Well, I've never raced my supra before, but I have played around with my DD 
.
Last summer I was on the William Natcher parkway comming home from work. I normally drive the speed limit, which is 65 on that toll road. The right lane sucks on it (just recently had about half of it repaved) so I usually stay in the left lane (2 lane BTW). I looked in my rearview and there's a red 3000GT coming up on me in the right lane going around 70-75. I gear down to 4th and stay along beside him and check out the car to see if it's a VR4. Doesn't appear to be so this should be a pretty even match.
My car has an Injen catback (2.75" exhaust) and an Injen Racing Division CAI (can be switched to ram air at any time, don't really know what I had it set to at that time), and a B&M adjustable short throw set to ~45% throw reduction, the rest is all cosmetics (dual halo projectors and new chrome light housing all the way around with all light bulbs replaced with LED plug in units).
The 3000GT apeared stock. I don't know my exact power but should be around 175-185 HP to the wheels with about 180-195 torque. The 3000GT has the same type of engine as mine, 6G72, except his is a DOHC whereas mine is SOHC. Mine redlines at 6100 RPMs and his should be around 7K. Displacement is the same, but he may have a bigger piston with a smaller stroke, or Mitsu may have lowered the redline due to the engines tending to go out on 3000GT when reved much.
Any ways, we were side-by-side, I looked at him, he looked at me, I pointed between us and made a motion with my hand as if taking off. The guy (early thirties) looks straight ahead and I can hear his engine being geared down. I leave it in 4th, but could had been reving it out in third if I wanted. We both floor it, he starts inching away from me. I let off the accelerator just a tad. For some reason my car makes a little more power this way up until about 5500K (weird huh?). My engine starts peaking in torque when I hit a lil over 4K and it starts getting throaty sounding. All of a sudden he stops creeping away (he had about half of his nose in front of me) from me and I start walking away from him. I shift into 5th and a couple seconds later I hear him do the same. By this time his nose is at my bumper and we're going ~125. I look into my rearview and he starts inching up on me again. I put my pedal back down on the floor (still a lil off of WOT after the shift) and I start gaining again. At ~140 I'm about 2-3 cars ahead of him and he's still not letting up. My engine's singing to the tune of about 4.5-5K and still climbing. I figured if he doesn't want to let up, might as well rub it in. We keep going and I'm about 5-6 cars ahead. I look at my speedo and It's maxed out at the 150 mark. I let off, this is the fastest I've my car to, or any other period, but I've been faster in my dad's mustang before on this very same road.
By the time this all occured I was almost at my exit ramp. He pulled up beside me and I gave him the thumbs up. He gets this big ass grin on his face and does the same. We pull over and had a talk for a couple of minutes. Turns out this guy worked at a local Mitsu dealership and was absolutely convinced that I had more done to my car than I told him (same mods as above) because he thought the newer 3G's were factory limited on speed :biglaugh: . I told him no, the comp's never been touched (and hasn't). I asked him how fast he was going, he said he made it up to 140, but couldn't go any faster than that. I told him my speed and he seemed very impressed. He later told me he also had a VR4 and we should run them sometime :nono: . Glad I didn't catch him driving the VR4 that day :aigo: .
.Last summer I was on the William Natcher parkway comming home from work. I normally drive the speed limit, which is 65 on that toll road. The right lane sucks on it (just recently had about half of it repaved) so I usually stay in the left lane (2 lane BTW). I looked in my rearview and there's a red 3000GT coming up on me in the right lane going around 70-75. I gear down to 4th and stay along beside him and check out the car to see if it's a VR4. Doesn't appear to be so this should be a pretty even match.
My car has an Injen catback (2.75" exhaust) and an Injen Racing Division CAI (can be switched to ram air at any time, don't really know what I had it set to at that time), and a B&M adjustable short throw set to ~45% throw reduction, the rest is all cosmetics (dual halo projectors and new chrome light housing all the way around with all light bulbs replaced with LED plug in units).
The 3000GT apeared stock. I don't know my exact power but should be around 175-185 HP to the wheels with about 180-195 torque. The 3000GT has the same type of engine as mine, 6G72, except his is a DOHC whereas mine is SOHC. Mine redlines at 6100 RPMs and his should be around 7K. Displacement is the same, but he may have a bigger piston with a smaller stroke, or Mitsu may have lowered the redline due to the engines tending to go out on 3000GT when reved much.
Any ways, we were side-by-side, I looked at him, he looked at me, I pointed between us and made a motion with my hand as if taking off. The guy (early thirties) looks straight ahead and I can hear his engine being geared down. I leave it in 4th, but could had been reving it out in third if I wanted. We both floor it, he starts inching away from me. I let off the accelerator just a tad. For some reason my car makes a little more power this way up until about 5500K (weird huh?). My engine starts peaking in torque when I hit a lil over 4K and it starts getting throaty sounding. All of a sudden he stops creeping away (he had about half of his nose in front of me) from me and I start walking away from him. I shift into 5th and a couple seconds later I hear him do the same. By this time his nose is at my bumper and we're going ~125. I look into my rearview and he starts inching up on me again. I put my pedal back down on the floor (still a lil off of WOT after the shift) and I start gaining again. At ~140 I'm about 2-3 cars ahead of him and he's still not letting up. My engine's singing to the tune of about 4.5-5K and still climbing. I figured if he doesn't want to let up, might as well rub it in. We keep going and I'm about 5-6 cars ahead. I look at my speedo and It's maxed out at the 150 mark. I let off, this is the fastest I've my car to, or any other period, but I've been faster in my dad's mustang before on this very same road.
By the time this all occured I was almost at my exit ramp. He pulled up beside me and I gave him the thumbs up. He gets this big ass grin on his face and does the same. We pull over and had a talk for a couple of minutes. Turns out this guy worked at a local Mitsu dealership and was absolutely convinced that I had more done to my car than I told him (same mods as above) because he thought the newer 3G's were factory limited on speed :biglaugh: . I told him no, the comp's never been touched (and hasn't). I asked him how fast he was going, he said he made it up to 140, but couldn't go any faster than that. I told him my speed and he seemed very impressed. He later told me he also had a VR4 and we should run them sometime :nono: . Glad I didn't catch him driving the VR4 that day :aigo: .
