Killed a Self-Proclaimed "Sleeper"
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Killed a Self-Proclaimed "Sleeper"
I had my first race in a couple months on Thursday. It was the first warm day in quite awhile so I was really itching for a race. So I'm on a 3 lane road (not highway) going back to my apartment after visiting some family. I'm looking at everything and I see something up ahead that might be modified.
I get closer and notice that it's an older looking acura, but it's de-badged so I couldn't say exactly which one. It was a 2 door but I'm pretty sure it wasn't an older integra. It looked fairly tasteful other than the token fart can style mufflers. I almost moved along except I saw that the plate said SLEEPER. So I was like WTF is the point of letting everyone know if it's a sleeper?
I pulled up alongside him, and he was kind of zoned out looking straight ahead. I opened my cutout and revved and he jumped so hard! Haha I love doing that. So I pull slowly past him to see if he tries to keep up, and he doesn't. I ignore it, kind of pissed that he'd have a plate like that and he wouldn't even race.
So I come up to a stop light and he's behind me. Light turns green and I move ahead of traffic as always, but he's right on my *** (Guess he saw my LS1TECH GET USED TO THE VIEW plate frame). So I move over a lane since it's nice and clear up ahead.
I figure he'll act like a typical ricer, so I wait for him at 55mph (a great spot for me). Sure enough, he pulls up next to me and punches it. So I give him a car and punch it too. My stall jumps up to the top of the powerband and I start pulling him....but not nearly as hard as I thought I would. By the time we hit 100 I only had him by 2 cars or so. What the hell?
So we start slowing down and he's looks excited as **** about the race, giving me thumbs up, etc, and I'm sure I look confused. So we stop at the next light, and I ask him what he has done. He says his car is gutted and has a turbo...which makes a lot more sense now.
Kind of funny that he STILL caught me sleeping even though his plate said sleeper. Either way, props to him for making his honda actually fast.
I get closer and notice that it's an older looking acura, but it's de-badged so I couldn't say exactly which one. It was a 2 door but I'm pretty sure it wasn't an older integra. It looked fairly tasteful other than the token fart can style mufflers. I almost moved along except I saw that the plate said SLEEPER. So I was like WTF is the point of letting everyone know if it's a sleeper?
I pulled up alongside him, and he was kind of zoned out looking straight ahead. I opened my cutout and revved and he jumped so hard! Haha I love doing that. So I pull slowly past him to see if he tries to keep up, and he doesn't. I ignore it, kind of pissed that he'd have a plate like that and he wouldn't even race.
So I come up to a stop light and he's behind me. Light turns green and I move ahead of traffic as always, but he's right on my *** (Guess he saw my LS1TECH GET USED TO THE VIEW plate frame). So I move over a lane since it's nice and clear up ahead.
I figure he'll act like a typical ricer, so I wait for him at 55mph (a great spot for me). Sure enough, he pulls up next to me and punches it. So I give him a car and punch it too. My stall jumps up to the top of the powerband and I start pulling him....but not nearly as hard as I thought I would. By the time we hit 100 I only had him by 2 cars or so. What the hell?
So we start slowing down and he's looks excited as **** about the race, giving me thumbs up, etc, and I'm sure I look confused. So we stop at the next light, and I ask him what he has done. He says his car is gutted and has a turbo...which makes a lot more sense now.
Kind of funny that he STILL caught me sleeping even though his plate said sleeper. Either way, props to him for making his honda actually fast.
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Made 370whp unlocked on a Mustang dyno....390-400 locked/dynojet? Who knows. lol My tuner says my particular stall is eating up a lot of power so I may switch to a Vig 3600 instead.
Tonight on the way back home a modded S2000 wanted to play. Some asian dude was in the car. Only stuff I could really see was exhaust and a carbon fiber hood. We lined up at 60 on the highway, he honked it off, and off we went. It wasn't pretty at all. 6-8 cars by the time I hit the brakes. He was cool and gave me a humbled thumbs up.
Tonight on the way back home a modded S2000 wanted to play. Some asian dude was in the car. Only stuff I could really see was exhaust and a carbon fiber hood. We lined up at 60 on the highway, he honked it off, and off we went. It wasn't pretty at all. 6-8 cars by the time I hit the brakes. He was cool and gave me a humbled thumbs up.
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He was just looking for trouble... it would take full bolt-ons, a tune, and a steeper rearend ratio (4.57 or 4.77) for an S2000 to even think about seriously racing even a stock LS1 F-body from a roll.
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LOL, I ran into an older style (mid late 90's) M3 that had a license plate that said SL33P3R, he was ahead of me, i dropped it to 4th and smashed infront of him seeing if he would want to play but nope he didnt want any. Sleeper garbage, I let my cam do the talking.