I fucked up my Z28 @ 120

This is pretty crazy if anyone is interested. So I was going about a 120 down the freeway and I went to change lanes into the far left lane to pass someone going a lot slower. He decided to change into the fast lane right in front of me (probably just didn't see me coming). Anyway, I swerved to miss him and lost control. The whole car slid across all 4 lanes of traffic and then flew off the freeway about 200 feet through 2 feet deep of shrubs and bushes. The scaryest part was I slid within 4 feet of a light post and then the car finally stopped inches from a tree. 2 of the tires came right off the rims. They had to run a cable from the tow truck to my car to pull me out. 1 of the rims is completely fucked, but I think the rest of the car is ok, besides minor scraches. In good news though, this gave me the excuse to order up my new ZO6 rims (18x10.5 and 17x9.5) and Goodyear super car tires. Hopefully she will handle a little bit better with those.

Man your lucky that you did not kill yours self or anyone else.. But that would be one hell of a ride yeha. Glad your ok and the car is in one peace minus the wheels.

you know why the person flew in front of you?

TO SLOW YOU DOWN FOR GOING TWICE THE SPEED LIMIT

I always thought back roads were better for going fast. Some place where you wont have some person cut you off at 120 mph. if you hit another car that fast you just bought yourself a pine box.... I have seen that happen way to many time. Its no fun using the jaws of life to cut out a corps. Kinda stinks...lol

I know I know... it was stupid.

I was leaving this lil town the other night going about 70 mph. saw some head lights coming the other direction so i waited. when the head lights passed i nailed it. got up to 120 to 130 ish... looked behind me saw a car that should not be there. Well any way it was a osp officer. Thank god he only cought be at 70 and he is a friend lol. Your not the only one that has done stupid stuff..... I bet all of us have done some stupid shit we wish we didnt. I bet you learnd your lesson and your ok thats all that counts... PS let me know how you like the z06 wheels I want them real bad

GoldZ28, I got your private message... deffinately no hard feelings. I am probably one of the biggest shit talkers here.

Do you have a Gold Z28? you should check out the gold paint job on my '94 Z28... www.cardomain.com/id/94camaro_z28 ...its page 2

ya its a 98

That is one tight looking paint job. So your from cali i used to live in Bakersfield. Have to go down there in oct to see my dad and go to Disneyland and try out the new cali adventrues... What car do you have now if its the dark colored one its newer than a 94 or was that your older one???

Well if i had a dig camera i would I found some on the net that look just like my car i will put up if you want to see them

Actually I am from Chicago, but when I got out of the Coast Guard I was in San Fran, and I just never left. The car I have now is the '99 Z28 in my sig. I just sold the '94 Z28 about 3 weeks ago. Before that I had an '86 Z28. The other Camaro's on the page belong to my buddy.

post up some pics of your ride

I will have to get my parents digital camera but i will put this one up i found on the last night its sweet.....

oh yea there you go

Fuck yeah!!!!

frickin right doggy nice head lights dont you think :smooch:

Here is the web site where i found the pic at my car is exactly the same..... http://www.boknows.org/pictures.htm

jeezus man, im gonna be nice, and not give the lecture about driving like that on roads with other people, as im sure ive given it to you before. but i will say im glad your ok, and damn releaved that you missed both the light pole and tree. and yes, even i have done some STUPID shit im not proud of. 100-110, late at night, headlights off, dodging oncoming traffic, in their lanes, few years ago when i had some crazy issues in life and all, definatly dont do that anymore, but i just thought id let ya know, that i lecture cuz of where ive been, not cuz im a goody goody, i learned from my stupidity, hopefully you will learn from this as well.

back roads can be almost as dangerous, little two lane roads with no median, more of a chance of a head on collision; or if you live in a place like i do you have to worry about deer and other critters...

Glad to hear that your okay. Be careful, we don't wanna lose any members, lol.
Jake

I think 120mph is why they have race tracks and drag strips. I think more people need to be encouraged to go to a track and have some fun there.

This one road course out here has this thing event called king of the hill, that they run before the main events. You just enter and get to drive the crap out of your car on their road course. Its not even much money.

i wanna see some pics of your fucked up rim

meh, who wants to pay to go fast when you can do it for free at 4 in the mornin

true chevy...

yeah a few months ago i got hit in the ass by a speeding corvette, now just today i got settlement
for $75,000. lucky you didnt kill somebody or yourself.

I will post up some pics of the rims in a day when I get my camera back.


...I'm sure we all remember my 150 on the bay birdge conversaion...

I am buying the Hotchkins complete handling package... I'll be damned if I don't top this baby out. Don't worry I will do it when no one is around. I learned my lesson about weaving through traffic at those high speeds.

so u flew off the bridge? was there a gaurdrail or anything? i can't imagine a bridge that didn't have a wall of some kind...

lmao... I didn't fly off the bridge!! lol... I was just driving across the bay bridge at 150 and everyone though I was a retard.

I really need to post a picture of the Bay Bridge so everyone can get an idea of what I am talking about...

Wow, its all crazy and amazing, that you didn't hurt your car any worse, or yourself. You said you had some pretty scratched up paint, you got a fresh coat planned I am assuming? I am just wondering becuase that is what I first think of(I do bodywork). If you do get a new coat and those rims, please post some pics for us.

I probably won't get a paint job any time soon, just because I had that $3500 gold paint job on my 94 and I hated worrying about scraching it all the time. The new Zo6 rims willbe here in a few days. I also ordered some bad ass tires off tire rack. the tires alone came to $1200. i will deffinately post pics!


here is the page (again) I usually post pics on if anyone is interested: www.cardomain.com/id/94camaro_z28

yeah, ill support the idea of goin to the track for high speeds, if only the tracks would open their doors, for instance, when i get the new engine and drivetrain in the IROC, i should be running sub 12's at least, maybe faster, so according to track rules, ill have to hack her up, put in a roll cage, and follow all these rules and regs that i know i know are for safty, but i dont want to have to do them. and around here, they dont have the run what ya brung nights. so the guys out here go out to the country where no one drives, and we still block off the roads on both ends, but yeah, we do have to worry about deers and such, but usually theres enough noise to drive em away :)

damn iroc where do u live

and in my opinion i think roll cages look badass

shit man, glad to hear you're OK after that. And that your car's in pretty good shape

finally i got some pics... here is the rim that got busted... the tire came almost completely off. i cleaned up the rim for the pic. i also put my 10.5x18 and 9.5x17 rims on the car, so i will post some pics of those and the customizing i had to do to ge them to fit. the rear axle on the car is fucked up too, so I ordered the SLP rear axle assemble with 3.73 gears for $2,400... i can't wait to get that on!

http://files.automotiveforums.com/gallery/watermark.php?file=/3141/167523busted_1.jpg http://files.automotiveforums.com/gallery/watermark.php?file=/3141/167523busted_2.jpg

here is a good pic of the new rims and my new cross drilled rotors

http://files.automotiveforums.com/gallery/watermark.php?file=/3141/167523Zo6_wheel_and_caliper.jpg

i think it's funny as hell you cleaned the busted rim just to show us the picture. This is the sign of a true Camaro fanatic...lol.

lol... anyway, if anyone is interested, here is the new high strength rear axle assembly with 3.73 gears I am ordering:

http://files.automotiveforums.com/gallery/watermark.php?file=/3141/167523SLP_REAR.jpg

blueturtle, i live in NOVA, but i raced down in norfolk va, wed drive up into maryland, out in the boonies, race, and drive home. and yeah rollcages can look cool, but they add hundreds of pounds of weight to the car, so if you run say, 11.9 and then have to put the car in, youll drop to say a 12.5 (rough guess to illustrate a point, not an exact number)

I know I know... it was stupid.

You darn right! I will not bother to tell you how many camaros I have seen on flatbeds totalled out from the highway. From my racing days I have learned what driving safe is all about. Most people have NO CLUE how dangerous speeding (etc...) is or whether or not they are driving stupid. I know from experience how quickly cars in front of you can hit you if they apply the brakes. I was hit by a drunk and had back surgery thanks to the accident so that is why I chew out bad drivers. That is what you are, A BAD DRIVER! You will get better though I hope. I do not want to see people in the hospital because of accidents. I think drivers training should include hitting a wall at 15 mph or so. Just to give new drivers a taste of impact. Peace out and drive safe.

We've all done stupid stuff but you should consider yourself extremely lucky that you're car is not wasted. I used to live in west Texas and I drove a little 4-banger S10. Well one day I was doing about 70 (the last time I looked anyway) and tried to zip around a van to catch the next exit. The only problem was that this particular exit was one of those loop exits. The part that I didn't know/expect was for it to be covered with gravel!!! All of the sudden I lost control of the truck, hit the guard rail, WENT THROUGH THAT!!, and rolled down a hill that was probably 60-65 feet to the bottom.

Now, if this says anything about the newer vehicles, I walked away from that mess with a cut about 1/4 of an inch on my wrist and sorta like carpet burn on my other hand from the airbad. No broken bones, no whiplash, no impalements, nothing. By the laws of probability, I should be in a box.

The rest of the bad news....
I had let my insurance laspse four days earlier. So, now, I've got quite a mess to clean up. lol!!! So, take these other guys' advise and go to the track. Not as axhilerating but you have a better change of living.

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Brought back a WAY old thread, man. We try to not do that. Just to let ya know.

yeah if its +1-2 months old just make a new thread and link the old thread or if it was like this just pm the guy.

I dont think 94 even posts here anymore fyi

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