Well I was cruising with a friend tonight in the TGP. I got stuck behind some slow person when a red Talon [not sure what model] whipped around me keeping me from passing the slow driver till he passed. As the Talon passed me, I saw that he had a black aluminum wing, a fart tip, and a custom plate that said DIABLO 2. For whatever reason, he had that plate.
I got around the slow car and passed the Talon. He was doing about 65 in a 45 zone [two lanes each way with a turn lane, no cross streets]. I was praying to the race gods to let us get a light. We went through one light, and were heading to the second light about 100yds up ahead. There were two cars infront of us, but the race gods answered my prayers. They both turned!
So I got lined up with the Talon at the light. Let me tell you a little about this particular light. This light starts off at the bottom of a hill that gradually goes up, about a 45* angel.
As the light turned green, he squeeled his tires off the line. I had my car in D and pressed the gas, nothing, it bogged! :( A split second later I just romped it. The Talon had a car length head start on me, but that would soon change.
As we started up the hill, my turbo was howling. I caught up to him at around 60mph as I looked over at the driver. He didn't look at me. I passed him doing about 75. I pulled about 1-1 1/2 car lengths on him when I shut it down and flashed my hazards. I would have gone to 80, but there was a truck infront of me. I slowed down to 5 over.
The guy then had the tanacity to cut me off! First he looses, then cuts me off like a ricer he is.
It sounds like you have a lot of luck racing dsm's over there in Ohio.
I have spent a little time reading through the kill stories, remenising when I had my black 90 TGP, and feeling a sense admiration that I now own a decent red one.... (with grey cloth)...
Since owning that black 90 TGP I have dove straight in to the turbo charged motor vehicle way of life, there is so much potential for cars that come factory turbocharged.
Anyway, congrats on the kills, if you ever make it to Illinois feel free to strike a race up with any DSM adorned with a DSMCENTRAL.com sticker you see. There seems to be quite a following of DSM turners here, to include myself.
I Love the refinements/ creature comforts that the TGP's have, the turbo motor once dialed in with chips and repaired x-over pipes are a great drive. Dsm's are more "go out and kick ass in a 2000 dollar beater" type car, lots of potential, but not the plushness that the TGP's offer.
Wow, a lot of my old posts are popping back up.
We have quite a few tuned dsm's in my area. Buschur Racing is not far from me. Most of the dsm's are riced out. Any good tuned turbo dsm would beat me.
Quote from: spyonu2007It sounds like you have a lot of luck racing dsm's over there in Ohio.
I have spent a little time reading through the kill stories, remenising when I had my black 90 TGP, and feeling a sense admiration that I now own a decent red one.... (with grey cloth)...
Since owning that black 90 TGP I have dove straight in to the turbo charged motor vehicle way of life, there is so much potential for cars that come factory turbocharged.
Anyway, congrats on the kills, if you ever make it to Illinois feel free to strike a race up with any DSM adorned with a DSMCENTRAL.com sticker you see. There seems to be quite a following of DSM turners here, to include myself.
I Love the refinements/ creature comforts that the TGP's have, the turbo motor once dialed in with chips and repaired x-over pipes are a great drive. Dsm's are more "go out and kick ass in a 2000 dollar beater" type car, lots of potential, but not the plushness that the TGP's offer.
I'm another DSM tuner. I actually have my own shop. I can totally agree with the DSM being the "go out and kick ass" car, but the reliability gets iffy on highly modified versions. (speaks from lots of experience).
Out of curiosity, what is your DSM shops name? Major failures you have seen, etc.
Quote from: spyonu2007Dsm's are more "go out and kick ass in a 2000 dollar beater" type car, lots of potential, but not the plushness that the TGP's offer.
lol, my TGP was around 2000 lol, 2805 actually, but still, lol, we have cheap kick ass cars, we have a Talon thats red all riced out to in town, eactly as u say, black wing, fart pipe, crap like that
Yeah my STE was 1800 and the Coupe was 1500...the coupe had the higher mileage and it only had 103k on it. I don't know of much else out there that you can get for that price that runs that well and has all those options.
Shawn
Nice kill those DSM are extremely light and depending on if its a turbo or not they are still pretty fast. I'm suposed to be racing a DSM that "supposedly" runs 12's with a leaking intercooler. :roll: :drinking:
I think the Diablo 2 licence plate says that he a nerd that likes to play Diablo 2 (its an RPG for the computer). So the guys a ricer and a nerd PROPS TO HIM. :ghey:
I spent 1600 on my tgp and put 500 in parts to get it running right. And my Car is just as fast as my Brothers S 10 truck with a 383 small block and 400 ponies. :twisted: And my car has 113000 miles on it.
my TGP only has 70k miles on it, what a find eh? old lady drivin man, so the turbo has barley been used, my sister has a 92 Plymouth Laser, its pretty quick