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Well, this board hasn't been getting any love recently, so I'm posting something.

Thirsty?


HIDeez nutz in yo' mouf!


New shoes.

I can't really see, 5.7 or 6.0?

I have yet to do that even. Too time consuming gonk

Oh, and the paint on your car looks immaculate!

Thanks for the compliments, guys. The paint is the stock paint it came with. I just try to keep her in good shape. She is my "good car" after all. My Saturn, unfortunately isn't as sexy. Spice Red Metallic rocks! The engine is a 6.0 LS2.

And just for you, Ivan:

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You could fill that in before re-spraying it.
Anyways you yanks are lucky that you don't have to have front number plates.
In South Africa numberplates used to be black backrounds with white letters, so they've become oldschool now, but the ******** speedcops always ticket for that sort of s**t, aparently they're supposed to be for garage plates or something!
And I remember the cunts pulled me on my Dad's Vespa, they claimed that my licence disk was out of date, it was hidden behind my leg as I was riding along! How they could've spotted that and read it I don't know. while they where writing out the ticket a E46 M3 with out a front number plate pulls up a little way down the street, does an illegal U turn in full view of the cops, and parks. He didn't get a ticket.
And one day at collage the cops where pulling people at one of the intersections by the collage building, a aquantance of mine rocks up in his CRX, his numberplate was displayed in the front windscreen, but wasn't on his front bumper. They gave him a ticket, and then he had left his licence at home...they gave him another one. To top it all off, I watched them pull a brand new Golf GTi over, wich also didn't have a front number plate, after a quick chat with the driver they let him go, with out so much as a written warning!
Don't get m started on the speed ********!
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I won $100 this morning... but the sorry a** loser didn't give me the money.

I parked next to a guy who was also just parking at Denny’s when I went to get breakfast this morning. He had a blue 350Z. When I revved the engine before turning off the car (my dad taught me to do it whenever I parked because it’s better for the battery, I’m not some retarded punk kid), the guy and his friend/brother/whatever looked over as he was getting out of his car. When I stepped out, he said, "Nice car, how fast is it?"

I replied, "Not that fast, but fast enough for my grandpa driving a**."

"What's it got?"

"Not much, just bolt-ons... maybe 450 or so at the crank."

"I've got a turbo kit on mine, and I want to test it out, but nobody wants to race me."

"I'll bet," I figured I'd patronize him a bit, make him feel good about the money he spent. Plus, I don't like street racing. "I wouldn't want to mess with you either."

"Come on, let's race, the freeway's right there." He then added, "I'll give you $100 if you beat me."

That caught my ear (yes, I'm so poor that $100 gets my attention). I remembered reading about a Greddy turbo kit in Car and Driver that made the car have a bit over 350 horses to match the 350Z name, and I figured that he had exhaust and stuff to bump it a bit more. So maybe his car and Jenny's power to weight ratios were about the same. It would be an interesting race.

"What if I lose?" I asked, not having nor wanting to lose $100 myself.

"Nothing," he answered.

At that point, I knew he wasn't going to give me $100 if I won, but my curiousity was perked. I knew it's stupid to race, but it was kinda dry now after yesterday's rain... and there wasn't much traffic on I-80 yet. So we got back in our cars and I followed him to the freeway entrance which was just down the street less than a hundred yards. When I lined up next to him and dropped Jenny into 2nd, I put up 3 fingers and pointed to him to do the honking. With the popularity of "Street Fire dot com" just about everyone knows the "3 honks" start, so he figured it out and started the honking.

I was lucky enough to see him through his window and watch the honks so I could have a visual reaction rather than auditory (people react faster to visual stimuli than they do audio), and when I saw him start to press it the third time, I got on it just in time to start at the 3rd horn, canceling out most of the honker's advantage (everyone reacts faster to their own actions).

I think he still got a few inches on me at the start, but we ran pretty much even, with Jenny's sexy engine sounds barely able to be heard over his more free-flowing exhaust. When I pushed the shifter up into 3rd, I fell back half a car or so. I got scared because I thought he was just going to keep pulling away!

"Come on, Jenny, please! You can do this!" I spoke to her encouragingly.

At that point, it seemed like she listened and came alive, because that's when we started walking up and passing him. It was so exciting, and I was all "YES BABY! YOU DID IT!" I kept on it up to 135-140 mph, when we had a huge lead by then and she was at redline in 3rd and ready for me to shift her up into 4th. I took the next exit and made my way back to the Denny's and waited for him to come back for 15 minutes. But as I expected, he didn't show up with my $100.

http://www.cardomain.com/ride/2913762/3

I have to admit, that is one mean looking GTO! I like the chrome shoes you have on it too, not too big, but still classy. The paint job does it justice as well. I rarely see GTO's in that type of red and that are kept up that good, they usually are yellow or just plain gloss red and dirty. I'm sure the roar of that engine strikes fear in a lot of people and their se-r's and what not. 3nodding