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Ray
02-17-2011, 12:14 AM
You know you have too much horsepower when:
1. The emissions test guy starts laughing as soon as you pull onto the rollers.
2. You can't drive your car in the rain.
3. Your 'significant other' is afraid to drive your car.
4. You are afraid to drive your car.
5. You spend more on tires than on food.
6. You spend more on car insurance than on house payments.
7. You look in a state police car and see a picture of your car taped to the dash.
8. You throw your underwear in the garbage rather than the hamper.
9. You have to go to the track to buy gas.
10. Your mechanic names the new wing of his shop after you.
11. Jacques Villeneuve and Michael Schumacher wave you by.
12. You can make the Kessel Run in less than 12 parsecs.
13. You're tempted to wear your fire suit just to drive to the office.
14. Red signal lights shift to green as you're approaching then shift back to red as you're receding.
15. You arrive somewhere before you left.
16. You get pulled over for doing 155 in a 35 but the cops will let you go if "they can look under the hood."
17. You remove the $2000 stereo system to save 6 lb. of weight.
18. You are not allowed to run in the Silver State Challenge.
19. You get an anonymous phone call asking if you are interested in being in the Cannonball Run.
20. Your face looks like you are riding a NASA centrifuge when you drive the car.
22. You need parachute braking.
23. Your 'significant other' won't even ride in the car.
24 There is no possible way to "sneak out" of your neighborhood at 6 am.
25. Your pets scramble for their hiding spots as soon as the garage door is opened. (Pets, and all the neighbors...)
26. Family photos throughout the house are replaced with life-sized posters of your car.
27. Fuel is delivered to your home: in 55 gallon drums!
28. You carry earplugs in your car.(doesn't everybody???)
29. The only spot on the car which receives any regular cleaning is the windshield. (what else is there to clean???)
30. You find out that side mirrors don't hold up at speeds exceeding 145-mph.

Ray

ChopperJustin
02-17-2011, 08:20 AM
12. You can make the kessel run in less than 12 parsecs.

Ray

yessssss!!!!!!

Someday I Suppose
02-17-2011, 09:39 AM
Love it, I really can't wait for the first time I have to roll up to the state inspection station for my emissions test. Well I can wait for the test, but the looks from the poor moms just wanting to get their minivan inspected should be priceless.

On sneaking out of the neighborhood at 6AM. When it was time to go pick up the body from paint, I was in the garage late the night before finishing the carpet and such and just didn't get time to load the car. I also made the decision not to put the side pipes on just to load the car, so at somewhere around 7AM started the car open headers to load onto the trailer. I felt really bad about it. One neighbor came over to help, and when I got home that night to unload another neighbor came over and just said that he smiles everytime I start the car. :-)

-Scott

Wayne Presley
02-17-2011, 02:20 PM
#31 You have been driving your car for 5 months and have yet to run the car to 6500 rpm at full throttle in third gear because of wheel spin at 85 mph and it gets sideways. True story.

riptide motorsport
02-17-2011, 02:44 PM
Funny!

AZJoker
02-17-2011, 03:00 PM
you let some unknown female drive and she crashes your maroon cobra.

Colonist
02-17-2011, 05:01 PM
32. The only other spot on the car that needs regular cleaning is the passenger seat.

mikeinatlanta
02-17-2011, 09:35 PM
never ever ever

Dave Smith
02-17-2011, 10:02 PM
You have too much horsepower when you seriously consider the following...

Last year sales were down a bit and I thought to myself... no problem, I'll have my graphics guy make a big white decal "Factoryfive.com" and put it across the top of my LS7 GTM... I ship the car out to LA and find a clear sunny weekend, maybe Saturday morning, no traffic out in the desert... Bait a local cop, tip off the press beforehand, and run 185 mph as long as I can towards Vegas, outrunning helicopters along the way... Good chance the video gets on the national news in front of 8-15 million viewers... Rough estimate 30-50 kits sales overnight, a quick stay in jail, lost license, but for sure, overnight success, Leno show, I had the car and the horsepower and it seemed like a good idea in that weird time as you're waking up. Still it is really cool having a car whose performance envelope allows you to think such thoughts... Not that i'd ever DO that!

Its late. I gotta go to bed. In the morning, before waking, the self propelled sky-diving kit will again seem reasonable

luvaz
02-17-2011, 10:08 PM
I dare you.

Thanks,
Will

LuckyWinner
02-18-2011, 02:14 AM
If you have a pit crew living in your garage that fuel you up, then taps you on the head "GO, GO, GO !!!!!!"

HolmanBoys
02-18-2011, 06:09 AM
If you have to attach a thick leather strap between your wrist and the gear shift lever.

Someday I Suppose
02-18-2011, 08:48 AM
Dave were you going to have MadDog in the passanger seat dressed as Captain Chaos as well???

Don Wright
02-18-2011, 10:36 AM
In the morning, before waking, the self propelled sky-diving kit will again seem reasonable

Glad to see that I'm not the only one with ideas that seem sane until the bathroom light exposes all the faults.

dawjr

Hotrod
02-18-2011, 11:32 AM
You know you have to much HP when:

You buy tires at a ratio of 10 rear sets to one front set.
It only takes you 20 mins to change the clutch because you have done it so much
You keep more than one extra clutch on hand

4wheelfun
02-18-2011, 12:05 PM
I don't know, Hotrod, sounds like you might need to learn to drive a manual a little better!

Randy Jones
02-18-2011, 04:49 PM
There was somebody, was it Yates? ....that said something like:

When you can have wheelspin from the apex of one corner to the braking point of the next...

(I'm sure I got it wrong but it was along those lines)

R :)

Wayne Presley
02-18-2011, 08:43 PM
Mark Donahue said it. "When you leave black marks from the exit of one corner to the entrance of the next corner, you have enough horsepower."

Ray
02-18-2011, 10:41 PM
You have too much horsepower when you look in the back seat and see this: