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88Turbo 01-16-2003 11:18 PM

I have owned my car now for a little over one month. I was driving to work one morning last week and I always look for tail lights, I leave home at 5 am. I get up close and it is a 79 camero, we made a turn to get onto the highway, 6 lane, and I saw the smoke plum come over my hood and away we went, I like this onramp because it is long and curving, so I drop the car into 2nd and floor it, auto tranny, I am right on his rear and when we get onto the highway I moved to pass, well I glanced at the go meter and I was passing 100 mph. I dont remember when I bumped into drive, but I know the overdrive was off. I kept it floored and passed him, but I dont know if he backed off or if I did in fact beat him.

I love the feel of that rotary pulling hard pass 3 grand, this could be addictive! What is the top speed on an n/a, his car was too old to have a speed limiter. Or, is this typical for a 7? If it is, I am definetly getting a T2.

Turbo II 01-17-2003 12:49 PM

ahhhh i didnt read the title, i was like turbo ii's didnt come in auto. nice kill by the way

j9fd3s 01-17-2003 12:51 PM

nice kill, it should do like 120-130mph top speed



mike

87RX7NA 01-18-2003 02:29 PM

I think the official top speed is 137 mph, but I topped out at 132. Which highway was this, by the way? One here in Tulsa?

TKO 01-18-2003 02:47 PM

Hey wtg :bigthumg:



Hopefully within the next few months I'll have myself a kill story like that.

88Turbo 01-18-2003 10:50 PM

Highway 51, entering by the new Lowe's and heading west toward 161st, in Broken Arrow. Are you in BA 87?

87RX7NA 01-18-2003 11:09 PM

nah, i'm over by 71st and riverside, other side of town. 51 is an awesome highway to race on, especially between kenosha and 169, where it's 3 to 4 lanes all the way. Speaking of which, we should go race there sometime. https://www.nopistons.com/forums/pub...#>/biggrin.png

88Turbo 01-19-2003 04:42 PM

Right on, I need some mods before we do. I almost put a cat back on this weekend, but I wanted to talk to you first and see what you had.

87RX7NA 01-19-2003 07:06 PM

Alright, cool. I don't have a cat-back yet, it's in my upcoming mods list, but the one i'm getting is good enough. First I gotta wire my 6 ports open (maybe tonight https://www.nopistons.com/forums/pub...IR ) I'm finally over my "illness", so I'll be back out again soon. I should be free just about any night after 9:30 this week. Just let me know what day's good for you. By the way, you ever get that paint job on?

88Turbo 01-19-2003 08:16 PM

No paint yet, I have to remove the front bumper and fix the right fender so I can align the hood and headlight bucket. These are all off by about 1/2 inch, and I didnt want to paint until the body is straight. Being "on call" all weekend didnt leave me much time to work on it.


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