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Old Aug 23, 2009 | 02:47 PM
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Ran into one on my way home. I saw it at the light I was sitting at as he made a right and wanted to catch up to it. The next light went red and as it turned green I was right there. He started from a dig, I was maybe 10mph rolling through the green. Again our lovely automatic wasn't quick enough and he took the early lead, maybe a 1/4 of a length. I couldn't gain on him but we were side by side up until I shut down. If my damn intakes would have shown up this week, it'd probably be a different story. So, even though it is a death, had we started at the same time it'd probably been an even race.

Not sure if it was an S model or not but the regular model has 450hp and my car has about 420hp but also weighs 800lbs more than my car, but it could have been an S model (had SMG-paddle shifters) which then it would have 520hp, just not sure. Damn sexy car, had it completely de-badged and blacked out taillights

I patted my car when I got home and told her how good she did today.
 
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Old Aug 23, 2009 | 02:53 PM
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not a bad showing,,, get your intake , find him. jim
 
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Old Aug 23, 2009 | 03:20 PM
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Ran into one on my way home. I saw it at the light I was sitting at as he made a right and wanted to catch up to it. The next light went red and as it turned green I was right there. He started from a dig, I was maybe 10mph rolling through the green. Again our lovely automatic wasn't quick enough and he took the early lead, maybe a 1/4 of a length. I couldn't gain on him but we were side by side up until I shut down. If my damn intakes would have shown up this week, it'd probably be a different story. So, even though it is a death, had we started at the same time it'd probably been an even race.

Not sure if it was an S model or not but the regular model has 450hp and my car has about 420hp but also weighs 800lbs more than my car, but it could have been an S model (had SMG-paddle shifters) which then it would have 520hp, just not sure. Damn sexy car, had it completely de-badged and blacked out taillights

I patted my car when I got home and told her how good she did today.
so you left the car in D?!? Can't do that when you want to play!
 
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Old Aug 23, 2009 | 03:24 PM
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I wasnt going to but the light changed to green as soon as I was going to stop. I slapped it into a lower gear and hit the "go-fast" button but the tranny dropped 2 gears and by that time he was ahead of me by the 1/4 length
 
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Old Aug 23, 2009 | 03:27 PM
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If you had it in first going 10mph, you would have probably had him.
 
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Old Aug 23, 2009 | 03:45 PM
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probably, I think I was in 2nd. Wasn't paying attention, I was moreso worried about people pulling out on the road and those cop guys
 
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