Have to share a funny story and I’ll try to make is as short as possible.
On my way home from work the other day in my Mirage and up ahead I see a Mustang picking on GTi, so I figured I would throw my hat in. :poke: Since Underdog installed the VPC, my turbo is much louder, as I’m trying to catch up to them, I notice I a silver SRT4 Neon in my rearview mirror. I slow up a little and he pulls up next to me. It’s two younger guys and the driver is race ready. I give a little throttle and back off to give a little blow off sound, their heads both turn towards the car with mouths open. They backed off and pulled in behind me. I was off again to catch the Mustang and GTi.
The lanes are merging and I’m losing my chance. We were in an area where it was two lanes the rest of my way home. I was bummed. I was about 4 or 5 cars behind the Mustang and I could hear him revving at the lights and see him running up on the car in front of him. By this time the GTi had already turned off. Next thing I know the Mustang is turning off. My luck, he’s turning on to a 4 lane road – I follow.
A few cars get in between us, but I FINALLY catch up to him. I pull up next to him and notice a Roush 3 badge. Not knowing anything about the Roush 3, I gave him a little blow off noise. He looks over at the car and is laughing. We make eye contact and I nod my head. He gets a jump on me, but it’s not long before I’m side by side and passing him. I get a car length on him and back off to let him catch back up. This time he has his game face on. I downshift to second and sitting right at 4000 rpm, perfect! He gets on it and gets another good jump. Same thing, I get side by side and as I’m passing him I hear him let off so I do too. He passes me shaking his head and then turns off.
I get home and tell the story to Underdog. We get on the Internet and find the following out about the Roush stage 3.
Supercharged V8 – 4.6l
360 –HP from the factory
375 lb-ft torque
Starting price - $40,000
12.7 ¼ at 109 mph
Not a bad way to come home from the office!
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Gail
1988 4G63 Starion drag car
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