War Story
Posted: Tue Feb 27, 2001 10:19 am
okay, disclaimer: I do not condone street or highway racing. I do not
encourage you to try this at home, near your home, or even on a closed
corse. The other cars cannot be trusted.
That being said, the battle:
So i'm coming home from Ikea, a large furniture store in Washington state,
going up this large hill on the freeway... i'm doing 70, no problem, passing
the people going 65 and 60 and whatnot. Near the top of the hill, there is a
large turn (this is at the top of 512 in puyallup, for those in who are in
the know), there is a Chevy Cavalier to my left, and a semi truck putting up
the hill in front of me. So i pass the semi on the right cuz it turns into 4
lanes at this point, this passing the semi on the right kinda forces me to
"cut the corner."
The punks in the cavalier see this as some sort of testosterone challenge.
I didn't intend it to be, but that's how it turned out.
So they floor it, i can see them coming a mile a way (figuratively), so i
drop it into fourth and floor it. Good thing i fabbed up that makeshift cold
air intake, helped a lot at the higher revs. next thing i know, (since the
cavalier was on the loud pedal before i was) he's up on my left giving me a
dirty look.
well i'm already pulling away. Gotta love the torque of the large four cyl.
that we were blessed with in comparision with the puny chevy. i'm doing 85..
90.. 95.. 100.. Chevy looks like it hit a rev. limiter or something. i'm
just walking away. I figure i'm far enough away, so i give him the taillamp
wink to let him know that he's been rung out to dry using the "P" switch on
the steering column. Hes about an eigth to a quarter of a mile back now. so
i coast it a ways thinking i've used up enough gas on this guy.
well he doedsn't think that it's over. All of a suddenhes on my ass. I drop
it into 4th (again), match revs, and brake check him then i floor it
again.,.. Again, i walk away.. These punk kids don't learn. I'm coming up
to my exit, so i slow downa little, and get in the right lane then to the
offramp, well, this bugger is still on my ass like a bad hemrhoid. i'm not
worried about him, but then he goes and takes up the whole offramp and
nearly whacks someone off the road. I'm going to be turning left, so he gets
up and turns right. (chicken!)
I say to my passengerts (two of them) "what do ya think"
one replies "i dunno"
the other one (the female) goes "I woulda gone after 'em"
sounds good to me. So i bank right, and i'm up on thier tail now. only not
so close, cuz i don't want to hurt my car or my passengers. we're doin 50
down a side road and he tries to make a quick cut into an even more narrow
side road. He plows.. I can hear his car in my head.. Wheels turned, car
going straight.. I laugh. I cut the corner, beautiful turn, end up more
inside then he was in his moms womb. I look over at him and his eyes are
the size of dinner plates. I stop and smile, and let him get in front of me.
He just sits there, and his passenger throws his hands up in the air like he
wants to fight or something.
Well as the old saying goes "he who fights and runs away, lives to fight
another day," i take this opportunity to show him i can out-accel him from
dead stop as well as from a running go like on the freeway.
No match, i was dots to him in mere seconds. ..
I go home, driving conservitively to let the car cool off, laughing with my
passengers about the beauty of all wheel drive (they own an eclipse GSX)..
They got beat by a 4 door. I wonder how that makes them feel.
Jason
1990 LS AWD
168k on the odo
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encourage you to try this at home, near your home, or even on a closed
corse. The other cars cannot be trusted.
That being said, the battle:
So i'm coming home from Ikea, a large furniture store in Washington state,
going up this large hill on the freeway... i'm doing 70, no problem, passing
the people going 65 and 60 and whatnot. Near the top of the hill, there is a
large turn (this is at the top of 512 in puyallup, for those in who are in
the know), there is a Chevy Cavalier to my left, and a semi truck putting up
the hill in front of me. So i pass the semi on the right cuz it turns into 4
lanes at this point, this passing the semi on the right kinda forces me to
"cut the corner."
The punks in the cavalier see this as some sort of testosterone challenge.
I didn't intend it to be, but that's how it turned out.
So they floor it, i can see them coming a mile a way (figuratively), so i
drop it into fourth and floor it. Good thing i fabbed up that makeshift cold
air intake, helped a lot at the higher revs. next thing i know, (since the
cavalier was on the loud pedal before i was) he's up on my left giving me a
dirty look.
well i'm already pulling away. Gotta love the torque of the large four cyl.
that we were blessed with in comparision with the puny chevy. i'm doing 85..
90.. 95.. 100.. Chevy looks like it hit a rev. limiter or something. i'm
just walking away. I figure i'm far enough away, so i give him the taillamp
wink to let him know that he's been rung out to dry using the "P" switch on
the steering column. Hes about an eigth to a quarter of a mile back now. so
i coast it a ways thinking i've used up enough gas on this guy.
well he doedsn't think that it's over. All of a suddenhes on my ass. I drop
it into 4th (again), match revs, and brake check him then i floor it
again.,.. Again, i walk away.. These punk kids don't learn. I'm coming up
to my exit, so i slow downa little, and get in the right lane then to the
offramp, well, this bugger is still on my ass like a bad hemrhoid. i'm not
worried about him, but then he goes and takes up the whole offramp and
nearly whacks someone off the road. I'm going to be turning left, so he gets
up and turns right. (chicken!)
I say to my passengerts (two of them) "what do ya think"
one replies "i dunno"
the other one (the female) goes "I woulda gone after 'em"
sounds good to me. So i bank right, and i'm up on thier tail now. only not
so close, cuz i don't want to hurt my car or my passengers. we're doin 50
down a side road and he tries to make a quick cut into an even more narrow
side road. He plows.. I can hear his car in my head.. Wheels turned, car
going straight.. I laugh. I cut the corner, beautiful turn, end up more
inside then he was in his moms womb. I look over at him and his eyes are
the size of dinner plates. I stop and smile, and let him get in front of me.
He just sits there, and his passenger throws his hands up in the air like he
wants to fight or something.
Well as the old saying goes "he who fights and runs away, lives to fight
another day," i take this opportunity to show him i can out-accel him from
dead stop as well as from a running go like on the freeway.
No match, i was dots to him in mere seconds. ..
I go home, driving conservitively to let the car cool off, laughing with my
passengers about the beauty of all wheel drive (they own an eclipse GSX)..
They got beat by a 4 door. I wonder how that makes them feel.
Jason
1990 LS AWD
168k on the odo
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This is senior year in HS...day of graduation. We had grad practice earlier in the day...we grad later that night....so after grad practice...all the motor heads were out in the parkin lot doin burn outs. A few of them were my friends. The one guy was like "light 'em up" He had been tellin me to do that for quite some time....so to shut him up I did....this was when I had almost bald stock tires and wheels on. I pulled up facing the opposite direction of the exit. Pulled the e-brake up, put the car in neutral...revved it about 2-3 grand...not a lot...then dropped it in to gear....gave it more gas...but not too much to cause the tranny to shift. Then as I was gettin on the power, I cranked the wheel all the way to left...so it took most of the weight of that front left wheel....that sucker just sat there and spun...the car slowly started moving and was starting to! drag the ass end. When the car started coming around and getting traction...I let the ebrake off and was probably up to 30-40 and had to negotiate around a huge ass speed bump. I looked back and there was SHITLOADS OF SMOKE. I heard the tire picking up rocks as I was leaving. I talked to my friends that were out there watching later that day...they said that was an awesome burnout.....hahaha...this was comin from muscle car guys too...hahaha....DAMN I wish I could've gotten that on tape...it was awesome. 