Haven't seen a thread like this yet in The Pit, so thought I'd give it a shot. I know there's plenty of gear heads here with cool rides.
It's simple; post up your kills, either on the highway or on the track... Brief description of what you drive and what is done to it, and if possible, post what is done to the vehicle you killed.
I drive a 1991.5 Dodge Cummins, with quite a bit of work done to it. It makes close to 500 HP at the tires. It's my daily, and my work truck on the ranch, but it can be fun too.
Merging onto the freeway today and minding my own business in the slow lane doing 65 MPH, when a riced out Honda Civic (that I assume saw my smallish cloud of smoke from having to pull out in traffic onto the service road) proceeded to get beside me and mash the throttle and fly by me, like I was supposed to be impressed.
I was a little surprised to hear a turbocharger whistling through his epic BEFORE the front tire side-dump through-the-fender exhaust...
I took the bait, and moved over a lane and eased up beside him. I heard his "monster" turbo start to spool, as I rolled into the throttle, leaving his rice car in my dust and smoke.
He wanted round 2, this time moving all the way over to the fast lane so he could really lay into it and gap me... I stayed over by the slow lane, rolling into the throttle with the same results as round 1. I kept it under 100 MPH due to upcoming traffic, and he proceeded to do the "ricer fly by," probably thinking he won, even though I had let out several seconds prior.
My old Cummins isn't much, but it has some top end torque. Made right at 1,000 ft/lbs at the tires last time I had it on the dyno. Might be the norm for modern trucks, but mine came from the factory 31 years ago with 350 ft/lbs.
It's simple; post up your kills, either on the highway or on the track... Brief description of what you drive and what is done to it, and if possible, post what is done to the vehicle you killed.
I drive a 1991.5 Dodge Cummins, with quite a bit of work done to it. It makes close to 500 HP at the tires. It's my daily, and my work truck on the ranch, but it can be fun too.
Merging onto the freeway today and minding my own business in the slow lane doing 65 MPH, when a riced out Honda Civic (that I assume saw my smallish cloud of smoke from having to pull out in traffic onto the service road) proceeded to get beside me and mash the throttle and fly by me, like I was supposed to be impressed.
I was a little surprised to hear a turbocharger whistling through his epic BEFORE the front tire side-dump through-the-fender exhaust...
I took the bait, and moved over a lane and eased up beside him. I heard his "monster" turbo start to spool, as I rolled into the throttle, leaving his rice car in my dust and smoke.
He wanted round 2, this time moving all the way over to the fast lane so he could really lay into it and gap me... I stayed over by the slow lane, rolling into the throttle with the same results as round 1. I kept it under 100 MPH due to upcoming traffic, and he proceeded to do the "ricer fly by," probably thinking he won, even though I had let out several seconds prior.
My old Cummins isn't much, but it has some top end torque. Made right at 1,000 ft/lbs at the tires last time I had it on the dyno. Might be the norm for modern trucks, but mine came from the factory 31 years ago with 350 ft/lbs.
