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Old 09-28-2011, 06:29 PM
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I am not sure this kill even counts. I decided to drive my C3 instead of my C5 to work today. Nice sunny, S Florida day. It is a 72 BBC with a GM ZZ454 that was dynoed at 440/500 after it was installed. A yellow pontiac sunfire with a fartpipe pulls up beside of me going down A1A this morning and starts to pace me. I speed up, he speeds up, I slow down he slows down, jumping his car all the while. This car when it downshifts will shift the entire car over. I have to countersteer it when the passing gear kicks in. At 60mph i put the pedal to the floor and pull god knows how much ahead before the passing gear kicks back up. He follows me into the parking lot later at work and says that when I laid into it the sound of the open sidepipes vibrated his chest through his car door and all he saw was the rear end shift right, straighten and disappear like he was on his brakes. Good stuff.

of course it also used about an 1/8 of a tank through that too haha.
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HAHA nice kill.


My Battalion Commander has a red one just like yours. He has a 454 in his. Thing sounded like a monster. He mentioned he had it bored out to a 468 and it made around 540whp. Thing was beautiful.
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I dont drive this thing much, gas is too expensive and i just dont want to risk wrecking it. these old cars just love to break when you drive them but there comes times when you just want raw brute power with no computer controls, active handling, traction control, anything. Just stomp the pedal and hang on for dear life. 15 inch tires with that much hp and a 3.55:1 rear end means 8mpg, tire smoke, and ringing ears. i love it
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I dont drive this thing much, gas is too expensive and i just dont want to risk wrecking it. these old cars just love to break when you drive them but there comes times when you just want raw brute power with no computer controls, active handling, traction control, anything. Just stomp the pedal and hang on for dear life. 15 inch tires with that much hp and a 3.55:1 rear end means 8mpg, tire smoke, and ringing ears. i love it
Ya he only drove his when super nice out and like once every two weeks. Other then that he had a new 2500HD.
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Originally Posted by baxsom
He follows me into the parking lot later at work and says that when I laid into it the sound of the open sidepipes vibrated his chest through his car door and all he saw was the rear end shift right, straighten and disappear like he was on his brakes. Good stuff
That is badass! Nice Vette too sir.
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Your C3 has got to be a thrill to drive. Pure awesome.
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I'll bet your neighbor with the Prius in the picture hates you.
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Originally Posted by usmc320
I'll bet your neighbor with the Prius in the picture hates you.
hahahahahaha that's awesome, I didn't catch that!! Sig worthy right there op.
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Originally Posted by usmc320
I'll bet your neighbor with the Prius in the picture hates you.
especially when i crank it up at 5am to go to work. The prius is his sports car. His other one is a minivan. Poor guy.
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Originally Posted by baxsom
especially when i crank it up at 5am to go to work. The prius is his sports car. His other one is a minivan. Poor guy.
That dudes man card needs to be called up.
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That dudes man card needs to be called up.
Maybe he don't even have one.
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Wouldn't call that a kill, but nice solo run dumping exhaust all over the douche in the sunfire. my buddys cammed ls1 hurt my ear flooring it next to me the other night cant imagine the 454 lol
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Nice car man. Looks sweet.




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