14-2002, 05:43 PM
I'm looking forward to see what I can do with the new exhaust on. I've got Exhaust and Intake, so it's not much over stock, but I can definately feel an increase in power.

I wish I could dyno the damn thing, but there aren't any shops around here with a dyno. What does that usually run anyway?

DrDubbleB
03-14-2002, 05:49 PM
Well...every race I've ever been in (not too many really, maybe 5 at the most) I have beaten the other guy by at least a length. &nbsp;Once was to a 2001 Stock Automatic Mustang. &nbsp;When I'm 100% stock, I don't consider a length or more to be close. &nbsp;Soon I won't be stock, and then it's time to go have some fun!

CoasTek240
03-14-2002, 06:15 PM
i lost to a gsx three times in a row.. kep t missshifting to third.. i kept inssiting, to race, and finally beat him the third and fourth time.. eh wouldn't race anymore after that.. it was stock except for intake &nbsp;and drop springs but it was a nice car.. i liked it.. i was suprised to beat hism though.. i was very happy <img src="http://www.zilvia.net/f/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':D'>

XylathaneGTR
03-14-2002, 06:26 PM
I don't get the chance to race much (as being a car less.)
but ive seen a good amount of races...
I saw an Integra GS-R...Turbo, lose to a slightly modified NSX...had an exhaust...prolly some other basics too.
Was funny tho...the GS-R just pulls off like a bastard...and it looked like the NSX didn't even notice...once he did tho...he just flored it and smoked him in 3rd. &nbsp;the gsr guys face was so funny as he's like "WTF?" as the nsx flys past him...

Not that great of a story...not that close either...but i laffed...
meh...I wish i could race more <img src="http://www.zilvia.net/f/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/sad.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':('>

OH...i thought this was kinda funny
I was comming back from CIN...with a few friends...(CIN=Canadian Import Nationals) all packed into a Civic SiR, and we pull up to a light, adjacent to a parking lot...its pretty late...all empty...cept for 1 car...A Mustang...More recent model...and what is it doing? ITS ON FIRE
Sitting there all alone in a parking lot...Flames Flying out from under the hood, smoke all over the place...like, it was really burning...We laughed our asses off (as we don't like stangs...or domestics much for that matter)
But as we noticed it would be doing some possible damage to nearby buildings...we called the Popo's...
but it was funny as hell...the stang was totally destroyed by the time it was over.

Nismos14
03-14-2002, 06:44 PM
raced a 5-spd zx2 against me in my 240sx auto, and off the line i had him for a bout a half a carlength for a bit then he took me but i kept right on him i had my nose at least 1/4 of the way past his rear bumper the whole time :-D

Tuck&Poke
03-14-2002, 06:57 PM
ive had a funny race that was by no means close. &nbsp;i was coming back from a movie and i get a red light so i stop. &nbsp;no traffic but its a timed light so i gotta wait. &nbsp;then i see this red lambo and i remember there being one parked at a gym by my house and i rolled down my window and said "hey you go to that gym by 137th" &nbsp;he says yeh and i said nice ride and then i revved the engine. &nbsp;so he revs his...race is on. &nbsp;light turns green and i take off (im driving my friends car hes next to me, its an itr) i take off at 3000rpm and pull away and the guy doesnt move so i thought he was just reving but i kept going. &nbsp;then when i look back theres smoke pouring from his rear tires and not more than 5 sec later....WHAAAAAAAAAaaaa...he shot past me like 50mph faster. &nbsp;me and my friend just looked at eachother with our jaws on the floor.

XylathaneGTR
03-14-2002, 07:12 PM
there's a Bright Red Lambo kit Car that lives in the Hamptons (nice neighboor hood, close to mine) its pretty nice.
I saw it doing like freaking 120 on a street intersection once...it was so badass

Ni5mo180SX
03-14-2002, 07:21 PM
Yea my friend beat some dude in an NSX that was talking shit with his SR motor S13. I raced a GSX twice, rolling start and lost once.