Porsche vs Punks
05-19-2006, 12:19 AM
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Originally Posted by MyOtherCarIsASubaru
You don't have to go 110 to show up a Jeep or a Passat or something similar. In my experience, it is SUV drivers who seem to want to drag from a stoplight...Durango drivers seem unable to resist reminding you that they "got a Hemi".
The thing to remember is your torque peak is coming on quite a bit higher than theirs. From a stoplight, your typical Durango-esque monster will stay even or pull slightly ahead until about 20mph, at which point you will surge forward as you get into the sweet spot...while they are on the fastly declining part of the curve. Further, around 25mph they will shift (or their auto will do it for them) while you pull in a flash to around 35mph. At this point, I shift into 2nd and don't get back on the gas. Here the speed limit is usually 30, which I will drop back to. Your racing companion will almost invariably roar past you at 45 or 50, proving something I'm sure. It hasn't happened yet, but my dream is the day they drive right past a waiting traffic patrolman...
The thing to remember is your torque peak is coming on quite a bit higher than theirs. From a stoplight, your typical Durango-esque monster will stay even or pull slightly ahead until about 20mph, at which point you will surge forward as you get into the sweet spot...while they are on the fastly declining part of the curve. Further, around 25mph they will shift (or their auto will do it for them) while you pull in a flash to around 35mph. At this point, I shift into 2nd and don't get back on the gas. Here the speed limit is usually 30, which I will drop back to. Your racing companion will almost invariably roar past you at 45 or 50, proving something I'm sure. It hasn't happened yet, but my dream is the day they drive right past a waiting traffic patrolman...
05-19-2006, 02:43 AM
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it is a bit distressing when a sedan is faster, of course it is always at lower speeds(below 70).
I grin and bear it!! ....... and agree with the high speed, kill- them rashonal.
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I grin and bear it!! ....... and agree with the high speed, kill- them rashonal.
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05-19-2006, 09:03 AM
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Maybe you need exhaust like mine...
I rarely get those (I think Martin's theory about big wing is true, I have RS stuff) and normally I just ignore them but every now and then when someone (a ricer, Mustang or whatever) comes and acts as they want to "race", I just keep driving slowly but then on first gear, take it once quicly to about 6500 rpm and voila, off they go...
I rarely get those (I think Martin's theory about big wing is true, I have RS stuff) and normally I just ignore them but every now and then when someone (a ricer, Mustang or whatever) comes and acts as they want to "race", I just keep driving slowly but then on first gear, take it once quicly to about 6500 rpm and voila, off they go...
05-19-2006, 10:42 AM
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Try going out to dinner in a NSX !
05-19-2006, 11:12 AM
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I never had that issue when I lived in Miami, I think is because I have a turbo tail on my car and the ricers know little about our cars and thinks my 993 is a turbo so they don't bother me.
But I do get plenty of ricers picking fights with me here in S. California.
But I do get plenty of ricers picking fights with me here in S. California.
05-19-2006, 11:14 AM
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Originally Posted by MyOtherCarIsASubaru
In my experience, it is SUV drivers who seem to want to drag from a stoplight...Durango drivers seem unable to resist reminding you that they "got a Hemi".
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05-19-2006, 11:50 AM
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Coffee cans? I thought they were Kazoo's...
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Around here it is the Neon's and Honda's with the coffee-can exhausts that make them sound like weed-wackers.
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05-19-2006, 12:33 PM
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No no no you guys got it all wrong. The street word for that is "Grape fruit shooter"
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05-19-2006, 12:39 PM
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Originally Posted by ZombiePorsche44
I've seen some so big here in So Cal, I'd call them watermelon shooters......and I don't call them "ricers" anymore, not PC....I now call them "welfare racers".......
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You mean like this?
05-19-2006, 01:58 PM
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I love it when they go roaring past you on the highway... just use them as the rabbit, stay 1/4 mile back and wait for the radar detector to go off, sit back and watch as the friendly officer pulls out to capture the rabbit. Everyone wants to go faster then the Porsche!!!! 
