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Old Sep 8, 2006 | 08:32 PM
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I have been trying to lay low. There have been a rash of street racing accidents and cops pulling guys over for exhaust/tint tickets here in the local area.

but today my ego got the better of me. I was cruising home from work and MMOB when I looked in my rearview mirror and I see a set of daytime running lights coming up pretty quick. I figured it was a C5/C6 Vette (because of the ride height).

Nope it was a Caddy (not sure if it was the faster one but it had a mesh grill), younger guy was driving he pulls up beside me and begins to pace me at about 65. We do this for about a 1/2 mile, I figured this a good time to crack open the bottle. I look over and notice he's looking at me. He stabs the throttle a couple times and I offer a thumbs up and then down shift into third.


before I could hit the horn to count it off, he mashs it to the wood and get about a car on me, I respond with a healthy ear full of ported blower on nitrous whine and instantly pull two cars, then open my lead to 5 and kill it at 120. He gave me the holy **** thumbs up and I return the compliment. We went our seperate ways. nice car, cool driver.



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Old Sep 8, 2006 | 08:40 PM
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LoL damn nice kill! I can only imagine his face when he saw you pulling on him like a freight train. My guess with the mesh grill it was an xlr-v as I think you would walk the regular xlr even harder. Again sweet kill and lord knows he will think twice about picking on a blown cobra again.
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Old Sep 8, 2006 | 09:26 PM
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Man, why did you open the bottle? Good kill though.
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Old Sep 8, 2006 | 09:30 PM
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Originally Posted by JayplaySS2
Man, why did you open the bottle? Good kill though.
because N2O is cheaper than gas in southern california..lol.
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Old Sep 8, 2006 | 09:58 PM
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here are the specs on the standard and the V series.

Size, liters/cu. in 4.6/279 4.4/267
Horsepower @ rpm 320 @ 6400 443 @ 6400
Torque (lb-ft) @ rpm 310 @ 4400 414 @ 3600
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Old Sep 8, 2006 | 11:01 PM
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Good kill, one more for us 03/04 Cobra guys.
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Old Sep 8, 2006 | 11:39 PM
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Originally Posted by Tom's_03SVT
because N2O is cheaper than gas in southern california..lol.
Good trash right there.


Nice kill dude.
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Old Sep 9, 2006 | 09:14 PM
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I'm pretty sure the mesh grill is the the supercharged v. It woulda been alot worse too if it was just the regular XLR.
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