while coming home one night from a friends house after clearing his headlights, he "was doing 25 mph around a blind curve when 3 deer were running across the road. he swirved, shifted from 2nd to first and the over corrected locking up all 4 brakes when he lost control and went up an embankment".


i especially like the part about "downshifting into first". i would like to see anyone do that at 25Mph.... 5 mph - yes. not at faster speed. there is a restricter on the gear box that block those shifts in case anyone misses 2-3 change and engages first gear. that will blow the gearbox...

let me tell u what probably happened.
he was going on a small road, got too cocky doing left turn, carried too much speed going in. when he went past the limit, car started to understeer (that is what all 4 wheelers do at that point). he got scared shitless, so instead of letting accelerator go to give a car a chance to regain traction (or apply brakes very gently just a bit), he did what most people do - SLAM the brakes. that is a big NO NO to do while u r in a turn, it locks up car which will understeer even more... so he missed the turn, and end up going off the road onto his right side - u can see in the picture that this is the side he lended on before tipping over.... that is what actually happened.

 

Well I sort of met my match this morning - had a nice run with a modded Mustang Cobra. Yeah - it was very slick and my did that supercharger whine like a mufa! Off the line I pretty much stayed ahead of him to about 65-70 - 1/2 car length give or take (some jockying with me always slightly ahead) - but when I shifted into 3rd I didn't do it quick enough to fully sustain boost - with that little lag he pulled ahead smartly - really a sight (and sound)....we eased off after that and talked a bit waiting at the next (long) light - his first question was - "Is that thing real?" (as I'm badged as an RS4 [previous owner did it...) - I told him no - he asked about my mods - and then told me his other car is a 2000 S4 - and that he loves it - but not nearly as quick as mine! Don't know what he had done to the stang but he said that he had worked it up a bit - I have to say I've never heard supers whine like that except in a vid of a modded 500+ hp BMW M3 that I saw on video once. It was very sweet. Anyway I felt I aquitted myself well - for a wagon - but boy he had some quickness. We drove along quickly after that but as there was some traffic (and later a cop - where there may have been the opurtunity for anoher run) we never did another head to head. It was the first time I've ever run with a Cobra - though I've discussed it with a guy I know who has one (also modded) - we both concluded he probably woulf take me...

 

Just gotta chime in one more time, The Sti is lighter than a B5 and a B6, thats always a factor. I'm a scooby guy at heart and have researched them to the point of stupidity. I don't see me ever leaving the ranks of the 4 circles but the Sti is a wickedly fasst car. Very few cars can touch it head to head in stock config. (Evo handles better but Sti quicker straight)


more .02 from me to you

Jerm

 

the fastest i have ever seen a stock sti do a 0-60 is 4.8 number one. number two watch the quarter mile comparison and than you will see the power dies after 3rd gear to a rediculous amount