I was on my way home from a team meeting at work.
I come to the freeway change right before my house (for those of you in socal, the 60W to the 71)
I see a car moving pretty quick about 10 or more cars out in front of me heading towards the tight radius banked ramp. So I speed up to catch up to it. I can see he's gonna take the turn pretty fast. Before we get into the turn I'm right behind the car which I can now make out to be an Acura 3.2. I downshift to 2nd right before entering. He takes the outside lane in the turn so I follow behind, then cut into the inside lane and proceed to overtake him. By the time we're out of the turn I'm about 1/2 a car length in front and accelerate out, bang off the rev limiter with a little backfire, shift to 3rd and continue to accelerate a little further.
That was without a doubt more exciting and a bigger adreneline rush than any freeway race I've ever done. I've pushed my car hard through turns before but never as quickly as that or overtaking another car. I wasn't looking at my speedometer but just judging from my RPM in 2nd gear around 6000 through the turn, I'd guess I was moving through the turn somewhere around 50ish. Felt like a mild rollercoaster.
Now I can see why some of you are so into road racing and auto-X
Just for reference, my mods are H&R springs with Bilstein shocks, MKIV wheels, Falken FK 451 tires (235 front, 265 rear), and intake/exhaust/downpipe on the 1J.
So that's my different type of kill than what's normally posted here for the day.
I come to the freeway change right before my house (for those of you in socal, the 60W to the 71)
I see a car moving pretty quick about 10 or more cars out in front of me heading towards the tight radius banked ramp. So I speed up to catch up to it. I can see he's gonna take the turn pretty fast. Before we get into the turn I'm right behind the car which I can now make out to be an Acura 3.2. I downshift to 2nd right before entering. He takes the outside lane in the turn so I follow behind, then cut into the inside lane and proceed to overtake him. By the time we're out of the turn I'm about 1/2 a car length in front and accelerate out, bang off the rev limiter with a little backfire, shift to 3rd and continue to accelerate a little further.
That was without a doubt more exciting and a bigger adreneline rush than any freeway race I've ever done. I've pushed my car hard through turns before but never as quickly as that or overtaking another car. I wasn't looking at my speedometer but just judging from my RPM in 2nd gear around 6000 through the turn, I'd guess I was moving through the turn somewhere around 50ish. Felt like a mild rollercoaster.
Now I can see why some of you are so into road racing and auto-X
Just for reference, my mods are H&R springs with Bilstein shocks, MKIV wheels, Falken FK 451 tires (235 front, 265 rear), and intake/exhaust/downpipe on the 1J.
So that's my different type of kill than what's normally posted here for the day.
lol
