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Da Peach

Outwitted by a rodent
Jul 2, 2002
13,683
4,912
North Van
First gear works, first gear synchros give it up after a few months. Learn how to double clutch if you ever want to downshift into first rolling any faster than 5mph.
I dunno. I looked, but there only appears to be one clutch pedal.

Who downshifts into first anyway?
 

jdcamb

Tool Time!
Feb 17, 2002
19,830
8,423
Nowhere Man!
Hadn't read that, but I did read about complaints of the car popping out of 4th gear, and that the stock turbo is delicate. I'm not going be be putting this thing through race duty, but it's all warrantied up the yin-yang anyway.



Yeah, it's the 265. Up until yesterday, I actually managed to restrain myself. I probably hit 5000rpm a couple times by accident, but kept it pretty conservative. Even under 5000, it was hella-placebo-faster than the Mazda. Fo sho!




Yup. Did it on brand new oil. 150 mph seemed like it wouldn't be a problem at all. Long, straight, flat, dry open road with nobody ahead for about 3 miles. I caught up to them pretty quickly.

Funny to watch the gps on my iPhone go all wonky when you stomp on/let off the gas....
How did the parachute work?
 

conor

Monkey
Jan 19, 2009
340
0
Ireland
Yup. Did it on brand new oil. 150 mph seemed like it wouldn't be a problem at all. Long, straight, flat, dry open road with nobody ahead for about 3 miles. I caught up to them pretty quickly.

Funny to watch the gps on my iPhone go all wonky when you stomp on/let off the gas....
shouldn't say these things on the interwebz...
 

Westy

the teste
Nov 22, 2002
54,408
20,196
Sleazattle
I did get the sunroof, so I guess I could also attach a few garbage bags to my wist and stick my arm out the roof.

Emergencies only though.
If you ever have your brother in the car, just tie a rope around his neck and throw him out like an anchor.
 

Da Peach

Outwitted by a rodent
Jul 2, 2002
13,683
4,912
North Van
Bloody hell people out here can't drive.

I'm behind a guy on the on-ramp to the highway. We both merge on. There's another guy in the passing lane. So now there are two cars ahead of me, right next to each other. Thing is, they're going the exact same speed. EXACTLY the same speed, hovering around the limit. And not for a couple seconds, for about a minute or more.

WTF is that?

I swear to the God, I should probably take a driver's ed. class. Maybe I need to be brought up to speed on Pacific coast driving techniques. I'm sure the problem is me...
 

CBJ

year old fart
Mar 19, 2002
12,874
4,214
Copenhagen, Denmark
Stop crying you live in a state with so few people and tons of good roads. Come to NYC for a week and drive on our pot hole infested crazy aggressive drives crowed roads and you will be happy to go back to Van.
 

Da Peach

Outwitted by a rodent
Jul 2, 2002
13,683
4,912
North Van
Stop crying you live in a state with so few people and tons of good roads. Come to NYC for a week and drive on our pot hole infested crazy aggressive drives crowed roads and you will be happy to go back to Van.
I guess you're right, the roads in this province are awesome, it's the people on them that are the problem. But the style of driving is so incredibly different in the West, both in Canada and the US, that I'm convinced that what they teach in drivers' ed. is different.

They even put up signs instructing "Slower vehicles keep right". To no avail.
 

CBJ

year old fart
Mar 19, 2002
12,874
4,214
Copenhagen, Denmark
I guess you're right, the roads in this province are awesome, it's the people on them that are the problem. But the style of driving is so incredibly different in the West, both in Canada and the US, that I'm convinced that what they teach in drivers' ed. is different.

They even put up signs instructing "Slower vehicles keep right". To no avail.
No drivers ed needed to get a license in New York only love for anarchy.
 

Da Peach

Outwitted by a rodent
Jul 2, 2002
13,683
4,912
North Van
Not having driver's ed. is ridiculous.

I'm sure that will change in future. But still! When you've got someone behind you filling your rearview mirror, isn't it obvious that you should get the hell out of the way?

A big part of what was taught in my driver's ed class (just a regular old driving class...) was courtesy on the road. They also touched on some basics of the reasons roads are laid out the way they are (posted limits vs length of merges, why they call it a passing lane not a "fast lane", stuff like that). I remember my instructor also telling us that "a good driver is a smooth driver", i.e. everything in small inputs: steering, braking, throttle.

These little things really seem to have stuck with me. Pretty common-sensical, but I guess if you're never told...

That's why, from now on, since I have a fast car, I will now (when/where practicable) better the world by giving practical demonstrations to those who have demonstrated their lack of comprehension of the meaning of the term "Passing Lane". I will drive ahead of them, and demonstrate a signal, mirror check, and execution of lane change.

I should earn the right to extra allowable demerit points for this service...
 
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MMike

A fowl peckerwood.
Sep 5, 2001
18,207
105
just sittin' here drinkin' scotch
This is the full account of the episode
[10:22:07 AM] Da Peach: I had to "educate" someone on the way to work today
[10:22:28 AM] MMike: Oh?
[10:22:34 AM] MMike: what was he driving
[10:22:43 AM] Da Peach: POS Corolla
[10:22:48 AM] Da Peach: "S"
[10:23:00 AM] Da Peach: Going 100-105
[10:23:11 AM] Da Peach: in the passing lane, pacing the car right next to him
[10:23:32 AM] Da Peach: I move in behind him, expecting him to "get it"
[10:23:40 AM] Da Peach: "move over"
[10:23:43 AM] Da Peach: nope
[10:23:49 AM] Da Peach: I back off
[10:23:55 AM] Da Peach: then run up on him a bit
[10:23:57 AM] Da Peach: then back off
[10:24:01 AM] Da Peach: nothing
[10:24:05 AM] Da Peach: then move up again
[10:24:06 AM] MMike: you are in Van
[10:24:13 AM] Da Peach: highway
[10:24:16 AM] MMike: that's how it goes
[10:24:16 AM] Da Peach: in Richmond
[10:24:21 AM] MMike: whatever
[10:24:24 AM] Da Peach: kinda open farmland
[10:24:31 AM] Da Peach: so not a boulevard or anything
[10:24:41 AM] Da Peach: so I flick the beams
[10:24:46 AM] Da Peach: nothing
[10:25:02 AM] Da Peach: then FINALLY, the car next to him slows down a bit, so I zip by
[10:25:21 AM] Da Peach: and give him a "WTF" shoulder shrug
[10:25:33 AM] Da Peach: I stay in the slow lane and move on
[10:25:39 AM] Da Peach: what does he do?
[10:25:49 AM] Da Peach: he speeds up and gives me the finger!
[10:25:50 AM] Da Peach: ha!
[10:26:02 AM] Da Peach: so I just put it in 4th and disappear
[10:26:09 AM] Da Peach: oh no!
[10:26:12 AM] Da Peach: I didn't
[10:26:18 AM] Da Peach: I got in front of him
[10:26:21 AM] Da Peach: signalled first
[10:26:32 AM] Da Peach: gave him a "see"?
[10:26:40 AM] Da Peach: gesture, then signalled to the right
[10:26:44 AM] Da Peach: and moved over
[10:26:59 AM] Da Peach: when he tried to pass, I speed up again, signalled to the left
[10:27:18 AM] Da Peach: got in front of him, and gave him another "see? easy!" gesture
[10:27:24 AM] Da Peach: then he ran up on me again
[10:27:35 AM] Da Peach: and THEN I put it in 4th and took off
[10:27:53 AM] Da Peach: in the right lane
[10:28:00 AM] MMike: of course
[10:28:17 AM] Da Peach: he was going to pass me on the bridge
[10:28:29 AM] Da Peach: so I moved over to the right
[10:28:46 AM] Da Peach: but then he got stuck behind someone else in the left lane...
[10:28:47 AM] Da Peach: heh
[10:29:18 AM] MMike: You're a regular Lightning McQueen
[10:30:12 AM] Da Peach: I am pretty regular...
[10:30:27 AM] Da Peach: kinda fun to be able to be such a dick with such ease though
[10:30:45 AM] Da Peach: you kinda get used to the sensation of acceleration
[10:31:12 AM] Da Peach: but you are speeding up WAY faster than, say, a Corolla S.
[10:31:26 AM] Da Peach: pretty surprising
[10:31:49 AM] Da Peach: reminds me of the time we were humiliated in Biffs Civic by an Isuzu Impulse
[10:31:58 AM] Da Peach: the scar is deep