Sense getting my permit my dad has been letting me drive the P-Stroke more often and today he let me drive on the way to my physical therapy. (I'm sure none of you know this but, on the 29th last month I had knee surgery, I'm getting to where I can bend my leg really good and it doesn't hurt when I drive.)

Anyway, I'm in 5th gear just cruising up a hill at 55-60 MPH and I hear a turbo just SCREAMING, I think "wtf?" I looked at the boost gauge and it was only pushing 2-3 PSI. About that time I glanced into my mirror sense I was about to merge into the other lane (it was a 3 lane, 2 east bound and one west, I was going east) and I see a dodge hauling up on my tail at like 80 MPH, I looked over at my dad and said "wanna race em'?" He's like, " *small chuckle* Sure. " So, I dropped it into 4th and let the hammer down I watched the boost gauge go from 2-3 to 33 in, what seemed like, a split second but it was more like 3-4. I ran the rest of the way up the hill, then I looked down, I had the speedometer pegged at 85 (according to my math, I was doing 87) and the engine is spinning damn near 3 grand, better pull it into 5th. So, I pulled it into 5th and dropped the hammer again, it blew a big puff of smoke and just up and left that guy in the Cummins. We were pretty much neck and neck until I got to the top and shifted into 5th. Once in 5th I spun it up to around 2550 RPM (my math got me about 97MPH) I was amazed at the get-up-and-go the Furd has for just having a tune and a slightly bigger turbo. Specs on the truck: 1997 PSD, ZF5, BW1356, 3.55 gears, 35" BFG mud terrains, Straight piped, Edge Juice, and new injectors.

Before you start dogging me about racing someone and I don't even have my license yet, let me say that 1. Us and the guy in the dodge were the ONLY people on this road at the time. 2. I know statistics say that teenage drivers suck, IMO, I'm the exception, I handled the truck just fine. and 3. I live in BFE and there are a lot of LOOOOOONG straight flat roads out here that I have had plenty of practice on.

Pic of the truck. It's that really good looking dark emerald green color not black like it looks in the pic. (sorry about the size.)


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bombed_frd's Sig:

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the cummins must have been on a car trailer or something.

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GRI's Sig:

probably pullin a trailer, Just kidding,

I dont have any problems with people racin thats your decision im just worried about gettin clocked at 100. My insurance is finally startin to go down now that im gettin older and id like to keep it that way. -

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"He never hit the brakes and was shiftin gears"

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Haha, you do know the Cummins has to know your racing right? I just went to a Tim McGraw concert here Friday night, wish I'd have taken a camera. Some tool in a 97 P-Choke had 10" Stacks, and what he claimed was a Bully Dog, and an Edge, stacked . Well I fired up my rig and showed him what smoke looked like, cause he couldn't roll anything. Then we pulled off right in the field, or at least I pulled him about 30yds before I stopped and called it a no contest. Of course I did have a bed full of ice and beer, so there was a little extra weight in there. -

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Good job on the kill now no more street racing. On the odd chance you get pulled over on a permit or get into an accident you're driving life might be over before you get licensed. -

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a permit??

how old are you?

secondly, im sure it was me you were racing and i was only pullin about 10 lbs of boost through the whole ordeal granny shiftin like i should! -

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Nope, he had a big flatbed on it that probably weighed at least half what the truck does.

15

I honestly don't think the guy driving was really gettin' on it, he just came up on me really fast and we had some fun.


Odd side note about the car trailer, on the way there we passed a car carrier and it had all these Chevy cars on it and then right there in the bottom in the middle is bright yellow Lamborghini. I thought I was seeing things until my dad told me he saw it too. -

well why didnt you race the lambo?????? wou woulda beat it! -

nice kill, you know which dodge/cummins you raced? -

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Alright, at 15, don't be street racing, every 15 year old thinks they are the exception to the rule that young drivers suck. Guess what, you may have faster reaction times than your old man, but they are 95% of the time the wrong reactions. There's nothing you can do about it besides learn from experience. I was the same way at your age (16, NY doesn't let you get a permit til then), but I had experience on the race track in modifieds and pro-stocks. Even with that 3 years experience I ended up in an accident because I got cocky...just like you did.

Now when I worked for Dana I had to go through 4 weeks of driving school, for everything from vehicle dynamics, to getting my SCCA Racing License... I failed the road test 3 times before I finally got it right (and ended up beating the instructors time). But even after passing the 4th time I was still one of the first guys to pass the course. If you really want to race, at least take it to a track where you know both trucks are racing, safely, with EMT's waiting nearby just in case.

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Hell yeah I would have. It was on a trailer.

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nice job buddy. i remember the first time i got my permit. i was sure my mom would never give me my liscense -

Woody35's Sig:

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Nice kill Dont let all the hate get you down.

I get such a kick out of older guys who act like they were never teenagers. Like ya'll never street raced when you were kids. And didnt ya'll learn the hard way when you were young?

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racing is alot of fun but should only be done on a track. ive done it and so has pretty much every other guy that owns anything modified, or even stock for some. you will probably still do it but remember if you get a ticket you have to pay it, then you will have you insurance raised up high for the next three years, which will already be realy high given your age. -

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well im from texas and i type it all the time. no you dont have to be boss hog to say y'all -

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