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Old 02-01-2010, 12:43 AM
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Now I have to spend half of the day tomorrow cleaning it. Oh well, was fun driving the last couple of days.
Old 02-01-2010, 07:44 AM
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Awesome...your car looks clean to me. What tires are you on?
Old 02-01-2010, 09:09 AM
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Holy crap did you get the rear wheels up past 75mph for the spoiler?

And every year I hope for enough snow to go do this but no luck yet. =/
Old 02-01-2010, 10:29 AM
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LOL - too funny, whty did the spoiler go up ???

great slow mo vid

the trubo wheels are cool in vid because they spin backwards

be safe out there -
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try it with snow tires.... more grip, more fun!
Old 02-01-2010, 11:34 AM
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Does the Wake County school system know you are abusing their parking lots?
Old 02-01-2010, 11:56 AM
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I'm actually on just high performance all seasons. I had them installed Thursday afternoon (no snow tires in stock) when I heard about the weather. Driving around Friday night/Saturday was fun, but after that it started to get a bit too rutty and icy, so I didn't go out much after that. You can barely tell I did anything on that lot, actually because it was mostly just frozen. I think schools won't be open until it's all gone, so I hope nobody would mind.

We took out a friend's rally-x Subaru, and an Evo MR, both on dedicated snow tires, those were more exciting.

Last edited by Ahmet; 02-01-2010 at 12:07 PM. Reason: Oh yeah, so most of that is in 1st gear, but I did put it in 3rd just for the spoiler to go up and down, heh.
Old 02-01-2010, 01:13 PM
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Which tires are these if you don't mind posting. I am assuming they are on 18s'?
Old 02-01-2010, 04:49 PM
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Originally Posted by rpm's S2
Does the Wake County school system know you are abusing their parking lots?
The kids in school don't pay taxes to go there but he does. I think a cop seeing him doing it might chuckle and get the same idea of going back to his old school to do doughnuts with a patrol car. I'm 6k miles from my old haunts.
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Mine are Kumho Ectsa ASX's I believe, on 17 inch wheels. They do OK but driving a car with say blizzak's is completely different , and if you don't have much experience with snow/ice type conditions I would highly recommend something more serious than what I had on my car... I do enjoy the low traction though, you don't have to be going fast to have fun. They did say that there were over 7500 reported accidents in the last two days in Wake county though, so be careful out there!
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Originally Posted by Pac996
The kids in school don't pay taxes to go there but he does. I think a cop seeing him doing it might chuckle and get the same idea of going back to his old school to do doughnuts with a patrol car. I'm 6k miles from my old haunts.
... and if I am not mistaken, your former teachers are glad about that ^!
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Pretty funny, I love it!
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Funny stuff, Ahmet!

Did you flip the spoiler switch toward the end of the video?
Old 02-04-2010, 12:56 PM
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I wanted to do the same thing the other day but was afraid my car wouldn't make it up my driveway if I took it out of the garage. But next time we get snow I'll buy some salt so I can at least melt the driveway and have my fun out in the white stuff!



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