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  • #31
    Originally posted by SpiderGearsMan View Post
    go make your car payment
    They have this thing now called "automatic deduction" . . . they probably have the same thing in NJ for tanning bed charges, lottery tickets, botox, toxic waste disposal, turnpike tolls . . . .

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    • #32
      Originally posted by SpiderGearsMan View Post
      go make your car payment
      You don't need to bother racing with a stock (or bolt-on modified) late model, just look up the numbers on the internet.
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      • #33
        Originally posted by squirrel View Post
        You don't need to bother racing with a stock (or bolt-on modified) late model, just look up the numbers on the internet.
        Really? Seems rather elitist to me.
        I R Bob
        You can't drink all day unless you start in the morning!
        2007 LH, 2008 LH, 2009 LH, 2010 LH, 2011 LH, 2012 DNF/BLOW'D UP, 2013 LH, 2014 LH

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        • #34
          Originally posted by TC View Post
          That's right because most street races are finished before the 1/8 mile......


          And I got to say this to the people that talk about their kids getting hit, WHAT THE HELL ARE YOUR KIDS PLAYING IN THE STREET FOR!!!!..........
          Dude.. I live in a big city. Lots of dumbasses and lots of kids. When you lose it and run up into a crowd, I'll be sure to post this for the prosecuting attorney.

          Seriously, doing burnouts in front of the high school, are you trying to pick up a date? I've seen hair on the concrete in front of my Jr. High from somebody who thought like this.. it wasn't his. It was his girlfriends. You will likely have an excuse for that, but Face It, he ####ed up, she got dead. Justify that. I can't.
          Flying south, with a flock of bird dogs.

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          • #35
            The whole subject, the issue itself and the obvious brain-dead answer, is a slam dunk. Why does it keep coming up? What am I missing, why the issue keeps coming up?
            Charter member of the Turd Nuggets

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            • #36
              Originally posted by Beagle View Post
              Dude.. I live in a big city. Lots of dumbasses and lots of kids. When you lose it and run up into a crowd, I'll be sure to post this for the prosecuting attorney.

              Seriously, doing burnouts in front of the high school, are you trying to pick up a date? I've seen hair on the concrete in front of my Jr. High from somebody who thought like this.. it wasn't his. It was his girlfriends. You will likely have an excuse for that, but Face It, he ####ed up, she got dead. Justify that. I can't.
              Beag's who said anything about doing Burnout's in front of a High School??, I surely know I didn't say that....... Though on the last day of High School I did do a Power Brake burnout that smoked so bad that it stopped traffic in front of the school going both directions...... I understand that Shit Happens, but in my 26 years of driving I have never lost control of my vehicle and I've done some crazy ass shit with cars.....

              And what is with the "when you lose it" crap, you aren't wishing for me to lose control of my vehicle and kill people are you??, I don't know why anyone would want to wish that on anyone.........

              Also who in their right mind street races in front of a school with kids everywhere??......I think some of you guys leave Common Sense out of the picture when dreaming up your "what if" scenarios......Also I believe it depends on the car, like my '99 Z28, I can fry the hell out of the tires and the car just wants to go straight. I guess that is what happens when you have a properly maintained vehicle that is set up properly to go in a straight line........

              To sum it up for me, I have no problem with the stoplight to speed limit street race, I'm sure EVERYONE on this board is guilty of doing that......., what I do have a problem with is these guys that race around weaving through cars at high rates of speed, it's guys like this that end up losing control and hurting people.........

              Though remember this, every time you get behind the wheel, you're putting your life in other people's hands........
              Last edited by TC; May 6, 2012, 10:54 AM.

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              • #37
                When in SoCal I use the metered on ramps as "lauch boxes".Last trip out in my Mustang I "merged" with about 30 MPH to spare more than once....

                I also found it pisses off the Prius drivers when you pass them after they get the go ahead in the diamond lane (they don't have to stop at all the on ramp meters,same as car poolers)

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                • #38
                  High School Insanity-- School's Out for Summer Edition

                  The comments about high school burnouts and the risk of injury reminded me of several stories.

                  Here's just one of them.

                  Our school was a "country school" with a huge gravel parking lot that was at least 300 yards long. The town usually only had one or two cops on duty.

                  On the last day of school, wheel-spinning chaos typically broke out after school in the big parking lot. And being a freshman, I had to walk across it to get home.

                  The wildest kid drove a sky-jacked '63 Impala. He started his "exit" pass at the far end of the parking lot and he floored it. The car started violently "fishtailing" back and forth. The kid stayed in it. Out of the huge plumes of dust and flying gravel, the car rocked and rolled back and forth on its air shocks.

                  When the Impala passed my position, I was probably 75 to 100 feet away. I was running for dear life. The Impala's little 327 was screaming like it was on the backstretch at Daytona.

                  The Impala hit the exit of the parking lot probably at 60 m.p.h. It straightened-out, leaped across a cross street, and careened down an unpaved road that lined up with the parking lot exit. Miraculously, the kid didn't hit anything or anybody.

                  It was the most unbelievably reckless thing I've ever seen.

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                  • #39
                    At a certain point, people no longer pull up next you trying to goad you into a race. They just smile and give you the "thumbs up" I smile and wave back. I do the same when I pull up next to something genuinely serious, give them the thumbs up and acknowledge they have something special. I don't run into a lot of 9 second or faster street cars, and I don't feel the need to prove it. Save the racing for the track.
                    Drag Week 2006 & 2012 - Winner Street Race Big Block Naturally Aspirated - R/U 2007 Broke DW '05 and Drag Weekend '15 Coincidence?

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                    • #40
                      Originally posted by TC View Post
                      Beag's who said anything about doing Burnout's in front of a High School??, I surely know I didn't say that....... Though on the last day of High School I did do a Power Brake burnout that smoked so bad that it stopped traffic in front of the school going both directions...... I understand that Shit Happens, but in my 26 years of driving I have never lost control of my vehicle and I've done some crazy ass shit with cars.....

                      And what is with the "when you lose it" crap, you aren't wishing for me to lose control of my vehicle and kill people are you??, I don't know why anyone would want to wish that on anyone.........

                      Also who in their right mind street races in front of a school with kids everywhere??......I think some of you guys leave Common Sense out of the picture when dreaming up your "what if" scenarios......Also I believe it depends on the car, like my '99 Z28, I can fry the hell out of the tires and the car just wants to go straight. I guess that is what happens when you have a properly maintained vehicle that is set up properly to go in a straight line........

                      To sum it up for me, I have no problem with the stoplight to speed limit street race, I'm sure EVERYONE on this board is guilty of doing that......., what I do have a problem with is these guys that race around weaving through cars at high rates of speed, it's guys like this that end up losing control and hurting people.........

                      Though remember this, every time you get behind the wheel, you're putting your life in other people's hands........
                      internet - I'm sure you didn't mean it the way it sounded (the way I read it) and I'm sure I over-reacted. I see way too many jackasses in town doing truly stupid sh*t. Every day on the news it seems, you see somebody playing chicken with a telephone pole or a semi or something equally unmovable. What screws me up is the driver usually is "in critical condition" and the passengers are frequently not that well off.

                      Meh. No offense meant. Let's bitch about ARMCO at the track. I hate that stuff.
                      Flying south, with a flock of bird dogs.

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                      • #41
                        Perfect example: D. Suh, the footballer on the Detroit Lions... Came home while injured, did a massive burnout in a HEAVILY POPULATED NIGHT CLUB AREA, and lost control and wrecked a cherry 70 Malibu SS (according to witnesses, and the shop that did the work says it was a factory big block car)

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                        • #42
                          Originally posted by SpiderGearsMan View Post
                          go make your car payment
                          Jealous much?...dont hate on those that can afford their toys...you chose your path.
                          If you can leave two black stripes from the exit of one corner to the braking zone of the next, you have enough horsepower. - Mark Donohue

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                          • #43
                            Originally posted by peewee View Post
                            The whole subject, the issue itself and the obvious brain-dead answer, is a slam dunk. Why does it keep coming up? What am I missing, why the issue keeps coming up?
                            It keeps coming up because the temptation is there, and it's strong. The vast majority of performance automobile enthusasts SELDOM, IF EVER run their cars on any sort of closed course. Several states only have two or three drag strips. Most ultra high-performance OEM vehicles aren't legal in stock form to run on any sanctioned drag strip. The rules and procedures of sanctioned drag racing are written to favor regular participants and discourage the infrequent entrants. Hollywood has repeatedly glorified fast cars and reckless driving on the street.

                            Factor in that most humans tend to underestimate risk and overestimate their both their personal "luck" and their skills. Thus, even if the general rule is "no racing," many believe they're the exception to the rule.

                            Add all of this together and the "brain-dead answer" isn't such an obvious "slam dunk."

                            Even some of the answers in this thread indicate shades of grey.

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                            • #44
                              Originally posted by squirrel View Post
                              You don't need to bother racing with a stock (or bolt-on modified) late model, just look up the numbers on the internet.
                              Where do the internet posters get their numbers? Drag racing "dream wheels?"**

                              **Does anyone still have a "dream wheel" anymore? Or have simulation programs and spreadsheets replaced them?

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                              • #45
                                Originally posted by JOES66FURY View Post
                                Jealous much?...dont hate on those that can afford their toys...you chose your path.
                                Top 11 things a mechanic from New Jersey would rather have than a new car.

                                11. A bus pass to Brooklyn (Buh bye Nets)

                                10. A house that's not next to one of the state's 108 toxic waste dumps.

                                9. A tanning bed.

                                8. A vehicle that's too hideous to steal in America's "car theft" state.

                                7. A lifetime supply of New Jersey's infamous mystery pork parts: chub, Taylor Ham, and Pork Roll.

                                6. Ringside WrestleMania and Impact Wrestling tickets (Cuz it's all real).

                                5. A place in the smorgasbord line ahead of portly New Jersey Governor Chris Christie.

                                4. The secret to Atlantic City casino mogul Donald Trump's amazing hair growth.

                                3. A reserved stage-side seat at the Bada Bing! (a/k/a Satin Dolls)

                                2. The biggest rollaway tool chest in the Snap-On catalog.

                                1. A packed U-Haul heading out of the "Garden State."

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