A kill and a death for my Cobra.
First with the kill:
First up the M3. Driving home from work (week ago) and an orangish M3 (custom paint job?) comes flying by me. Doesn't bite; can't just do a fly by and not race. So I just continue on my way and make a right, so does he. Follows me just flashing his high beams at me repetitively so I'm like okay one last try. We line up and I hear him down shift and his car gets loud. I do the same and my car gets even louder. No honks he punches it and so do I; but I immediately start spinning on my crappy cheap hard as a rock summitomo tires on cold pavement. My car goes a bit sideways and I have to let off to catch it and by this point the bimmer is like a car and a half ahead. Once I get traction I punch it again and catch up like nothing and just pass him while shifting into third. Put about 4 cars on this car. I thought it was an 02ish model but I think I saw the same car recently and can say it's a 96ish M3. Had exhaust and idk what else.
Second race is a death (300 SRT8) :
Driving home again (in Mexico), just this night I spot a greyish chrysler 300 SRT8. From the back I could see some exhaust, catback looked sick on the car! All polished and what not. I'm not expecting anything when all of a sudden I hear his auto down shift and go. I obviously couldn't catch up. We play a bit and than meet at a light. Rolls down his window and says "Still sounds like an old Ford. What's done to it?" Me "Just exhaust. What's done to the 300?" Him "Just a catback." So I'm thinking this big brick of a car can't be all that fast; sure it's got a huge motor but it's a brick.
Well lesson learned it's a lot faster than my Cobra haha. He honked the 3, and we're off with me getting the hit and I initially pull a car and he gains this back pretty quickly. We're side by side through 2nd (race started in first around 25-30mph roll), at the top of second he's past passed me and I'm right at his rear bumper with no gap in between us. I made a poor shift into 3rd as I was looking at the traffic ahead and that crappy shift let him get ahead by a car. I slammed the brakes as traffic was coming up and he kept going barely, braked in time to avoid a collision haha.
Lesson learned SRT8 300's can move. My cobra just basically is stock: O/R X, and shifter. Also running rich, and I thought my clutch was slipping now for a month or so and still raced. Turns out it just needed some adjustment and all is well.
First with the kill:
First up the M3. Driving home from work (week ago) and an orangish M3 (custom paint job?) comes flying by me. Doesn't bite; can't just do a fly by and not race. So I just continue on my way and make a right, so does he. Follows me just flashing his high beams at me repetitively so I'm like okay one last try. We line up and I hear him down shift and his car gets loud. I do the same and my car gets even louder. No honks he punches it and so do I; but I immediately start spinning on my crappy cheap hard as a rock summitomo tires on cold pavement. My car goes a bit sideways and I have to let off to catch it and by this point the bimmer is like a car and a half ahead. Once I get traction I punch it again and catch up like nothing and just pass him while shifting into third. Put about 4 cars on this car. I thought it was an 02ish model but I think I saw the same car recently and can say it's a 96ish M3. Had exhaust and idk what else.
Second race is a death (300 SRT8) :
Driving home again (in Mexico), just this night I spot a greyish chrysler 300 SRT8. From the back I could see some exhaust, catback looked sick on the car! All polished and what not. I'm not expecting anything when all of a sudden I hear his auto down shift and go. I obviously couldn't catch up. We play a bit and than meet at a light. Rolls down his window and says "Still sounds like an old Ford. What's done to it?" Me "Just exhaust. What's done to the 300?" Him "Just a catback." So I'm thinking this big brick of a car can't be all that fast; sure it's got a huge motor but it's a brick.
Well lesson learned it's a lot faster than my Cobra haha. He honked the 3, and we're off with me getting the hit and I initially pull a car and he gains this back pretty quickly. We're side by side through 2nd (race started in first around 25-30mph roll), at the top of second he's past passed me and I'm right at his rear bumper with no gap in between us. I made a poor shift into 3rd as I was looking at the traffic ahead and that crappy shift let him get ahead by a car. I slammed the brakes as traffic was coming up and he kept going barely, braked in time to avoid a collision haha.
Lesson learned SRT8 300's can move. My cobra just basically is stock: O/R X, and shifter. Also running rich, and I thought my clutch was slipping now for a month or so and still raced. Turns out it just needed some adjustment and all is well.
