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Riced out Civic Hatchback vs me on the mountain curves.

Setting; two lane mountain road (one lane each direction)
Traffic; Me, Civic, & old guy in his 80's Cadillac
suspension Upgrades; Front and Rear STB's, 19mm rear sway bar, new sticky tires.

So this riced out civic comes raing up and rides my butt for about a mile.
We are stuck behind an old guy in 80's Cady doing like 25 through the mountain roads.
First chance he gets the civic passes us both (in a no passing area).
About 30 seconds after he passes the old guy turns into a driveway.
So I smash the gas and start cruising.
I catch up fairly quickly to the civic and decide to ride his but.
We are on a straight away and he starts to pull away a little.
He actually waves to me.
But up ahead the road turns curvey(sp?) again.
Well he takes the first turn about 10 seconds before I do.
I'm caught up and riding his butt again by the second turn.
I stay on his butt for the next mile.
Then my chance appears.
The greatest curve mother nature ever designed.
A 120 or so degree turn but, you can see all the way down the hill for about a mile.
I see no traffic so I punch it.
I take the corner at about 70.
The civic isn't so brave.
I return the gesture of waving ad continue through the turn.
I hit the straight away and gun it.
I never see the civic again.
Ha, Ha!

Congrats! People under estimate the ability of a Contour. I have hung through the corners with a '02 SC2 that supposedly is almost top in handling.

what a great story!!!! i like to hear the tours beating up on the trashy ricers!!
but the tour do handle like they are on rails even stock. the pre 98 ones im most familiar with though.
congrats on the great victory.!!!!!

Man I love it when people ride my but, especially on this one road. It's a long flat road but it has quite a few businesses on it so I usually don't go much more than 5mph over the speed limit, these Texas good ole boys in their v-8 chevy trucks like to do 80 plus whenever there isn't a curve in sight, but the majority of the traffic exits onto this one beautiful, perfectly banked hair-pinned 180 deg on ramp, I love watching them fade into the distance as I brake late, turn hard and hit highway cruising speed before their even off the on-ramp!! I definately love the way my pre-98 handles

edit: BTW I watched a 2002 nissan sentra SER Spec IV fade into the distance this evening.

I can't wait to finish up a few more mods and get to the track.
I itchin to burn some rice.
ERam has been ordered, Quaife is next, Optimized TB, and then NOS.
Woohoo!
Once I can go fast in a stright line, then I'll be getting the BAT European handling Kit.
A nice 1" drop on a stock looking 97 GL Sport on stock rims.
Nobody will see me coming!

Sleeper great job on kickin rice A$$! just be careful, because Street racing is not supposed to be discussed on the boards. Even though I think that it is great. BUt thats just me. I am sure this topic will be closed pretty soon. Anyway, I am getting a new job so hopefully mods will be coming quicker. First thing rims! Then new bumpers all the way around. Then intake and custom straight pipe w/ twin "rice" mufflers. Should sound pretty tight. Talk with ya later. Quafies fit our cars? I thought you had to have an SVT?

Damn street racers. :p Great story although I wouldn't ride that guys ass. That is one of my pet peeves.

I don't normally ride people's butts.
I have been rear-ended three times in my life, and people following too close is my biggest pet peeve.

OhSigmaChi: I know what you mean about the whole on/off- ramp deal. Me and my friend were cruising about to get on the bypass out by my house and this guy in a 96 F150 with the 5.8L V8 comes flyin by, well i floor it pass him before the ramp and im taking the turn about 90 , brake late and i didnt see that truck till i was getting off on an exit 4 exits down.

So you saw a fugly car today?

Aw ****! Me too!