Before anyone starts calling BS: I came in second... but it was much closer than either 3 of us thought! Regardless, this was my first, and thus far only, street race LOSS. *I'll name a few streets for those in the area. Wife and I are heading to Costco and as we're exiting the neighborhood, I caught a glimpse of an orange car a few stop signs ahead, going around a bend. Didn't immediately think too much about it... then my curiosity peaked and I sped up a bit to see what it was (orange, right?!?!). We caught up to the orange car at the intersection of Lakecrest and Otay Lakes Road... A Lamboghini Gallardo Here's the important stat for this story: 0-60 in 4 seconds. I'm behind it in the Charger, SRT8, of course... :boxing: We begin to head into the intersection and he's dragging ass, really milking his Lambo, so I veer right and pass at a totally reasonable speed, basically normal acceleration. I'm about 300 yards ahead of him when I see him coming HARD, I down-shift into 3rd and nail it... he passes and a light is coming up quick at Hunte Parkway and Otay Lakes Road. I was LIVID that this pompus asshole in his $175,000 Italian exotic street race car just did that!!! Trying to show me up? Picking on a friggin' 4200 lb 4 door sedan?!?! What a total douche. Fuck it I said outloud to the wife, who's basically trying to keep me from racing this asswipe, all the while not saying alot, because he was showing off to the chick in his passenger seat (being a douche). I pull up alongside him and look over. They're FUCKING LAUGHING and glancing over at us. Now its on, you MF'er :viking: Then... a friggin' Porsche Boxster S pulls alongside the Lambo. Now, the two Euro douches and their cohorts are admiring eachother's cars... something about their conversation and their body language hinted to me that they were talking about the Lambo just passing me. By now, I'm fired up. The wife knows it and she's bracing herself. The light turns green. The Porsche disappeard instantly behind me, that other arrogant fuck. Gone! Dismissed! Like a puff of smoke in the wind. After I shut down, I looked back and he was limping, completely gave up. Now, to the REAL race between the 3 of us. The Lambo and I both launched what appeared to be perfectly. That son of a bitch had a FUCKING 4200+ POUND FOUR DOOR DODGE CHARGER SRT8 practically rammed up his arrogant, pompus balloon knot from 0 mph up to about 80 mph (when I shut down). He was pulling on me slightly above 60 mph. But folks, I was on his rear quarter panel the entire friggin' time... The best part... At the next light... That jerk off and his passenger were NOT giggling and glancing over at my Dodge; and actually, his girl was looking at him as he stared straight ahead, motionless, lips sealed. I wanted SO bad for him to look over again... all I wanted to say to him was: "She's a little faster than you thought, huh?!?!"
Awesome Jason, awsome!! WAY TO REPRESENT!!! That prick will think twice about messing with an SRT again I'm sure. The thing is if you lose in your Dodge it's ok, it's expected, but for him to lose in his $200K exotic it's not acceptable and I guarentee you he'll now think twice about messing with another Charger again just to be safe. Way to go!! Now I'm not a huge fan of it but just image if you had a little juice, say a small 75 shot ... you would have beat him, oh man! As for the Porsche, what a moron, I chew those things up and spit them out for lunch around here. Way to go bro!! :beerchug:
Nice Brudda! Trouble is that's not your first loss... as I recall... you were behind Rick who was in my rearview on the last three way... Lol!
Thanks man! I have more explaining to do in my next post... Ummm... yeah.... I HAD to slow down because there was a fucking DUMP TRUCK in my lane, shithead. BTW: I didn't even have the predator then, either... and I wasn't THAT far behind you two! :harhar:
I was out in the garage and my neighbor John (Evo owner) came walking by with his dogs. I told him the story and he put it into perspective... the Lambo driver's perspective... That Euro wannbe was definately thinking to himself "Hmm... once we get going from this light, I'll see that shitty big ass Dodge with that Hemi engine in my rear view mirror, and disappearing fast" Then... When I was in his blind spot from the get-go, he must have been shitting his pants, thinking "No fucking way!" My wife came out as he and I were talking, and said that basically, "I told Jason he'd get his butt kicked by that car... I was surprised... he was right next to him the whole time... the 'orange car' driver and his girlfriend were talking to the Porsche driver and laughing at our car..." ***I never told my wife my thoughts that those two were busting my chops... she picked up on that herself*** All I know is that if I had an extra, ummm... 50 horsepower or so, I'd have been pretty much even-up on that fool... if I had the I-Charger... I'd have edged him out fairly easily. I am STILL elated over this; as I type, my adrenaline is flowing... He had to have been shitting himself... he had to be thinking "Oh God... I could lose this race (in front of my woman, in the car I've made her think is THE BEST CAR EVER)". Yep... shitty American sedan... ZERO contest for his Lambo... NOT! Sleep tight fucker with the knowledge you spent $125,000 more than I did, to beat me by a 1/2 car length.
Awesome story Momo!! I loved it..good read and nice race.way to rep fricken ass hat....what's his car weigh like 3400ish? AAAHHH LOOOOOOSER! lol.
Thanks Milan. Thus far, that was the highlight of me owning this awesome, big ass American muscle car.
NICE JASON NICE!!!!! Man i wish I could have seen that, or better yet I wish I was a 4 way with me there too!!!
Great story Jason...and eloquently written as well!! Too bad you didn't have a chew in and saving the spit for about a half hour that you could have slung all over his car as he sat there!!
Awesome story!!! That would have been so great to see. It sounds like you really have the launching of the car perfected. Any advice on how you do it? ESP off, rev to 1500, then stomp? Autostick on or off? I really need to get a dashhawk so I can see how fast my 0-60 is.
Somehow, I figured his last three way included 2 other dudes! :tooth: Nice runs Momo and way to represent!
Dave, Rick's back in town... no more nookie for you! Seriously, however, you'd have torn him up BIG time. I want more power! Thanks my friend. I wish you could've been there for that one. About the chewing... I've cut my use in 1/2... plan on being done w/in the week totally. But, chucking a big gulp of dip spit on his exotic would've been funny as hell... and even more expensive! Thanks for the compliment. Many here are better at launching than I am... however, here's my technique (remember, look at my mod list... its humble, but that predator makes a HUGE performance difference over the stock tune in HP/TQ and shifting): 1. Autostick ONLY. 2. I don't get my RPMs up since Predator install (traction issues). I go from idle now. Stock, get the RPMs up around 1500ish like you mentioned. 3. Ease into gas as lifting off the brake, like a teeter-totter... one up, one down, same rate. 4. Practice the technique. A great launch to me is slight tire squeel off the line. That's it. You'll have to decide for yourself when the best time is to WOT. Each car, depending on mileage, tires and/or mods, reacts differently. *BTW: If I didn't lose traction going from 1st to 2nd, I'd have been a 1/2 step closer to the Lambo. Thanks man... as a matter of fact, my only three way was with those two other dudes!
