Well, yesterday morning I picked up by brand new car. It's a Rally yellow Cobalt SS and dammit, I love this friggin car. Chevy could'nt have done much better on these cars.
My only complaint is the wing blocks most of the vehicles that are about 20 yrds back. Ah well.
I've also got a kill with it already. A good kill at that. My buddy has a modded Civic Si (1992ish i think) with an engine swap, cams, intake, full exhaust w/ header and it's 5 spd. He thinks it's puts out somewhere near 190-200 N/A HP to the crank. So the buddy with the Si shows up to the little shindig we were having lastnight at my friends house and sees my car. He admires it for a bit and says "you wanna race?." My reply is "Sure. Why the heck not?."
Anywho, the first race we started from a 1st gear roll at about 10-15 mph. We didnt honk it off or yell to eachother so I just waited for him to gun it. When he did I followed suit, I put a half car length on him through first but completely missed second gear and he blew by. I could hear our buddies on the side of the road laughing cause they thought I got be real bad (which technically I did). After this little mishap I also realized the A/C was on, so I figured it wouldnt hurt to turn that off for the second time around. I yelled out the window to him that I missed second and had the A/C on and wanted another run. He was happy to oblige.
Second race started the same way the first did. I was about half a car length on him while we were cruising so I waited for him to jump it. He nails it and I wait for him to get to my front bumper before I nail it. I put about a car length on him for each gear up through 3rd at about 65-70 which puts me about 3-4 lengths ahead at the end. I was really surprised at this as I had figured he'd pull me the entire time.
Damn, I can't express how much I love this car. What a kick ass daily driver it makes.
Now I really can't wait for the Camaro to be operational again.