racing war stories

[doodledo824]

i know we should keep racing off the streets but this was an opportunity to good to pass up. my friend and i were on our way to a club on tuesday and right before you get on the highway there's a red light light strategically placed before you enter. (it's route 21 , boogie knows what i'm talking about). low and behold a jetta gli 2.0 pulls up complete with the bbs wheels and what looked to be an opak muffler. He started revving his little 16 valve at me and sure enough i started giving him a little intake noise although i doubt he heard it over that loud ass opak. i launch at about 4 grand and my car spins first to about 5800 and then catches, a decent launch considering at that rpm i usually spin all of first i get him by like half a car and by second gear i've got him by like a car and a half. when i shifted to third i started losing a little ground he started coming on strong and by fourth he was almost neck and neck by that time we both slowed down cause 2 cars coming into the dredded "s" turn just wouldn't work but i was impressed with the vw and once again i was a little dissapointed with my third gear but all and all agood time was had by all. it seems that in most instances i do pretty well but vw's and acura's have some pretty potent third gears.

[kenchan]

good run dude! our G's were never intended to be drag raced. would've been more fun to see how you guys handled on the s-curve. damn, I've killed some GTi's on my AT yah, AT P11 coming off of the expressway s-curves. just held the gear in 2nd and massaged the accelerator a tad. TEIN's and the beam sus is pretty damn impressive! and I'm even using some cheepo RE910 all season tires! hehehehe.