High speed, no brain

[Clevy]

My 2000 mustang gt runs pretty quick. 12.3 in the quarter spraying nitrous. I decided to blow a bottle down the highway. Gps had me at 155 mph. And I was still gaining speed. Bottle ran out before I ran out of courage tgen I felt the car slowing down. At 150 that car is stable,didn't float at all,steering was still positive. Great car.
I decided to hit it with 175hp shot,blew a plug out of the head and chipped a piston. Now I am building a stroked 4.6 that will displace 5.1. Forged guts,I will be able to spank it with a 250 hp shot once it's built. Yeehaa

 

[morris]

you cats only use those under size cars. i took a chrysler 300L totally stock to 140. that was almost it cause the carb was not big. that 300 was the only one with only one carb

 

[mpvue]

Originally Posted By: tpitcher
Originally Posted By: mpvue
Originally Posted By: tpitcher
You won't believe this......

My high school friend had a 1969 Pontiac Grand Prix with a 400 CI engine.

I was driving (as it was past Midnight & I was 17, he was still 16).

So we got going 132 MPH and he said...

you're right, I don't believe it. how did you determine it was 132? w/ an analog speedo bouncing all around? and I'd be willing to bet the speedo only went to 120.


Oh brother!!!!!!!!! Are you serious??

1st of all, YOU weren't there. 2nd, it wasn't bouncing that much that a driver can't tell. 3rd, it was a 140MPH max speedometer.

Wow.


you DID say I wouldn't believe it...

 

[mpvue]

in '92 or so I sold my '70 nova to a friend. we put his truck's 396 in it, you know, because we could.
on a shakedown run we found a guy in a early '90's vette wanted to race us. we were pulling on him pretty good just before 100 or so when the fuel pressue started dropping (we had a cowl mounted gauge on it). car just falls flat on its face, vette takes off.
IDK if we were low on fuel, but the pump couldn't keep up w/ how thirsty that holley was, probably saved our lives.

 

[JimPghPA]

Originally Posted By: Spazdog
Dumbest thing. Rode my GPz550 home in the 1987 Christmas Ice Storm. Used my feet as out riggers and very slowly rode home. About a 5 mph "road-ski" all the way home. Didn't drop it. One of my friends didn't even make it a block on his V45 Sabre. Destroyed both sides of his bike before abandoning it on the side of the street. Another with a V30 Magna had one low speed tip that damaged the rear turn signal mount.

It was a good party but we should have just walked home and left our bikes to thaw. A car could have plowed into us at any time.

youth is wasted on the young


Back in the days when my friends and I would trail ride my street and trail 175 Yamaha, in the winter, we use to throw big snow-balls at the cylinder to make the cylinder shrink and hug the piston to stall the engine, just to make the bike stall so who ever was riding it would have to stop and wait a half minute before it would run again.

 

[Nick R]

Seems like that would be a pretty quick way to score the cylinder and piston lol

 

[zyxelenator]

I guess most stupid was racing V6 Altima vs Porsche Cayman (no chance lol) on late night city road and another one,I was passenger in tuned vw GTI vs Sport bike. Bike was actually loosing or twisty city roads until we got to hwy

 

[07Wolfie]

When I was 18 (1997), I bought a 1973 Cadillac Sedan DeVille from a guy who had parked it and thrown a tarp over it ten years prior and hadn't touched it since. The price was right ($100), and as soon as I had the title in my hand I called AAA and told them my car wouldn't start and I needed a tow. Technically, that was not a lie. Anyway, a new battery and some ether was all it took to fire it up, and I drove it straight down to the gas station.

Now for the stupid part:

I hadn't even glanced at ANY of the fluids, the brakes, the tires, nothing. There was enough air in the tires to keep them round, that's all I knew. So what was the first thing this 18-year old idiot did? Take it on the freeway, of course! I'd never driven anything with nearly that much displacement (472ci) or power, so of course I just held the go-pedal to the floor until the speedo disappeared past 120... Seatbelt? Heck no! In case you haven't had the experience of riding in an early '70s Cadillac at 125MPH, I can tell you that it is at once both very smooth and very terrifying.

It was only later that I realized that the bald Sears brand tires were completely dry-rotted and cracked. I was saved from a blowout and certain loss of control by probably 1mm of good rubber and the grace of God.

The Cadillac turned out to be a great car, though. Extremely reliable, comfortable, and powerful. I never, ever should have sold that car.

 

[rslifkin]

I can only think of 2 truly dumb things, both in the Jeep (before any of the engine mods).

One was pushing 105 (and immediately letting off, the wind resistance felt like slamming on the brakes) in a 65 on I-390 (road was empty) on a test run.

The other was cruising at 80 for a good minute or so in a 35 following a Mustang Mach 1 (2003). In his (and my) defense, we were trying to catch up to the group we'd gotten separated from, as we didn't have directions with us (on the way down to Watkins Glen for opening weekend last spring). There were no people or cars in sight on this road, so plenty of space to work with, and it was dead straight, slightly uphill.