Went out to get some fresh air Saturday night and perhaps test out my new rpm's and such after getting above 1000 miles. Little did I know what I had in store for me...
I remember driving by the BMW as it was merging onto the road beside/behind me from a side street and then it made this big deal to haul @$$ to catch up to me. As we were working our way to the next traffic light, he kept zooming up and down next to me- that's when I noticed the DINAN on the trunk lid.
We are at the light and I *know* what is going on and start looking around for cops because this is going to be interesting...
I watch the x-traffic light start to change from green to yellow and hear what I swear is a turbo spinning up (I had the top down) Woooosh!... Wooooooooooosh! I don't think they have turbo'd them, but maybe it was just a bad exhaust system and a tranny brake stand... who knows.
Anyway, I was already in "S" mode so the light turns green- I wait maybe 3 heartbeats to dial in full throttle to see if it's "game on". Sure enough, I see the front fender of the BMW start to pass by my right peripherial vision with a woooosh. I give it 100% and the kill is over as I was passing over the crosswalk on the other side of the intersection.
After that the BMW stays behind me and won't pull into the lane next to me at the next light.
Just as I had crossed the intersection and dispatched the poor sod, my wife casually says "I think that guy wants to race you." She knows what it felt like when this happened in the 5.0 Mustang and really disliked it in the 442 because it always sounded like chaos and that we were on the edge of death. With the smooth performance of the 55, the little exhibition was over before she even noticed.
I remember driving by the BMW as it was merging onto the road beside/behind me from a side street and then it made this big deal to haul @$$ to catch up to me. As we were working our way to the next traffic light, he kept zooming up and down next to me- that's when I noticed the DINAN on the trunk lid.
We are at the light and I *know* what is going on and start looking around for cops because this is going to be interesting...
I watch the x-traffic light start to change from green to yellow and hear what I swear is a turbo spinning up (I had the top down) Woooosh!... Wooooooooooosh! I don't think they have turbo'd them, but maybe it was just a bad exhaust system and a tranny brake stand... who knows.
Anyway, I was already in "S" mode so the light turns green- I wait maybe 3 heartbeats to dial in full throttle to see if it's "game on". Sure enough, I see the front fender of the BMW start to pass by my right peripherial vision with a woooosh. I give it 100% and the kill is over as I was passing over the crosswalk on the other side of the intersection.
After that the BMW stays behind me and won't pull into the lane next to me at the next light.
Just as I had crossed the intersection and dispatched the poor sod, my wife casually says "I think that guy wants to race you." She knows what it felt like when this happened in the 5.0 Mustang and really disliked it in the 442 because it always sounded like chaos and that we were on the edge of death. With the smooth performance of the 55, the little exhibition was over before she even noticed.