with how slow my 6mt TL-S is

I've had my stock 07 TL-S 6mt for a few months now, and although it feels like a supercar compared to my 98 civic ex I had previously, I had no delusions about what was going to happen when I lined up with Godzilla.

I went down to mexico (of course) last weekend with a group of friends for a bachelor party and we had a great time. The next afternoon we left the hotel and started the 2 hour drive home. About halfway through our trip I saw headlights coming up behind me fairly quickly that I didn't really recognize. I move over to the middle lane well ahead of time to let him pass. When he gets beside me I realize what I'm looking at and I say "Holy shit a GTR!" to the 3 other guys that were riding with me. Every single one of them had no idea what a GTR was. After taking away their man card and explaining to them what a GTR was, I noticed that traffic had opened up and I figured I would never have another chance to run a GTR and decided to pull up beside him.

We were next to each other at about 70-75mph for a few minutes and I tried to respectfully gain his attention without pulling some stupid ricer d-bag taunts. He eventually looks over to us and I smile and point forward down the road and ask him if he will race me. He smiled at me, said something to his girl in the passenger seat, and slowed down to about 65 or so. I paced him in 3rd and took the hit . By the time I shifted to 4th at redline he was 5-6 cars ahead of me and rapidly disappearing. I shut down at around 105 with him multiple freight trains ahead of me. His car never got loud so I don't think he even really got on it or even downshifted. In my defense, I really did forget to turn my AC off during the excitement so I'm sure I could have been much closer to winning

I never caught back up to the guy so I didn't have a chance to thank him, but it was very cool that he was willing to let me see his car run. Now I'm going to go suppress the thoughts that tell me my TL is slow, and keep believing I drive a supercar now.

 

good loss! Gazirra is no joke!

p.s. most modern cars will kill the A/C at WOT.

 

Damn it man you're ruining my excuses! Lol yeah I forgot all about it cutting off the AC under full throttle

 

DUDE I ALMOST HAD YOU!

hahaha

Wait modern cars will shut off AC at WOT... Really?

 

^yessir. compressor turns off.

not sure about your ILX tho, I can research a little to check

 

Justin is correct on the AC compressor shutting off at WOT. I don't think this is even tied to "modern cars" as I believe this has been in place since the 80s IIRC.

 

I think that is pretty cool. Not heard of that.

 

If you think about it, it makes perfect sense. The key is thinking about it.........

 

I can't seem to figure out which year it was. It was black on black with orange brembos and I seem to recall it having the rear diffuser so I'm thinking it was a 2011 or newer. It was a pretty sweet looking car in person and it was the first and only time I have ever seen one. I rarely see exotics around here, but muscle is pretty commonplace so it was nice to see something different.

 

There's no shame to get your @$$ kicked by Godzilla.

 

Bro you got beat by an automatic

 

hmmm...what happened to the VTEC in your TL-S?

j/k...good death.

 

I'm a disgrace to manuals everywhere

Funny you mention that. I'm pretty sure it didn't work right during that race. Also, my car was dirty so wind resistance really slowed me down too. My muffler bearings could be going out

 

You might have been low on headlight fluid too.

 

You lost because you had 3 other guys with you, but I bet if they were 3 hot girls, you would have been at par with the GTR

 

fun times, fun story.

 

great run lol