Kill Story - DO NOT READ, Smackdown On a Private Ranch Drive Options

[DBCooper]

Now I don't know this for sure, but am told it's a true story that happened to someone else. Someone else who I don't know and have never met so I'm sure it never happened. Well, there's the video, so there is that. The background: 914/WRX out cruising, lowered Honda boy taunts the little red 914, 914 demonstrates acceleration. Honda boy remembers something more important he had to do, disappears, is replaced by a Saleen Mustang who had witnessed the 914-Honda exchange from behind. Wow, a Saleen. A couple of years old, but still a Saleen. Saleen revs, 914 revs, they test their respective powers of acceleration and the Saleen is embarassed. Mustang guy has his girlfriend in the car, is reported to have looked "baffled," so they try it again, with the same results. 914 driver asks Saleen driver, "Is that really a Saleen?" Embarassed Mustanger affirms "Yeah, it is" So the 914 driver asks "Are you sure?" Amazingly, fistfight does not ensue, drivers talk, exchange information, pleasantries. Now the girlfriend looks baffled.

A Mustang's Revenge - The Video [setup] Quiet, isolated PRIVATE ranch drive. Little red 2.0 914 sits waiting for the bully 5.0 Mustang to get ready. This Mustang guy is real hot stuff (they say), and will avenge the Saleen. Lets some air out of the drag radials for better traction. Got his tires in the dirt (before the video starts) so did a burnout to clean them. Did a another burnout to warm the tires. 914 still sitting there, idling, watching all this preparation. Video starts. Mustang stages, tests traction yet again, backs up into position. Then the arms are up, the arms drop... and ...and... and... another Mustang is embarrassed.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6JxpYwqUMs


This is a story that I guarantee you will not ever hear repeated by a Mustanger.


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[roachghia70]

In all fairness, we told these dudes that the 914 was an abandoned Fiat we found in a field, making a little under 60 horsepower, so we added a turbo to it as a Frankenstein project. And they didn't know any better. We went out to race just because "it'll be funny." I really wish I'd had a few bucks to throw down on these races. Because it definitely was funny!! Haha

That mustang had aftermarket heads along with some other stuff, and was set up to run a large nitrous shot. But he didn't use his nitrous that night. He claims to have gone high 11s, but I have my doubts. It wasn't the fastest Mustang out there, by any means. But more importantly, everyone assumed it would still rip the 914 off the line and then walk away. The whole length of the race. The dude was a little disappointed when neither of those things happened! Haha

Another note, (and don't tell DB this) to assure the win, I turned the boost controller a little too high, so it was hitting fuel cut after shifting (16psi). It was tricky, because it was getting colder through the night, and therefore making more boost as time went on. You can hear it cut a few times in the video. This was enormously frustrating because the Mustang got 3 or 4 free car lengths that way... But it still wasn't enough to get around the 914!!

The dude in the GTO had just bought the car, and said he wasn't used to shifting it yet. Typical excuses... In response, I asked him if the check engine light was on, because it seemed to be down a couple of cylinders. He laughed that off, so then I asked him if the "oh crap, we just lost to a Fiat" light was on. He ignored me for the rest of the evening.

The 914 did great, and went right back to daily driver duty the next morning. No drama, no maintenance or repairs needed. It's a very impressive little machine!