TII vs. Stealth R/T (victory is mine)
07-12-05, 12:24 AM
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TII vs. Stealth R/T twin turbo (victory is mine)
So I'm cruising on Hw. 99 up here in Seattle, when I spot a dark, kind of 'Montego bluish', newer style Dodge Stealth R/T. I was about to turn off, but quickly changed my mind as soon as I saw this guy merge onto 99 in front of me.
So I hopped into the other lane and accelerated up to where he was cruising. Since I was going WOT in 3rd, as I reached his window I firmly applied my brakes and matched his speed exactly, to "make my presence known". I looked over and it was a middle-aged, middle eastern man with blingin' bracelets and hairy arms.
He slowly looked over and eye-balled me expressionlessly, before resuming his attention to the road. Well, the upcoming stop-lights turned yellow and I was forced to line up next to this guy on red (not exactly to my liking, lol).
Most aggressive or, 'non-practicing' drivers have a tendency to inch up over the 'white line' at a stop light. So as I stopped before the line, he (characteristically) went up and over it by a few feet. This was to my advantage, because this way I would appear less threatening and therefore there was a good chance that he wouldn't launch his AWD car on an opponent that he couldn't directly see.
I also had a good chance to think of my strategy without having the added stress of my potential opponent lurking in my peripheral.
I decided that if he were to launch, I would feign indifference and then catch up with him after he had cooled off and then try and provoke a 2nd gear run. I was also waiting for the turn lane light to turn green to see if he would react to the flash of green and betray his motives. Anyways, the turn land light turned green and sure enough he rolled forward about a foot. I slowly inched my right foot off of the brake to get ready for a smooth transition from brake to throttle.
Typically, the 'straight through' lights will turn green as soon as the turn lane light turns red, but the 'straight through' lights unexpectedly turned green for us...
The twin turbo R/T accelerated quickly, but not WOT (perhaps testing me?) and I just slowly rolled into the throttle as I slipped the clutch out. But as soon as I established throttle I went WOT and let the turbo spool as I approached the R/T.
The race was on as soon as my nose got to his mirror. We were both going WOT in 1st gear. We shifted into 2nd and this is when things got interesting. I started pulling past his window as I wrapped it out in 2nd. We both shifted into 3rd gear at the same time, but my shift was quicker and I jumped about a half-a-car on the shift and continued to slowly pull away until the R/T let off in the top/mid of 3rd gear. All in all, I probably beat him by almost two car, YEAH!
Those newer model Stealth R/T's and 3000GT Vr4's are easy mid-13 second cars IIRC. Granted he didn't get the obvious AWD advantage of the launch, I'd say that for a nearly 1/4 mile race, my TII performed pretty impressively.
My mods are:
'88 TII
6k mi. rebuild
9:4:1 N/A rotors
RB street-porting
ported WG
RB FCD
CS 80mm DP/MP bolted to the Apexi GT series cat-cack exhaust
K&N drop-in filter
Greddy type-S BOV
It's cool too, because I have a TO4B hybrid turbo, Apexi S-AFC, Greddy 720cc's and a Walbro 255 coming to my door in a couple days. This is going to be an easy 80 HP gain running 13 psi... WOO HOO!
FMIC, Koyo radiator, B&G performance springs and Tokico Hp struts will also be installed in a couple weeks too.
So I hopped into the other lane and accelerated up to where he was cruising. Since I was going WOT in 3rd, as I reached his window I firmly applied my brakes and matched his speed exactly, to "make my presence known". I looked over and it was a middle-aged, middle eastern man with blingin' bracelets and hairy arms.
He slowly looked over and eye-balled me expressionlessly, before resuming his attention to the road. Well, the upcoming stop-lights turned yellow and I was forced to line up next to this guy on red (not exactly to my liking, lol).
Most aggressive or, 'non-practicing' drivers have a tendency to inch up over the 'white line' at a stop light. So as I stopped before the line, he (characteristically) went up and over it by a few feet. This was to my advantage, because this way I would appear less threatening and therefore there was a good chance that he wouldn't launch his AWD car on an opponent that he couldn't directly see.
I also had a good chance to think of my strategy without having the added stress of my potential opponent lurking in my peripheral.
I decided that if he were to launch, I would feign indifference and then catch up with him after he had cooled off and then try and provoke a 2nd gear run. I was also waiting for the turn lane light to turn green to see if he would react to the flash of green and betray his motives. Anyways, the turn land light turned green and sure enough he rolled forward about a foot. I slowly inched my right foot off of the brake to get ready for a smooth transition from brake to throttle.
Typically, the 'straight through' lights will turn green as soon as the turn lane light turns red, but the 'straight through' lights unexpectedly turned green for us...
The twin turbo R/T accelerated quickly, but not WOT (perhaps testing me?) and I just slowly rolled into the throttle as I slipped the clutch out. But as soon as I established throttle I went WOT and let the turbo spool as I approached the R/T.
The race was on as soon as my nose got to his mirror. We were both going WOT in 1st gear. We shifted into 2nd and this is when things got interesting. I started pulling past his window as I wrapped it out in 2nd. We both shifted into 3rd gear at the same time, but my shift was quicker and I jumped about a half-a-car on the shift and continued to slowly pull away until the R/T let off in the top/mid of 3rd gear. All in all, I probably beat him by almost two car, YEAH!
Those newer model Stealth R/T's and 3000GT Vr4's are easy mid-13 second cars IIRC. Granted he didn't get the obvious AWD advantage of the launch, I'd say that for a nearly 1/4 mile race, my TII performed pretty impressively.
My mods are:
'88 TII
6k mi. rebuild
9:4:1 N/A rotors
RB street-porting
ported WG
RB FCD
CS 80mm DP/MP bolted to the Apexi GT series cat-cack exhaust
K&N drop-in filter
Greddy type-S BOV
It's cool too, because I have a TO4B hybrid turbo, Apexi S-AFC, Greddy 720cc's and a Walbro 255 coming to my door in a couple days. This is going to be an easy 80 HP gain running 13 psi... WOO HOO!
FMIC, Koyo radiator, B&G performance springs and Tokico Hp struts will also be installed in a couple weeks too.
Last edited by eriksseven; 07-12-05 at 12:45 AM.
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