Fun Times

Well, these both happened recently. The most recent was last December 24 in the morning. It was after dawn Mass, and the choir was supposed to meet at a retaurant for breakfast. No one was there yet, so I decided to go around for awhile in my Civic. My Civic is a 1993 ESi, and has a Simota air filter and intake, large high tension wires, race spark plugs, power flow (replacing the cat) and a large exhaust. I came up behind a white 1998 Civic, and from the sound of it he is set up just like me, or better. I suspect he's on turbo, judging from the sound as he accelerates. Anyway, he must have noticed me coming behind him, and he reves up and goes. I rev mine up and catch up with him. He does that again, and I catch up with him. 3 or 4 times I actually have the opportunity to get past him, but I really didn't feel like doing it. Early morning, and I still had breakfast to get back to. Funny thing was when we came to the main road, he went up a gas station, and I had to laugh and turn to get back to the breakfast. Our run was around 70-80 kph, in a street full of humps (so we had to decelarate a lot of times).

An even funnier thing happened 2 days earlier. I was at a stop light when this 1991 Nissan Sentra came up, complete with stickers, mags and spoiler. He sees me, revs up. I revved mine up, and he looked at me in a funny way. When the light turned green, he suddenly turned right. I thought he was going to race me! I figured he chickened out the moment he heard me rev. I wouldn't back down on him (I just passed by another car that looks set up, but didn't even accelerate when I passed him).

Good kill on the first. It was a dud on the second one. Perhaps he wanted you to follow him to a specific racing area?

Doubtful. I know the area quite well, and there's not much of a race area nearby. Besides, the street we're on is straight, so we can race there (just quite a few cars around to impede traffic, though).

Just tonight, before going home from choir practice, I passed some cars, and there's this one car that seemed to follow me. He was about 2 cars behind. Sensing this, I took off, and he never even caught up. I didn't find out what car it was, though. I just looked at my rearview mirror and saw him still trying to catch up, about 10 cars behind. ^_^

Forgot to put in my first kill, which was a 2002 Toyota Altis. It happened 2-3 weeks back, before I had my filter, intake, high tension wires and SplitFire. All I had were my exhaust and the power flow (which replaced the cat). It was a stretch about 1-1.5 (or maybe a bit more) km. long. If I wasn't going to the mall at the very end of that stretch, I would've gone all the way to the highway with him. But anyway, it started with both us even. I put in to first, and pulled away from him. He tries to catch up, and then I get into second quickly. Put in to third after getting into the desired rpm, and looked behind to see him about 5 cars away. I drive at 100 kph halfway, and by now he's far behind. Nice day for me. With my set-up now, I would think he'll be far behind even faster.