[sivispacem]

I don't street race. Street racing (in the accepted and traditionally stereotyped sense) is for children who aren't man enough to take it to circuits, which have corners designed to be challenging rather than those that are just challenging because someone's parked like a tosser. In my view, a street race isn't really a race if it's happening on 2-lane, straight roads with plenty of sight lines- the closest you get to a "race" on public roads is on tight single-track or single-lane minor roads, where following the car in front is as much about actual driving skill as it is who has the heaviest foot and the largest disregard for the safety of others. However, I do like a TLGP (that's a traffic light grand prix) from time to time, and chasing sports car drivers out on their Sunday hoon on a decade-old, vaguely knackered Triumph was always a laugh.

An old colleague of mine bought an exceptionally ropey Volvo 850 AWD a few years ago, which he kept cosmetically rough whilst uprating the brakes, suspension and engine, and performing a manual conversion. I spent a few sunny evenings with a crate of beer helping him fit and bleed a set of enormous (I think they were 380mm) 6-piston milled aluminium AP Racing brakes he'd drunkenly bought second-hand from a race car parts supplier. The original intent had been to actually race the thing, but there aren't many club-level classes that take AWD, 2.5L turbocharged estate cars. In the end I think it ended up with about 350whp thanks to a huge Holset turbo and pistons/rods from a S60R, and had pale grey velour seats from a base spec model. It was insanely fast and thanks to a down-turned exhaust, diesel badging and the £70 Ebay bought TSW wheels (required for the brakes to fit) it was a proper sleeper. I remember getting a ride with him to a track day, 2 up with a picnic basket and a full set of spare 850 touring car wheels (another Ebay purchase) avec BTCC cut slicks in the boot, only for some oafs in a belly-scraping Clio 172 to decide that cheap Ebay street wheels meant "up 4 a race, innit?".

The looks on their faces when this diesel-badged, mismatched-colour Volvo on the pikeyest wheels you'll ever see and full of (what from a distance I can only presume looked like) heavy crap spinning all four wheels in fourth on a damp motorway before launching off into the distance was a sight I'll never forget. The looks on their faces when they arrived at the same track day as us, to find the thing outside, hazards flashing and being loaded onto a tow truck having eaten the rear diff some 5 minutes earlier, I doubt I'll forget either.

[Ronnyboy]

I've only done some "Drag" style races in my short time driving. A few friends of mine all went to a friends farm, where they happen to have a huge, flat drive way that is never used. We spent a good hour doing rolling, flag, and reverse starts on that bad boy. It was my Bonnie vs a 99 Honda Oddessey, 94 Jetta, 02 Cavalier, and a Probe. The probe beat me in the flag drop start, bitch driving it got a better launch

[*MURDOC*]

Sounds quite uhh, exciting...

[Ronnyboy]

QUOTE (*MURDOC* @ Saturday, Apr 7 2012, 02:17)

Sounds quite uhh, exciting...

If I can find a video, my excited voice after a race makes a lot more sense.

[Tuff Luv Capo]

A guy at work recently bought a 2012 Camaro SS/RS. 40k, $700 a month and he was very smitten that it was the baddest ass thing there. He spent his whole savings towards it and had no daily driver. So I brought my Z in one day, and afterwards on the way to a car meet we had a few runs on a highway. After putting about a car or two on him, he decides to let his friend drive it (he's new to stick), and on the way back we ran a few more times. This time, it was closer, however between 30-80 mph he was nowhere near my bumper. At 90-120 mph he was reeling me in VERY slowly until he met up with my side mirror and we let off.

tl;dr: Camaro's gears are too tall for it's own good under acceleration.


Not really a race but last Saturday on the "strip" in my town, an IS300 was harassing the sh*t out of me with his girlfriend in the passenger seat. Not once did she look over. After a while my friend leaned out and said, "Your girl looks embarrassed, dude". He rolled his window up and continued to follow and rev at me.

This post has been edited by Tuff Luv Capo on Thursday, Apr 12 2012, 05:35

[κενιη]

I officially hate car drivers. Don't get me wrong, I have dealt with some sh*t when out on a morotcycle when it comes to some idiot/agressive/oblivious drivers on the highway, but nothing as bad as today. To make it even better, this was my first ride after actually buying my 2003 GSXR1000.

As I was driving down I376 around the Beaver Falls, PA area, about a half dozen kids in their rice boxes came up along side me to harass me a bit. I had just come of a nice ride on another, less-busy road so I had no real intent on doing 140mph+ speeds. I was just cruising down the highway, sitting almost straight up. These kids driving, from what I remember, an RSX, CRX, Tiburon, and a few other various fart-can-loud, just as obnoxiously painted and body-kit-clad vehicles. Before I go further, I say "rice box" as in this not just as a basic term for any asian vehicle. The kids surrounded me and revved, laughed, and almost crashed their cars at one point as if they were taunting me or something. I got pissed real quick. One thing led to another and I got a bit of free space to speed up and leave them behind me but no...they had to try and keep up. I didn't try to hit 160 and escape as if my life depended on it. I just accelerated away. They kept up with me to about 100mph laughing and acting as if they were going to swerve into my lane. It was getting dark and the 54F day was feeling more like 35F. I didn't want to just romp on the throttle because the Diablo Strada rear was cold and a little slick...but I did it anyways. I crested the hill, passed a cop while doing about 140-160mph, and they still were behind me doing 100-120mph. I hopped off of the highway and turned back northbound on the highway. The cops had 4 of the cars pulled over with about 5 trooper cars doing to ticketing. I actually got a wave from the trooper I passed earlier. I think he was happy I bated him a few idiots for some tickets.

[Nah Tso Gud]

One of my buddies just got his Honda with over 30 PSI of boost on the Dyno, over 700 hp at the wheels.. Curious to see it in action, and will post a vid as soon as I do... but it wont be from the passenger seat, I can tell you that.