Mark vrs. Firebird

This was the first race in the Mark...I haven't driven it this fast until tonight...i was leaving subway and had to make a stop at the gas station. This guy that i knew from HS that i wasn't really on best terms with is there in his new Firebird...i wasn't sure if it was the Formula though because i couldn't see it written on the side where you would normally see it...but it had dual exhaust on it with the wide end tips...kind of reminds me of the z28 exhaust...but i leave before he does and get on the highway which is a straight 4 lane road for about 3 miles...no red lights...nothing. This guy keeps pacing behind me with his loud exhaust...but it wasn't a deep exhaust note like i've heard the v8s do. He then gets beside me and starts to pace me again trying to get me to run...i finally got tired of the shit click the over drive off and slammed the gas down...he falls back a little because i slammed the gas down quicker then he could...but i let off a lil' because my tranny is almost phucked in this car. So at about a 100 i let off completely with about a car on him when he comes flying by me flicking me off.
On a sidenote im not sure if this was an LS1 because if it had been he would have slaughtered me I'm sure...


sorry about the double post mods...computer=messing up

LS1 woulda owned ya hard...sounds like -maybe- tired lt1?

Eather way, good kill! Kicked the asshole in the teeth!

i don't think it was even an LT1 because the car sounded like a pissed off 4cyl. but the exhaust is what got me.
because it had the twin exhaust on it like the pre-98 z28 on it...and if it was a trans am or a formula wouldn't it said it on the side of the car? because all it said was firebird

Possible V6 with the dual exhaust "sport" option... or, just a V6 with aftermarket dual exhaust.

at first when I saw this I thought "my dad raced a firebird?"

:lol:

"Ya know Matt... I raced a Firebird today.. HA HAAaashh... It was real fun..................... but you shouldn't do that, cause it's not right.... hahahshshh.... Oh, you play the new Death Shooter game on the PC yet? IT"S REALLY AWESOMESHH!"

hahahaha, you know...I miss hangin with him. Good times.

nice kill!!


On a side story...
The first time I took the T/A out (about 1 1/2 weeks ago) with the new motor I got played with on the highway. I was just minding my own business keeping the RPM's jumping around a little to aid the break-in process.
Guy in a car exactly like yours (Mark8) tried to play. I couldn't believe it. Not only was I not willing to take my car over 4000-4500 RPM's...I sure wasn't going to watch the gas gauge drop to show this guy.
He kept 'toying' with me. We got a slightly open stretch of road...and I hear him go WOT. At this point...I have had enough. It had exhaust on it...sounded good actually.
Anyways...I took it to about 4500 RPM's in 3rd. Never used any other gear. Took him. :lol:

The Mark is also a damn land yacht at over 4000 lbs...but it's not to bad to have 280hp out of the factory on it...besides i love big cars anyways so it matches me

they're big comfy cars.. but you gotta do something about those exhaust pipes.. they're uneven and stick out wayyy to far!! :p

didnt even sound like a race. he got behind you, you hit the gas and after he hit the gas you let off and he went flying by


correct??

hahaha, TIPS!

rember the bird!!!! :lol:

lol you didnt even have tips, the dude just welded on some extra pipe... not eve balony cut at an angle, just straight pipe off the muffler... thing was comedy.

sounded kewl though... Race gear!!

yeah, it was pretty gettho...lol

but it did sound cool...ill miss the bird in some ways

and in many other ways NOT AT ALL! lol

why dont you guys keep your personal life to yourself, we dont wanna hear that kinky talk.

get a room:tongue:

:sly:

Ha, this reminds me of a car I saw not to long ago. I would have paid $20 to have a camera with me but there was this car in a parking lot at the local theater that had ghetto rigged the end of his tail pipe into this "J" shaped pipe that was made out of PVC piping on his Honda. LOL

why dont you guys keep your personal life to yourself, we dont wanna hear that kinky talk.

get a room:tongue:



You're just jealous you weren't there to experiance Race gear* performance, while on the freeway!








* = Race Gear is reverse... TV accidently threw the Tbird into reverse whilst on the freeway trying to rev at somebody... t'was comedy x 3 billion.

thats what I got for listening to him tell me to throw a rev :p

Rev??

I can't even start my car without the neighbors calling the cops. :banghead:

Rev??

I can't even start my car without the neighbors calling the cops. :banghead:


Nobody pointed a gun at you and told you to swap out the perfectly fine LS1, and put in some loud SOB of a motor...


Although, when the cops show up... I'm sure that's what you tell them.

I normally just close the garage door.
When they ask about the black Pontiac...I start the Grand Am GT.

My neighbors call me in if I so much as start my bike. (120db) Had the sheriff come by bout two months ago giving me a verbal warning about disturbing the peace or something. Thats what you get when you live by the golf course with the elders.

Did you guys hear it??
Idling about 200 RPM's too high.
http://home.comcast.net/~mrluos/fourthclip.wmv

I can only imagine how pissed they would be if I rolled in around midnight.

I test drove a Mark VIII last summer. It was modded with transmission upgrades, full exhaust, intake,bigger brakes and 18 inch wheel with sport tires and some other engine mods according to the owner. It had 120k miles on it but the car was extremely scary and it handled like a dream. I didn't buy it because owner had no record, and carfax came showing that car was a rental in its first year...and it ran 65k miles that year. But still I liked the car, being black with huge wheels, red calipers and two large chrome pipes car looked mean.