What have you blown away??

[lexball50]

To hell with that truck. Its not to many cars that can keep up with me on these streets. So far ever car or truck or van or bus or anything with four wheels, I have left. The only thing that always blow past me are bikes. Go head BMWHAT.

[thinkcooper]

Originally Posted by lexball50

To hell with that truck. Its not to many cars that can keep up with me on these streets. So far ever car or truck or van or bus or anything with four wheels, I have left. The only thing that always blow past me are bikes. Go head BMWHAT.

Maybe you just have a higher threshold of "willing to risk it all for stop light glory".

[BMWhat?]

I do not doubt those blown Fords are very easy to tweak. After all, Ford is using the similar configuration in thier Ford GT supercar. I don't think I would have been so lucky if the truck where a SVT Lightning with an additional 40HP. After driving a 97 Q45 which get's easily beat by a C320, it feel good to actually win a stop light race!

I implied "not even close" because, like I said the truck took off first. Had I properly launched my vehicle I would have beat him by an even greater margin. Based on this situation, yes I feel I the result could be classified as a theoretical "not even close." and maybe even approach "blown away."

Please don't take my enthusiasm too seriously. I'm simply happy to have a fast car that's not beatable by the majority of cars out there.

Quote of the day:
"I shouldn't have thrown away my crack pipe."

[Silver300C]

Many, many years ago I made a faily decent second income street racing and I NEVER "blew anybody away". Somehow I would only win by a fender or so . The local speed shop loved me; the kids with their new GTOs would run right down for a new cam, headers, carb, or ignition, etc. So they could come looking for me the next weekend to get their money + back; I still could only beat them by a fender or so.

[BMWhat?]

The intent of the question I asked when I asked the proverbial question "what have you blown away" was to learn what other vehicles the esteemed owners of the 300C have drag raced against and beat. I asked this question so that I would have a reference for my own edification.

I did not realize that we'd be splitting hairs over definitions but rather build a compendium of vehicles that I would consider "easy prey."

Now if anyone would like to discuss the interpretation of the term "easy prey" in the vernacular related to drag racing may I suggest starting a new thread under the heading "Drag racing definitions."

[FAME2002]

I destroyed the new Nissan 350z, it was no contest.

[Fast4Door]

Well,
I was attending the National Prowler Owners event in Austin, TX over the past week.
I took my 300C down there. We had a drag race event at San Antonio Raceway.
The best time I got out of the car was a 14.88 @ 92 mph.

The conditions were not perfect however, I had about 8 cases of beer in my trunk as well as a big cooler loaded down with ice, and some other things.

Most cars there should have been running about .5 sec faster on average, so I guess it's not that bad.

[james jefferson]

Originally Posted by BMWhat?

1. What you guys lawyers? I never said I "blew away" anything. I said I "smoked" the truck. Okay, no actual smoke was involved. I simply beat him, not by an overwhelming amount but confidently so.

2. My definition of smoked: Truck took off first. I jumped on it immediately after I realized the F150 wanted to race, I caught up and easily kept pulling away until I hit about 70 - 80mph. I was about 1/2 to 3/4 car length ahead of him. I could hear the whine of the F150's supercharger screaming as I chuckled to myself. At no time did I feel the F150 was gaining on me. This was a simple drag race with both simply "stood on it"

3. Spec's for 2003 HD F150, 0 - 60 is 6.5 (in Motor Trend or Road&Track), the 300c has been tested in 0 - 60 as fast as 5.3 sec in Motor Trend. The math supports my point, check for yourselves. Even if my car (as a "producton version") is in the 6 second 0 - 60 range, that's still 1/2 second faster than the F150 to 60mph and I can attest that above that speed I was still moving out.

4. I was there and I ain't jiving. I checked out that F150 forum... the stock numbers ain't all that on the F150. 14.85s in the 1/4mile for a stock 2003 (which is what I ran against), I've seen reviews with the 300c in the low 14's maybe even high 13's.

5. I'm not as smart as everyone else, will someone please explain the definition of "blown away."

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did you disable traction control and go thru gears or leave in drive when dragging HD?

[james jefferson]

Originally Posted by FAME2002

I destroyed the new Nissan 350z, it was no contest.

did you disable traction control and go thru gears or leave it drive when you took on 350z?

[Z2SO4]

A lot of cars have reved at me and steped on it on the lights, but I didn't give them the satisfaction of having raced me since most where visual mod only 4 bangers that would have been demolished. Fuel is expensive, no point wasting it on boy racers. heh heh.

I did meet a TL that I beat. The owner of the other car even gave the thunbs up afterwards.

I try not to give into temptation and play it safe. I will be taking the car to a a couple of track events soon, so I should have plenty of stories then.