Coming home from work and noticed some HIDs coming up behind me. I slowed down to see what it was, and it turned out to be a BMW 330 Ci...which I kind of guess it was a Bimmer, from its headlights.
He came up on my left and I was in the middle lane. I matched his speed of 65-70mph, but was 2 cars behind. Traffic cleared up and I proceeded to see if he wanted to play by moving to the passing lane and get on his left. He then proceeded to speed up to about 80mph, and I matched. He speed up a little more to 90mph, so I knew he wanted to play. I then showed him what a Stage 2 WRX can do in 5th gear at around 90mph, so I went WOT. I was about 2 cars behind, I reeled him in and passed him with little effort at around 105mph.
I then slowed down to 65mph. And it seems that he slowed down too, because he was about 5 cars back there. He then made for the next exit.
God I love Stage 2. Now onto Stage 2.5...not for a while :unhappy:
leaving it in 5th gear at 90mph and making up 2 car lengths and then proceeding to pull even more on a 330ci is a odd. Those cars have some good top end especially with the rex in 5th at speeds near 100mph...
good kill anyways. I am assuming it must have been an auto
I too was supprised. However, I could be off by 10mph or so...I might of went WOT at 100mph in 5th, and then shut down around 115mph. Frankly, I was paying more attention to the road due to starting the race at such high speed.
He might of been 1/2 ass with his gas...thinking he had my car and wanted to just toy with me. Well, as it turned out it was the other way around.
I had a similar race with another E46 the other day. However, I couldn't tell what model it was due to the lack of badging. He had a "TMS" badge on the rear. I don't know what that mean. I never got a chance to asked what he had done to the car, but he gave me props and asked what I had in mine.
2.5 is all of stage 2 plus vf34 or vf 30, and sti injectors. GO to cobb webbsite and view map list and click on map notes for the vf 34 or vf 30 they say 315 horsepower.
Next time downshift to 4th and then have some fun. 4th gear in a stg 2 was good till about 125, 130ish.. And even with STG 2 I thought 5th gear still sucked
It is confusing with all of the different tuners' stages. Some of the more popular stages:
Cobb's Stage 2 ~ TurboXS Stage 2
Cobb's Stage 2.5 ~ TurboXS Stage 4
Cobb's Stage 3 ~ TurboXS Stage 4 + TMI
Next time downshift to 4th and then have some fun. 4th gear in a stg 2 was good till about 125, 130ish.. And even with STG 2 I thought 5th gear still sucked
If its a 6speed and you have not gotten your launches down perfect it will be a very close race from a dig. (330ci 6spd's have no trouble running 14.3 - 14.5's and that is right where a rex will be if not given a great launch)
from a roll forget about it until you are catless. They will be trapping a few mph higher than you and have the superior gearing for the highspeed advantage.
I ran a 330ci a while ago when I was a Cobb 2.5 from a roll and pulled him in like it was nobody's business. The guy was cool and asked me what the hell I had in that thing :rotfl: and told him what I had. It was fun but those cars are built for all around performance not all out speed.
i was messing around once with a 330ci who would rev at me on the freeway when it opened up he punched it at 80 in 4th i was up his ass and had to let off...we hit traffic but when it opened up again at like 65 we both gunned it ..me in 3rd this time and i had no trouble getting around him b4 i hit a 100..i also raced a e36 m3 on the freeway that day...it was beat up on bimmers day
i was messing around once with a 330ci who would rev at me on the freeway when it opened up he punched it at 80 in 4th i was up his ass and had to let off...we hit traffic but when it opened up again at like 65 we both gunned it ..me in 3rd this time and i had no trouble getting around him b4 i hit a 100..i also raced a e36 m3 on the freeway that day...it was beat up on bimmers day
I love the 330's... particularly Xi's (although they are a bit slower than the Ci's.)
I was on my way to the BMW dealership after the Subaru dealership the day I got my STi... yeah, two totally different carts, but that is what I had it narrowed down to.
what type of results? were talking about a bike with more whp stock than a stock wrx and weighing around 400lb haha. You'd have to have over 500whp to even think about messing with an r1.
This took place around 2:30 AM as I'm coming home from work. I had to fill up w/ some gas and the normal Sunoco place was close so I had to venture into Cleveland. While cruising on a main road, I noticed this bike coming up behind and passing me quickly...he might be doing 40mph in a 25mph zone. I didn't think anything of it, until I caught up to him at a light. He had his girl on the bike and was looking over at me and was rocking his bike back and forth...I would assume he heard a low rumble exhaust and was going to show his bike off.
Well I kind of took the bate but didn't want to do a 6K drop. Light turns green and I started off normal, and so did he...might of thought I didn't take the bate. As I'm 1/2 way through 1st he was about 1/2 car behind and I went WOT. He heard the exhaust and gun his bike. I slammed into 2nd and he was still 1/2 car back :huh: . Finished 2nd and moving into 3rd and he's at my door :huh: . Wound out 3rd and his back wheel is to my front bumper. This was good enough for me so I shut it down.
We caught the next light and he just looked over and shook his head...might of been in amazement that I kept up...Hell so was I. We both waved and parted ways.