on my way to work......
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on my way to work......
I was on my way to work this morning, and I heard a low buzzing from behind me. Looking in my rearview, i expected either a swarm of killer bees, or a large bag of sh*t someone dressed up to look like a car. This being wisconsin, of course it was the latter of the two.
The culprit? A purple grand am. And I don't mean like a cool purple, i'm talkin that ugly barney purple. f**k that dinosaur. and his purple grand am. anyways...
So I'm in the left lane, and I'm passing a car in the right lane. He gets on my ass, because apparently the already 10 over I'm going isn't enough, and he has to get where he's going before the government realizes he stole one of their navy aircraft wings and put it on the back of his car.
Eventually I'm far enough over that he can move over and fly by me, roaring exhaust and all. (seriously... do some people ever even fricking listen to what their damn exhaust sounds like??!!)
But the next light changes, and as we come to it, he downshifts for some reason (enging braking... do people actually do this in cars?? wow.......) and it sends his rpms to god knows what, making his engine sound like it's going to explode. However, this sound is only drowned out by his "bag of goats being beaten with an oar" sounding exhaust.
I line up with him at the light, he's revving, and I slowly star to inch forward. The race is irrelevant, considering an S2000 can rape a grand am like michael jackson a 10 year old boy, but it was the fact that he actually drove his car like he would win. After the race, and he caught up, he drove by, revealing his final mods.... Ebay altezzas and a kerry/edwards bumper sticker.
The culprit? A purple grand am. And I don't mean like a cool purple, i'm talkin that ugly barney purple. f**k that dinosaur. and his purple grand am. anyways...
So I'm in the left lane, and I'm passing a car in the right lane. He gets on my ass, because apparently the already 10 over I'm going isn't enough, and he has to get where he's going before the government realizes he stole one of their navy aircraft wings and put it on the back of his car.
Eventually I'm far enough over that he can move over and fly by me, roaring exhaust and all. (seriously... do some people ever even fricking listen to what their damn exhaust sounds like??!!)
But the next light changes, and as we come to it, he downshifts for some reason (enging braking... do people actually do this in cars?? wow.......) and it sends his rpms to god knows what, making his engine sound like it's going to explode. However, this sound is only drowned out by his "bag of goats being beaten with an oar" sounding exhaust.
I line up with him at the light, he's revving, and I slowly star to inch forward. The race is irrelevant, considering an S2000 can rape a grand am like michael jackson a 10 year old boy, but it was the fact that he actually drove his car like he would win. After the race, and he caught up, he drove by, revealing his final mods.... Ebay altezzas and a kerry/edwards bumper sticker.
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I do engine braking all the time and I've never had a problem with it. Infact, I've been doing this for years, the only thing is you have to do it right by rev matching it. Obiviously, if your current RPM is 7,000 or 8,000 plus you might wanna use your brakes to decrease your revolutions first before you downshift. Also, if your wondering how my clutch last. About 2 to 3 years with some spirited driving and so on.
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Originally Posted by Wisconsin S2k,Nov 21 2004, 09:22 PM
to each their own. but as careful as you are, you do put more wear on your clutch than if you don't engine brake.
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Originally Posted by Mad Paradox,Nov 21 2004, 09:56 PM
I do engine braking all the time and I've never had a problem with it. Infact, I've been doing this for years, the only thing is you have to do it right by rev matching it. Obiviously, if your current RPM is 7,000 or 8,000 plus you might wanna use your brakes to decrease your revolutions first before you downshift. Also, if your wondering how my clutch last. About 2 to 3 years with some spirited driving and so on.