angry_lime
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- Kevin
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- 2018 Si Coupe
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I don't usually go looking for street races, but when you're driving around in a bright green sporty looking car, everyone wants to race you and sometimes I'll play around... Seriously, it seems like I have someone try to race me almost every time I drive.
So this past weekend I'm driving home from dinner with my girlfriend and we're just cruising around. No crazy driving because she hates it when I drive fast. Anyway, I go to pull away from an intersection and as I'm approaching 3k rpm in 2nd gear, I hear the unmistakable sound of a V8 floor it next to me. Usually I let the other guy just go but it was an open road with no traffic so I just mashed the throttle. It was a super close race but he was slightly pulling on me near the end. I let off at the top of 3rd gear because a construction zone was approaching. He goes by and I notice it's an early to mid 2000s e55 AMG also driven by a guy with his girlfriend in the passenger's seat. The driver definitely didn't expect my rice burner to hang like that because he was laughing and waved as he turned at the next light. His car sounded awesome, by the way.
I did some research on those e55 AMG's and I'm thinking there's no way my car actually kept up with that thing. Either those were fake badges, or he needs a serious driver mod. It definitely had a v8 and it had the AMG style exhaust tips so maybe it was a real one My car is running the 23psi Ktuner basemap with a 27won intake so it's a bit quicker than a stock Si, but it definitely shouldn't be able to hang with an AMG Mercedes... Even if it is an absolute boat. Either way, it was a fun race and just shows that bolt ons can really wake this little 1.5L up.
So this past weekend I'm driving home from dinner with my girlfriend and we're just cruising around. No crazy driving because she hates it when I drive fast. Anyway, I go to pull away from an intersection and as I'm approaching 3k rpm in 2nd gear, I hear the unmistakable sound of a V8 floor it next to me. Usually I let the other guy just go but it was an open road with no traffic so I just mashed the throttle. It was a super close race but he was slightly pulling on me near the end. I let off at the top of 3rd gear because a construction zone was approaching. He goes by and I notice it's an early to mid 2000s e55 AMG also driven by a guy with his girlfriend in the passenger's seat. The driver definitely didn't expect my rice burner to hang like that because he was laughing and waved as he turned at the next light. His car sounded awesome, by the way.
I did some research on those e55 AMG's and I'm thinking there's no way my car actually kept up with that thing. Either those were fake badges, or he needs a serious driver mod. It definitely had a v8 and it had the AMG style exhaust tips so maybe it was a real one My car is running the 23psi Ktuner basemap with a 27won intake so it's a bit quicker than a stock Si, but it definitely shouldn't be able to hang with an AMG Mercedes... Even if it is an absolute boat. Either way, it was a fun race and just shows that bolt ons can really wake this little 1.5L up.
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