Saw a street race tonight.

Local highway, just built, rarely patrolled. Anyway.

I'm driving along in the Camry (White '07 SE, its hot) on said highway. I come up to two vehicles side by side doing about 40 in a 65. So I know somethings up.  I get up behind them, then I see what they are. A Evo VIII and a WRX (I dont think it was an STI though). Anyway the horns go and they take off. Me being the idiot I am tried to keep up. I stayed pretty close until we hit about 100, then I backed it down. They kept going. The Evo creamed the WRX though. All in all it was alot of fun.

BTW I wouldn't have ran with them if there was anybody else on the road. Not worth endangering lives for fun.

reminds me of kickingwings story for some reason, cant find it now, must be buried in the archives somewhere.

Edited by JohnnyCanuck - 07 September 2007 at 10:58pm

i saw about five cars that were all pulled over on a highway, it was weird because they were all exactly the same, black with green neon lights, i forget what the car was though.

Man, i wish they would repave a long straight road by me, my friend has been dying to put his Monte Carlo against my truck.

barn_user wrote: I wasted a V8 caddy New Yorker(?) today coming home from school. The kid always trash talks my Bonneville because it's only a supercharged V6...jokes on him now.

Check it out.First video he goes up to 80, scroll down some and he goes from 0-125.

Link

barn_user wrote: Big 4-door family sedans that can pick it up and go...the red light surprise.

Many of those old cars are RWD and have a decent sized V8.

Da Hui wrote: Horsepower wrote: Man, i wish they would repave a long straight road by me, my friend has been dying to put his Monte Carlo against my truck. What kind of truck? I'm still surprised my Autotragic Camry was able to keep up with them.

'97 F-150 5.4L V8


I am pretty sure i would whip it,the monte is a 98, its NOT an SS so FWD v6 vs my RWD V8, my truck gets up pretty quick, the monte is not bad either but in the long run i would pull away easy i think.

The Monte:

Base Number of Cylinders: 6
	Horsepower: 160 hp
Max Horsepower: 5200 rpm	Torque: 185 ft-lbs.
Max Torque: 4000 rpm	Maximum Towing Capacity: 1000.00 lbs.
Drive Type: FWD	Turning Circle: 36.70 ft.

My truck:

5.4L Triton® SOHC 24-valve V8
CI:330 CID
HP @ rpm 300@5,000





EDIT:  the chart for the monte is white text, so highlight it.







Edited by Horsepower - 08 September 2007 at 12:29am

barn_user wrote: Keep in mind horsepower and torque are not the only deciding factors in a race.

My truck has tons of low end, i think i would get the launch, today after school making a left hand turn from a traffic light i had to constantly go on and off the throttle, all that torque and the wet pavement my wheels broke free so easy,winter should be interesting...

barn_user wrote: Have fun with that, I know I can't hardly get anywhere in the winter in my 88' S10 with the 2.8. Pretty sure it is quite easy to pick up the back end. You give it gas and it swerves around.

Heh, if you slide much with the 2.8 try a 5.4 lol, i am currently looking a $900 '96 4x4 with a 5.8