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Car felt really nice today, and I was 10 miles into my drive to school. Car was warmed up, day was a brisk low 70's.

I make a left and hit it to pass a Jeep. I see a white sedan dart out from behind the Jeep and I start to get off it. Not gaining, and I see it's a Volvo. He's driving spiritedly.

He's next to me at the next light. Light goes green, and I don't really hit it (take off briskly). He keeps right with me, then hits it jumping ahead. I catch "S60" in T5 trim. I hit it, and shift right by his window (BOV's are cool for annoying people )

Next light comes, and we are stopped. Crosses go yellow. Crosses go red. Turn signal goes green. Turn signal goes yellow. He looks over at me and shakes his head.

Light goes green, I do a small launch, nothing serious. Just enough to see if he wants to go. He HITS it and my bumper is at his passenger door before I hit it.

I drop the hammer, and pull even by the end of 1st. Shift to 2nd, pull up and his bumper is at my drivers rear door. Go for 3rd. MISS (got happy with the clutch, whoops), he pulls back to level. Get it into 3rd and I start pulling up on him. NO FUEL CUT! 65mph comes around and he's back at my bumper. 75mph comes around, and he's about 1/2 a car back. 85mph comes around, and he's about a car and a half back, and I hit fuel cut. Shut it down, I get on the highway, and he continues straight through the light.

Wow. Excited, I get on the phone calling my buddy. No dice.

I FINALLY get to James Madison University at about 4pm (after going to my school to fill out the proper paperwork). Hop on my girlfriends computer, and check Car and Driver.

The T5 Auto (which this was) is good for a 15.1 and a 0-60 of 6.6 seconds. I beat him by a length and a half. At 10psi. And I missed 3rd.

Mmm, That Walbro is going to give a nice gulp to my thirsty injectors at 16psi .

3rd gear is the cash money So much can be done to own in that gear.

If you run from a stop in our cars, the gearing is really really good. If you try to go from a roll, it becomes to short . Often times you'll be in a situation where you are going to fast for 2nd, and to slow for 3rd (45 to 50mph or so).

yay, more street racing :\

Street racing is bad. dont do it. Or you will kill children, in Irag, and this supports terrorists, and makes people smoke marjiuana, and pollutes the minds of teenagers!

As my children say "Slow down dad, theres a policeman!"

Also, I hate to say it, but there is a big difference between taking a guy/gal at a light and "street racing". I have never "street raced" and havent had a ticket since 1990 even though I have been pulled over 20-30 times (lost track) since then, and only a few of the times I was actually guilty. And never for street racing, for christ sake I was driving an Econoline!

Racing van!

You probably need those big mirrors to see everything that van would leave in the dust.

douglas vincent wrote:Also, I hate to say it, but there is a big difference between taking a guy/gal at a light and "street racing". I have never "street raced" and havent had a ticket since 1990 even though I have been pulled over 20-30 times (lost track) since then, and only a few of the times I was actually guilty. And never for street racing, for christ sake I was driving an Econoline!

explain please.

my paragraph was long, what do you want explained?

And as you can see, I race the damn van on asphalt! Look out for that school bus! Yee Hah, Redneck van owner looking for streetkill! Damn I hate urban ponies!

there is a big difference between taking a guy/gal at a light and "street racing"

Obviously this is to the exteme, from one side to the other, but......

if you and someone else come to a light, stop sign, whatever on a deserted road, street, freeway, whateever, this the is same as being at a dragstrip. The odds of you killing, maiming, wrecking, whatever are going to be the same as at a strip, add in a few small percentage points for idiocy.

The other exteme is the idiots who actually have done this is racing in a school zone when children are around.

The quote "Street Racing" unquote which I have never seen nor participated in but demonstrated by movies such as "The Fast and the Furious" and its ilk also define a form of street racing. I have never ever, ever seen this type of racing, much less participated. But supposedly it exists.

I have "raced" on a few freeways. Once I accelerated from 60 to 80! Wow!

Street racing is way for cops to fuck with you if they want. I have been threatened with having my 1976 Ford Econoline towed for "Street Racing and show of POWER" once for driving into a POSTED 35 mph corner at 30 mph, lighting up the rear end for a max of 5 second, and then letting up on the gas and driving on. I did this without knowing there were two cops sitting at that particular corner at 1 in the morning when I happened to do it. I never even broke 35 mph. But I was threatened with losing my van to impoundment due to "street racing".

Obvious real dangerous assholes are one thing. Acceleration in another. And then there are the million different situations in between.

I see a lot of street racing now everyday at work. Morons in their fart-can equipped Hondas (always Hondas) race up the two-lane divided highway that turns into 3 briefly for a mall turn-in. It's a heavily trafficked road and they blast up even during the day splitting people in the left lane by passing on the right and using the mall turn-in. A friend of mine at work has been out for 2 weeks because some assmonkey in an SUV hit him and flipped over the guardrail. He wasn't racing, but he was driving wrecklessly. The driver was thrown out of his small-penis mobile and crushed underneath. I wish I was there to laugh at the dying bag of meat. At least no one else was seriously hurt (other than my friend's back pain and totalled old Civic), but it's a matter of time before something much worse happens.

My sister also lost a classmate to assmonkeys street racing by a different mall with a similar street set up. She got decapitated by an overhead traffic light when she was thrown through the T-roof of this idiot's Trans Am who was racing a Mustang when a truck turned left on green to pull into the mall.

When we used to race in high school we used a low-trafficked road with no turn on/offs at night and no residences or businesses around (surrounded by marsh). The two cars racing would wait at a U-turn road and two cars would run behind would run at normal speed as a block. Nobody ever got hurt, but I still don't blame the cops for stopping it - some people don't have any control.

Steve

Yeah, there are always idiots and people that do it in high traffic areas. A friend of mine in Hawaii lost some friends earlier this year. They were in a nissan altima and supposedly the driver of the honda thought he saw someone he knew inside, so he sped up to get along side of them to see. The altima sped up and so did he, then the altima changed lanes and lost control and ran head on into a ford explorer. Killing everyone inside the altima while the people in the explorer were all ok. What sucks even more is that in the altima were three brothers, the only three sons the family had.

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I see no difference in that.

The road we were on was free of pedestrians, traffic (not even behind us, everyone else was caught at the previous light), and was straight for a good 3/4 of a mile with no turn on's or offs (until a light with a highway merge). It was 11am on a 4 lane road. No children, no elderly, no short buses full of kids, or screaming past cars full of nuns and preists. No one was on the side of the road. There aren't even any sidewalks, just a guardrail on either side of the road. It was just a fun romp, not even as bad as GlassJaw and Creel going at it in town.

Besides.... He started it . I just ended it.

evolutionmovement wrote:The driver was thrown out of his small-penis mobile

I almost fell on the floor laughing at this statement

Here in Orlando, there was a street-racing accident when a Cobra with laughing gas was racing a blown VR6 Jetta. The Jetta was kicking the Cobra's ass from what I understand , but when the Jetta decided to fly right through a red light (this was in broad daylight in a busy area by the way), the Jetta got T-boned by a Dodge Caravan, and two seconds later, rear-ended by the Cobra!!! The passenger in the Jetta died, the driver of the Jetta was seriously injured...

I knew both the people in the Jetta.

I never street-raced much, but now I don't do it hardly at all after that incident. I say "hardly" because if a ricer Honda wants to take me, I'll indulge him up to about 50-60 and that's it, I'll shut down. That's still "street racing" as you are technically racing, on the street.

phill, im more inclined to belive you when you say that your car is 13 sec. beating the volvo and your high trap speed deffinatly puts you up there

Told ya My car is a freak. Whupped a Volvo at 10psi.

I wish i had all my gears and the intercooler installed

BAC5.2 wrote:Told ya My car is a freak.

Nah, it's just got the good goodies on it. A CES TBE and 16G? That's one hell of a combo my friend. Plus, I blessed the car with gofastedness and holy water (Dasani)!

I think I will fill my AWIC with Perrier!

Hehe... Yeah, I bet all those minerals will aid in cooling.

I will have special Peugoet filter for filtering all those french chemicals.