Showdown at Work

We hired a new kid at work a little while ago and he's been talking about this sweet mid gen camaro he has that would just whoop my car. The story started with a 454 then finally ended up with a 305 auto in it (hrm). He kept picking at little imperfections in my car and stuff like my interior. Im a pretty calm guy but enough was enough. I told him to bring his **** up to work. Well after a week of excuses he finally brought it up to work. Not a bad looking car but still but still has the bug eyed headlights on it. As far as I could tell he has headers on it, it all looks Chevy orange to me. After a six hour shift of a whole lot of sheet talking we all get ready to leave work and we were going to race down Dixie at Dixie and white lake.

We leave work and of course my manager and the other guy working follow. We come up to the light and slow way down till it turns red. Lights do their cycle and we start revving up at each other. Light turns green and I dropped the clutch at 3,500 and I come off axle hopping like crazy. I mean crap is falling out of my dash onto my legs. I get it planted again and recover from shaken baby syndrome. Hes at my door and I pop them in second and walked away from him after that. Took it up to the bank as arranged and had him by two cars. Got it turned around and headed for home with a big o grin on my face. My other buddy from worked called on the way and was laughing his ass off. He had stopped with Kyle (kid with the camaro) and talked with him and said Kyle was all red and making up a ton of excuses. Buddy said the GS looks and sounds real good from the rear as its roaring squatting and shaking off the line. Cant wait till I work with Kyle again and maybe he'll just shut up about my car.

 

VERY NICE!!!

:TU:

Let us know what he says...

 

They never learn.

BTW carefull with the wheel hop, it's really hard on the rear end components! :3gears:

 

same thing with my contour...wheel hops like mad and the LSD doesn't like that too much.

 

Don't you just love people who think that because their car says Camaro on it, that it'll blow the doors off anything else? Nice kill Jake.

 

probaly lots of excuses, i'll see him 2morra at work for a little bit. I think im gonna buy him a Buick T-shirt.

 

LOL. Nice one. I'm a real Camaro fan, but anything after 74 isn't realy a Camaro.

 

yeah I hate people who give a car a once over, sometimes without even looking under the hood, and somehow determine that there car is faster.... makes no sense to me.

 

Good kill! I notice that there is quite a few people who can just glance at a car and come to a conclusion that they do have a faster car, I have never really understood it myself, either! o No:

Cody

 

talked with my buddy at work the other day. He made a chevy textbook excuses. All in all i only won because he didnt have traction and i did. My 15x10's verse his 14x7's. Funny thing that he says that because i dont recall him spinning them (as my car shutters off the line). I thing in his own way he did admit loosing to me later. We were sitting in the brakeroom and he was asking me what he should do to his engine and this and that. I told him what would be sweet if he put in a BBB, he didnt like my idea.

 

Amen, Jake

We have a guy here in Austin,TX that is converting his Elcamino to BBB power. Since he committed to the project we all dug threw our pile of Buick stuff and got him going. Then he bought the remaining parts from TA..... It is going to be a nice street buick-camino..... :TU:

 

We have a 2002 6 speed z-28 and that is a very nice car. Turns 13.2 all stock except for cat-back and air box. So what's not a Camaro about it :3gears:

 

Ditto. They're great cars, AND they'll pull down close to 30 MPG Highway! I'm proud to own one!

 

Yeah, I wished I owned one!
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VAAAPP

 

I'm not arguing they're nice cars, but they lost something of the Camaro spirit along the way, and became more of a corporate prostitute (don't want to offend the old children here with the "w" word) than the pure concept they started as. Different in evolution, but similar in feel, to what happened to the T-Birds (remember the ones that looked like they were GM cars?).

There are plenty of 4- and 6-cylinder cars that get great mileage and performance. On this board we hear a lot from people who don't like the newer Big Three cars that are safer, faster, and "nicer" than our old Buicks. For some strange reason, few of us would trade our older cars for one of these.

Of course, the Camaro purists would say I'm wrong, and state that the Camaro lost it in 1970.5.

 

There is also quite a few people on the board who have buicks that make 11/12 and 13 second timeslips look sloooooooooooooooooowwww, that really wouldn't want trade their "old" buick for a new 13 second "faster, safer, nicer" big three car, or any other new car that gets low 13's for that matter uzzled:

 

I have a 96z that has some bolt on and and my first car was an 86 firebird (2.8). If you are going to go with a purest attitude then yes the pony car might have strayed form it's original purpose a little. But, to denounce some of the fastest f-bodies ever made (the 4 gens) and the second coming of shear go power might be going a little to far in my opinion.

Now, when it comes to my 71 Skylark nothing compares to how much of a bad a## I feel like when i am cruising. There is nothing badder than loping in traffic in the "well to do" part of town smoking a Lucky Strike and BLASTING Dark Side Of The Moon. Also, i can pull the bumper off the z in a heartbeat. :3gears:

 

wheel hop

If you will slip a set of air lift air bags inside the rear springs, you will stop all that wheel hop. Wheel hop severly strains the axels,u juints ect.
Then you can come off the line with full power and take advantage of the torque the Buick engine puts out.
That kid wouldnt be ready for that.

 

LOL - you should have called me on my choice of cutoff - I must admit I'm a bit biased... I had a 74

That is basically what I meant in my original post.

 

Truzi,
There is no harm here. Just a few different opinions. I have driven every generation of Camaro and the last ones are the best. The only ones that I would want to cruise at 150 mph with. The only Camaros that were faster were some of the big block cars and most of them needed slicks to break into the 12's.

Wouldn't we all want new Buick rear drive with an LS7 in it?

I love driving my 462 with the big cam and watching the heads turn. But face it, its a toy not a practical piece of transportation.

Now the proposed 2009 Camaro... not with that front end.