Ever had another Miata try to race you on the street?
 

Just got home from a most interesting little drive. Usually when I'm out driving around everybody just ignores my little Miata. The few times I have found someone that wants to race me I have gotten destroyed. Today was a different kind of day.

I was out driving and a black MSM came up next to me and wanted to play. I think he saw my big fart can exhaust and assumed it was just another riced out Miata. Anyways, he pulled up next to me and gave me a little nod and since I'm a pretty nice person I gave him a nod back. Normally this is where it would end, but he started to leap forward and then would fall back in line with me. I couldn't believe it, so I decided to join in this game.

I gave him the jump and just hung right along side of him smiling up until about 90 or so when he let off. We slowed back down and he wanted to go again. This time we started at about 40. I sat there smiling right along side him until about 70 and then I floored it. It wasn't pretty, I destroyed him and took it up to just over 140 before I let off. Slowed back down to the speed limit and continued on my way. A few minutes later he pulled up and asked me what all I had done. I told him it was just a few bolt-ons and continued on my way home.

Anyways, I thought it was kind of funny.

quite a few msm's and supercharged cars have felt the pain. MSM's are the best because they really don't expect it. I like to roll the tires in 3rd so they can get an audible warning for the emasculation before atonement is delivered. I ran a blown cobra a few days ago that looked at me like I killed jesus after putting a bus-length on him. "Dude, I just left it in 6th...do you want me to drop 2 gears next time?" lol

Other than friends messing with me... the last 'random' miata that lined up with me TOASTED my ass....but that was back when I had my 96 before it was s/c'ed. I later met the guy..only to find it was making 26x rwhp. Yeah, it was fast.

the last miata that tried to race me was a 180ish whp ebay turbo'd beat up 91 with the punk kid thinking his car ran 11's. I was in my friends bolt on low 12 second evo. It was not pretty

lol all the other fast miatas stay up north outa my territory so no. :P

I've never had a miata play with me.

The only thing I have played with since I was turbo'd and running was a Scion TC...and it raped me, HARD.

We did the whole clean/cool car nod...I decided to play with him, we both downshifted and I held 2nd Ok...and into 3rd absolutely destroyed. Talked to the guy at the next stop light and he was making 368 fwhp at about 14psi on a built/supercharged motor. He was impressed that my little miata with 10 psi kept up in second gear. Next time :D

showoff.

The yellow miata I had pulled 7 car lenths on a 96 Z28. Then he tried to race me from like 50. LOL That is where the power really came in. I just shut him down.

These miata's with turbo are pretty quick.

I live in a college town so I get plenty of douchey fucks trying to race me. Typically I give them one good pull up to the speed limit with a nice audible blow-off and they start laughing and giving me thumbs up. No one expects it, especially since I dont have a visible IC.

I really just wish people would stop yelling "FAG" at me when I have the top off my car. Those are the king of dicks that I never get a chance to race :(

The only challenge I have gotten recently was a slammed Ford SUV. :( The Honda that was behind us trying to play couldn't even keep up with the SUV LOLs.

I have been on the opposite end of where I am now. Before I was turbo, I pulled up to a black miata that looked stock, but kicked my ass.

The other day i pulled up next to another guy that had a very nice looking NA, we both said hi. He asked me if I had done anything to the engine with a slightly cocky attitude, so I replied that I had a turbo. Then he looked dissapointed when i asked him what he had done to his. He says "Oh....just a supercharger :'( ". He didn't seem very excited about us meeting very much after that.

lol. ^

Nice.

Before my 99 got hit, we toyed around with a guy in a MSM a few weeks ago. We were leaving Target in Sterling and the guy was in a double left turn lane... I was right side he was left...

I'm thinking that he thought that he had me beat in my bone stock looking 99 auto; but boy did he fall short on takeoff and full pull to the highway! lol Made a right turn at an exit a mile down the road where he just drove on past and never even looked at me. Awe, the shame! LOL

Cheers,
Prospero

There is a red one with white stripes in southern NJ that looks for other Miata's to race, and anything else that will run against him for $:eek3:

Never had any other Miatas try to play, I so seldom come across a modded one (weekend of 21 March excluded...) that I don't think it'll ever happen.

There is another turbo Miata in Salinas. He took it to the muffler shop to get an exhaust when I was still sourcing parts for mine. Muffler shop called me to come check it out. The turbo was welded, yes welded, to the stock exhaust manifold. And it was not a pretty weld job.

So Koto there are at least 3 of us in the area LOL.

+1, every miata I see usually has a woman behind the wheel or some old dude....This is the one thing I hate about the miata, the enthusiast base is smaller than some other cars... so 9 times outta 10 if you see another miata they have no interest, at least where I drive.

On another note, I did have two other idiots race me today, a 2006ish TL and then a 2004ish accord....dumb fucks. I swear this stripe and the giant hole in my bumper are magnets for these people, lmao. I'll just keep shutting them up and shutting them down...until I meet my match which will inevitably happen.

There are a couple Miatas around here that have tried to race me, one was some total beaner mobile with a full ebay vader body kit slapped on, literally, I wouldn’t be surprised if the bumpers fell off (not painted, it's cool to have a four color car). He also has some sweet Recaro, Enkei, DUB, Bride, YOKOHOMA, decals going up the doors.
as far as I could tell "performance" wise he had nothing but a fart can added to the car.
I ran into this guy on a street that is commonly used for street racing.
So anyways we're at a light and I can here his car bouncing off the rev limiter.. For a good 20 seconds before the light goes green he lets his motor do this... I shoot off some launch control flames to see if he'll wise up.. nope.. oh well. I gave him a nice headstart before I put a quarter mile between us. I slow down, and of course he flies by and put on his flashers like he won.
Same shit at the next light.
This time there is traffic ahead so i play it cool. The retard is apparently an ex nascar driver wannabe as he thought if he got onto the shoulder and passed all the cars, he could go home and tell all his buddies (make believe or not) he just beat the shit out of a "soupped up" miata like it was nothing, using only his fine driving skills.

I've run into him a couple times, every time it's basically the same story, I don’t even acknowledge him anymore.

There was one other time a guy in an NB raced me.. He was pretty surprised :)

I blew the doors off a Veyron a few days ago then kicked the Shaikh's ass. Don't fuck with my supercar, bro...seriously.

The last time somebody yelled "FAG" at me I turned around and got out of the car. The dude was standing on his doorstep with his arms around his girlfriend with his '94 Mustang GT parked against the curb. I walked up the sidewalk and asked him if he thinks his girlfriend's mustang was faster than my "fag" car. He got all tuff and was like, "actually that's MY mustang, and it'll dust your little homo ride." I could tell it was stock just by looking at it, so I was like, meet me at the car wash at 9PM sharp, and bring $100 cash. He replies with, "I'll be there, and you better be ready to lose your money." I waited at the car wash from 8:50 until 9:15 and said fuck it. I can't even believe some randon dude would yell that at somebody he doesn't even know while standing with his chick. I didn't even really want to race him, even though I am certain I'd win. I just wanted to beat him to the ground and then piss in his face. I hate college kids that act like they're the shit cause their parents buy them whatever car they want and pay for them to go to college.
Aside from that, I never had a miata pull up and try to race me. When I bought my hardtop, this guy showed up at the hardtop owners house and was driving a '03 miata. He saw my intercooler and was like, "Mazda speed...nice." I told him it wasn't, that it was a DIY setup cause they didn't make MSM's in '99, and that mine would easily beat a stock MSM. The sarcastic look on his face said, "yeah, sure it would" and he just kind of ignored me.

Oddly enough ,I don't get many ricers/beaners/wetback/hoods/idiots trying to run me. I've had occasional ricer rev next to me..to which i'll usually make sure they're looking when I laugh loudly and give them a thumbs down.

I've had more cars that are worth 2,3,4+ times my car play with me though...

new M6 (was a spectator sport on my end)
F430 (car porn..didn't walk me as fast as I thought it would)
06 E55 AMG (ran dead even with him)
Maybach 57s (killed him in a standing 1/4mi)
Elise (destroyed...poor guy was NOT expecting it)
996 Carrera 4S (got him from a slow roll)
335 Coupe (yes, the twin turbo one. we stayed even up to about 110 where I started creeping away)
slightly older CTS-V

I have been pulled on my a very nice EJ20 swapped GC8 coupe, a big turbo LS-VTEC EG hatch, and my friends GTO among a couple others.

Some Puerto Rican in a 323 GTX lined up in front of me on Sunday next to a Honda Prelude. I heard the 323 start farting all over the place and then the light went green and to my surprise the prelude stayed side by side and then started to pull on him. Then my fiance goes, "you're gonna blow both of them away, right?" I changed to the right lane and flew up the preludes ass, cut in front of the 323 in the left lane, and passed the prelude like it was standing still. I got back in the right lane and drove the speed limit. Like a mile ahead the 323 passes me and the dude never looked at me, just a "my 323 that I thought was fast, actually sucks ASS" look on his face, and just kept driving. The 2 dudes in the prelude pull up next to me and give me a double thumbs up.

I ran a 06ish Mustang GT from a roll last week, we left a light real easy, I heard him shift into 2nd and stand on it. It was loud...really loud, like SLP 3" Loudmouth Loud. I floored it and I pulled 4 cars in him by the 1/4 mile mark. Then I let off and while he coasted past me his face said, "My life now sucks, cause I filled out a credit application for a mustang, just so I could be beaten by a Miata."

I know this guy, he's such a dick.

Just the other night I was in my girlfriends WRX driving behind my friend who was in my miata. A camaro SS pulls up to me in the WRX and starts trying to get me to play, I ignored him knowing that I'd get my ass handed to me in her car, he noticed the miata with the boost gauges and sped up to it.

Come to find out my friend can't drive worth shit, even so my miata ran dead even with the thing. At the light we found out the camaro had some overbored 454 and some other shit.. I was a little pissed because I'm sure I could have pulled on him if I were driving.

Usually I just flip off the pedestrians that yell fag at me... I'm going to start carrying around a bucket of water balloons filled with honey for them.

Try a paintball gun instead.

I've got one, actually a couple... "water balloons" are more covert if a cop happens to peak inside.

Plus isnt there some law about shooting people with paintball guns without their consent?

I've never had any miata try to race me...they are all usually old guys driven them. I'm usually the asshole that trys to play with them but they just look at me like im an idiot lol...
In the other hand noone ever called me a fag while i was driving, only my friends make fun of me cause im to big for my car...maybe just cause im a 220lbs juice head :giggle:

I've had many v8s rev at me but not a lot of miatas. Half the time I can't even get them to make eye contact.

I once raced a 1.8 swapped 1.6 and pulled a bit, both of us were NA, I think I just knew how to shift.

I've raced my friend's RSTI many times knowing the result, its just fun to watch the flames as it passes me. I also once had my ass handed to me by an Acura suv...

For living in socal I'm amazed more ricers don't try to race me especially with my stupid loud exhaust.

Canyons are another story... I've chased down some serious machinery out there.

I beat up on a guy in an NB in my Jeep one night, it was kind of funny. And once tried to get an NC to play last summer with my previous Miata but it was the typical cheese and whiners.

I ran a friend who has a 1.6l FM Turbo Miata. It was the original FMII kit. He was running 13psi, with Link, and 6-spd swap. I got him by a car in 1st and then he missed 2d. Next run, he missed 3d, but I was so far out it wouldn't have mattered. I got him by 4-5 cars and was still pulling him. I was at 8 psi on my car.

He He..... I've run with Wagliardo when we changed the diffs and gears......
Pulled two lengths - he missed two shifts - and he then proceeds to walk right on by without a care. Late evening and no one around.....we weren't douchebaggering!

I stopped at Dunkin' Donuts a few weeks ago and the lot was filled with ricers. Some of them acted like I was there in a supercar. They were saying, "Oooh Mazdaspeed this, oooh Mazdaspeed that" ... whatever, all I wanted was a doughnut.

Granted, my car has plenty of mods to make it non-slow, but they didn't know that! They reacted to what they thought was an ordinary MSM. They probably figured the Absurdflow sound was just a catback.

Only miata that I've ever raced against was an MSM. I probably had 3 or 4 car lengths on him before he knew what was happening.

shit I've crushed:
b6rs4
base model c6
c5z
blown cobra
f360
cts-v
veyron
supercharged miatas
new camaro SS (bloodbath and extreme laughter)

barely walked until I run out of gear at 134mph:
some upgraded turbo s4 in houston
gt3
f430 base model
m5 and m6
e90m3
gallardo base model with the old headlights

cars that shit on my chest:
some crazy fucker with a civic hatch, with a side dump and lots of fire in Houston
orange gt3rs
yugos


My car really pisses off lots and lots of people on the highway. Now, I just need manipheauoeld.

Did all those drivers actually know they were racing you hustler?

Do your ricer fly-bys count?

Jk, nice fucking kill list.

Johnwag can attest to a couple of these. The car scares people

My all-time favorite ricer highway kill was the yellow Gallardo with the manual trans. I always "give them the punch" and suck them in but this dude looked so hurt when I asked him "want me to drop it down into 4th this time, or just run it in 5th again?"

I have this app for my iphone called "cool facts" and it's just that, a bunch of random facts to flip through when you're bored. One of them is the world record for the smallest penis, 5/8". This wouldn't happen to be you, would it?

best 5/8" of your girlfriend's life.

Ha ha, I just had my best laugh of the day!!