lastnight... [Update: Now with vids]
06-06-2004
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lastnight... [Update: Now with vids]
My friend Adam got a new video camera, so we figured we'd go to the mall parking lot and mess around a little. So we found a place, really short.. but it was the smoothest place around the mall (our road around the mall sucks), so we decided i should race my friend Michael in his car, which is a Ford Taurus mixed with a Mercery something.. wrecked with parts from each car. We raced three times, i messed around and took 3-4 car lengths on him not even trying, lol. Then Frankie ('SuperFrankie' on here) called his friend he works with Dave, who has an 01' stock manual Jetta and asked him to race me, and he agreed. So we met up in a parking lot, not the mall because we already almost got caught by a cop, and he said he knew a place we could go to race.. so we follow him forever, and finally we get to this big, empty country road. We raced twice, first time from a dead stop, second time from a 20-25mph roll. It actually looked pretty quick when we followed him, so i figured he'd take me, from a roll at least because of him having a manual. Luckily i took him both times! From a dead stop i actually took him pretty bad.. 2-3 car lengths. From a roll about 1/2 car length, maybe a little more. Anyway, it was a fun night. 
Here's the vids, lighting was bad.. but oh well. From a dead stop, i'm on the right of the screen, with the brightass headlights.. lol..
Dead Stop - http://www.cocky-jeremy.net/vids/Jetta-DeadStop.wmv
20mph Roll - http://www.cocky-jeremy.net/vids/Jetta-Roll.wmv
Here's the vids, lighting was bad.. but oh well. From a dead stop, i'm on the right of the screen, with the brightass headlights.. lol..
Dead Stop - http://www.cocky-jeremy.net/vids/Jetta-DeadStop.wmv
20mph Roll - http://www.cocky-jeremy.net/vids/Jetta-Roll.wmv
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Rep Power: 288 so much for that VW flash that was posted, where they kill the Civic (with horrible alignment) it felt so good to hear a VW owner go, "your car's faster, no doubt about that"
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Rep Power: 311 ^^LOL quit picking on the beginners 
nice kill. good to hear that he admit he lost to a civic. usually i would expect something like... "i didnt launch right, my tires are little inflated, etc" all those bs excuses cuz they dont wanna be known to be lost to a civic. but the jetta owner sounds like a kool guy after admiitting he lost to a vic.
and do you ever get pulled over for the rear license plate neons? cuz that **** is pretty lit
nice kill. good to hear that he admit he lost to a civic. usually i would expect something like... "i didnt launch right, my tires are little inflated, etc" all those bs excuses cuz they dont wanna be known to be lost to a civic. but the jetta owner sounds like a kool guy after admiitting he lost to a vic.
and do you ever get pulled over for the rear license plate neons? cuz that **** is pretty lit
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Rep Power: 288 yah, the guy's cool. it was fun. it wasn't a neon plate though, just underbody lights. lol. i only had them on for the vid, so it'd be easier to see who was who.
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try tightening the throttle cable if you haven't already... it should cause your auto to shift closer to redline when flooring it... you should also be quicker off the line...
nice kills btw...
try tightening the throttle cable if you haven't already... it should cause your auto to shift closer to redline when flooring it... you should also be quicker off the line...
nice kills btw...
what mods u have?
06-08-2004
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Originally Posted by CivicHX01
auto eh?
try tightening the throttle cable if you haven't already... it should cause your auto to shift closer to redline when flooring it... you should also be quicker off the line...
nice kills btw...
try tightening the throttle cable if you haven't already... it should cause your auto to shift closer to redline when flooring it... you should also be quicker off the line...
nice kills btw...
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Originally Posted by flotsamm
Becareful if you do this. If done right, it'll take out some slack out of the cable, but if done wrong, it'll raise your idle and make it seem like you always have your foot on the gas pedal.
how do you know how much to tighten it
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Originally Posted by SuperFrankie
how do you know how much to tighten it
it should feel like your gas pedal went up a bit..
but i'd rather get some internals done first.. 
