Challenged by a Hemi Challenger
08-11-2017, 09:59 PM
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08-12-2017, 09:37 AM
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08-12-2017, 10:56 AM
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Feels like you picked up 100 hp huh 
Saw a new challenger up close yesterday in the parking lot they arent that big. Wouldnt mind a 392 for a driver, great looking car.
The C7s are making good times with 2 series gears and using deeper trans gearing (euro cars have been doing it forever).
Saw a new challenger up close yesterday in the parking lot they arent that big. Wouldnt mind a 392 for a driver, great looking car.
The C7s are making good times with 2 series gears and using deeper trans gearing (euro cars have been doing it forever).
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08-12-2017, 04:19 PM
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Oh, ****....you were getting SERIOUS! You only go from OD, down into D when you want your opponent to be (ahem) "met with fire and fury...like the world has never seen"! If you'd had pulled the shifter all the way down into 1...Oh boy....then we'd have known that you were going all the way. "Fire, fury.....and frankly POWER.....the likes of which this world...has never...seen....before!" [insert Dr. Evil pinky to mouth pose] 
Seriously, it sounds like fun. A lot of fun!
I had a similar incident yesterday that I debated posting about w/a '17 Camaro. He was being rowdy on the highway for a while around me...after 10 minutes or so we ended up in a situation where we were both in the left lane waiting for "yer average 'Merican" to move right (which will never happen) as we were veeeery sloooowly passing a Semi who was in the middle lane (and who also should have pulled to the right -will never happen). I knew that the car in front of me wasn't going anywhere; he was parked and asleep at the wheel in the left lane, so when he cleared the Semi's front bumper by about 18'....it was go time and I was ready. As our fearless leader might say....I was "locked and loaded".
I knew the Camaro was itching to blow by me on my right as soon as I cleared the Semi, but I had other plans. I had already downshifted to 3rd (6speed), engine spinning ~4k or so? As soon as that window opened in front of the Semi I hammered it. The instant throttle response of the LT1 was "there" and I was in the next lane and gone in an instant. The Camaro saw me go and followed suit, but there was a definite lag. I'm sure we didn't exceed any speed limits (I didn't look) but I used all of 3rd, and 4th before I hit 5th, then let off. We cleared all the folks in the left lane who probably didn't even know that there were other cars on their road, and the Camaro cut left and cruised by me as I was coasting down....and he gave me a big 'ol thumbs up out his driver's window, above the roof. It was a great car-guy moment.
OP, I'm glad that you had the results and fun that you did!
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Seriously, it sounds like fun. A lot of fun!
I had a similar incident yesterday that I debated posting about w/a '17 Camaro. He was being rowdy on the highway for a while around me...after 10 minutes or so we ended up in a situation where we were both in the left lane waiting for "yer average 'Merican" to move right (which will never happen) as we were veeeery sloooowly passing a Semi who was in the middle lane (and who also should have pulled to the right -will never happen). I knew that the car in front of me wasn't going anywhere; he was parked and asleep at the wheel in the left lane, so when he cleared the Semi's front bumper by about 18'....it was go time and I was ready. As our fearless leader might say....I was "locked and loaded".
I knew the Camaro was itching to blow by me on my right as soon as I cleared the Semi, but I had other plans. I had already downshifted to 3rd (6speed), engine spinning ~4k or so? As soon as that window opened in front of the Semi I hammered it. The instant throttle response of the LT1 was "there" and I was in the next lane and gone in an instant. The Camaro saw me go and followed suit, but there was a definite lag. I'm sure we didn't exceed any speed limits (I didn't look) but I used all of 3rd, and 4th before I hit 5th, then let off. We cleared all the folks in the left lane who probably didn't even know that there were other cars on their road, and the Camaro cut left and cruised by me as I was coasting down....and he gave me a big 'ol thumbs up out his driver's window, above the roof. It was a great car-guy moment.OP, I'm glad that you had the results and fun that you did!
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08-13-2017, 12:56 AM
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lol, looks like the c4 will be gaining more popularity now since they are current muscle car killers. I can't begin to think what a zr1 or callaway would do to these things. omg...
08-13-2017, 07:50 AM
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Gotta love The Boss but he should stick to his music and stop being a Democratic wanna be. Should go back to the Stone Pony!
08-13-2017, 08:49 AM
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Good story
A scat pack challenger pulled on me last year, so I put a cam in the car. Still havnt gotten my redemption yet lol
A scat pack challenger pulled on me last year, so I put a cam in the car. Still havnt gotten my redemption yet lol
08-13-2017, 10:12 AM
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How did you come out $ wise?
08-13-2017, 10:40 AM
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[QUOTE=mickey5
Gotta love The Boss but he should stick to his music and stop being a Democratic wanna be. Should go back to the Stone Pony![/QUOTE]
Most definitely!! along with all the other Hollywood types, he should keep his frikken moth shut unless he is entertaining me.... 
Gotta love The Boss but he should stick to his music and stop being a Democratic wanna be. Should go back to the Stone Pony![/QUOTE]
Most definitely!! along with all the other Hollywood types, he should keep his frikken moth shut unless he is entertaining me....
08-13-2017, 03:24 PM
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I'm at the crossroads with my thinking on this, I can pick up a 3.08/3 series carrier rear for between $300~$500 locally...gives me more choices on the gears or just go with the thick 3.54 in my 2 series and replace bearings and seals while in there. I don't have the facility now to do it so I'm looking at about $400 for the Yukon Gears, $500 labor to rebuild my 2 series with it and $500 to swap it out. Around $1500 A~Z paying someone else.
How did you come out $ wise?
How did you come out $ wise?
This mod is on my "Must Do" list. New wheels are on the "Like to do" but strengthening the differential is a must do. I don't need it right now, but will in the next year or 2 when I get the motor/trans part done.
08-13-2017, 04:57 PM
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Agreed...I have "Racing in the Streets" in my rotation...one of my favorites...but Bruce...like most other entertainers, need to keep their politics to themselves.
08-13-2017, 11:30 PM
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08-13-2017, 11:32 PM
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Further: Although most of used to do this as kids and nobody ever got hurt.. I dunno that I would trust another driver beside me at those speeds now.
The highways are so loaded up with non-drivers, people on drugs and general purpose incompetents today, I think I'd just wave him on by..
The highways are so loaded up with non-drivers, people on drugs and general purpose incompetents today, I think I'd just wave him on by..
08-14-2017, 06:37 AM
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For me, a good option is massive heart attach before you go downhill too far. I see my parents at 80 with diminished capacities although they are "independent" buy unable to do many of the things that they used to be, having to take longer and longer naps to "recharge" and I know what I DON'T want to be. Old. I see my body going downhill and I can't do what I could do at 20 anymore and I know it isn't getting better as the years go along so living to an old age is more of a curse than a blessing.
08-14-2017, 06:43 AM
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For me, a good option is massive heart attach before you go downhill too far. I see my parents at 80 with diminished capacities although they are "independent" buy unable to do many of the things that they used to be, having to take longer and longer naps to "recharge" and I know what I DON'T want to be. Old. I see my body going downhill and I can't do what I could do at 20 anymore and I know it isn't getting better as the years go along so living to an old age is more of a curse than a blessing.
She was fine till she wasn't. Car crash complications. It happened in less than a week.
Probably the most horrible thing I have ever seen. But, I will admit, better than what I have seen friends go through. Months of dying. cutting off toes and limbs, and dying in pieces.
So, yeah.. It never is a conscious choice, but if it was? I'd probably choose guardrail also.