My uncle has a Toyota Echo....completely STOCK...automatic...I have a bicycle....oh, wait.

He thinks his car is fast because he can drive 90 mph down the freeway, and it is much faster than his suzuki samari.

He thinks that he wants to race me. I have three options, my 92 Grand Prix with a 3.1 V6, my 84 Z-28 with an L69, Comp Cam XE-262-H, Weiand Intake, Edelbrock Carb, No emissions..computer junk, juiced up ignition, 5 speed, no AC hooked up. I also have a bicycle.

Which do you think I should race him in to make it close enough that he doesn't feel too ashamed. I mean, it sucks eating crow.

Is it safe to say he's a little "mis-informed" about the echo.

Oh, yes, I have driven it.

 

Do the bicycle! I may be misinformed but I think a metro is faster than the echo!

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1992 Polo Green RS 3.1L K&N conical and working on the ram air....

"Yeah, it's a V6 SO WHAT!?"

 

buy a screw the bike, make this deal, you make boxes of shattered glass, made into shoes, and youll beat his car by foot. or tell him youll disconnect your alternator or something to make it fair...heh...just beat his wanna be rally car ***

 

I bet when he's doing 90 the echo is screaming redline, which translated into English is, "*** help me! I can't go any faster! Give me peace!!" And that's usually when the rod makes a break for it. You really want to **** him off? Here's a little scenario that I would like to see acted out:
The echo pulls up to a light. A briggs and stratten push mower pulls up beside him. The echo revs. The guy with the mower lets of the had throttle revs back, also farts to get the cheap coffee can feel. The "drivers" look at each other cooly. The light changes, the briggs reaches for the sky, the echo's spinning- no, it isn't never mind, and they're off...and the the briggs loses as the "driver" passes out, but wait, they both lose to a 400 lb fat guy chasing an ice cream truck wearing running shoes with nitrous stickers on his *** and his hat turned backwards for rear wing effect.
In summary, offer to race him with your mower. As you're revving it at him, fell free to make honda/mazda freakycar noises. "woobah, wooooombah" Make sure your voice cracks as you do it and hold you nose to get the sound just right.
I do apologize for this. Just having fun.

 

Hey...you can't say "G0D" That's offensive. What about Jesus or Jehovah? Lord?
What about other religions beliefs? Allah, Buddah, ...Thor, Zeus, Artemis, Great Spirit........Elvis, Eric Clapton...?

 

I like the way you guys think.

Especially nice touch about the fat guy chasing the ice cream truck. Sweet.

I know, I'll recruit Homer Simpson...the episode where he tried to learn to ride the world's smallest bike. ( G O D -- gotta have the spaces in there)

And you're absolutely about that little engine absolutely screaming to slow down to about 70 or so. 3 speed auto, 1.something liter, AC blowing, 13 inch tires. You gotta be kidding me.

I road around with him yesterday in his echo. Every chance he got he floored it to show me how well it moved. I'm thinking, you know, you keep this idiotic behavior up and your echo will last for an entire 50,000 miles.

He's got a Ford F-350 with a giant 460 in it. Not FAST, but certainly powerful. He should know better.

 

You're sure he's not running a 100 shot of nitrous that he's not telling you about?

 

Toyota Echo
suzuki samari

if I owned those I would never even talk about how fast I think it is or even THINK about racing some1 in that matter. Take the L69 and smoke him

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1988 Sport Coupe 305 TBI
K&N
Flowmaster 80


Daily driver:
1988 K1500 5.7 4x4 shortbed flowmaster cat-back gutted cat.
AIM: RyanNH84

 

First off, Echos don't have room on their f'd up dash for a tach, so you wouldn't know if it was redlining at 90

Second, it is faster than a Metro, but not by much. Don't waste the gas it would take to race the Z...take the GP and have some fun

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Jason E

'89 Camaro RS
-Medium Grey Metallic
-2.8, A4, T-tops, 94k miles
-Hypertech chip, Accel wires/coil/K&Ns
-Alpine 60x4 and Bostons

'97 Z28
-30th Anniversary package (white with orange stripes)
-LT1, M6, t-tops, 45k miles
-Eclipse CD and 10" Aluminum sub in JL Audio Stealth box, Boston RM speakers, Xtant 403a amp

Speed Kills...Wanna live forever? Drive a Ford.
Long Live #3...

 

"Watch this now, we're doing 45...." floors it.
5 minutes later. "we're doing 90" Nephew's asleep. Awakes to a loud knocking noise....

 

I don't know what your computer is smoking, but I can say it all day long...

G<x>od, G<x>od, G<x>od, G<x>od, G<x>od, G<x>od, G<x>od, G<x>od, G<x>od, G<x>od, G<x>od, G<x>od.

-Todd-

 

Well we had a little educational experience today. I didn't mention anything, but we went for a ride. We had to go to town, so I decided I'd drive. Why not.

We went down the road about 80 to 85. I did NOT even try to explain to him that on a quarter mile track I am going to run, figure no less than mid 14's. His car according to the review I read, runs high 19's. From zero to sixty we're talking very conservatively 7 seconds for me. Certainly not the fastest car, but certainly respectable numbers for a car with a 17 year old power package.

I didn't try to explain it or even show that to him because it would have been misunderstood. He thinks his car does those types of things. He has a very unlikely 108 horsepower rating @ 6,000 rpm and 105 ft. of torque from the manufacturer. I say unlikely because I've driven the 1.5 liter engine.

I was just about to show him what we could do without saying anything, and he says, "So you tired of this car yet? Is the thrill gone? You know after you drive a car for about 2 weeks or so, it's kinda like....old news." I looked at him and said, "That's because you're driving the wrong cars." Instead of defending my car, I posed the querry, "How many corvette owners do you think feel that way?"

So we're going down the highway at about 80 to 85. Tach showing just under 2,500 rpm. I explained that I usually take it to about 5,500 rpm or so when I'm getting on it and that right now we are doing 2,500 rpm. To maintain a speed of 75 miles an hour I depress the throttle about 1/4 of an inch or so. To go 95, I'm not even breaking a sweat.

So on the way back I showed him that it is true, my car can go from zero to sixty
just slightly faster than his, except I was going up a ridiculously steep hill where all you see over the hood is the sky.

I think that after he picked his teeth out of the back seat he realized that...well, maybe I'm a little faster.

I told him my car was the Anti-Echo. He gets almost 40 mpg on the highway, I have to fill up about every 150 miles or so.

LONG LIVE THE ANTI-ECHO!!!!!!!

 

Here! Here! Amen! *** bless the Anti-Echo!!!!

 

Damn it!

 

lmao, how did you do it??????

 

firbird,

It took lots and lots of hard work, patience and practice.

 

Patience my son, you shall get it someday. G<x>od bless everyone of you!

-Todd-

 

beat him in the camaro, and then say.. OK, I'll go easy on you.. I'll use the bike

 

I might be looking at this from a s<a>lant but I dunno what the dam<a>n problem with saying G<a>od is.

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-Tas
'89 Formula WS.6

Got Beach?

 

Oh dear G<x>od, could this be another miricle? Has Tas been blessed as well? I could be looking at this from a s<x>lant as well...

-Todd-

EDIT: 4:00 in the morn spell edit, hehe.



[This message has been edited by ws6formula89 (edited October 19, 2001).]

 

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I hope I've been blessed also....

btw... smoke him with the z just for the fun of it
(OH NO!!!!..... i need to go to church now)
hehehe

[This message has been edited by NXS055 (edited October 21, 2001).]

 

ROLFLMAO

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1989 Trans Am GTA

 

QUICK! go to the junkers and pick up a mo-ped