Great Smoke Stories!

[benhall]

Hey Jim,



With me being an air force person as well, send her my way and i will give her some dictation for being bad to a Cummins driver. :-laf



Ben

 

[Jim Fulmer]

benhall



There isn't a whole lot of truck action around here but there are a few get togethers in the Dallas area..... say 3 hours away!



Jim

 

[benhall]

Jim,



When I get to Oklahoma, I will be sure to "get lost" and find myself in Dallas. How far from Witchita Falls are you? I will be about 1. 5 hrs from there.



Ben

 

[Jim Fulmer]

1 1/2 hours or so from here to Wichita Falls down I-44



Jim

 

[TIngram]

it was last year first of november, my best friend, his girlfriend, my girlfriend were going to gatlinberg from louisville we were coming down I 64 and we hit a construction route well this jack @ss comes flying beside me on my passenger side trying to merge at the last minute. i was like oh no (he was in a 4 door honda) i had the comp on 5x5 and sped up well he wouldnt stop and neither would i so i cruised beside him in the grass at 60mph. my friend gets me as close to him as i can get (inches not feet) i slowly get my tailpipe in his window and push the clutch in then i cram 5th and stomp it letting the cluth out. that still didnt do any good. when his girlfriend starts crying and smacking him he slows down and lets me out of the grass. (we were in the grass for at least a mile at 60mph) What does he do next rides the rear. so i merge to the grass again and slowly slow down before i can let er rip he nails his brakes. never got closer than 500 ft. after the construcion i slowed down to 40 mph to let him pass he never would.

sorry it took so long.

tad

 

[Got Smoke?]

I forgot to add one the other day.



Was on my way to work do'n about 65mph or so on this two lane that goes from town to town. Well this jack@$$ in a fullsize van pulling a lawn trailer pulls out in front of me!!!#@$%! #@$%! #@$%!



I moved over and made sure nothing was coming then hammered it and went around him... ... as soon as I got in front of him I hammered on the brakes... clutched it..... then let him have a taste of #2.



It was nice but those 300's and OE plate don't do justice like my 'ol #10 I used to run with my 300's!:{ :{ :{

 

[C. Harlan]

why do people in stock ISB's, ISB-E's, and 6BT's think they stand a chance?? some moron today gets on my tail in traffic... I belch out smoke in every gear, get up to about 65mph, and he decides he wants to read my bumper stickers... I step on it, and engulf him in a cloud of smoke, while leaving him in the dust. Well, about a minute later, he comes back for more, this time, on my passenger side, with his window down, wanting more. he gets up there, and tries to take a run at it... . Ok, dude. . I am realllllllly impressed. . NOT! So, I took off, left him again, then had to turn. . he didnt even wave. guess he was mad or something... Oh well. .



-Chris-

 

[LightmanE300]

chris i'm sure he was reaaaly impressed too. .

 

[Chris N5CWM]

Maybe they wanted to hear that big bad Cummins? I'd have my window down too!



Did they tell you that you were "No. 1"? Hehehehe (Flip the bird at ya).

 

[RustyJC]

I was headed west on US290 (Northwest Freeway) in Houston Saturday, minding my own business at 65 MPH in 6th in the right lane (3 lanes each way) when what do I see in the mirrors but this Powerstroke coming up in the center lane with the hammer down and billowing smoke at about 75-80 MPH. We were coming up on the Huffmeister exit, and it was obvious that the Powerstroke was planning on getting 6" on me and blasting across my lane to make the exit . I decided to try out the new DD2s and Con OFE and nailed it - since I was already running about 8 PSIG boost, I didn't make a big cloud, but I matched the Powerstroke's speed pretty darned quick. The driver saw that he wasn't going to be able to cut me off, so he dropped in right on my tailgate in order to make the exit. Well, that did deserve a good puff of #2 as a parting gift just as he peeled off on the exit ramp.



Rusty

 

[MCummings]

Nice one Rusty! Grace, and style.



Most Superburbly Executed.



Merrick

 

[snowracer69]

So I'm heading to school this morning w/ OAT of about 50*F... pickup is pretty cold and not liking the fact that I can't plug her in. I pulled out of my apt. complex and a kid I know w/ a riced out Nissan Maxima pulls out behind me. There are no chances to pass for the first 2. 5 miles so I know he won't try anything, but he does decide it's a good idea to ride my a$$ the entire way. Since there was a bunch of traffic in front of me I never gave him a warning shot or anything (plus, engine was cold and I didn't want to spool the big surprise for him ). So, we get to the stop light where we turn from a two lane street onto a 4-laner w/ 2 in each direction. My pickup is now warmed up enough that I can at least give her a go, so I put the box on 5x5 as I know what he's gonna try. BTW, he told me yesterday, yet again, that his car is "pretty damn fast... ran a 15. 2 last weekend in Phoenix!" (Awful hard not to giggle at that). So, as I turn the corner, he comes around behind me and slides to the left side... he's moving up fast as he can so I just roll into the throttle. As he gets his front window next to my front fender the boost comes on (it was lugged in 3rd, and cold) at about 3/4 throttle and I'm off... just give it enough to let him know he's not getting around me and then there's a truck in front of him, so he slams on his brakes and swerves in behind me... mistake #1! I wasn't going to smoke him, cause that'd be like kickin' him while he was down, but what does he do, he decides he needs a closer look at the ball on my drop hitch... so close a look that I can barely see the top of his car in my rear-view, and definitely no headlights, mistake #2! Hmmm, 40 MPH, let her go into 4th, let off the boost pedal, then put her to the floor! HAHAHAHAHAHAHA TOTAL BLACKOUT FOR HIM!!! Oo. He dropped back 200 yards and then came roaring back to about 20 yards, but stopped as the smoke started coming out again and stayed a good distance away until we turned onto campus. Best part was he had 2 other guys with him who have told me before how fast his car was... hahahahaha... I've offered to run him countless times, but he hasn't taken me up on it yet... guess telling someone that your 8000 lb pickup runs sub-14's isn't the best way to intice a race.



EDM's will be here in about an hour, and will probably be in in about 3 hours. MORE SMOKE BABY, YEAH!!!



Josh

 

[JoshPeters]

The other night I was on my way home from my parents house. I was just cruzin, in no hurry, but runnin behind 2 other cars. It's just a 2 lane highway, so no place to pass. It's twisty, curvy, and probably takes 50 gallons of paint to do the yellow lines. I'm kinda zoned out just drivin when I notice this truck commin up behind me pretty quick. He comes up on me and pretends he's gonna pass in a no passing zone. I give him a warning shot, and he moves back in, but gets ever closer to my rear bumper. If it wasn't for my back-up camera I wouldn't have been able to see his headlights! Well, just about this time there's a nice sharp, (30mph) S-curve in the road. Just before the curve is another road where the 2 cars infront of me get off. Show time! I stand on it, leave the other truck in a cloud. Hammer the brakes to slow down for the curve, and procede to let the truck lugg all through the corners in OD. Of course when I get out of the last curve I put my foot on the floor and take off. I look behind me and the guy has finally backed off about 200 yards. I had to turn a short time later and as I slowed down he gave me the ole' one finger salute in his gaser dodge. :-laf I wonder if the training wheels helped me corner so much faster... ... ...





Josh

 

[MCummings]

This appears to be the "Josh" page for great smoke stories.



Merrick

 

[ProMac1K]

Originally posted by MCummings

This appears to be the "Josh" page for great smoke stories.



Merrick

LOL



Very True!



Way to get 'em guys! Let 'em know were there. Just wish I could lay some smoke down after the boost builds. Between that and my sluggish auto transmission. I tell ya. Very depressing! I think i'm going to be in the market for a 5 speed truck pretty soon, or a conversion. Getting sick of not being able to row through the gears, or even feel the transmission shift. I can feel it shift into second and lockup, but that's it.



I did get a minivan pretty bad today. I at a intersection in town on my way to school at 7:30 am. I was kind of running late and getting fed up with each light at every block turning red. The light turned green so I sped off, maybe a little to hard, and smoked the whole right lane beside me. Well there happened to be a van behind me and all of the smoke drifted at it from the wind. So I pull up to the next intersection and of course it turns red so I stop. All of a sudden I hear this loud honking noise. That woke me up. So I look in the mirror and guess who pulls up behind me, the van. She power-stopped right behind me. I could barely see her head lights and I don't even have a tailgate. That kind of PO'd me. So i'm watching the lights in front of me. The traffic stops from the side and the light turns green. Now you know what's in my mind. I stomped on the go pedal. Wow, for some reason the turbo spooled up really slowly at that intersection. Then the fire lit and that van was up in smoke. Well, it wasn't up and either was the smoke. She just stayed there for about 5 seconds and then had to drive around the smoke. Yeah, it's not the best story but it's really my first main smoking, for a reason that is.



One day I killed this ricer. Okay, it wasn't a hi-po ricer but the old guy was rowing through the gears in his rusty rice wagon, one of those with the one-inch exhaust. I laughed my ass off. We were at a intersection. The guy must have saw me throwing some smoke through town because he looked pretty mad at me. He was revving up his car at the four way intersection. He's in the left lane, i'm in the right. Intersection clears. He looks over at me. He takes off so then I think hey this could be fun. So I take off and get to the side of him. He guns it, so I stay with him. We were going well over the speed limit through town. This guy is rowing through the gears at high rpms, each time he shifts he falls back a little further. But he is seriously trying to race since he is redlining the engine. Well finally I can't stand the agony any more, also all of the laughing, so I just stomp on the pedal and off I am into D then lockup. I was running out of road anyways since it was getting out of town and the outside lane merges in. It was pretty fun. I think we raced about a mile and then I turned off onto a different road. That guy had me laughing though!



Trever

 

[snowracer69]

Just had to add to my previous post...



So I go to take a test tonight where both sections of my class are together to take it (probably 50 people, I go to a small private school). Well, guess who's in the class... that's right, punk from this morning who tried to pass me! HAHAHAHA I walk in staring at him the whole way and he doesn't want to make eye contact, but does and says "Hey, what's up?" We made small talk, but I never said a word about this morning and turned around. Then I hear a "hey Josh, I was sooooo gonna pass you this morning until that truck was in front of me!" I turned around and looked at him with a dead straight face and said "you were gonna pass WHO? Cause you sure weren't getting by me very well!" His response: "Well, I get up to your front fender and then that was it. " I said "Did you hear me spool up?" He said "Well, when I got up next to your fender all of a sudden I heard this whooshing sound and it was like a turbine was spooling up next to me!" HAHAHAHAHAHA I said "yeah, that's my turbo and that was when it finally spooled. " I then added "my pickup was still cold too and so I left my box turned down cause I didn't want to push her too hard. " HAHAHAHA He said "you've got more power then that?" "Yessum, 'bout 40 more RWHP this morning, and now 75 more then this morning w/ the new injectors!" HAHAHAHA I told him again that we can line 'em up any time he wants to stop talking and then the question "Well, how fast is it?" All I said was "sub-14's" and he said "well that's not that fast!" HAHAHAHAHA I asked him how much is car that runs 15. 2's weighs and then told him we'd add about 4000 lbs to it and see if he can run 20's in the 1/4!



Some people will never understand..... I have a word for them... . TOOL!!! He is now officially in my "toolbag" and will get a smoking any time I get the chance... . M3's good for smoke! Oo.

 

[C. Harlan]

speaking of tools.... I bagged a few for my toolbag today!

Incident #1... .



I was on my way home, just getting on the highway, motor still cool... didnt want to do too much, but when we were on the exit, to get on another highway, this car was so close I could only see his windshield... BAD IDEA! I lay it to the floor, and he thinks he is going to come around me... . WRONG!! he gets up to about the back of the cab, I shift out of smoky sixth, and hit flyin' fifth, and he is engulfed in a cloud. A cloud so big all the headlights behind me got dark brown for a sec! Well, that was the end of that one. . I won.



Incident #2... was getting on the highway after stopping to get some food, and jackass in a VW does not want to let me over... Ok, its my game now!! I fly around him from behind, as he sees this, gets on my tail... . I learned this next trick from SMOKE STORIES 101 CLASS: drop gear into neutral. Let boost drop. Put back into gear, center tailpipe, and floor it as much as possible!!! Well, it worked, I am sailing off, and whaddya know?? he wants to play... he passes me up as I already let off it, I caught up to him, he pulled on me a little bit, but nice car... VW jetta VR6. . Are those motors turbocharged?? They are damn fast, I know that much!!! I waved at him, he just looked at me, he got a smokin', and I got a good laugh!



-Chris-

 

[HoleshotHolset]

They make turbokits for the VR6 VW's... . but they are NA from the factory..... I believe in the realm of 180-190hp... . depending on which year you end up with. The latest versions (like the 1. 8T... ) have 5 valves per cylinder.....



Unless the "VR6" happens to be in an Audi... . then it could have twin turbos from the factory (Allroad, S4, A6 2. 7T, etc. )... . even though it's a bit different than the usual VW VR6. They're little screamers - sound like an exotic car when you rev them to the sky.....



VR6 = 15-degree V6 - with one cylinder head.



Matt

 

[C. Harlan]

this car was total stock with the typical yuppie urbanite in it driving. . I was just amazed at how that little ******* barely got away from me!!!! Time for some 4k springs!!!! haha



-Chris-

 

[snowracer69]

"Bullula" says: "VR6 is a yummy dessert after a nice Mustang for dinner!"



hehehehe... they're quick, but no match for an 8000 lbf truck!



Most end up :--) after running "The Green One" as my Jetta driving friend calls my CTD.