There is a guy at my work with a blue 99 Impreza 2.5RS with previous gen STi wheels & brakes, lowered, STi seats, Cobb exhaust, just a nice-looking clean car. He is also a bit cocky, always running his mouth about his car. He usually doesn't talk to me, but I guess he changed his mind on a few days ago.
He was talking to the guy that sits in the cube across from me, and loudly said how he's never been beat by any Mustang, he launches on all of them, and the pulls away from every one he's ever seen. I didn't want to take his bait, but I couldn't help myself. I turned around, and said "Do you want to put $300 on that statement?" He said "Your banana's stock right? Then hell yeah!" The kid he was talking to said "You know that banana is a Cobra?" Then he started backpedaling, saying he couldn't do it today and his car wasn't running right. Typical.
So two days later (yesterday) I got a call to bring my Cobra to work, so I did. Some kids told me to be careful, his car is FAST, he can launch like crazy, etc. Fast is relative to most people at my work (only a few quick cars). He thought I figured his car had the stock 2.5 nothing motor, but I knew he had swapped in a previous gen STi motor (the Hybrid part), and it was stock except for the exhaust.
We left for lunch a bit early, lined up at an empty street close by, and went on an arm drop. He launched hard, had me by about 2 lengths (I babied it, only brought revs up to 1700 or so). But i stopped the pull, was about a 1/4 length behind by the top of 1st, nailed the 2nd shift and motored by through 2nd. I just glanced over but i definitely saw a look of concern since I'm sure the Eaton scream was overpowering his flat-four blat. I had roughly 1-1.5 length lead by the top of 2nd, perfect shift into 3rd, and continued to pull away. I ran it out all the way through 3rd just to make my point, and tapped the brakes. It was several car lengths, I never looked closely at my mirror when in 3rd, and he let off a bit after I did so that skewed the end result.
He pulled next to me, glared a bit, then took off and I saw him pull into the shopping center with a Wells Fargo. I went to lunch, and there was $300 on my desk when I got back with a note that said "Nice run, I got my ass handed to me." I didn't see him the rest of the day, but I'll go talk to him Monday. One thing I can say is he definitely had the driver mod, because his shifts might have been faster than mine. And I really pride myself on great, fast shifts!
Sorry for the novel, but I thought the situation was just hilarious. I mean, my car is just a basically stock 03 Cobra (not even exhaust/pulley/tune) so I don't even drive a fast Mustang! God forbid this kid ran into a REAL Mustang!
Also, no video because we each alone. Plus, I don't think my car is fast enough to justify a video.
He was talking to the guy that sits in the cube across from me, and loudly said how he's never been beat by any Mustang, he launches on all of them, and the pulls away from every one he's ever seen. I didn't want to take his bait, but I couldn't help myself. I turned around, and said "Do you want to put $300 on that statement?" He said "Your banana's stock right? Then hell yeah!" The kid he was talking to said "You know that banana is a Cobra?" Then he started backpedaling, saying he couldn't do it today and his car wasn't running right. Typical.
So two days later (yesterday) I got a call to bring my Cobra to work, so I did. Some kids told me to be careful, his car is FAST, he can launch like crazy, etc. Fast is relative to most people at my work (only a few quick cars). He thought I figured his car had the stock 2.5 nothing motor, but I knew he had swapped in a previous gen STi motor (the Hybrid part), and it was stock except for the exhaust.
We left for lunch a bit early, lined up at an empty street close by, and went on an arm drop. He launched hard, had me by about 2 lengths (I babied it, only brought revs up to 1700 or so). But i stopped the pull, was about a 1/4 length behind by the top of 1st, nailed the 2nd shift and motored by through 2nd. I just glanced over but i definitely saw a look of concern since I'm sure the Eaton scream was overpowering his flat-four blat. I had roughly 1-1.5 length lead by the top of 2nd, perfect shift into 3rd, and continued to pull away. I ran it out all the way through 3rd just to make my point, and tapped the brakes. It was several car lengths, I never looked closely at my mirror when in 3rd, and he let off a bit after I did so that skewed the end result.
He pulled next to me, glared a bit, then took off and I saw him pull into the shopping center with a Wells Fargo. I went to lunch, and there was $300 on my desk when I got back with a note that said "Nice run, I got my ass handed to me." I didn't see him the rest of the day, but I'll go talk to him Monday. One thing I can say is he definitely had the driver mod, because his shifts might have been faster than mine. And I really pride myself on great, fast shifts!
Sorry for the novel, but I thought the situation was just hilarious. I mean, my car is just a basically stock 03 Cobra (not even exhaust/pulley/tune) so I don't even drive a fast Mustang! God forbid this kid ran into a REAL Mustang!
Also, no video because we each alone. Plus, I don't think my car is fast enough to justify a video.
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