Well, on the way home from a local bar, which totally sucked tonight BTW, I see this slammed older Prelude with the typical fart-can $20 exhaust cannister. I am just minding my own business, since I usually don't race rice unless provoked, and pass him on the left on some residential street and then slip into the left-hand turn lane.

I guess after he took a look and my "little Z3" he decided to try his luck since he dove from the right-hand lane all the way over into the same turn-lane I am in to apparently try his luck. I get a green arrow and make a rather lazy left turn so he won't get too far back and take the outside lane. I hold second gear for a couple of extra seconds thinking he is going to run, but he is still about two-car-lengths back... I shift into third thinking he has changed his mind and all of a sudden I see him closing on me... apparently he wanted a running start. :confused:

In anticipation of the ricer-sneak-attack I had preemptively deactivated the DSC and was ready to drop it into second and put the hammer down... I waited for him to get right next to me as he attempts el ricer flyby and then I throw it into second and mash the throttle for all 325+hp and one big-gulp of dry Las Cruces air. He, with a three car-length or so running start, gets to about my front bumper and then quickly is schooled as to the futility of his manuever and the ferocity of the S54 at full song. :buttrock

I pull about a bus-length on him while laughing out loud to myself in my best Eddie Murphy, Beverly Hills Cop running the stop-light, cackle... bwaaa ha ha ha ha!!!! I slow down to the speed limit and he, having given up, decides to drive on by in a somewhat mellow fly-by without looking at me. We both hit the next red light side-by-side, and he just ignores me, so I take off briskly at the green and head home... with one serving of steamed rice to go. :alright

he he
way to show that rice who's boss :D

so its cool to turn off DSC while on the go?

so its cool to turn off DSC while on the go?

No problem whatsoever. Hit the fun button.
:cool:

NOICE! one. Did you just give him the rice or did you add a lil soy sauce to it ? :D Nice kill Matt.

-LWRNCE

Nice style Matt ---let the poor bastard get up to your front bumper and then slay him :evil2


so its cool to turn off DSC while on the go?

I do it all the time (except mine is ASC). Busy surface street? On. Twisty on-ramp? Off. Then back on for the Freeway :)

It's an electronic device so it's not like you're moving big physical parts around by pushing the button :)

Nice! :D

That is just mean. :smiliecap

good kill. my DSC doesnt activate other than when i corner really hard.

good kill. my DSC doesnt activate other than when i corner really hard.

That's the point honey! ;)

good kill. my DSC doesnt activate other than when i corner really hard.

Thats because you need some power to spin those wheels :D

Don't worry, I dont either. I need some water or a jerk of the steering wheel to spin, with the ASC off. :help

But there's always this...an anecdote:

I was getting frustrated because i couldn't get the ASC to 'activate' -no matter how hard i turned (in parking lots of course, not the road). Even though I could feel the rear end sliding around I was very dissappointed because I never saw the light go on. The only time it came on was starting from a stop on a wet road. :(

One day, I was sitting a little higher in my seat and took a turn hard. I saw the top of the light flicker on and it dawned on me! I sit too low in my seat to see the ASC light over the steering wheel when it's turned!

I sit too low in my seat to see the ASC light over the steering wheel when it's turned!

:stickoutt ;) . :stickoutt (http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=1261&item=4307960162&rd=1)

DSC in my car is like a fun-limiter... with my meager mods if I even go ¾-throttle anywhere in second gear you can feel it "helping" you to not get wheel-spin, which in-turn = reduced acceleration, since it is a little overexuberant in its quest to save you from yourself. I see that stupid light about once per trip in the car. :D

I have no moral qualms against willfull destruction of tire tread life so I happily flick it off prior to most races. ;) Unless I have a good reason though, I leave it on 90% of the time for safety during normal driving.

I have left it on for a couple of races for fun and it lets you pretty much whack the throttle open with reckless abandon, even in the corners... the feel of individual tires braking and the throttle cutting on and off is kinda a neat sensation. :D

Nice write up, Matt! How come most ricers won't acknowledge a loss or look at you when you kill them? :D

In anticipation of the ricer-sneak-attack I had preemptively deactivated the DSC and was ready to drop it into second and put the hammer down...

:lol: :lol:

Now, he'll go onto the Prelude forums and write about how "an M Roadster got the jump on him, but he slowly walked away and beat it by about 3 car lengths." :nono

Nice kill.

:lol: :lol:

Now, he'll go onto the Prelude forums and write about how "an M Roadster got the jump on him, but he slowly walked away and beat it by about 3 car lengths." :nono

Nice kill.

Hey were not all like that, sometimes we just want to see your fast powerfull cars haul ass. A nice demonstration is greatly aprecaited, untill I have enough money to afford an M5 of my own, its all I got.

Was it one of the old Boxy Ludes, thast what I drive :), bone stock. 17 second quarter miles :buttrock

Good write-up!

Nice kill.

Hey were not all like that, sometimes we just want to see your fast powerfull cars haul ass. A nice demonstration is greatly aprecaited, untill I have enough money to afford an M5 of my own, its all I got.

Was it one of the old Boxy Ludes, thast what I drive :), bone stock. 17 second quarter miles :buttrock
yeah I think so... I don't know much about Preludes, it had to be at least 10 years old. :D

yeah I think so... I don't know much about Preludes, it had to be at least 10 years old. :D

Good stuff, my friend has an S52 "little Z3" he likes to beat up on me with. I'd say I lose a buslength every 10mph. I dont want to line up with an S54. Not untill I get that MCoupe I'm saving up for.

Meanwhile keep beating up on us Honda owners, were Masochists, we like it. :buttrock

Good stuff, my friend has an S52 "little Z3" he likes to beat up on me with. I'd say I lose a buslength every 10mph. I dont want to line up with an S54. Not untill I get that MCoupe I'm saving up for.

Meanwhile keep beating up on us Honda owners, were Masochists, we like it. :buttrock
lol...

get the M Coupe, you won't regret it... :buttrock