Roadkill: Celica GT-S (older body style)
11-30-2000, 10:59 PM
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I'm on the highway...in the left lane cruising @ 75...a "last generation" Celica GT-S (white w/ the hood scoop)comes blasting up from behind me...I try to move over, but he swings around me before I can do anything, and glares at me as he passes. So I figure, it's clear ahead, I'll have some fun...punch it, and catch up to him by the time I reach 100...pull along side him and slow to his speed (~90).
He looks over, and trys to pull away...I floor it again...I get one car ahead by 110...by 120 I'm 3 cars ahead...and about 8-10 ahead by 130...he then flashed his brights at me and moved into the right lane and slowed to 75 (what I slowed down to after the run...and he didn't even come up to me). We went like this for about 8-10 more miles, and I was fully expecting him to pull a rice-boy fly-by, but he didn't...just sat back there behind me and then he turned off...I think he was embarrassed.
He looks over, and trys to pull away...I floor it again...I get one car ahead by 110...by 120 I'm 3 cars ahead...and about 8-10 ahead by 130...he then flashed his brights at me and moved into the right lane and slowed to 75 (what I slowed down to after the run...and he didn't even come up to me). We went like this for about 8-10 more miles, and I was fully expecting him to pull a rice-boy fly-by, but he didn't...just sat back there behind me and then he turned off...I think he was embarrassed.
12-01-2000, 03:22 AM
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I'm pretty sure the ones with hoodscoops are GT-Fours. The are all wheel drive turbo celicas. With a 200hp 4cylinder engine from the Turbo MR2. Good kill.
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Originally posted by The_quorum
I'm on the highway...in the left lane cruising @ 75...a "last generation" Celica GT-S (white w/ the hood scoop)comes blasting up from behind me...I try to move over, but he swings around me before I can do anything, and glares at me as he passes. So I figure, it's clear ahead, I'll have some fun...punch it, and catch up to him by the time I reach 100...pull along side him and slow to his speed (~90).
He looks over, and trys to pull away...I floor it again...I get one car ahead by 110...by 120 I'm 3 cars ahead...and about 8-10 ahead by 130...he then flashed his brights at me and moved into the right lane and slowed to 75 (what I slowed down to after the run...and he didn't even come up to me). We went like this for about 8-10 more miles, and I was fully expecting him to pull a rice-boy fly-by, but he didn't...just sat back there behind me and then he turned off...I think he was embarrassed.
I'm on the highway...in the left lane cruising @ 75...a "last generation" Celica GT-S (white w/ the hood scoop)comes blasting up from behind me...I try to move over, but he swings around me before I can do anything, and glares at me as he passes. So I figure, it's clear ahead, I'll have some fun...punch it, and catch up to him by the time I reach 100...pull along side him and slow to his speed (~90).
He looks over, and trys to pull away...I floor it again...I get one car ahead by 110...by 120 I'm 3 cars ahead...and about 8-10 ahead by 130...he then flashed his brights at me and moved into the right lane and slowed to 75 (what I slowed down to after the run...and he didn't even come up to me). We went like this for about 8-10 more miles, and I was fully expecting him to pull a rice-boy fly-by, but he didn't...just sat back there behind me and then he turned off...I think he was embarrassed.
12-01-2000, 12:29 PM
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Originally posted by mzmtg
Your automatic GXE wont go 120mph...
Your automatic GXE wont go 120mph...
12-02-2000, 05:47 PM
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Odd...I've had no probs getting it up...
to 120+...I've had it pegged on the pin at 140(+) on many occasions. It doesn't pull that hard after 120, even w/ the O/D off, and the door seals tend to "pop & flutter" at 125 as well (annoying as hell), but it's always got up there if I needed it.
I know there is a speed limiter on the GXE's that do NOT have the security & convenience package, so maybe that's what MZMTG is running up against (???). The way it was explained to me earlier was that the S&C package equipped the car w/ "H" speed (130mph)rated tires from the factory, so they removed the speed limiter; and the ones w/out the S&C package came w/ the (112mph) "T" rated tires, so the limiter remained so you didn't drive much over their rated speed and blow them.
I know there is a speed limiter on the GXE's that do NOT have the security & convenience package, so maybe that's what MZMTG is running up against (???). The way it was explained to me earlier was that the S&C package equipped the car w/ "H" speed (130mph)rated tires from the factory, so they removed the speed limiter; and the ones w/out the S&C package came w/ the (112mph) "T" rated tires, so the limiter remained so you didn't drive much over their rated speed and blow them.
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