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ORIGINAL: bpapa

I had a guy in an Avalance Z66 rev on me the other night, he didn't rev until green and it kinda suprised me.  Sounded like the Ava had terrible throttle response cuz I had already casually short shifted into second by the time he gained anything on me, so I floored it at very low RPM in 2nd gear and totally walked away from him, like 8 cars by 45-50mph.  A giant V8 is nothing in a vehicle that weighs that much!

And for the record I rarely go out looking for a race, I prefer to speak softly and carry a big stick (that is disguised as a cane).  Or perhaps a sword cane would have been a better metaphor, well you get the idea...

I have a mechanically bone stock '02 Si Hatch BTW.

SWEET I'm not a "Newbie" anymore!!! Never liked that way of spelling it, although it does sound kinda like doobie...  Nice to have it off my avatar/id box either way.