01 GT-S vs Lexus SC400

[SpeedHawk]

I didn't even know that I was going to be racing. I was at a stop light and when turned green I spun wheels a little bit to try to entice a couple of mustangs a couple of lanes over to race. They had been racing before we got to the light. As soon as I hit it, a Lexus SC400 took off as well. He was in the lane across from me. Lexus, Mustang, I don't care, a race is a race. I had a 1/2 car length lead on him from the line and was never able to do much with it. I pulled away a little bit in my third gear after he closed on me coming out of 2nd because I carried my rpms too high, past 8300. We were going all the way through my 4th gear and I quit when I hit about 110 mph when I was pretty confident that he wasn't going to pass me. It was an awesome race. I never suspected that he was going to go like he did. He was pissed and made a right hand turn off of the road. I kept going about 3 miles down the road before making a u-turn to head home. On my way back there was an FHP cop parked in the median almost exactly where I had hit my top speed just a couple of minutes ago. Sometimes it feels nice to be good and lucky!

[kizzy]

neat =).. congrats

[Youngen]

FHP? Florida Highway Patrol, hey if you in florida, hit up our FLorida forum. We do Bithol track meets alot. Well I'll cya around!

[SpeedHawk]

What is the link to the florida forum?
FHP=FL Highway Patrol
I'm in Orlando.

[Youngen]

Just click on forum and its at the bottom, if you got AIM ( Mine = Legolas Blitz and Jere who is a good friend with another celi in FL is = jeretool ) Forum -> scroll down to Location forums( Bottom ) -> then just click FL , we're all waiting............

[ishido]

SC400s are pretty darn quick, but they are all autos. Darn luxury cars... I think the IS300 is one of the few exceptions. My brother used to have one and it didn't like to launch hard until a few seconds after flooring it. Had great top end though, & lots of nifty toys inside.

[SpeedHawk]

How do you like the Short shifter? Did you do the install yourself?
I've noticed that on the later 2001 GTS, toyota spread out the gear travel quite a bit. My GTS has the gears very close together, which I happen to like. The kit doesn't alter the gear travel path laterally does it?