Lightning and Corvette

Both were on Woodward.

I was actually just crusing around minding my business and the Lightning got next to me and goosed it a bit. I opened my exhaust cut-out and he must have heard that. He took off and I hit it a split second afterwards. He must have been stock or fairly close, because I pulled on him pretty hard. By the end of 2nd he was a car or two behind and by the middle of 3rd he was at least double that. At the next light he asked me, "What the hell is that thing?" I figured if he didn't know, me responding with "a turbo Dodge" was enough to satisfy his curiosity. He came back with [redneck voice] That's a fast little bitch! [redneck voice/] He was cool though. He tried getting me to go ahead, but about 3/4 mile up the road I saw a cop had someone pulled over, so I was for sure done.

The Corvette was a little different. I had the cut-out open next to him already as a "just in case" thing, which must have provoked him. He took off up the road way ahead of me. We were both well in front of traffic with no signs of anything in front of us, but he was crusing down Woodward at about 70mph ish. I'm not sure what his thought process was on that, but whatever. I got next to him and dropped it to 3rd. Just like the Lightning, the 'vette punched the go-pedal first and we were off. Now 70mph in 3rd gear for me is about 4000RPM or so. Full spool is at about 3150ish. (I readline at 6k and fuel cut is I think 6250, just for an FYI) Either way, at 4000RPM spool was pretty much instant. The same results were acheived with this race. The guy was cool though. I let off and he came by with a huge smile and his face and his thumb in the air. I got to the next light and got next to him, but his music was WAAY too loud and he wouldn't look over to talk.

There is no way in hell that a four banger would win against those two "cars".



Okay...what I meant to say was, NICE KILLS!

Going to have to get some video of that beast in action.

Fine fine, I'm a liar. It was actually a '91 F150 with a lightning bolt rusted in the side of it and a '94 Camaro (V6) with 'vette wheels. Close enough though, right?

Video would be sweet.

haha! I knew it all along.

I'm going to see if I can get a buddy to bring his camcorder out to Woodward sometime in the next few weekends...going to try to get some video together and try to make a Michigan/Ohio compilation.