JerZeyStangz
Well-Known Member
Hey guys,
On my way home from work I make it to my exit where I get off to take the local roads BACK to my house. Mind you I am in the mustang cruising because my daily has been down all summer. Now when I get off my exit I see lights from a local fire truck coming down the road right when I was getting off the exit on to the main road.
I let the fire truck get in front of me and he starts to clear the road so I follow behind from a safe distance. I see this blue Subaru forester honk at me abruptly because I passed him when I was behind the fire truck. Apparently, he probably pulled over from the fire trucking coming down the road and wanted to immediately get back in the lane he was in. As a courtesy to him I slow down let me get in front of me while the fire truck is clearing traffic since he was so IMPATIENT to begin with. Now this is where the frustration starts to build!
The right lane was clear so I put on my blinker on and PIPE IT UP while I passed him on the right. I guess he thought this was challenge and he followed me to next light where both lanes where clear ahead. The light immediately turns yellow, I slow down and he slows down in his car, then to red. In my head I knew I was going go WOT because I didn't want this guy to get leg up on me since he was being impatient with me 2 mins before hand.
The light turns GREEN, I lay down the hammer like jack reacher in his red SS chevelle running from cops. He goes WOT throttle at the same exact time I hit the throttle and it turns into a street race, GREAT (sarcasm). Ok, we hit first gear dead nuts even, then this dude got his car a half a nose in front of me by 2nd gear, and we shut down in the middle of third gear because another light was coming up. I road his ass the whole race because the two lanes turn into one big merge lane. He managed to get in front of me but couldn't pull anymore. I was really pissed because I didn't want to race anyway as I was tired and wanted to go home from work but I was tempted to hit the gas out of frustration. To put extra fuel on the fire he was out of state too lol.
When we got to the last light before we parted ways. I gave him a pretty mean stare down, he really didn't say anything and looked kinda of embarrassed. He probably thought my car was easy pickens since he had the 250hp 2.0L Turbo Model with CVT. I guess this was the ideal match up for me with almost every bolt on under the sun on a stock NPI tune. I've been having CEL emission codes so I know my car hasn't been at peak efficiency but I really wanted to over take this guy and go straight home.
This is last time this is happening to me on the street. I am buying TFS heads and going to go crazy after im done fixing my degraded bushings and other pieces of my suspension on my car. Thanks guys for listening. Also post up any frustrating races you had recently intentionally or unintentionally and what your setup is too.
Nathan
On my way home from work I make it to my exit where I get off to take the local roads BACK to my house. Mind you I am in the mustang cruising because my daily has been down all summer. Now when I get off my exit I see lights from a local fire truck coming down the road right when I was getting off the exit on to the main road.
I let the fire truck get in front of me and he starts to clear the road so I follow behind from a safe distance. I see this blue Subaru forester honk at me abruptly because I passed him when I was behind the fire truck. Apparently, he probably pulled over from the fire trucking coming down the road and wanted to immediately get back in the lane he was in. As a courtesy to him I slow down let me get in front of me while the fire truck is clearing traffic since he was so IMPATIENT to begin with. Now this is where the frustration starts to build!
The right lane was clear so I put on my blinker on and PIPE IT UP while I passed him on the right. I guess he thought this was challenge and he followed me to next light where both lanes where clear ahead. The light immediately turns yellow, I slow down and he slows down in his car, then to red. In my head I knew I was going go WOT because I didn't want this guy to get leg up on me since he was being impatient with me 2 mins before hand.
The light turns GREEN, I lay down the hammer like jack reacher in his red SS chevelle running from cops. He goes WOT throttle at the same exact time I hit the throttle and it turns into a street race, GREAT (sarcasm). Ok, we hit first gear dead nuts even, then this dude got his car a half a nose in front of me by 2nd gear, and we shut down in the middle of third gear because another light was coming up. I road his ass the whole race because the two lanes turn into one big merge lane. He managed to get in front of me but couldn't pull anymore. I was really pissed because I didn't want to race anyway as I was tired and wanted to go home from work but I was tempted to hit the gas out of frustration. To put extra fuel on the fire he was out of state too lol.
When we got to the last light before we parted ways. I gave him a pretty mean stare down, he really didn't say anything and looked kinda of embarrassed. He probably thought my car was easy pickens since he had the 250hp 2.0L Turbo Model with CVT. I guess this was the ideal match up for me with almost every bolt on under the sun on a stock NPI tune. I've been having CEL emission codes so I know my car hasn't been at peak efficiency but I really wanted to over take this guy and go straight home.
This is last time this is happening to me on the street. I am buying TFS heads and going to go crazy after im done fixing my degraded bushings and other pieces of my suspension on my car. Thanks guys for listening. Also post up any frustrating races you had recently intentionally or unintentionally and what your setup is too.
Nathan