Place:
Lighthouse Drive. Downtown Monterey California. Stoplight just before "The tunnel".

Lane 1:
A fox body Mustang 5.0. Loud exhaust. Big rear tires. Raised hood. Pretty young driver. Obviously a car that spent some time racing Saturday nights in Salinias (street racing occurs over there on weekends). Has a reputation of being extremely quick with the local racers.

Lane 2:
A run of the mill, stock looking Chrysler 300C, complete with the bling-bling wheels and an exhaust that seemed a little... "aftermarket".

Results:
Stock-looking Chrysler 300 ate this hopped up Mustang alive.

I love Fox-Mustang, but this race was a jewel!

Guess this was one of those "broken in" Hemi engines (Hemi computers are nortorious for upping power as the engines get broken in.... alot!).

 

guion, you sold the Z????? Back to using the '89 daily, or are you using the B4C now? How many miles were on the '97 when you sold it?

 

Apparently the older he gets the more of a sissy he is, going to autos over sticks. What was it your sig said about stick shifts Guy?

 

If history has taught us anything, its fast heavy family cars are followed up by light faster cars.

 

[QUOTE=guionM]Place:
Lighthouse Drive. Downtown Monterey California. Stoplight just before "The tunnel".

Brings back memories, got into a few races there in my old days on my way to/from Alvarado Blvd. and Cannery Row (family is in Carmel).

 

What did the 300C really have done to it?

 

was it an SRT, guy?

 

The look on the 5.0 guys face must have been priceless.

 

i wish i could have seen that

 

Quite possible it was an SRT. It was night time, so almost impossible to tell from a couple of cars back.

 

Hemi heads are comparable to LS6 heads in terms of flow. Imagine what that engine is capable of doing with a cam swap. That might explain the exhaust note.

 

I really wanted to replace the '97 with an '02 B4C. Finding an '02 B4C with a manual is like trying to find a unicorn.... especially as cheap as I got this one.

164,000 miles, and still going strong.
Plan on selling one of the Supercoupes next. Going to retire soon, so I'm thinning out the fleet.

Make matters worse, wifey got appointed to a commision up in San Fran, so now I guess I'm going to be stuck there instead of twisting her away to San Diego.

Using the '89 for daily stuff, and the B4C for road trips.

[QUOTE=FastrDamnit!]So you know how people around here get during Cherry's Jubilee (just this past weekend).




*For those of you who have no idea what we're talking about:

1. Cherry's Jubilee is the most awesome car show on the planet earth. For 3 days, the city of Monterey essentially shuts down and turns itself over to hot rods, classic cars, and just about anything made before 1975 (roughly) from all over the country & hemisphere. Not only is downtown closed to traffic except thes show cars, we have a MASSIVE parking lot over by the waterfront, that becomes absolutely crammed with classics and hotrods. Not only do people from around the world come to this (like our Concours de'Elegance), but it attracts a ton of newer performance car owners and the part of the city that isn't part of the car show becomes one massive cruise.

2. Alvarado Road is basically downtown Monterey (1/4 mile of pubs, shops, couple of clubs, and alot of resturants, primarily for locals), and Cannery Row is the same thing, but primarily tourists... save maybe "McFly's. There is a tunnel that goes under part of "Old Monterey" between the 2 that's probally just over an 8th of a mile long, and as long as you slow down before the curve at the very end, there is no way police can clock you.


Cherry's Jubilee, Concour's de'Elegance, The annual Road & Track Invitational, annual National gatherings of the Ferrari and Lambogini owners, Monterey Grand Prix, Laguna Seca Raceway, a local street racing scene, and alot more. Not bad for a small, moneyed, so-called "liberal," northeren California beach town.

 

HOT ROD did a test on the 5.7 and got 480hp out of it.

 

Man, the hemi is bad ****!. The twits at the mustang site I post on are so full of themselves that thier answer is the vaporware shelby.

Me: you guys need to get your ***** out of the clouds, competition is coming, for example; 5.7 hemi + camshaft + headers + rough tune to eliminate rev limiter = 480hp!!!!!!

Them: awww...your just jealous, we got the shelby, its already making that.

Me: thats not the point, the point is, its the crappola base model engine making near 500hp, the 6.0 hemi will bust through the 500hp barrier all the same guys.

Them: yahoo we are number one.

 

I think Mustangs still have more too worry about from LS1's than 5.7 Hemis. The LS1 aftermarket is large, and getting bigger and cheaper. Can't say the same for the Hemi aftermarket. I haven't heard of any Hemi's running over 500 rwhp on stock displacement, but I have heard of LS1s doing that.

The Cobra guys really don't have alot too worry about. Mod for mod, they will be walking the SRT-8s, and even though they are lard asses, the Chryslers are even heavier. Hope we get that blown 6.2 in a 5th gen.