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Old Dec 5, 2004 | 04:24 AM
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Default Learned a couple of things on the freeway tonight
  • if the other car is 8+ out while WOT while your still at 15000/65mph dont bother chasing casue your gona have your work cut out for you.
  • You never realize how much you could use a 200mph speedo when your 155 speedo has been reading 155 for the last couple of seconds
  • its fun comming around the other car hard at 140
  • At 160 with the windows up, it sounds like therye down.
  • there are no forms of law enforcement on I-10 at 3 am.
  • If I dont get into 4th gear, the race is done with.
  • Thoes lil bumps to outline the lanes are loud at speeds over 130.
  • I never have a video camera handy when I need one
Just some of the fun I had tonight while ridding around with nothing to do, I guess around eldrige or barker cypress or so I see a car ridding my *** just a little, and I get excited thinking its a cobra casue of the round fog lights. Then he gets over and pulls next to me and im thinking "WTF is that," so I go to 5th to accelerate a little to try to see what it was and this car is leaving me hard. So I go to 2nd and try to chase, O well thats not gona cut it hes too far out. He slows down, gets closer and I realize its a GTO, so I get excited again. We got into about 3 or 4 times, both of us jumping each other, and the last time I glance down at my speedo and see 155, and then again about 3 seconds later and its still saying 155. I didnt intend to go that fast by any means, and started to ease out of it comming up on the top of 5th cause we were comming into katy and didnt want to run into any cops. What a was to turn a boring night into an exciting time, with the cops to haul me off to jail.
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Originally Posted by stang killer
  • if the other car is 8+ out while WOT while your still at 15000/65mph dont bother chasing casue your gona have your work cut out for you.
  • You never realize how much you could use a 200mph speedo when your 155 speedo has been reading 155 for the last couple of seconds
  • its fun comming around the other car hard at 140
  • At 160 with the windows up, it sounds like therye down.
  • there are no forms of law enforcement on I-10 at 3 am.
  • If I dont get into 4th gear, the race is done with.
  • Thoes lil bumps to outline the lanes are loud at speeds over 130.
  • I never have a video camera handy when I need one
Just some of the fun I had tonight while ridding around with nothing to do, I guess around eldrige or barker cypress or so I see a car ridding my *** just a little, and I get excited thinking its a cobra casue of the round fog lights. Then he gets over and pulls next to me and im thinking "WTF is that," so I go to 5th to accelerate a little to try to see what it was and this car is leaving me hard. So I go to 2nd and try to chase, O well thats not gona cut it hes too far out. He slows down, gets closer and I realize its a GTO, so I get excited again. We got into about 3 or 4 times, both of us jumping each other, and the last time I glance down at my speedo and see 155, and then again about 3 seconds later and its still saying 155. I didnt intend to go that fast by any means, and started to ease out of it comming up on the top of 5th cause we were comming into katy and didnt want to run into any cops. What a was to turn a boring night into an exciting time, with the cops to haul me off to jail.
Katy cops don't play either...
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Sounds like you had a fun night.
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Katy cops don't play either...
real ****** dont play either
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Originally Posted by stang killer
[list][*]...15000/65mph...
Holy **** what's in that thing?

glad ya had fun
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thats one of those IRL engines

wish i had one
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real ****** dont play either
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lol, you took that Katy Mills curve going that fast. I always thought that you could simulate NASCAR on that curve, guess I was right.
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What a race car
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Originally Posted by Will Clark
lol, you took that Katy Mills curve going that fast. I always thought that you could simulate NASCAR on that curve, guess I was right.
I didnt go that far into katy, I was in front of katy mills when I had got off and was making a U turn to come back to the barker cypres exit that I had passed and didnt even realize it till i had got to mason.
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Originally Posted by stang killer
  • if the other car is 8+ out while WOT while your still at 15000/65mph dont bother chasing casue your gona have your work cut out for you.

just downshift to 2nd.
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Sounds like fun. I remember doing something like that on I-20 at 3am too with a black mustang. It was fun
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Whoa damn, what part of I-20.....? I'm right off I-20 and Matlock, I never get any races, but Arlington cops rock my *****.

And Donamian, it wouldnt be that much work if you had a faster car. Damn i'm good. And I'm Autocrossing on the 19th.
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god damn optimus you are a badass... remember yall real ****** dont play
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Originally Posted by stang killer
I didnt go that far into katy, I was in front of katy mills when I had got off and was making a U turn to come back to the barker cypres exit that I had passed and didnt even realize it till i had got to mason.
Then that leaves some testing for me to do...
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Let me know next time you want to play with the GTO again
WE'll be happy to bring it back out
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Whoa damn, what part of I-20.....? I'm right off I-20 and Matlock, I never get any races, but Arlington cops rock my *****.

And Donamian, it wouldnt be that much work if you had a faster car. Damn i'm good. And I'm Autocrossing on the 19th.

IT was off I-20 just past 360. I live off I-20 and Park Springs and I was on my way home
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Originally Posted by Optimus WS6
Whoa damn, what part of I-20.....? I'm right off I-20 and Matlock, I never get any races, but Arlington cops rock my *****.

And Donamian, it wouldnt be that much work if you had a faster car. Damn i'm good. And I'm Autocrossing on the 19th.
There is almost no time on that part of I-20 that traffic is light enough to do too much racing. Maybe I'm just old.
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