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Old 02-04-2003, 04:12 PM
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I was driving in Winnipeg the other night on a street that is four wide. It has a few lights not many and is great for quarter mile racing. I pull up to a light just casually driving along enjoying the somewhat warm night (-4 is warm considering -25 is the norm) when I hear this reving beside me, I look over and there is quite the Jetta. Forest green and by the noise I am sure this guy was running a short ram intake and exhaust. So I slip the bonne into D from OD, switch the tranny to performance sift and begin reving at about 4k. Light goes green and I take off to chirping tires. Perfect timing cause name of the game by crystal method came on just as I took off. We were fairly even but the dude shifted while I was still in first and I was still going, then I redlined, shifted and I never looked back. I had clearly one so I slowed down to the speed limit, I rounded a curve and there was the Po-Po radaring people. Phew somebody was smiling on me that day.
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nice kill... lucky thing about the popo too
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Yeah I know, they're really cracking down on racers now
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gettin pulled over sucks! especially when yer not sure whut u did!
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fer sure and unfortunatly I have had that happen more then once, cops see how old I am (20) and see that I am driving a Bonneville and they either assume its stolen or something else bad so it is their duty to pull me over and harass me.
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"excuse me son, why are you driving yer great gramma'* car... good lord she has that thing pimped out..."
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you should see the look on anybody when they hear my system. If you have msn why don't you just talk to me there my addy is ratmfan2118@hotmail.com
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Did you "manually" shift your tranny or just let D do all the work?
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Nice work.

Yea, really, did you shift manually?
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My CRX kill last night, I left it in D and let the PCM figure it out for me. With the Jet Stage 2 chip, at least, It shifts at the perfect times. I'd be hard pressed to beat it with my own reactions. Shifts are firmer, too.

I also left my climate in auto and never used performance shift. Didn't even think about it til later.
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