ok guys this older guy than me at least is challneging me to a race, he has a 1984 mustang 302 wiht supposibly 350 horses and a 4 speed well, the car is running threw stock single exaust and sounds sh*tty, it might run 14's but i een doubt that, here the wier thing, he wants to run for slips im prob not going to but is he stupid or hiding somthing.....What should I DO?

 

He is hiding something. Race for a few bucks or pride and call it a day. Not worth losing a car over.

 

look at it real close and listen real close and then put a big fogger system and s/c ur engine and say hell yea ill race u

 

i jsut got a 75 shot system hooked up today, if he lets me look under the hood and i see nothign out of the ordinary then we are goin race for 500 bucks cash, anyhting i should think abotu or remeber

 

okay, thats like saying to have a 500 dollar budget to make your car faster than his....if you spend less than 500 on mods, and win, then you can still make a few bucks, and better yet, be able to say you beat him.

-remove interior or some off it.remove s spare tire/jack...
-don't have a full tank of gas.
-remove air fillter, and posibly youi exhaust from the headers back, or from the cat back...
-put on the widest tires you can find around for cheap, and use low pressure.
-practice lauching
-remove what ever you can from the engine bay, as long as the car is still runnning.

thats some cheaper things you could try.

 

I would never race anyone for pink slips..........since F&F came out, everyone talks about racing for slips..............silly ******.

 

BAD idea.

you should be going to the track, learning to launch your car right and finding out whats fastest by doing lil things at a time..

running with low gas..... will you bog? what should the level be? you donno, because you havent found out out.
no air filter... theres a gain that wont make ya faster but puts the motor in danger... try using a clean PAPER one instead... if you just wet (oiled) your K&N filter, it flows worse then paper.. it has to dry out some before it flows good.


not all tires like "low" pressure... plus you could be changing the overall tire size.... what he wants is a good footprint and to know how it hooks..... that way, he knows how to launch it.



heres a better idea.

he approched you to run ya. hes a older guy who probly doesnt have anythign to prove by beating someone younger (im assuming you're younger since you called him a older guy)

id be wary of him. i wouldnt race him until i found out what he runs at the track on a full run. heh, or id atleast lower the bet amount to somthing you're not afraid to lose.
good advice for life: dont bet what you cant afford to lose.

your $500 you are betting him could be better spend on making your car faster.. then next time, when you're dialed in and know you are several seconds faster, THEN you race him. (or do what i do and spend more on your car and start over again )

 

did the old guy look like the fonz? I dont think cars have had pink slips since the 50's or 60's( aleast not in NY). Tell the guy to stop watching reruns of" Happy Days "so much and run for alittle cash.......

 

hey guys,
get this we reaced for 200 coins, as he called my car the ******* mobile, i couodnt stand it, so we ran em on river road(anyone in van will know where in richmond) so we start off i get a wicked launch and so does he we both scream off we sprayed lines to know when to stop. As soon as i pull D i hit the button...holy s8hit i got a 3 car leath lead all the way to the end, u should of seen his face, his gf held the money and reluctatly payed me, thsi is so sweet i took the day off and went and got my exaust cut out done hehe...when i got out i said YYYYEEEHAAAWWWWW...he was so pissed! what did those cars have...not much i guess..he said 350 horse ahha no way

 

That's funny, a guy with an 84 Mustang (not exactly James Bond's Aston Martin) calling a Camaro *******.
Nice win.

 

if he wants to race for pinks again, pm me

 

with your car I can see why.... LG4
and you say stupid r<x>icers I am assuming but racing for pinks has been around a lot longer then that so don't tell me it is a thing that only they do

 

you prolly could have beat him fairly easily without the gas. If he's running stock exhaust, I imagine that he hasn't had ANY mods at all. I say race him again for his oval....

 

Yep, watch two lane blacktop sometime. In the movie (made in 1971) they're racing a '70 455 HO GTO vs. a '55 210 with a 454 for "pinks".

 

in cali theyre still pink. i wouldnt race him again at least not for slips ive heard stories where people will race for a g and lose on purpose just to win more or the other persons car good win tho:werd:

 

Congrats on the win......I too had...let me say that again HAD the NOS 75 shot system on my L98. I took every precaution known and I still melted a piston (Bottle pressure too high.....Hit it at night and could not see the gauge)....SO what I say to you is BE CAREFUL!!! When done right you can still F your motor up.

Anyways....I thought the 84 Mustangs were a carb'ed 302 with about 180 HP at the crank. I think you probably could have taken him without the juice. When you hit it.....What was the race status...even??? you up????him up????

Later

 

Nice kill!

 

nice kill man..i never understand anyone saying they're gonna race for pink slips. I mean honestly you lose and you take off. What is that person going to do? Go to the police and say "Hey i beat so and so for his car and he won't give it to me!" Give me a break..hahaha

 

WEll that is one reason why i would not race for slips.........look at my car.............nope not fast.......as a matter of fact, my daily driver is fast than my camaro.
And i know racing for slips has been around for a long time, but I have heard people asking to race for slips one too many times around these parts since that movie came out.

 

Do you have the LG4 or the 305 TPI? You definitely wouldn't need the NOS if he was stock and you have TPI. Good win though.

~Matt

 

while i havent ever done it (im not stupid) the solution is pretty simple.


have a 3rd party hold both signed titles. even if the guy ditches, you take the title, goto the DMV and get your title for the car.


then you get the car any damn way you please. you legally own it. it doesnt matter who posses the car, you legaly own it at that point... if you wanted to, you could just report it stolen and wait for the police to catch the guy.

 

well seeing how his name is on the registration. Theres no bill of sale. I doubt it would work. Police would probably laugh at you.

Nate

 

last 2 times i purchased a used car, i didnt have a bill of sale either.

i go down, get the title.. tell the how much i paid (for taxes)... pay them the extra $20 to have it printed right then.

then i go across the hall, and get it registered in my name.

at no point in time do i ever have to have the car in my possession, nor do i have to have much else other then the signed title.

 

Yea, problem is if the previous owner still has his bill of sale....well your f*****.

 

umm. no. *shrug*


you have it legally titled in your name at that point...

he can have as many bills of sale, or duplicate titles or anything he wants.

the DMV now says, its in your name... and the only way hes getting it back is going to court...

 

Not if he reports it stolen, and it won't be hard to prove that considering he has a bill of sale while you neglected to "find" yours....Only sure fire way to get the slip is to put it in writing and have both parties sign on a contract. Only thing I can see with no loop hole involved.

 

I think its funny that nobody will race on a full tank of gas. This is when I get my best 60 foot times on radials!!! Think about it, an additional 10 gallons of fuel over the back tires @ approx. 7 lbs/gal is 70 pounds directly over the rear axle. Unless your car dead hooks from a stop, I would keep some fuel in the tank. 70 pounds in the 1/4 equates out to .05-.08 hundredths off your ET, whereas a tenth or two off your 60 foot can be good for .2-.3 tenths off your 1/4 mile time, which could make or break a race.

 

absolutely. thats what i do now and it did make about a .2 second difference on my runs.

 

i screwed around with that and some other stuff.... its amazing the lil things you do when your car is slow as ***** and you want to just push it as far as it'll go...

i run my best 60' with the needle just the low side of the 3/4 mark.

 

They are. The '84's are really anything special. The motor was flat-tappet and had poor heads. The exhaust really chocked the car off as it was the last year for true single exhaust. It had the SROD 4-spd. (5-spd optional). I had an '84GT that i bought only for a parts car. Performance was lacking to say the least...but look at what else was out there in '84. The '84 Crossfire vette was only about 200HP

'85 was when the Mustangs really got going. (well, and the '84 SVO)