Finally got one ...

Had a really long and ****ty workday today, so I was looking to releave some tension in the car. I'm cruising home on California at a leisurely 30-35mph when I hear a blowoff valve go off to my right. The guy stays behind me for a while in my blindspot. We approach a stoplight so he decides to punch it, cut into my lane, and make a left turn onto Lake... red EvoVIII ... It's ON . I punch it, he gets to the stop light and pulls a pretty tight left turn. I get there and have to brake because there was oncoming traffic. I wait till it clears then make my turn giving it a bit too much throttle. The rear end breaks loose so I get sideways for a bit. I recover and see he is stuck at the next light in front of Border's books. I slow as I get near to a 10mph roll. The light turn green right as I catch up to him. We both proceed to roll at about 10-15, I'm about a foot in front as I rolled through the light. We make it thru the intersection then both punch it. My tires let out a short YELP instantly allowing him to pull a fender on me. The tires finally grab and we stay that way for half of my 1st gear. I start inching him at the higher RPMs. Top of first he's at my window. Second kicks in and we hold steady for a bit. Midway thru 2nd gear he starts to fade quickly, he enters my blindspot. We run for ~2 blocks, I get to the top of second (~85mph) and I pull maybe a 1/4-1/2 car on him. I slam on the brakes and he switches lanes and turns right on Del Mar.

I'm quite pleased with my car, I thought for sure that EVO would eat me in the eight.

 

stock evo run 8.7 8.5 with good driver me i got my buddies 8.6 in the eighth,

 

Nice kill, sounds like those things run pretty good!

 

Head start, sleeping at the light.............. ahhhhhh it's all the same

 

Nice kill.

He obviously AT LEAST had an air filter in it. It's a shame you couldn't find out what mods he had done.

 

I don't know about the newer SS, but the LT1 SS came with 2.73 unless you got the option. I've got a friend around home with a 2.73 A4 SS; surprisingly we haven't raced yet .

 

I was not aware that you could get the 2.73 gears with the SS

 

Yup all LS1 A4 SSs have 3.23s. At WOT with stock tunning the 2-3 shift happens at 83-85mph. I took it all the way to the shift then let OFF.

 

Danno,

Nice kill. The AWD cars certainly are lacking a little in the top end.

Robvas,

Nice Kill. Bet he didn't like seeing you reel him in so fast. Looks like you ran a 13.07@108 vs his 13.25@102?

Dan

 

I cant quite figured out if they are "cool" or not.

Good kill!

 

yep, evo8's can be pretty fast, but depends on the driver. I watched a brand new evo8 run for the first time...15.1! last couple times I went to the track, his best time was still only mid 14's.

 

He must not have been completely stock. I'm pretty sure you would have whooped on him a bit more than that if he was completely stock considering you are over 300 rwhp I understand he's AWD and all...but still
Allen