Well I was driving around tonight because I got tired of doing homework. So I am going down a road behind an Astro-van going 10-15 mph below the speed limit and see someone behind me flash their brights.
I look in the rear view mirror and some guy in a POS crown vic is literally a foot behind me. Pissed off that I am not somehow passing this Astro van on a one lane per side road.
Well about 400 feet further the road splits into 4 lanes and I could see some older vehicle, that I thought was a muscle car merging, at this exact moment the POS crown vic decides to pass both the astro and I. This is a good 100 feet before the lane splits and doesn't even slow down for the now half merged car.
No accident happens (not sure how that happened) and As I get closer I see that the car has no hood on and definitely has something large (relative to my 2.2) under the hood. I slow down so that he catches up (remember he just turned onto the road) and leave the car in second as I match his speed. At this point I am just assuming that I am going to get royally butt hurt by this car. It sounds mean as hell and it was a v8, but I still could not place the damn car. I am no extreme old school muscle car addict but I know enough of them and have been to enough car shows that I could not believe i couldn't place the car (all emblems were shaved).
While I am racking my brain for the make and model he gooses the gas and I hear a little chirp as he pulls away. Excited at this chance I floor it and he pulls a good 5 cars on me before I reach the dead end (Astro van). (we were driving at a little over 20mps (astro was still slow) and I was in second the entire pull). With the astro van no where near the speed limit I thought for sure I lost the guy, but sure enough he slows down to about 15 and we slowly creep putting distance between us and the annoying van. We eventually gain enough distance for us to at least safely get through 2nd gear and I begin the honking.
Honk... Honk... Honk... then vroom we go and being at about 30mph this time I again remain in second. As we go he pulls a little under half a car on me then I hit V-tec and We pull evenly all the way through 2nd. Amazed that I might actually be a match for this car I roll down my window and ask him if he wants to go from a stop.
Without a verbal reply he slows down to about 10mph then stops. I of course meant go to some back road, but I look around and see absolutely no one, so I too stop. (The main reason I wanted to go from a dig was because I do not have secondaries hooked up yet and have no low end so from a roll at 3500 rpm he pulls way before I can even get to a torque band).
After we stop I ask him who is honking, his response is I don't have a horn...
Now I would like to point Out that I am not that bad of a driver, but for some reason honking and driving is one thing I suck at doing at the same time
Honk... Honk... Honk.. I launch low (of course) and he pulls 1/4 of a car, but When I hit 5500 rpm we are dead even until second is over where we slow down.
Now the van turns and he floors it Literally the exact time I do and we are DEAD EVEN the entire way through second and he slows down as I enter 3rd. I am shaking I am so excited that I kept up with whatever it was and at the next stoplight I ask him what he has in it. He responds a 350 and we are about to part ways as I suddenly recall that I still have no idea what car he is driving...
I catch up to him and he says it is a 1982 Rx7 with 350 swap and ......... I didn't catch anything else he said, but he was listing other things he did to it (i got turbo and rear end but didn't get anything else)(I should note that turbo was in reference to his rear end, not that his car was turbod )
Anyway I was just really excited that I kept up with a 350 swapped anything and even if it was a fluke or crappy 350 it still made my day.
Thanks for reading
Ghetto.
I look in the rear view mirror and some guy in a POS crown vic is literally a foot behind me. Pissed off that I am not somehow passing this Astro van on a one lane per side road.
Well about 400 feet further the road splits into 4 lanes and I could see some older vehicle, that I thought was a muscle car merging, at this exact moment the POS crown vic decides to pass both the astro and I. This is a good 100 feet before the lane splits and doesn't even slow down for the now half merged car.
No accident happens (not sure how that happened) and As I get closer I see that the car has no hood on and definitely has something large (relative to my 2.2) under the hood. I slow down so that he catches up (remember he just turned onto the road) and leave the car in second as I match his speed. At this point I am just assuming that I am going to get royally butt hurt by this car. It sounds mean as hell and it was a v8, but I still could not place the damn car. I am no extreme old school muscle car addict but I know enough of them and have been to enough car shows that I could not believe i couldn't place the car (all emblems were shaved).
While I am racking my brain for the make and model he gooses the gas and I hear a little chirp as he pulls away. Excited at this chance I floor it and he pulls a good 5 cars on me before I reach the dead end (Astro van). (we were driving at a little over 20mps (astro was still slow) and I was in second the entire pull). With the astro van no where near the speed limit I thought for sure I lost the guy, but sure enough he slows down to about 15 and we slowly creep putting distance between us and the annoying van. We eventually gain enough distance for us to at least safely get through 2nd gear and I begin the honking.
Honk... Honk... Honk... then vroom we go and being at about 30mph this time I again remain in second. As we go he pulls a little under half a car on me then I hit V-tec and We pull evenly all the way through 2nd. Amazed that I might actually be a match for this car I roll down my window and ask him if he wants to go from a stop.
Without a verbal reply he slows down to about 10mph then stops. I of course meant go to some back road, but I look around and see absolutely no one, so I too stop. (The main reason I wanted to go from a dig was because I do not have secondaries hooked up yet and have no low end so from a roll at 3500 rpm he pulls way before I can even get to a torque band).
After we stop I ask him who is honking, his response is I don't have a horn...
Now I would like to point Out that I am not that bad of a driver, but for some reason honking and driving is one thing I suck at doing at the same time
Honk... Honk... Honk.. I launch low (of course) and he pulls 1/4 of a car, but When I hit 5500 rpm we are dead even until second is over where we slow down.
Now the van turns and he floors it Literally the exact time I do and we are DEAD EVEN the entire way through second and he slows down as I enter 3rd. I am shaking I am so excited that I kept up with whatever it was and at the next stoplight I ask him what he has in it. He responds a 350 and we are about to part ways as I suddenly recall that I still have no idea what car he is driving...
I catch up to him and he says it is a 1982 Rx7 with 350 swap and ......... I didn't catch anything else he said, but he was listing other things he did to it (i got turbo and rear end but didn't get anything else)(I should note that turbo was in reference to his rear end, not that his car was turbod )
Anyway I was just really excited that I kept up with a 350 swapped anything and even if it was a fluke or crappy 350 it still made my day.
Thanks for reading
Ghetto.
The beginning of a new era............................
<----thats the face i made. i was used to V8's and piston motors. i had never heard a rotary like that. Straight pipe from header. shooting flames out of it. it sounded more like a motorcycle engine with some serious roid rage.
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