Well, I was on my way back from NY this past weekend. Just chillin doin like 75-80 in 6th in the fast lane. All of the sudden I see an S4 coming up on my *** pretty damn fast. I look at my friend in the passenger seat and say I think this guy in the S4 wants to play.. He answers, he just went into the slow lane, cuz there was a car in the middle. So I look over and right when he gets to my rear bumper I dump into 4th and floor it. I started to walk him to about 110 and slowed. He had 3 people in the car I had two. I was shocked by this, thought I was gonna get smoked. So I said to myself he probably didnt floor it or something. He now gets in behind me after I slow to about 65-70. He was pretty much on me, so I decided to try again and see whats up. So I dump into 4th again and floor it. And to my surprise, I started to walk him again up to about 110, by about 3-4 car lengths. I could not believe this and neither could my friend.... I tried it one more time and again walked him again.... Then the highway split and he went the other way, he did go flying by me, so I think he was trying.. He must have been ****ed... I would have been.

 

what kind of max do u have

 

2K2 6speed....

 

That shouldn't come as a surprise...

You're packing 255 hp to his 250 hp, and you're FWD, he's AWD.

Considering the parasitic loss from the AWD system, and your hp advantage, I'd say it's plausible.

Drivers just don't consider a Max to be a fast car, until they get beat and are left scratching their heads

The ultimate sleeper: 2k2 GXE, bone-stock exterior, Stillen SC, stock exhaust... think of all the fun you can have on the highway.

 

then dont be suprised that you slowly pulled away
you should beable to pull on an S4 auto from a roll as long as they are stock.

 

I thought they had 260Hp....anyway.. I think if we had started from a stop he would have smoked me (AWD=dump clutch). But I'll tell ya, keep the max above 4500RPM, and the thing flies....

 

nice race!!

yep, once you're already rolling and on a straight all AWD systems do is add weight and keeping sucking horsepower away from the wheels (25% loss on an AWD manual car, well over 30% on an auto!)

This is why I was able to stay with a stock WRX from 30-80 once, and it's the same reason you were able to pull on the S4.

Modded is a different story though. One chip to get them to 320 HP I think

 

I could hear him when he went the other way flyin by me, sounded like he was a stick too. I only had a stillen intake. I dont know if he had anything, he did have tint and looked around my age 25-30.... The chick in his car passenger seat was smiling when we split...

 

You embarassed him in front of his G/F!!!!

Excellent!!

 

Yeah, I think she wanted a piece of the big daddy..

 

S4's are also a couple hundred pounds heavier than the Max. Given he had 3 passengers he was probably also already pushing 4,000lbs.

 

I posted a link to this a long time ago, search on my user name and you can find it.

If it was an auto S4 then a 6 spd Max would walk it on the high end. If it was a 6 spd, then it would be the other way around. Another problem we 6 spd Audi drivers have is laziness. Most often, we never shift out of 6th gear even when running with other traffic. If he did, he most likely would've walked away from the Max.

 

its plausible he just needed to be somewhere and didnt want a speed contest ticket and lose his license.

 

Yeah right... He snapped from fast lane to slow lane then back to fast lane tailgating..... Then when I was done with him, he went flying by the other way..... I guess...

 

Well stated. I think this part of the equation gets downplayed way too much.

But how do you establish intent to race? If the other driver hangs with you to 100 mph, is that a race?

Or, if someone is tailgrabbing your *** on the highway, and you drop a gear and open up a couple of car-lengths, then move over a lane after proving your point, and the other driver roars past and hits his hazard lights, is that a race? And if so, who wins???

I've seen drivers in both situations stating that they "dusted" the other car on their respective forums...

When does the madness stop???

 

Because when you do it three times in a row, I think you pretty much would call it a race... Especially when he looks at you and nods.....

 

I don't doubt it in your case. My response was a generalization to all the "walked his @ss" threads on the forum.

 

I hear ya, just clarifying my scenario.. Either way you dice it, 2k2 max is a fast sedan...

 

well.. maybe he was. I dont doubt your car is faster.. if someone comes up on my bumper while I'm the fast lane, I'll open up until I can find a spot back in slower traffic.

Nothing personal, I just see all these stories when what I see in my driving 90% of the time is someone just in a hurry (albeit dangerous and they are being asses in traffic - like passing in the far right lane) and they pickup someone wanting to race.

no doubt about it.. the 6sp is a monster. well, until the next gen cars start hitting the road. Seems like everything will have 250-300hp soon.

 

I was at Carslbad on Saturday. The Audi club of So Cal was there. They had 2 S4's one was heavily modded, and a stock one. Both were manual trans.... The stock one layed down a 14.9 as his best time, and the modded one was in the high 13's..... Oh, and I was looking at their comments, on their board, and someone mentioned the Maximas. One guy said , he rented on on vacation, and couldnt wait to get back to his car. I looked at his profile, and he has an A4 ... .... I didnt want to start a flame war between both boards, but those guys were barely running mid 15's with bypass vales, and all kinds of garb.., on Saturday....

 

I was playing with one last Friday nite at the drags, he has a Short shifter, and a chip. He was running anywhere from a best of 14.59 to a string of 15.0's. He loved my Max tho' said he was thinking of trading in his Audi. His friend had a spec V and was running 15.2's all nite long, he even took the audi a couple of times

 

absolutely right.....people say what they want to say and to have a win or "kill" is all relative....who knows what the intention(s) are when someone flies by you, unless there's action dictating otherwise, like someone tailgating your @ss, then gets next to you and match your speed on the open road, that's an invite to race. Kinda like this porsche(non boxster or boxster s)that was on my @ss for a while and flew by me when the road opened up....Question is, and in hindsight, was this guy in a hurry to get home for a booty call or just letting me know he has 40,000+ sports car? i didn't care, dropped to third and hounded his @ss in traffic...never said i won or lost, just had fun hounding his @***. only mods are y-pipe, upd, berk intake and jet module. i can envision him on his board, smoked a maxima...oh well..pc.

 

Racer?