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Old 03-20-2006, 03:55 AM
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diesel burns another import

I was driving home with a friend of mine on the freeway in my diesel truck and we were talking about the turbo'd import cars(he's got an MR2 turbo and our friend has a 300ZX twin turbo, both a ton of fun to drive...I know, they're imports) We were just cruising in my truck about 60 on the freeway(I get about 22mpg doing that!) and an eclipse rolled by us, interested in whether or not it was a turbo car I got over and got up next to him so my buddy could check the front for an intercooler. He had a small wing, different looking aftermarket muffler that wasn't a 5" single tip buzz-bomb, A-pillar guages and some stickers, one of which was Greddy, who I'm pretty sure makes turbo stuff. It wasn't overdone like a F&F rice rocket so we thought it might be a turbo.
Upon inspecting it, my passenger even with the front bumper, he saw the guy start to take off(or try) and he mashed it hard into another gear just in time for my buddy to see him grab the gear. So I laid into the throttle by the time our front wheels were even, from 65 up to 90.
Now, he's in a stick shift eclipse, I'm in a 7,000+ lb 4x4 2500 dodge ram auto trans, CUMMINS turbo diesel, mud tires and I got on the throttle about the time he grabbed another gear.
He was definitely still trying to go but was eating the smoke coming from my tailpipe when I got to 95. There was a solid car length between my truck and his car.
Just another kill to the long list of imports that I've beaten, yes, with my diesel truck. I think that's funny.

Did I mention I'm running 40psi boost? factory is 18psi. :smt077
clearly his eclipse was not turbo'd
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