I had a couple of the best street races I've ever had this weekend.
The first one was on Friday leaving Carlisle. I'm heading down 11 towards the 81 South entrance and I see a new edge behind me with a nice front mount. At this point I pretty much figure it's time to tuck my tail between my legs and avoid a complete ass kicking so I just go up the on ramp at a normal rate. Later down the road the guy gets next to me and lets me hear the blow-off valve a couple times and seems like he wants to go. So I figure "ok, I'll take my beating". I down shift to 3rd and we take off. To my surprise I actually pulled on the guy. I probably put 2-3 car lengths on him up to about 130-140. He pulls up next to me down the road a bit and he says it's a stock 2V with a turbo kit. From the run I would guess low 400's to the wheels. Very fun run with a surprising result.
The second run was very late Saturday night/Sunday morning. I stayed in Carlisle drinking a couple beers and BS'ing with with some folks from the board(had a great time BTW). So my brother and I head back to my parents house where I was staying for the weekend around midnight or so. Just as I cross over the WV border on 81 I see a group of three SRT4's and some other random import. They were going about 60 in a 70 blocking the whole road so I try to push them out of the way a little and as I'm passing them the one dude sticks his arm out the window and gives me a thumbs down. So I continue to pass them figuring one of them would try to race me and of course they did. This time was sort of the opposite of the first race, I was feeling relatively confident. And once again I was surprised... I downshifted to 3rd and gave him the hit. I was shocked to see him right at my door when I grabbed 4th. I pulled maybe 1/2-3/4 car length until he had to shift into 5th when I pulled maybe another 1/2 car or so till I got to the top of 4th in my car. It was pretty damn fast and LOUD. Later down the road we did a three wide run with pretty much the same results. Turns out a couple of the guys were from my home town so when we got off the exit I pulled into a gas station and the guy with the quicker car stopped in to BS for a few minutes. He said he had a bigger turbo at 22psi putting down 426 to the wheels. He was a pretty cool guy. He did say he had put down 457 on a higher boost tune but wasn't really trying to make up any ricer excuses. He had a pretty cool personal plate. Don't want to spell it out exactly, but it was "four door viper" and it was fitting because it probably would beat most stock vipers from a roll. Was definitely a cool surprise late at night on the lonely highway
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Originally Posted by lib88stang
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