The stories!

Conquest351 wrote: He said, "Yeah, the supercharger kicked in".

So what your saying is there isn't a "button" I can push to engage the supercharger to start? What about Mad Max? @ 1:13

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLCmcV4gC_0&feature=youtube_gdata_player

I once had a kid with an obviously bone stock RSX tell me that it was all super secret modified and whatnot. After he got done with his outlandish claims and telling me that it would absolutely destroy my ms3 in a drag race (i have no misconceptions, I know the ms3 isn't THAT fast... but it's faster than stock RSX fast) i walked out and looked under his car... for the magical 3 inch exhaust..... that didn't exist. He voiced his displeasure at my discovery as I was walking back to my car to leave.

foxtrapper wrote: Lets see.... I can listen to the stories, express amazement at their abilities with cars, and have a new friend for life. Or I can rip into them, making sure they despise me. I can see where I gain the one way. I don't see where I would gain anything the other.

Did I say that I left? Hell no, then I wouldn't hear the entire story! The ones that aren't total idiots have some really good stories, too. I ran into a guy that had a 1969 Javelin in the 70's, Black on Black with the 390/4-Speed combo, sounded like a nice car.

Just gonna leave this here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WlDLybhuOH0

Datsun310Guy wrote:

Conquest351 wrote: He said, "Yeah, the supercharger kicked in".

So what your saying is there isn't a "button" I can push to engage the supercharger to start? What about Mad Max? @ 1:13 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLCmcV4gC_0&feature=youtube_gdata_player

Turns out the supercharger was a fake movie prop. But man was it ever cool.

http://www.lastinterceptor.com/real.html

Another addition to the black car was the prolific Weiand 6-71 Supercharger bulging though the hood. This supercharger had a real Scott injector hat (now a nostalgic drag racing piece) sitting above it, yet all of this was just a movie prop mind you, and was not functional in real life. The internals (rotors) were taken out, and it sat on a stand above the block, and also above a four-barrel carburetor which is what actually fed the gas/air mix to the engine. You will also note that Max's black car had side pipes, or "Zoomies." Eight tips in all, yet only a couple (the rear ones) were actually functional. The tips were flared in MM1, and not flared in MM2 (different Zoomies altogether in that movie). In MM2, the car also had a different blower assembly.

foxtrapper wrote: Lets see.... I can listen to the stories, express amazement at their abilities with cars, and have a new friend for life. Or I can rip into them, making sure they despise me. I can see where I gain the one way. I don't see where I would gain anything the other.

Wait, why would you want a new friend for life that is an idiot?

Oh, right. Some of us have standards in the people we hang around, and don't tolerate ignorance. The world would be a better place if everyone did that.

You guys ready for a hilarious one? OK...

I worked at Motion Dynamics for like 5 years. We were a Ford high performance shop and one of the leaders in SVO performance and restoration. Anyway, had a friend bring by his 2000 GT and we did a lot of work on it, cams, ported heads, hid a nitrous setup under the intake, etc. for street racing. I drove it home to monitor it, we were having lifter tick after driving it for a little while. I drove over to pick up one of our technicians the next morning and some kids were out waiting for the school bus. The car sounded wicked with the cams, lots of lope.

This kid came running upto my window all out of breath and said, "Does this car gots naws?!"

I looked at him and said, "Yeah, it does have NITROUS"

"Where you got the bottles, are they hidden under the seat like Toretto had?"

I really did a facepalm and said, "No dude, it's in the trunk, see..." and flipped down the seat.

"Aw man, that's awesome! I knew it had naws, I could hear it. I could hear the naws"

Another facepalm, "Dude, it's called nitrous, NITROUS. Nitrous Oxide. Please Jesus quit calling it NAWS."

"Ok man, cool car. Do a burnout!"

"It's 7:30am, it's too early for that dude. Come by the shop and I'll let you check out the other cars we have."

He never came by though. Tried to straighten him out. LOL

heres some tales i've heard told:

-2 dudes in a 4th gen trans am pulled up next to me as i was parking my camaro. They told me all about their LT5 (yes, the 4 cam old ZR1 motor) powered 4th gen trans am. So at first, one guy was doing all the talking, and he made it sound like they both worked on this mythically fast car (8seconds, looks bone stock, regular size tires, etc etc etc)..then he gets out to go ring the bell of the house across the street (they were picking up their friend i guess). the dude thats waiting in the car continues the story, but seems to not get that the implication was that they had 2 trans ams - hes talking as if hes SITTING in the LT5 trans am right now. keeps going on, and i think i was cleaning garbage out of my car as he was talking, so when im just about done, i say ok, pop the hood, i have to see this. he pops the hood, its the stock LS1 of course, but i guess people think that no one can tell the difference between engines??? he just kept talking about it as if it were an LT5. weird and awkward.

-another dude, at a cruise in, is telling me, nonstop (my friend and i would slowly walk away from him, and he'd just follow us. there is a bit of sadness there cuz maybe the guy just wants to talk with someone, but...man.) so hes telling us about his fully restored ridiculous condition SS396 chevelle vert. he says its here right now! we should see it! ok ok, we walk over and theres a primered malibu vert....with a 305. he said he swaps the motors when he goes to cruise-ins like this cuz he doesnt want to get speeding tickets, or something like that

-one dude telling me about his all original bos 302 that hops all 4 wheels off the ground if he launches from 2nd gear. that guy was a lil scary cuz the second he saw doubt (to put it lightly) in my eyes, he started getting a bit belligerent...

-and one sad last story, a lil different than the rest - a non-carguy friend of mine calls me one day, ecstatic as hell, about the old cuda he just bought for 2 grand...from his description over the phone (slant6, lil rusty, but all there, sport steering wheel, column shift), i thought it sounded credible. i go over to visit him that night. dude got a duster. seller conned him the whole way, and of course, disappeared after the sale. iirc, i was particularly mad at him cuz i always tell my friends never buy a car when the guy wants to meet you somewhere besides their own house. (and also dont buy a car unless i checked it out already heh)

HiTempguy wrote:

foxtrapper wrote: Lets see.... I can listen to the stories, express amazement at their abilities with cars, and have a new friend for life. Or I can rip into them, making sure they despise me. I can see where I gain the one way. I don't see where I would gain anything the other.

Wait, why would you want a new friend for life that is an idiot? Oh, right. Some of us have standards in the people we hang around, and don't tolerate ignorance. The world would be a better place if everyone did that.

Well, no need to write off people cuz they have some need to lie to impress others - thats not an entirely despicable trait. They could still be nice good people, just with some sorta inferiority complex? (i dunno, i may be throwing around terms i dont fully know). but might as well be friendly and patient, its easier being friends with people than not.

HiTempguy wrote: Wait, why would you want a new friend for life that is an idiot?

Because I prefer that to making an enemy out of them.

Oh, right. Some of us have standards in the people we hang around, and don't tolerate ignorance. The world would be a better place if everyone did that.

If you feel superior because you've made more enemies than I have, fine. In fact, I sincerely wish you will always exceed me at that.

ohms wrote: -one dude telling me about his all original bos 302 that hops all 4 wheels off the ground if he launches from 2nd gear. that guy was a lil scary cuz the second he saw doubt (to put it lightly) in my eyes, he started getting a bit belligerent...

That's like the 200MPH Trans Am dude. He got PISSED.

Datsun310Guy wrote:

Conquest351 wrote: He said, "Yeah, the supercharger kicked in".

So what your saying is there isn't a "button" I can push to engage the supercharger to start? What about Mad Max? @ 1:13 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLCmcV4gC_0&feature=youtube_gdata_player

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tv6Bd_4KVY

In reply to Conquest351:

What is it about people being sure that P71's are supercharged? I chatted with a guy at the gas station the other day who was certain that all Police Interceptors had a supercharged Cobra engine, and I politely told him otherwise.

He called bovine feces, and demanded to look under the hood...so I told him no and left.

The story guys are good for a laugh, and I don't usually bother trying to correct them. If they are serious about learning more, we may become friends. If they know more than me, I shut up and try to learn something. If not, I just smile and politely extract myself from the conversation. I'm not gonna bust anyone's balls over tall tales, especially when they'll never change, but that doesn't mean I have to stand there all day listening to lies.

See? It doesn't have to automatically be "friend or foe". Sometimes they can just be an acquaintance.

Perhaps it is because my Fiat doesn't look fast, but when people who know what it is approach me they just want to tell me about the country they are from, and I don't mind that.

Just yesterday I had a 50 year old guy in a XJ chase me down because he lived in Italy for the first 15 years of his life and almost cried when he saw that familiar shape scooting through traffic. I hear similar things from people from Spain, Argentina and a surprising amount of eastern Europeans.

The Rx5.0 just gets confused looks, oh and whiplash

The p71 stories are the best. One time in Indiana I was driving through with the Saturn pictured in my avatar when I ran out of gas (bent the sensor pickup or something when I installed a new pump). I was in college at the time, the car was nothing special. Drop springs, stickier tires, intake/exhaust.

Anyway, cop picks me up and gives me a ride to the gas station, and seeing the car is modded proceeds to start talking about performance cars. I smile, nod, and joke very politely, because he is saving me about a 2 mile walk. He starts with the "I had a buddy that had a super secret edition Camaro that would do 200mph" type crap. Somehow the conversation goes toward police cars.

He tells me he is sure his cruiser would run down my car with no problem. (unlikely, but believable) I say something to the effect of "I would hope so, it's got a big V8".

This is not enough enthusiasm, so he then tells me its a special V8 that Ford installs in the police cruisers. Again, "Oh. I didn't know these were so fast."

That was also not enough enthusiasm. Now he tells me how the engine makes so much power it keeps breaking the transmission. He's on his 3rd transmission, and the car has ~70k on it. "Wow."

Thankfully it was a short trip to the gas station and back, or this would've continued.

I had a guy at a gas station tell me I should trash the stock diasy wheels on my Miata ASAP because they're made out of iron and heavy as hell.

I thanked him for that insight and said I would see what I could do about getting rid of them and drove away.

Now I have three full sets of daisys.

Back when I hadmy ZX2SR and frequented their forum, the tails of stock SR's that would go 150 mph.were numerous

Well the speedometer goes to 150 so it must be true.

The fastest I ever had mine was 124 ar which the frameless windows would become un sealed.

ohms wrote: iirc, i was particularly mad at him cuz i always tell my friends never buy a car when the guy wants to meet you somewhere besides their own house.

Funny, when selling a car, I don't want the buyer coming to my house in case their a nutball that'll demand I pay for a brake job or something 4 years later....

I usually have them meet me in a public place (like a mall parking lot or something). And, close to a notary to get all the paperwork done then and there.

-Rob

iceracer wrote: Back when I hadmy ZX2SR and frequented their forum, the tails of stock SR's that would go 150 mph.were numerous Well the speedometer goes to 150 so it must be true.

My S2000 has a digital speedometer. It will do 999mph

ditchdigger wrote: Perhaps it is because my Fiat doesn't look fast, but when people who know what it is approach me they just want to tell me about the country they are from, and I don't mind that. Just yesterday I had a 50 year old guy in a XJ chase me down because he lived in Italy for the first 15 years of his life and almost cried when he saw that familiar shape scooting through traffic. I hear similar things from people from Spain, Argentina and a surprising amount of eastern Europeans.

I get that from a number of my cars. People love old Land Rovers, and often have a memory about one. Particularly if they're from the UK, where it is required that everyone learn to drive on an old Rover in low range.

The 1966 Caddy gets lots of friendly attention as well - but here's the weird thing. Nobody can get the year right. Not even the guy with a 1965. They only made that body style for two years, '65 and '66. With the two cars parked side by side, in the same color, he can't get the right year.

Everybody loves a classic Mini. Everybody. If you want to make friends at the pump, get one. Bonus points for RHD.

The M5 is the one that seems to attract the most varied attention. It's the only one in our area code, I think. Real car guys will do a great double-take, and Janel reports a Cayman that wanted to play with her a while back. I did blow the doors comprehensively off a Taurus that was tailgating me one time, and after I'd backed off and he caught up, he gave me a big happy thumbs up. But it also seems to generate the imaginary stories if someone recognizes the M but doesn't know an M5 from an M3 from a 318i. Worst was a salesman at a Dodge dealership who started going on about some brand new 700 hp Challenger they'd just taken on trade.

The red striped Miata never got much friendly attention, mostly Mustang drivers who were figuratively hanging their hootus out the window. The blue one is invisible. The V8 cars do have a tendency to attract people at the pumps for some reason. And people like to tell me that they've heard of versions with a 302. The race Miata gets mostly sideways looks, but then again it's also mostly at the track.

iceracer wrote: Back when I hadmy ZX2SR and frequented their forum, the tails of stock SR's that would go 150 mph.were numerous Well the speedometer goes to 150 so it must be true. The fastest I ever had mine was 124 ar which the frameless windows would become un sealed.

I have a Miata with a speedo that goes to 220. Okay, it's kilometers. But the kids get all wide-eyed.

ohms wrote: Well, no need to write off people cuz they have some need to lie to impress others

Wait, what?? That's an exact reason to write off people

foxtrapper wrote: Because I prefer that to making an enemy out of them.

If the person is that retarded, what's the worse that can happen, they dislike you forever? I don't have any sort of superiority complex to anyone, but I certainly don't need EVERYONE to like me. What an absurd notion. Why would I want stupid people to like me?

In reply to HiTempguy:

Dude, you're making a pretty strong case for smart people to not like you, too.

But, hey, whatever cranks your tractor..........

The only people who talk to me about my mercedes are older european types who recognize that it is a euro. To most everyone else I am invisable.

One thing I like about the mercedes communty is that it seems like a more mature crowd. No one talks about heavily modifying their cars as there isn't any cheap/easy options. I'd rather deal with people fixing real problems than wet dreaming about some mythical engine power.