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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

 
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sweet man. nice kill

 
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i have the vid, but it's 14mb, no place to host one that big, i'll chop it down into smaller vids.

 
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7thgen ownz all ....... lol

 
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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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after i get my 97 civic ex me and dave are gonna have some races we are both bone stock it should be pretty good so those vids will be up in a week or so

 
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hopefully.. if we can find a 3 lane road. lol.

 
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I hear some people who cant launch lol

nice vids/win!

 
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^^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

 
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Nicely Done!

 
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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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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...

 
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thanks, i'll try it.

 
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on the throttle cable whats too tight how do you know when to stop? or is there a such thing as too tight

 
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where the fxck is the throttle cable? lol

 
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nice kill and i just tried that trottle cable trick and it really did help cocky theres a diy about it in the section and what mods u have

 
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nice kill for an auto what mods u have?

allmotor - how much difference did it make adjusting the throttle cable?

 
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just Megan Racing Header and Greddy Evo 2 exhaust, w/ no cat..

 
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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.

 
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how do you know how much to tighten it

 
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turn on your car and warm it up... then adjust the cable while the car is on... if the idle goes up, then you adjusted it to tightly... you need to adjust it enough so that there is no slack in the cable and so that there is an immediate response from the engine when you barely tap the gas pedal...

it should feel like your gas pedal went up a bit..

 
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sweet thanks man

 
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i'll give it a try.

 
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it worked for me but now IM Turbo'ed

 
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worked very well for me. i wanna be turbo'd now. but i'd rather get some internals done first..

 
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I've adjusted the idle and cable. My car purrs now, I set the idle so it's quite and smooth.

 
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holy shat this thread is ancient!

 
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damn revival...haha

 
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Good job killing the 2.0

 
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would adjusting throttle cable affect idle?