I was out last night, just cruising around after dropping my son off, and I see up ahead a lowered Camaro with a trick exhaust, like nothing I'd ever seen before on a Camaro. It looked like the Z28 exhaust, in that the tips were rectangular, but they were next to each other in the middle, like a Corvette.
His license plate read: 0-60 IN2
I caught up with it and flew past him full throttle in the right lane, like a rice-by, then braked hard to let him catch up, unlike a rice-by, heh. My way of saying, "Let's play."
As he rolled up next to me, I looked over and saw the familiar "SS" emblem on the side and thought, "Uh, I think I just picked on the wrong guy."
He got next to me, his g/f was with him (I guess g/f), then nailed it and I heard the unmistakable LS1 sound.
(You true gearheads know the sound, it's distinct, like the Mustang 4.6L.)
So off he roared, and I watched him. It was from a 40 roll, and I expected him to take off faster than he did. I pursued and we approached a red light, but there was a car in the left lane in front of me and the Camaro was in the right lane now, no way to line up with him, so I fell in right behind him, hoping that he would try to leave me at the light to see if I could catch him.
That's exactly what he tried to do.
The light turned green and we both took off, each car losing traction in the process, then hooking. The end of first gear came up quickly and the GHOSTSS grabbed second with a loud squawk, then ran second gear all the way out and hit third.
Guess what? He couldn't leave me! I stayed a half car length behind him the whole time, just like I was at the light, and didn't give ground at all! I fully expected him to start pulling ahead with me trying to catch up, but to my complete surprise I hung right with him the whole time.
He finally slowed down after 65 or so, and I took the left lane and pulled up next to him, clicked on the interior light and gave him the thumbs up, and he replied in kind.
My observations:
1. In a full quarter-mile run I'm sure he would have beat me. My car runs a 14.2 @ 95.
2. 0-60 my car rocks, hell, in the 1/8-mile I can beat an LS1 Firebird at the dragstrip (I've done it, after talking with the guy too, his car was running just fine). Most every car I've raced at the strip I've beaten in the 1/8. It's the second 1/8 where I lose.
3. My cam loses power after 5k rpm and my valves float after 5300 (need to fix that when I get a job).
4. I have 4.11 gears.
Anybody else have any comments? I felt pretty proud of myself after that run.
. Especially with your gears and it being an auto makes your car the easy winner out of the hole. Had you raced till about 100-120mph, you would have seen him start to pull once he was at the top of second and/or in third gear (considering if he was an stick). None the less, I'm sure you surprised the hell out of him 
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