How does one restrain themselves from speeding? 100 is starting to feel slow to me, 60 is like a crawl. The backroads around here are just so sweet and secluded but if a cop catches me doing 120 down a straight, it's over, jail time, car impounded, reckless on the driving record, etc. Not to mention if a tire blows out or I crash or someone just pulls out in front of me, BAD.

Please discuss your method of keeping under control when the urge to wind up your rotaries hits you.

 

i'm fresh out of rotaries to wind up, tho i did get to drive a BMW M Roadster to work today, wound that thing up a bit! but i usually just use cruise control, it helps keep me legal lol

 

I have a slow old jap truck and save the RXIV for the track

 

One doesn't

 

i drive my wifes car

 

True, I could take the Taurus SHO and be safe, I might park the FC for a while.

 

I do hard cornering to subside my urge but sometimes I see a long straight away and have to remind myself Two tickets and higher insurance, then the urge slowly fades.

 

i stick to the roads you can't do 100 on.

 

I always pull hard through the corners.. feels more fun than speeding down the straights [though I think it annoys the people I pass on the corners ] - even going 75 feels pretty fast through the Twilliger curves..

There's always the gas issue too....
More speed = more gas = more money = less money for other car work = less money for other stuffs

 

Have ur girlfriend in the car.....

uh.... pleasin' you.....

LoL.... I don't speed at all....

Just try and focus on the road. hahahaha

 

i know what you're talking about man, i pulled 155mph on I5 but didn't realize it until I looked at the speedo, kinda dumb and i would've committed a felony if i were caught.

 

i have a label on my stering wheel the says dont speed you cant afford it.


and thats how i dont....

 

I just think about who I may kill, and the possibility of it being children. I wouldn't want to live with that for the rest of my life, just because I wanted a quick thrill. For the most part I save it for the track.

 

I already get 14mpg, and I know stomping on it, I'll get less than that, I don't mind filling up my car, but 3 times a week at 45-50 a pop get's a lil pricey.

 

HOLY ****!!! 3 times a week, at $45 each, would be over $7000 per year. You could buy a nice fd with two years worth of gas. That's an eye opener.

 

What good are two FD's gonna do him if he doesnt use gas to drive it? I always drive the speed limit because I go race every weekend, works for me. Once you push the car hard at the track, trying to push it hard on the street doesn't even come close to the same and its just boring to try and drive fast within the limits of being safe on the street especially since if you screw up your loses can be real big and real embarassing which makes it even more uncomfortable to drive fast. Also buying a slow good gas mileage car for the everyday drive works wonders on driving the speed limit too.

 

Yeah, buying a slow car that gets good gas mileage is the best way to go I think, I bought a 83 Tercel SR5 that gets ~40MPG average and just drive the 7 every once in a while to wake me up a little, it works wonders.

 

NOT TRYING TO FLAME ANYONE...

But the answer is, being more mature.

As you get older, you understand better the consequences of getting caught or worse yet, getting in an accident.

Loss of license... loss of job... loss of career... loss of house... loss of family, loss of life... loss of freedom... loss of anything you care about.

One you start to realize this, it gets easier to ignore the temptation to race on the steet. The temptation still exists, but you control it and it does not control you.

 

yet you gotta remember that 80-90% of speeding tickets can be won in court.

 

and 90% of those aren't worth the legal fees

 

and 90% of those are still cheaper than the insurance rising.

 

Yah... come late July/early August I'm due in court for my 70mph in a 60mph (freeway) ticket... So lame, especially when I was actually going the same speed as the person in front of me, behind me, and to the side of me

 

Great post. Racing other cars is a big no no for me, and I go the speed limit around neighborhoods, houses, anywhere where people live or work I am very careful. But these lonely backroads we have here near the coast are so incredible. There is nothing around but trees and curves, and once in a while a pickup truck.

I should grow up and take a drivers class so I can start doing track days. That would satisfy the urge.

*edit* and sell the SHO for something like a rabbit, heh.

 

Sell the show and get a 92 escort 5 speed!!

I bought one for 500 bucks to beat around with for like 4 months and learn to drive a manual on, it was awesome. Stripped that thing to the bone, custom ram air intake, and chopped off the muffler for less restriction, my goal was to get the best mpg I could and I ended up hitting 32mpg in the city! Driving that thing around in 5th gear at 30mph was awesome. Plus the speedo tops out at 80mph and the rev limiter is something like 3800rpm? Haha, perfect slow beat around car.

 

slowest car ever = 2.3L ranger w/ auto -- either that or a slant 6 dart lol