Three Nights ago I agreed to take my best friend to the mall late at night/early morning. He was selling his Iphone on craigslist. It's 12 40 am and im cruising in my red GT doing around 65-70. There was no traffic what so ever. As I was driving this guy with his girl friend in a black BMW next to me punches the gas. We both were driving with our windows down. As we approached the stop light the guy in the m3 ask my friend *HEY!? WANNA RUN!?*
My friend kind of scared looks at me and says *its your call man..*. I yell *Yea! I'll run ya!*. I rev my car to 1500 rpms waiting for the light to turn green. As soon as the light changed you could hear loud tire squeals from our cars. I did a perfect launch with not much wheel spin. I got him by 1 car lenght out of the dig. I slam my car into second gear and put another half a car lenght on him. By the time I got to 5th gear I was beating him by about 3 and a half car lenghts. I saw he wasn't gaining on me so I slowed down. Went up to about 105 mph.
My friend was like *WOWWWWWWWW THAT WAS NICE!!!* all excited and what not. The guy in the bmw rolls up and says *nice race man! my friend has a gt like yours and we're always neck and neck. But you got me good. You're a real good driver*. So after we chit chat side by side for a bit with his gf smiling at us we part our seperate ways. I know the M3 is a really nice car but I thought it could perform better. It was a 99 though and maybe I was just a better driver than the guy. Anyways it was a fun night to say the least.
As of right now I'm all stock. Going to get some 4:10 gears to start with in the very near future. His m3 was pretty much stock too i guess. His exhaust definatly wasn't stock though. Other than that I dont think he had any other upgrades.
this whole thread wreaks of something rotten... with a touch of multiple accounts
it's true anything can happen on the streets, and true a new edge GT and an E36 M3 are right next to each other... 3-4 cars is pushing it but hey, anything can happen.... but this, this cannot happen
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By the time I got to 5th gear I was beating him by about 3 and a half car lenghts. I saw he wasn't gaining on me so I slowed down. Went up to about 105 mph.
< Message edited by Morbid Intentions -- 5/14/2008 4:54:03 AM >
Yeah, the 105mph thing confused me too. If he's racing wouldn't he be in the low to mid rpm's in 4th @ 105mph?
BTW, the E36 M3's aren't that quick. mid 14's stock. The E46 M3's are much better (00-04 style, although the sedan was available in 99 in the E46 style, but the coupes & M3 were still the E36 style in 99) look, handling and performance wise than the E36!
Good kill nonetheless!
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BTW, the E36 M3's aren't that quick. mid 14's stock.
an E36 M3 will ET and trap the exact same as a new edge GT everytime, they are high 13 second cars when driven at their best, they cut low low 14's @ around 99MPH quite often at sea level...
this whole thread wreaks of something rotten... with a touch of multiple accounts
it's true anything can happen on the streets, and true a new edge GT and an E36 M3 are right next to each other... 3-4 cars is pushing it but hey, anything can happen.... but this, this cannot happen
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By the time I got to 5th gear I was beating him by about 3 and a half car lenghts. I saw he wasn't gaining on me so I slowed down. Went up to about 105 mph.
I was thinking the same thing. Unless he has a set of 4.30's already in there, that just doesn't make any sense.
I know my car isnt stock, but I redline at about 110 or so. Ive only pushed it up that high a couple times so. I could see him shifting into 5th around 105 110 if hes already killing the m3. Probably a typo however.
Honestly I find it hard to believe myself. He says him and his friend in his GT are always neck and neck when they raced. Maybe he misshifted or something. I did notice that he had alot of wheel spin at launch. I think thats what got me those 3 car lengths.
this whole thread wreaks of something rotten... with a touch of multiple accounts
it's true anything can happen on the streets, and true a new edge GT and an E36 M3 are right next to each other... 3-4 cars is pushing it but hey, anything can happen.... but this, this cannot happen
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By the time I got to 5th gear I was beating him by about 3 and a half car lenghts. I saw he wasn't gaining on me so I slowed down. Went up to about 105 mph.
My thoughts exactly you morbid ****...you always seem to beat me to the obvious flaws (or in this case humour) in stories like this. In my opinion an E36 is a dead-nuts race with a new edge with the nod on the street to the M3 as they're easier to launch and pull harder as the tach gets warm. Just my 2 cents...
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