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AMG's suck...

jeff spahn

I don't know. We have three AMG's at work. The ML63 is a retarded vehicle, the CLK 63 is fun to drive in the summer but the S65 with the bi-turbo V12 is a blast to drive. More torque than our Cummins diesel truck, sounds bad *** when you hammer it. Is it big, yep. Is it heavy, yep. Do you ever get out after going BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAA without a smile. Nope.

Pagnobito

I have had a few drivers making motions that they want to race me but I never do, it is just too dangerous.

My road story is one of buying a 79 manual without a hole in the roof, getting the MOT (UK safety test), taking out the interior and putting oil shocks and stiff springs on with track rubber. Took it to a track day and I lost 1st, 3rd and 5th during the second session. Drove it home using 2nd and 4th but ran out of fuel because the gauge was reading wrong, walked a couple of miles either way, on the way back with a fuel can full and heavy, got sunburned doing that too. Needed to get back on from the safety lane, but did that in 4th instead of 2nd with loads of gas and a lovely burning clutch smell, oops. The fuel pump started whining and stopped, but then restarted after 10 minutes (probably pulled crap from the tank)
Get home ok eventually.
Then find out the cause was just the pinch bolt on the gearbox nose had moved and pushing the stick hard into 2nd got my gears back.

MikeinBloomfield

Just a story that illustrates how many people buy cars that don't know what they can do: I had a gel head in a Mitsubishi Spyder goad me into racing him last night on the parkway. He didn't last long and by the look on his face he seemed surprised that an 'older' car could get a head of him.

depami

Or is that "Ricist"?

finally!

Went to NTB to get alignment today after having done R&R on motor mounts, delrin steering rack bushings and urethane sway bar bushings. As they finish up one of the guys who works there (he did not work on my car) starts commeting about his Taurus SHO while pointing to it and saying it was dynoed at over 400 HP.. Yeah right... then says he knows all about the 928's but would never own a car with a pathetic 4 cylinder engine in the rear of it! WOW! Not only did he get the size wrong but the location as well! Maybe he was thinking about the original Porsche's since they were the only rear engined ones with 4 cylinders (that I know of any way)...

jeff spahn

Perhaps he had one of those rare twin engined SHO's. I had an SHO. 93 IIRC. V6 somewhere around 225 hp. Fun car. Rev happy and sounded mean for a V6. You could undersize the main pulley and chip it. Rumor was 11 grand could be had out of that engine. Never tried it myself.
Did run it around Blackhawk farms with at DE's. Fun car. Too bad it was FWD. Just too much going on for the tires.

Trip..

I had a 99 Taurus SHO with the V-8, what a poop chunk, car got smoked by granny on her Hoveround. The automatic trans would throw you up on the dash everytime it would shift gears. As it shifted, you were seriously pushed about 4 inches forward, every gear change was like it was hitting the brakes. We only had it for about 6 mos, until the wife traded it for another 99 Taurus, but this one had the crappy 24v 3.0 Car looks like a jelly bean, or a bar of soap. God I hated that car! Those were the only Fords I have ever, or will ever own!

finally!

He said he was saving up to put a supercharger on it which would put him "...a bit over 500 hp..."

Shawn Stanford

I put 170k on my '89 SHO. I buried the 145mph speedo on more than one occassion (while burying a T-Bird Super Coupe, a Mustang GT, and a Probe GT) and smoked all manner of Mustangs, F-Body cars and the odd Chrysler/Mitsu product on the boulevards and beltways of KCMO. Nothing like the shock and shame on some kid's face when a family sedan - with a car seat in it - embarrasses him in front of his girlfriend.

blown 87

I may use that in my sig, thanks man.

yardpro

i have had several of these incidents...

my first was with a boxter on my drive home when i bought the car....
I was running down a 2 lane highway, passing all the grannies going 45 in a 55... then i pulled out to pass and i had to tuck in behind the boxter. The highway went to 4 and i floored it and swung around the boxter. He had it floored and was shaking the wheel as i passed.. he pulled out behind me and we ran up to 120+.. the faster we got the more i pulled him...

I have also had a chipped diesel truck give me a try... not even in the same class...

Numerous ricers have gotten sharkbit..

i would say that the biggest surprise was when i outran a newer mustang SRT cobra (maybe, svr, or whatever)..
The guy had pipes, rims, 300 rear tires, and a license plate that read "$nakebit"...he thought he was going to walk me, but the big mac did us proud.

jeff spahn

Ok I have one but I can't remember if I told it here or not.

I had just picked up my 928 in November of 2009 and it had somehow rolled around to December and I still didn't have my Iowa plates put on it.

I was heading out to meet one of my salesman to ride along with him and see if he actually did anything for all that we pay him.

It's about 5:30 or 6:00 am and I am 45 min into my drive. Coming up on a sleepy little river town called Guttenberg Iowa. It has a very nice twisty uphill leaving town that hugs the bluff so I figured I would enjoy this run. As I am cruising through town, I pass a Sheriff going the other way. I am going the posted limit, 35, and we pass each other no problem easy peasy.

About 1000 yards later, the town ends. Did I mention it was small? As I start up the hill the speed limit changes to 55 so I nail it. By the time I get to the top I am going . . . fast. I keep on humming along figuring Johnny Law is going the other way. I should be safe. As I get to the top the hill smoothes out and I keep my speed up. About 1/2 mile past the top of the hill in my rearview mirror I see a pair of head lights come over the hill and are closing in on me fast.

I slow down right away to 55 and just go about my business. The lights come on when he is about 20 feet behind me. I pull over and wait for him to walk up. It's about 3 degrees about so I am not rolling my window down before I have to. He asks for my license and registration, which I produce 1/2 of. I don't have registration, only a bill of sale since I just bought the car. I then get the "do you know why I stopped you?" I tell him, "Nope, no idea". He said "You sure disappeared up that hill in a hurry". Must have had rear facing radar ore something but didn't get a lock.

We go through everything and he comes back and says, "please come back to my car". I am thinking. "hmmm. what did I do."

He says, "you need to register your car within a month of purchasing it". I play dumb and say "Ok". He then says, "I have some bad news for you, your car is coming back as stolen." My jaw drops and he cracks a smile and says "Just kidding. Have a nice day and slow it down a little".

We sat there and jawed a bit about cars and I left . . albeit slowly this time.

Not often you get an officer who is a joker. I am glad I did that day.

BC

That is just scary the amount of ignorance those people have - and they are supposed to be mechanics?

dprantl

Yup, just the other day I was having an emissions test done on the 928 and the guy was having problems with the RPM signal with the sensor on the dash. I told him to just put it on the hood, and he said, "Oh, I thought the engine was in the back". Then I drove there with the '91 SAAB (that has Direct Ignition) and they were trying to figure out where to put the RPM sensor that you hook onto an ignition wire

Here is another road story:

https://rennlist.com/forums/928-foru...-cayman-s.html

Dan
'91 928GT S/C 475hp/460lb.ft