| greg schroeder |
09-07-2003 03:25 AM |
Not once, not twice, but three times the Porsche 911 Turbo goes down. https://www.nopistons.com/forums/pub...IR#>/smile.png
It was about 11:30PM. The road was clear and I was on my way home after a night out at our local car gathering which occurs each Saturday here in Scottsdale, Arizona. I was checking temperatures on my new Power FC from SR motorsports. Incredible service by the way. Intake was 51C and coolant was 91C, a bit high as that I just wasted an SS Camero a few minutes earlier after some guy jumped off from a light spinning. He caught me by surprise, it took about half of first gear to real him in and then put a car length on him by the time I hit second. From that point it was embarrassing for him to say the least. Oops, back to the big news. A couple minutes had gone by, I was on my way home and I looked in my rear view to notice some slanted crisp colored headlights. I've gotten pretty good guessing cars by headlights over the years. These had Porsche written all over them. I thought I had an other Boxter on my butt.LOL I was doing about 40 in third. The headlights were approaching quickly. I dropped into second and gave it a little zip of the throttle which rendered a gurgle and pop. The nose of the Porsche pops in my view beside me, then the Porsche became parallel to my FD and the guy looks over. To my surprise I spot the vents all over the sides. It's a new style 911 turbo. I'm ecstatic as that I've been wanting to see how I'd do against one of these. I'm in second at 4500 rpm!, and as most of you know that's the FD sequential turbos favorite rpm point. Beautiful. Instant full boost for me. I knew I'd need it against the 911 turbo's low rpm big torque. We both hit and I instantly pulled a bit ahead on the 911 turbo. I continued through second pulling. I hit third and let off about 80 mph after I was a couple car lengths ahead of him. I couldn't believe it so I slowed rapidly to drop back behind the Porsche. I had to look at the back of the car for the turbo emblem. There it was. The guy then waves to me and we go at it again, but I let him go first to make sure he's on the gas and in the right gear. I slowly cruised by him again.LOL I had to follow this guy and ask if it was the X50 package. We neared our 101 freeway on ramp. Perfect! Another run? Yes! and he gets a head start. I follow him in from behind and he hits it and swings wide to the left lane of the double lane on ramp to the freeway. I walk by him again and continued to pull on him until I hit about 110 mph. He was hanging, but I was pulling. By then I had about 5 car lengths. I slow, he passes and waves with a look on his face that he can't believe it. He then blats ahead and takes the off ramp. I still wanted to ask if he had the X50 package, but he never stopped and I did a U turn. I doubt it was the X50, but man.........that was one kick @SS kill.
my mods are, modified stock air box, M2 down pipe with polished interior and corrected DP flange to turbo exhaust manifold shape, stock main cat with interior welds ground flush to pipe diameter, HKS carbon Ti cat back, Power FC tuned per my mods by SR motorsports at 10psi. |
