While on my way to work this morning, I noticed a very impatient, blue convertable C5 in my rearvew mirror. As he quickly ran into some congestion that slowed him down, I found an opening in the fast lane and decided to punch it from 6th to 5th.

Big mistake.

5th gear bogged as I didn't even land close to the sweet stop of 5-6k RPM. I had to drop to 4th. Finally -- 6500 RPM on the big cam and I started to pull away from the pack with the mean VTEC growl from my intake / Hondata. At 7100 RPM, I upshifted to 5th and could see the Corvette taking notice. I finally had the nerve to look down at my speedometer and found myself doing 120 MPH with the Vette gaining. For a brief moment, I saw him pull to the side of my TSX as both of us were at WOT. The Vette pulled away as I had expected. I decided to shut it down as I never intended to go THAT fast.

Since I didn't see the C5 completely blow past me, I'm assuming it was their 4 speed automatic. While still impressive on paper with 345 HP / 350 TQ, the 6MT vette is much faster.

That was enough fun for the year. I haven't gone that fast in probaly 2-3 years. On another note, I noticed that the road noise is VERY loud at speeds over 100 MPH, similar to my Integra. It became a reminder that I wasn't driving a 45k RL or 5-series BMW.

 

:ib03V6coupesaysyoushouldhaveboughtanAccord:

 

what freeway was that on? I'm guessing 605 North? I was able to attain 90+ mph daily on my old commute. 120 is absolutely doable there.

Nice run.

 

Not the 605. It was on the 57 N right after it splits with the 60E. I has an additional fast lane after the interchange. That was my opening.

I'm going to check my oil level at lunch today. My car felt a bit sluggish. I would have only lost by 10 cars instead of 11.

 

 

Ah, yes....thats always a good place for a 60-to-whatever speed you want run. It seems like that almost anytime of day.

 

Haha. I'm sure we all would have gotten smoked. Nice run though man. I bet it was fun

 

Its interesting in that the Roman symbol for 100 is "C" and you tangled with a C5 which could be interperted as 100 x 5 which is exactly your postcount.

 

^ Has too much time

 

Or just too observant

 

 

 

You call that a race?