Driving back from class on the highway, it's night and a car comes up and goes to pass. Gets next to me and kinda speeds up, then slows down a bit, I didn't look closely but noticed it was a convertible sports car of some sort, sounded like a small engine and thought maybe it was like an S2000 or something at first. I speed up a little bit as we go through some curves, we're kinda staying next to each other, then the other driver drops down and nails it, by the time I dropped into 3rd he jumped about 1-1.5 cars ahead. I basically pull all the way through 3rd, from 75mph to about 120 and walk right by him, drop into 4th for a second and then let off at about 130 or so(this is the first time I've hit the shift light in 3rd, not on the track). By then I was about 5 cars ahead or so and thought that it was a pretty fast little ricer(I still thought it was an S2000 at this point, shows how much I was paying attention). Slow down, catch some traffic and I'm in the slow lane coming up on some trucks, so I let the other guy pass, and when he drives by and I look, I realised it was a Porsche 911 Cabriolet. Looked like a 2005 or later 911 Carrera/Carrera 4 Cabriolet, from the headlight/driving light configuration and the rear end/tailpipes/wing. It looked nice, and sounded good, but I don't think he was expecting a beat looking old Mustang to have like a 50hp advantage on him. Not having to shift until 120mph helps too.

 

It was either an older auto car, or it had a bad driver mod to lose to you like that, but oh well. Nice kill....

 

What kind of trap speeds are you seeing after your tune? I think they typical trap about what you have in your sig (ive seen 103mph traps actually) and your ET is more than enough to have a good race with one... Tune and Driver mod might have been enough.

Good Kill....

 

from a roll unless you have a video. i have to say that should not have happened. but when street racing you never know the outcome until it is over.

 

I haven't run it since the tune. When it was ticking off the time in my sig I was running a bit lean and short on timing, and was also shifting about 500rpm too soon. The next test n tune around here isn't for another month.

 

Nice kill, your car is damn impressive.

 

I'm eager to get it back out to the strip and see what it can do. When I ran it last I'd barely had the engine in the car for a month, maybe 2. Spark plug gap was wrong, accelerator pump was wrong, jetting was wrong, timing was wrong....driving was wrong...

The joys of modified carbureted engines, takes a while to get it dialed in just right.