M Roady
06-18-2004, 10:56 PM
Tonight I'm cruising the car around looking for trouble. Not satisfied with a dead VW. I keep going.
Sitting at a light I notice a 90s 300ZX with a fairly modest body kit sitting a few cars back. Traffic moves. I noticed a Tampa Police car pull out onto our lane. I'd kind of forgot about the Z. After a little bit of putting along watching this cop a ways up ahead the 300ZX comes flying up behind me in the right lane, cuts across the center lane (where I am), and zooms past me in the left lane making some squeeking sizzling noises. He gets back in the center lane, followed by another car, and me and we get stopped at a light with the cop sitting at the pole position in the right lane. At the light I notice a Caprice rolling on dubs in the left lane (we'll see this car again).
At the next light the cop leading the way makes a right turn. We get stopped with the Z 1st in line and me sitting right behind him. After a little bit I hear him bring up his revs, I assume he is going to go. I'm ready. It takes a while and when the light changes he doesn't launch but gets on it shortly after taking off with an ///M stuck to his ass. He isn't going anywhere and as soon as I engage second gear I grab the left lane. Near the top of second my front bumper is at his rear wheel. I shift into third and continue crawling past him. In third gear I pull even with him and I hit my brakes hard because we are about to run over the traffic that was leaving the light that was in front of us. It was actually closer in his lane, but I didn't want to risk a stranger running into the back of someone in a street race. I'd call this ///M: 1 Z32:0
We exchange thumbs up. He appears to want more. But traffic comes up and he falls back. He stays back for a bit so I figure it is over and start to take the exit onto another large road going south. He quickly works his way around traffic and gets in the lane next to me and says something. I couldn't understand. I decide to skip the south exit and go north and signal him to get into the exit lane in front of me and slow down. (I was on Hillsborough East getting on Dale Mabry for any locals).
We take the clover leaf and come out onto a virtually empty road (big road). I take the far left lane, he pulls into the center and we line up. We are doing about 15 and start talking. I give him my standard "those are fast". He responds with an accent (Greek? Italian? Arab?), I couldn't hear him then realize I have the stereo blairing and turn it down. Me, "What?" Him, "I'm building a turbo for an M3." Me, "Really?" That's about it and we get some traffic coming up on us, some car was in the far right lane and had passed us. I look over, he's ready. From a slow roll (15ish) we go. Neither of us is going anywhere, I shift into second and it stays about the same for a bit then I start inching ahead and shift into third and I continue inching on him a good distance into third. His front bumber is somewhere around the front of my passenger door. Then his car makes some nasty noises and drops anchor. This was definitely a win for the ///M, but I never found out what happened. :dunno
I thought for a little bit maybe he had detonated the engine or something. He stays way back, then that Caprice pulls up in the far right lane the driver and passengers are going nuts! I guess they'd watched the first run and the second. They were of the impression the 300ZX got owned. Not so much myself. I was just inching ahead on the second run. I wasn't going to argue though.
The 300ZX pulls back up and we discuss M3 turbos some more. Then the guys in the Caprice start talking to us and we are a rolling road block and I pull ahead then decide I'm satisfied get into a left turning lane honk the horn throw a thumbs up and head back south.
Good clean fun with a friendly 300ZX driver. I wish I could have had a cleaner win, but he didn't even seem interested in our runs afterwards and just wanted to talk about ///Ms. :buttrock
As for the 300ZX, it appeared to have a stock exhaust but it definitely had a BOV venting to the atmosphere which I suspect isn't a stock feature.
Sitting at a light I notice a 90s 300ZX with a fairly modest body kit sitting a few cars back. Traffic moves. I noticed a Tampa Police car pull out onto our lane. I'd kind of forgot about the Z. After a little bit of putting along watching this cop a ways up ahead the 300ZX comes flying up behind me in the right lane, cuts across the center lane (where I am), and zooms past me in the left lane making some squeeking sizzling noises. He gets back in the center lane, followed by another car, and me and we get stopped at a light with the cop sitting at the pole position in the right lane. At the light I notice a Caprice rolling on dubs in the left lane (we'll see this car again).
At the next light the cop leading the way makes a right turn. We get stopped with the Z 1st in line and me sitting right behind him. After a little bit I hear him bring up his revs, I assume he is going to go. I'm ready. It takes a while and when the light changes he doesn't launch but gets on it shortly after taking off with an ///M stuck to his ass. He isn't going anywhere and as soon as I engage second gear I grab the left lane. Near the top of second my front bumper is at his rear wheel. I shift into third and continue crawling past him. In third gear I pull even with him and I hit my brakes hard because we are about to run over the traffic that was leaving the light that was in front of us. It was actually closer in his lane, but I didn't want to risk a stranger running into the back of someone in a street race. I'd call this ///M: 1 Z32:0
We exchange thumbs up. He appears to want more. But traffic comes up and he falls back. He stays back for a bit so I figure it is over and start to take the exit onto another large road going south. He quickly works his way around traffic and gets in the lane next to me and says something. I couldn't understand. I decide to skip the south exit and go north and signal him to get into the exit lane in front of me and slow down. (I was on Hillsborough East getting on Dale Mabry for any locals).
We take the clover leaf and come out onto a virtually empty road (big road). I take the far left lane, he pulls into the center and we line up. We are doing about 15 and start talking. I give him my standard "those are fast". He responds with an accent (Greek? Italian? Arab?), I couldn't hear him then realize I have the stereo blairing and turn it down. Me, "What?" Him, "I'm building a turbo for an M3." Me, "Really?" That's about it and we get some traffic coming up on us, some car was in the far right lane and had passed us. I look over, he's ready. From a slow roll (15ish) we go. Neither of us is going anywhere, I shift into second and it stays about the same for a bit then I start inching ahead and shift into third and I continue inching on him a good distance into third. His front bumber is somewhere around the front of my passenger door. Then his car makes some nasty noises and drops anchor. This was definitely a win for the ///M, but I never found out what happened. :dunno
I thought for a little bit maybe he had detonated the engine or something. He stays way back, then that Caprice pulls up in the far right lane the driver and passengers are going nuts! I guess they'd watched the first run and the second. They were of the impression the 300ZX got owned. Not so much myself. I was just inching ahead on the second run. I wasn't going to argue though.
The 300ZX pulls back up and we discuss M3 turbos some more. Then the guys in the Caprice start talking to us and we are a rolling road block and I pull ahead then decide I'm satisfied get into a left turning lane honk the horn throw a thumbs up and head back south.
Good clean fun with a friendly 300ZX driver. I wish I could have had a cleaner win, but he didn't even seem interested in our runs afterwards and just wanted to talk about ///Ms. :buttrock
As for the 300ZX, it appeared to have a stock exhaust but it definitely had a BOV venting to the atmosphere which I suspect isn't a stock feature.