about dropping someone with the max is the look of disbelief that you're pulling away THAT fast. Twice today I had a dork who was weaving through traffic start tailgating me, I guess to encourage me to go faster (I was already going 75 in a 65). Their encouragement worked - I floored it both times, and while ripping up to about 100 watched a 2k3 V6 Honda and later an Integra (dunno what year) fade from view in the mirror.

The drivers were stunned - one guy looked down at his dashboard like he was looking for an engine warning light to explain why he wasn't staying with me Not that either of these was particularly competition, but still fun.

Anti-street-racing disclaimer: Yes, the road in front of me was clear. No, I did not endanger any other drivers. No, I don't make a habit of street racing (hell, normal driving in Houston would probably be considered racing in other parts of the country)

 

How true! How true!

Where were you doing this? I usually have this kind of opportunity on I-10, just west of Katy.

 

Street racing....

IBTL

 

Hey bubba, I said I have the opportunity there, not that I actually run it. I am curious where else in this god-forsaken city of traffic that this is possible.

 

Yeah, but I know you have.

 

That's pretty sweet.......It's nice to get an opportunity like that!!

 

 

That's funny, I used to live out that way and you're right - traffic thins out nicely after Barker-Cypress Both of these were on Beltway 8 between I-10 and 290 (not during rush hour).

 

i did the exact same thing to a blue 2k3 v6 coupe and a new si. my friends were drivign in their cars bedind and were just laughing.

 

something that feels even better is burning the local rice boy with his lowered celica, smoked altezzas, and his huge grandfather clock shift light automatic.

 

 

And you gotta love the ones with the putt-putt exhuast and hyper-wing...like they would EVER go fast enough to have any downforce from that thing at all (never mind the questionable value of downforce on the REAR wheels of a FWD vehicle).

 

I got a chance at my own "kill" for the first time on Wednesday night. I was driving up the interstate, in the middle lane doing 65 (the limit was 55), no traffic in front, just one car trailing, well this guy pulls into the right lane and speeds past me, he was driving a Cadillac Deville or something like that. Passing on the right is a huge pet peeve, especially when he could have gone to the left, I would not have cared. Well he decides to take me on the right, and, gets about 3 car lengths ahead, so, I gun it, remember I have only had this car for a week and this was the first time I had taken it out on the highway, anyway, the engine wailed like a banshee, the front end lifted slightly and, I passed him at 95 before either of us new what had happened . The look on his face was priceless, the look on mine was a mixture a unadulterated joy and abject fear , I am still smiling, can't wait for the CAI.

 

You definately need a front wing.

 

Wheelie bars set to just about touch the road in unloaded mode...

 

would you care to elaborate on that?, when I said the front end lifted, I didn't mean the entire front end lifted off the ground, I meant that when I hit the gas the car seemed to squat on the rears, prolly just the body moving, all 4 tires were in contact with the road.

 

jokin', just jokin'



we all know it was weight transfer

 

Well you are still loosing some traction. You need a wing it definatley helps. Set to around 25 degrees, that setting also helps with day to day driving.

 

And if set low enough on the front of the car it makes a pretty good snow-plow.

 

Now why would you want to ruin a $2500.00 piece of stabalizing equipment??? Dumbarse.

 

Not to ruin it you foo'! To get all the use you can out of that purchase. Let's see:

1. Front wing
2. Snow-plow
3. Bug/rock deflector
4. etc.
5. etc.

Nothing like a multipurpose item!

 

 

I really can't understand half of the things they sell for riced out civics and such nowadays. You got the unpainted flimsy kits that flutter at highway speeds, the fart can exhaust, the whack homemade paint jobs, salad bar wings.....

 

you guys are too funny. i too regularly spank the ricers here
in the 808 state. they think of the max as a 3 cylinder grandpa
car. my wife has even killed a couple.

 

There were times when i was in houston that i could have sworn the 610 was the autobahn

 

When was this?? 610 is basically the only parking lot visible from space.

 

at night mostly, otherwise it's true, gets very packed

 

ah!!

If I ever need to work or live anywhere near that area, the first thing that goes is the 5-speed. No way would I drive a stick around there.

 

What were you doing in the middle lane? That's the passing lane for trucks. You should be in the "slow" or right-most lane when using the highways. He was wrong to pass you on the right, but you are also guilty of dawdling in the midle lane

 

I-10 in new orleans around 10am is like that