10-12-2009, 11:55 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Temecula, Ca
Posts: 367
Car: 89 TA Engine: 3.8 V6 Transmission: 2004R | Hennessey 650R Viper
 To be fair - I would call this an encounter and not really a kill.
To set the stage - I''ve seen this Viper (2nd gen) three weeks prior and some time ago on the same parkway and at around the same time. I was heading out to a car meet and had the TTA in its usual street trim - 110 octane in the tank and wearing MT DR's, boost was set at 24 psi - yeah I dont' drive it much.
As luck or fate would have it, I ended up making a right onto the 6 lane parkway and took note of the red Viper accross the intersection waiting his turn to go. Knowing the last time I've seen this car - the owner drives very spiritedly, so the odds he would catch up (3 miles to the highway and 6 red lights) were good.
Like clockwork - red light ahead turned amber and I came to a stop and took pole position in the #3 lane. Looking back no Viper could be seen. I accelerated away from the pack of cars at the light (maintaining about 5 psi of boost until the posted 55 mph) and created a gap from traffic. Approaching the next light I payed no attention to the rear view and coasted up to the red again in the #3 lane. But before I came to a complete stop, I looked in the rear view and caught the Viper jockeying to get behind me through traffic as the #1 & #2 lanes were occupied.
Knowing when I pulled away from the light he was going to slingshot around (not really a matter of if, but at what speed), I rolled off the green light slowly with about a pound or two of boost and about half way throught the intersection I pinned it. The whole time I'm checking the rear view (even when the tiny cloud of black boost blow-by hit his windshield) to see what he was doing. As soon as he saw me stab it, he was in it as he went sideways shortly after I nailed it. I maintained the three cars I had on him and he grabbed second and got squirrley again. He closed the gap slightly up until 90 when I got out of it and he did the classic fly by.
Interestingly enough the light ahead turned yellow and he had the opportunity to stop and we would have been lined up this time, yet he chose to hit it and go through the intersection on the yellow (really orange ).
Much to my dismay, the V10 with $35k in Hennessey magic couldn't reel me in. I know had this been from a 60 punch he would have sent me home crying like a school girl, and it wasn't an even start, but the funny thing about it is the obvious frustration (running the red) that was generated either from his inability to pedal all that horsepower or being thwarted off by a white ho-hum Fireturd, and/or realizing that John Hennessey just charged him for that stroked V10 and didn't actually do it
Needless to say, I would have liked to take advantage of the drag radials if he would have stopped and see what a 0 to whatever match would have yielded. | | |
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89 TA 3.8 LC2
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