This happened to be my first race since my engine was rebuilt with a cam shaft upgrade from comp cams xr258hr12.
I have until now taken it very easy on the car, because the engine has not been broken in yet. I have now put about 2200 miles on the motor since the rebuilt, and felt that it might be safe to take my car up to yellow line at 5k rpm.

So I was coming home after dropping a friend off at his home after work, and as I am driving, this guy in a new eclipse, don't know what motor was in it, pulled up right in front of me as I was making a left turn onto a 2 lane road. I moved over to the right lane, and continued to drive normally. The guy in the eclipse was driving in the left lane and slowed down. As I approached his car, he started pacing me, and revving up his engine. I looked over, and saw that he had a passenger, and a radar detector on his windshield. I wasn't certain that I wanted to race at that point, but the light that we were approaching turned red and we stopped. At the traffic light the guy was revving up and looking over, trying to race me. I gave my car a little rev so that he could hear my engine. As the light turned green, he gunned it, causing his wheels to spin. I took off, spinning my tires through all of first gear, with a bark into second. At that point, I was nose to nose with the eclipse. By the time I shifted in to third the eclipse was in my rear vue mirror. I guess he thought that he could beat my old bird. Must have been a bit disappointed that his brand new car got smoked by a 17 year old car with flaking paint.

 

nice kill

 

nice always funny to hear an old car worth maybe a few grand spank a new cars worth 5 times more.

 

excellent. shows that newer is not always better