You Know You Have Too Much Horsepower When


1. The emissions test guy starts laughing as soon as you pull onto the rollers.
2. You can't drive your car in the rain.
3. Your 'significant other' is afraid to drive your car.
4. You are afraid to drive your car.
5. You spend more on tires than on food.
6. You spend more on car insurance than on house payments.
7. You look in a state police car and see a picture of your car taped to the dash.
8. You throw your underwear in the garbage rather than the hamper.
9. You have to go to the track to buy gas.
10. Your mechanic names the new wing of his shop after you.
11. Jacques Villeneuve and Michael Schumacher wave you by.
12. You can make the Kessel Run in less than 12 parsecs.
13. You're tempted to wear your fire suit just to drive to the office.
14. Red signal lights shift to green as you're approaching then shift back to red as you're receding.
15. You arrive somewhere before you left.
16. You get pulled over for doing 155 in a 35 but the cops will let you go if "they can look under the hood."
17. You remove the $2000 stereo system to save 6 lb. of weight.
18. You are not allowed to run in the Silver State Challenge.
19. You get an anonymous phone call asking if you are interested in being in the Cannonball Run.
20. Your face looks like you are riding a NASA centrifuge when you drive the car.
22. You need parachute braking.
23. 'significant other' won't even ride in the car.
24 There is no possible way to "sneak out" of your neighborhood at 6 am.
25. Your pets scramble for their hiding spots as soon as the garage door is opened. (Pets, and all the neighbors...)
26. Family photos throughout the house are replaced with ife-sized posters of your car.
27. Fuel is delivered to your home: in 55 gallon drums!
28. You carry earplugs in your car.(doesn't everybody???)
29. The only spot on the car which receives any regular cleaning is the windshield. (what else is there to clean???)
30. You find out that side mirrors don't hold up at speeds exceeding 145 mph.

those are all great!...my favorite ones are:


There is no possible way to "sneak out" of your neighborhood at 6 am.
(sometimes i just like to nail it..cause i know they can hear me)

Your pets scramble for their hiding spots as soon as the garage door is opened. (Pets, and all the neighbors...)

..:beers: ..

Actually they all sound like signs you may "almost" have enough horse power, not too much.:D

I have experienced #1.

2, 3, 9, 17 and 24 apply to me. I gotta say, its been very good for me to get a hot rod but my wife doesn't think so. She liked it at first but she feels things are starting to get ridiculous.
She liked it one day when I refused to street race some kid in a ricer. It wasn't because I was mature or something, it was because I ain't wasting avgas on ANYTHING made in Japan!!!!!!

Even though I currently experience 2, 3, 5, 23,24,27, & 29 I need more horse power, and a new car to put it in. I feel if I only had a better chassis I wouldn't have the other problems. Still shooting for 12


Larger Dave

2. only with EXTREEM caution
3. Your 'significant other' is afraid to drive your car.
4. only on wet pavement or with wet tires
7. not state but locals stop by the house or fallow me on a regular basis
16.125 n a 45 but the cops will let you go if "they can look under the hood."
23.not sence it went sideway on the hwy from a wet spot
24.not at any time of day or night
25. pet scrambles for her hiding spots as soon as I fire it up
26. Family photos throughout the house are replaced with life-sized posters of your first gen Camaro's.
28. only for tunning under the hood

30. You find out that side mirrors don't hold up at speeds exceeding 145 mph.

Mine stayed on at 168mph but it wasn't pointing the way it started out anymore. :D