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Mercury · 07-24-2001, 01:48 AM

On the way home from work tonight, I got into a sweet little race with a late 80's LX 5.0.

I'm sitting at an intersection, waiting to turn right onto Skibo Rd when I hear something revving. I look in my rear view mirror and see a set of Fox-Body headlights flying up on my rear. The car sounded pretty good. I wait till the intersection is clear enough for us to both to pull out.

I turn onto Skibo and keep it in first, waiting for this guy to pull up beside me, instead of matching my 5 MPH speed, and pulling up beside me, he just takes the right lane and floors it.

His rear wheels were about at my front bumper when I floored it. In about 2 seconds I'm even with him. He chirps alittle going into second. I'm still in first winding out, shifting at 5800 RPM. I got a little to quick off the clutch and jerk the rear wheels loose into second. My rear wheels were right next to him. He gains like a foot because of my spin. Be the time I'm into the 5400-5500 RPM range in Second his front bumper was about at my tail lights. I hear him Chirp again going into Third. I wind my baby out to 5700 RPM and shift into third, the car heaves (wanting to break traction) and keeps trucking. At about 80 MPH I had half a car length on him. We both shut it down because the light up ahead was red and had traffic around.

We pull up next to each other. He looks over and nods his head with a grin of approval. He asks if I want to let the intersection clear then run em. I hesitate for a second, then say "Sure man. Why not!"

"My friend here (he had a passenger) will yell go." he said.

The intersection clears and we sit there, no traffic behind us. "GO" his friend yells. By the time the guy got "G" out, I was on it. Got a good start, no spin, no bog, JUST HOOK AND HAUL. I got about a half a car length there. I kept glancing at the rear view. I shut down at 90 MPH. Winning by about a car lenght, maybe a car and a half.

At the next light, he just shakes his head, looks over and says, "Man I got no excuses. I just flat out got my a$$ handed to me."

"Please tell me your not stock!" he says.

I tell him what I have. "Thats IT??????" he aksed. I wondered what he expected me to have or say.

I ask him what he had, and he said he was to embarressed to say what all he had "Lets just say more than you got" was all he said.

Hey Tim C, if you read this man, have you seen someone that looks like Boyd kinda, driving a late 80's Meduim Blue LX 5.0. Sounds kinda like 3 chambers and an Off-Road Pipe. First time I've seen that guy or that car around.

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64 1/2 "D" code Red Mustang Coupe. 289, C4, Mallory duel point. Ported & Polished 65 heads shaved .01 with 351 valves, 11:1 comp, 1.7:1 rockers, blue wolverine lumpy cam, modified 4100 Hipo 4 barrel. GT Apperance pkg. And to many others to list

2000 Perf Red Mustang GT. 5spd. BBK Underdrive pulleys, Flotech off-road H pipe. Hurst T-Handle, 40 series Flowmasters, Steeda Tri-Ax
64 1/2 red 6cyl coupe. Future resto.

[This message has been edited by Mercury (edited 07-24-2001).]

07-24-2001, 01:48 AM	#1
Mercury The Redneck James Bond Join Date: Sep 2000 Location: Fayetteville NC Posts: 1,707	My 4.6 Versus Late 80's modded LX 5.0. On the way home from work tonight, I got into a sweet little race with a late 80's LX 5.0. I'm sitting at an intersection, waiting to turn right onto Skibo Rd when I hear something revving. I look in my rear view mirror and see a set of Fox-Body headlights flying up on my rear. The car sounded pretty good. I wait till the intersection is clear enough for us to both to pull out. I turn onto Skibo and keep it in first, waiting for this guy to pull up beside me, instead of matching my 5 MPH speed, and pulling up beside me, he just takes the right lane and floors it. His rear wheels were about at my front bumper when I floored it. In about 2 seconds I'm even with him. He chirps alittle going into second. I'm still in first winding out, shifting at 5800 RPM. I got a little to quick off the clutch and jerk the rear wheels loose into second. My rear wheels were right next to him. He gains like a foot because of my spin. Be the time I'm into the 5400-5500 RPM range in Second his front bumper was about at my tail lights. I hear him Chirp again going into Third. I wind my baby out to 5700 RPM and shift into third, the car heaves (wanting to break traction) and keeps trucking. At about 80 MPH I had half a car length on him. We both shut it down because the light up ahead was red and had traffic around. We pull up next to each other. He looks over and nods his head with a grin of approval. He asks if I want to let the intersection clear then run em. I hesitate for a second, then say "Sure man. Why not!" "My friend here (he had a passenger) will yell go." he said. The intersection clears and we sit there, no traffic behind us. "GO" his friend yells. By the time the guy got "G" out, I was on it. Got a good start, no spin, no bog, JUST HOOK AND HAUL. I got about a half a car length there. I kept glancing at the rear view. I shut down at 90 MPH. Winning by about a car lenght, maybe a car and a half. At the next light, he just shakes his head, looks over and says, "Man I got no excuses. I just flat out got my a$$ handed to me." "Please tell me your not stock!" he says. I tell him what I have. "Thats IT??????" he aksed. I wondered what he expected me to have or say. I ask him what he had, and he said he was to embarressed to say what all he had "Lets just say more than you got" was all he said. Hey Tim C, if you read this man, have you seen someone that looks like Boyd kinda, driving a late 80's Meduim Blue LX 5.0. Sounds kinda like 3 chambers and an Off-Road Pipe. First time I've seen that guy or that car around. ------------------ 64 1/2 "D" code Red Mustang Coupe. 289, C4, Mallory duel point. Ported & Polished 65 heads shaved .01 with 351 valves, 11:1 comp, 1.7:1 rockers, blue wolverine lumpy cam, modified 4100 Hipo 4 barrel. GT Apperance pkg. And to many others to list 2000 Perf Red Mustang GT. 5spd. BBK Underdrive pulleys, Flotech off-road H pipe. Hurst T-Handle, 40 series Flowmasters, Steeda Tri-Ax 64 1/2 red 6cyl coupe. Future resto. [This message has been edited by Mercury (edited 07-24-2001).]