[H1RESQ]

Smoked a GT this morning on the way to work. He tried to pass me as we both got on I-25 south in Albuquerque...I was doing about 50, downshifted into 2nd and dropped the hammer. He was about 4 car lengths ahead of me when I dropped it...redlined 2nd, slammed 3rd and passed him at 90 in the fast lane. He jumped in behind me, went around 2 cars, then back into the lane to my right. He never got any closer than 7 or 8 car lengths while I pulled away. Once he was about 200 yrds behind me I backed off from about 110 and let him catch up...why you ask? Just so he could read "BULLITT" before I dropped it back to 4th and left him for good. I saw him get off an exit in my rear view a few minutes later with his tail between his legs! DAMN I LOVE THIS CAR!

On a side note...when I slammed 3rd, I got a slight hesistation with the pedal to the floor. I backed off a millimeter and got all the juice back. I wonder if it was an airflow problem? Gotta get that Densecharger soon! :-B

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Wade Koch

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[BULLITT00208]

Was traction control on?
You probably activated the traction control. That would explain your hesitation.

Eric

 

[H1RESQ]

Come to think of it, yes it was. But, I just lit them up coming home from the gym tonight (ya know stress reliever). Dead stop, rev to 3000, dumped the clutch. Traction control was on then and they lit up good! Don't understand it... :sad:

 

[Bullitt 2075]

Wade

Funny thing about traction control. As long as the car isnt going fast and the car stays striaght traction control doesn't engage. Anything above about 10-20 miles an hour activates TC. Or at least thats what I have experienced.

Steve

 

[Hank]

Here's a guess. As long as both wheels are spinning at the same speed, TC is happy. It's when one changes speed and the other doesn't that it kicks in.

 

[anumis]

Sometimes TC can be annoying. I was taking this really hard right in first and when I was shifting into second TC kicked on and it killed almost all momentum and power in second gear because it was trying to regain control. I was like damn it :sad:. I need to rememeber not to do that when TC is on :smile:

Also, nice kill :smile:

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anumis

Black Bullitt #1574
anumis bullitt

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[Gibscreen]

What year was that GT? cause come on, the bullitt is faster, but not THAT much faster.

And I actually have to disagree on the nice kill. I'm not sure how much traffic there was, but when you have one guy swerving around 2 cars, it can't exactly be safe. I'm far from a lightfoot, but i'm also old enough (27) to know that getting stupid can get some people killed. Not necessarily from your driving, although that's definitely a possibility, but also from the guy you're messing with.

I personally save the triple digit runs for the drag strip, and keep the street drags to a moderate amount over the limit.

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2001 DHG Bullit #4719
Densecharger
1995 Laser Red GT
K&N Filter

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