Boosted Cobra vs ricer, who wins?

ORENCH · Jul 28, 2004

Want to see a Mustang Cobra being spanked by a ricer? Check this, the camera is inside the Cobra... Crazy guys!! Turn up the volume

[ 07-28-2004, 06:14 PM: Message edited by: ORENCH ]

HwyStarJoe · Jul 28, 2004

OMG I'm speechless! 160mph and PULLING AWAY!!

CrossRamZ11 · Jul 28, 2004

Moral..Don't do 160 on a public road and don't mess with middle-age guys in ricers....

69 · Jul 28, 2004

camcojb · Jul 29, 2004

Other morale....modified Supra's are considered dyno queens cause they rarely e.t. well. But what they do very well is run from a roll!

Jody

ZZ_430 · Jul 29, 2004

Those wacky Colorado people!

I know the highway where that happend.....not a good place for an illegal race.

nick V · Jul 29, 2004

OMG!!! Just goes to show what a huge amount of positive boost can do for ya... did ya hear the whistling between shifts!!!! Brutal!!! Too sick for me...

Blue69 · Jul 29, 2004

I don't want to be a wet blanket here, but how does someone stupid enough to drive like that on a public highway make the kind of dollars it takes to have cars like those? Maybe I'm just jealous. Or old.

garfield · Jul 29, 2004

or both

(just kidding)

There are some pretty mean ricers out there. Whats even scarier is that alot of them are sleepers too

DL · Jul 29, 2004

Pretty impressive! Some of those ricers are realy fast, but most of them are all show and no go! (at least here in Europe)

67 Plum · Jul 29, 2004

I have to agree with Blue69 old and jealous.Also I am not that stupid anymore.When you have kids it changes your ideas on stuff like that.A stoplight to stoplight race is bad enough but 160 to 180 mph. on public roads is insane.Its just not worth the risk to say my car is faster than yours.Thats how innocent people get killed.The fact that the cars will run that fast is impressive but take it to a track.JMO

kinzli · Jul 29, 2004

There's a guy I work with who currently has a hopped up Supra for sale. He wants $70k for it, but this thing is crazy fast for a ricer. Hell, it's crazy fast for any street car. It's got all kinds of trick electronics, all wheel drive, traction control that's built into the new computer, etc. The car dynos over 600hp and is a 10 second car in street trim. Pretty amazing, but then again for $70k you could build an 8 second musclecar

67rsssvert · Jul 29, 2004

Stupid. Oh look, here's a mini van with a mommy and a car load of kids ... screech, bam. Stupid.

Silver69Camaro · Jul 29, 2004

Originally posted by 67rsssvert:
Stupid. Oh look, here's a mini van with a mommy and a car load of kids ... screech, bam. Stupid.

Damn straight. If he had crashed the car and died, I have no sympathy.

choptop · Jul 29, 2004

You can do just about anything to car with enough cash in hand- except bring back people who died in it or because of it.

Canadian_Hot_Rodder · Jul 30, 2004

OK, I'm going to bite... I don't want to ruffle any feathers here or anything because of it either. Young people like to race, whether it be street race or drag race. God knows you did it when you were younger, just like me (18 yrs old). I bet you people wouldn't have resisted a street race when you were that age, providing you had cars such as those. Now, I am not saying that street racing is a good thing, because it isn't. I'm just saying that sometimes you can't resist the urge to say, "My car is faster than yours and I will prove it at all costs." Another reason could be that they aren't near a track or don't want to go to one and having to abide by all the rules and regulations. It can be a hassle, and out on the street, it is usually an anything goes kind of thing. I'm just trying to say that you guys are/were young once and would do the same thing... Of course, this is all IMHO. Please, nobody take this in an offensive way, as I am not intending it to be. Thanks.

Silver69Camaro · Jul 30, 2004

What you say holds some validity.

In this case, however, 160MPH isn't street racing. It's being in a state of mine of total self-indulgent, egotistical, and having no regard for human life. The middle-aged man in the Supra should know better, shame on him.

I street raced once when I was 16. It was late at night when I got off work, and I think I reached 70 in a 40MPH zone. Later that night, I was overcome with guilt thinking of the possibility if something had gone wrong. I could have hit someone. I could have lost control. I could have gotten caught by the fuzz. After that, even with me being 17 years old with a roller-cam motor, I never street raced. Now I'm 22, and I have a hard time feeling sympathy for street racers who kill themselves. If some street racer injured or killed my wife, God help me if I found out who did it.

garfield · Jul 30, 2004

I tried viewing the video and it says that it was not availiable

pdq67 · Jul 30, 2004

I have been that fast when I was a kid in my long gone Crippled Buddy's hopped up '58 ragtop Vette with the cammed 375hp/327 FI motor!! Ran for about 8 miles and I think we met one, maybe two cars!!
AND I think it's nice to talk about it but I sure don't recommend it now b/c back then after dark, everybody stayed home and the highways were almost desserted after 10:00 PM..

AND I have another old, pdq67's true stories concerning a '61 or '62 300hp/327 Vette that played pass me and slow down until I got PO'ed sorta deal except he almost got bumped at 130!!

After we got to where I pulled my Crippled Buddy home from after he blew his C/P-P and F/W, the Dude knew he had been had and wanted NO part of my car!!

NO way I would even think about doing crap like that now, but I drove like I was going to live forever back then as a stupid kid!!

pdq67

ORENCH · Jul 30, 2004

Think what happens here is, that this Guys set up their cars in a fashion way different than what we do. I imagine they can't get any satisfaction by going to the track and do what, 120mph in the 1/4? I "suppose" there aren't so many, miles long stretchs of private tracks, where they can demonstrate their car's potential. How far from them exist deserts, salt flats, and I also think those type of tracks(high speed capable) have lots of regulations for them to follow. Those acts are difficult to stop cause, you have a 12 second car and you want to test it? Go the the nearest 1/4 mile track. You have a 03 Cobra, with 170+ mph top speed, where you go to test it? I'm sure it is not as easy as the first situation.
We have a task here, convince all those Guys to change to steep gears & wide slicks and head them to the nearest 1/4 mile track.

Boosted Cobra vs ricer, who wins?

ORENCH

HwyStarJoe

CrossRamZ11

69

camcojb

ZZ_430

nick V

Blue69

garfield

DL

67 Plum

kinzli

67rsssvert

Silver69Camaro

choptop

Canadian_Hot_Rodder

Silver69Camaro

garfield

pdq67

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