Raced ex's old boyfriend's LT1....

[silver_pilate]

We were blowing off some steam after a test on Monday night at a little pool hall called Speeds. Anyway, after we all took off, I decided to just drive around a little bit to get the feel of my brand new AOD (long story...my 130,000 mile + AOD cost me about $1500 this last week).

Anyway, I was driving down 45th not really looking for a race, but just trying out the tranny and getting a feel for the Lentech VB. I turned off onto Soncy, which is a long straight street on the south edge of town...no lights for a while as it's still almost in the country. As I was going along about 50 mph, I notice the lights of a Camaro coming up on me. He pulls beside and slows down, and when I look over, a woman that I had dated was in the passenger seat of her boyfriend's LT1 (another long story...I saw her for a while before she dropped me and ended up getting back with her ex....always a fun situation). We slow down and talk back and forth a little...you know, the usuall jolly banter, "We saw you way back there and decided to catch up....what are you up to..." and all that jazz.

I've talked to her boyfriend a couple of times as the girl and I are still friends. He knows just enough about cars to share in an intelligent conversation, but he had bought the car from someone after it was already modified. The mods I know he has are as follows: some sort of head work, a cam, exhaust, a chip, and gears. I know it's got more mods, but besides those, I'd only be guessing. Oh yeah, it's an auto. It use to run damn quick on the squeeze, but he doesn't have the kit on right now.

So after the normal happy talk crap, we tried to catch the first light. Unfortunately, the light wouldn't turn red, and with traffic coming up behind us, still a little ways back, we couldn't stop and go. So we ended up running from a 20-25 mph roll. He honks three times and we go. Before we went, he had about 1/2-1 fender on me. I had pulled the Lentech back down into first and on the third horn, we both went Johnny-on-the-spot. My Nittos didn't have any problem hooking (remember...it's an auto ), and by the end of first, I had pulled past him and his nose was on my rear bumper. I hit second with a chirp and started pulling again, a little slower at first, but picking up momentum as the revs climbed. About this time, we ran up on a semi in his lane as I was hitting third, and he let off and pulled into the lane behind me. I didn't look down right when we let off, but when I glanced down at the speedo, it read about 65 mph. I wish we could have continued. I think I would have kept pulling him through second and into third, especially up through ~90. I know for sure I would have pulled him from a stand-still more than I did from a roll as he's yet to do any tranny work other than a programmer. Unfortunately, he turned off quickly before we could talk.

I found out today that he had spilled his coke all over his lap during the race....hahaha ! It felt good. I don't have anything in particular against the guy other than a woman I was really interested in dumping me for him, but getting a little of your own back is always fun.

I'm enjoying the tranny. It hits HARD when manually shifting at throttle, but it is very polite when simply tooling around and letting it shift itself. It's a stock rebuild with the Lentech VB and PI converter which I had just installed prior to having to rebuild (the VB wasn't the cause...just lots of hard miles). It seems to pick up off the line a bit more quickly than before the rebuild, and the shifts are absolutely great. I'm eager to get it to the track and see what it does.

Thought I'd share.

--nathan