i'm on my drive home from work when a pimped out solara pulls up next to me at the line. he's checking out something on the front of my car (probably a chip) and i'm drooling over his rims. we make eye contact and give each other a little nod. we just kinda cruise to the next red light without any bother.
then he motions toward the straighaway after this light. i actually had to turn a couple blocks down but i give a nod anyway.
i'm power braking my sweet auto and i'm ready in 1 with od off. the light goes green and i actually keep up with him for a while. i shift to 2 but by now he's pulling away slowly and i'm deaf in my left ear from his exhaust.
then i hear some very interesting noise from his car and i just fly by him. i'm slowing down and checking out my rear view mirror to see him basically at a standstill in the middle of the road.
don't know what happened. can you miss a shift like that? what happened to his car????
anyway, it's not really a kill but it was certainly educational
glad it's not me.

 

hahaha, thats hilarious...i say u killed him
A_T_W

 

No he probably got scared and said I want one of those!
There are alot of pimped out Solara's. Ive seen more pimped out solaras down here than Maximas (5th gens).

 

Does it have bodykit? and did u see any TRD sign (not the ghetto DIY ones) on the side? if u do, it is prob. a TRD solara...SCed, 265hp..

if u did....you should write that down on ur diary =)

 

hehe...if he was SC'd maybe a belt came off?

 

That is a kill for sure! Playa in the Solara got Played Out!

 

Doh!

 

when i went to Las Vegas for the SCCA SOLO open track event, there was the eibach project solara.
basically the car's TRD supercharged and the Eibach's prototyping the suspension on the car.
the specs were 240hps...i think...but the car did not feel that much faster than my max...i know the SCed solara is faster than mine for sure, but i was a little disappointed in the car...it just did not accelerated hard enough for me to feel the SC...

 

the trd solara is about as fast as a stock 5 speed maxima according to r&t.

 

Maybe he was NOS-ing and blew something
Always better when it's not one of us
Anyway... good kill!!!

 

my friend has a 2000 solara and its not that fast, i beat him most of the time, but if this solara is beating you pretty bad its probably a TRD, if it has a body kit, and badging, and the TRD exhaust, then you were lucky, with a few mods you can hang with the SCed solara.

 

I guess he had a stick. Maybe his 2-3 upshift turned into an accidental 2-1 downshift at close to redline in 2nd if he hit a bump, or if he just sucks That would definitely create some funny noises from exploding valvetrain, and would most definitely leave him stopped in the middle of the road

That's what I like about auto's. They might not run as fast, but you can run them consistently, and there's never any danger of mis-shifts. And they're better for heavy traffic, too

That definitely counts as a kill in my book, though. Part of driving a stick is knowing how to use it and drive it to its full potential.

 

hey since you have both a v6 accord and a maxima. which one do you think is faster? just curios.

 

the maxima...well...if they were both autos...it'd be a close race....i guess....

 

Before I got my 2k maxima I was considering geting a Solara, sorry, well I was driving my dads 4th gen 99 special edition and I was the Berlin Turnpike, Newington CT and well it's like 10:00 and I whipped this guys ***, I dont think his car had any real mods basicly a rice car my dads maxima has no mods either my maxima was a 5 speed and I whipped his ***, I swear the guy had like a driving disability cause he didnt know how to weave, no matter a 4th gen still beat him and well I decided to buy a Maxima

 

Err, if you were asking me, I only have an Accord V6. But I might be getting a 2k2 Max 6spd if I can convince my stb-fiance to take my Accord, since she'll need a car in about a year

Like irvine78 said, it's a close race stock Max/auto vs. Accord V6 (auto only). But if the Max/automagic driver power shifts (because the auto tranny short shifts at 6k instead of redline for you guys) then the Maxima will have a definite edge on an Accord V6.

A stick Maxima, driven properly, will blow even a heavily modded Accord V6 right out of the water. You guys can hit high-14's stock, but it takes just about every performance mod there is on an Accord V6 just to get it to the low-15's. We have one guy that hit like a 14.95 ET NA and without funny gas.

 

at least i will be able to keep up with the accord v6, if not beat it. thanks.