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texanidiot25 · 12-20-2010, 09:06 PM

Downshift into 2nd, or 1st if I'm really motivated to lose speed.

Usually a 4in square steel bumper gets the message across, however. Alliteratively I can slam the choke shut and floor it. Let the exhaust smell atrocious, it's worked quite a few times.

In the CRX I'd downshift into second, shut off the motor and start pumping the gas. The carb would dump enough fuel into the hot exhaust that it'd violently backfire and release a sweet cloud of smoke from it too. Or, I'd just rev it up over 5,000 rpm at which the piston rings would let it burn oil. Did that at a stop light where a squid kept being a prick.

12-20-2010, 09:06 PM	#243 (permalink)
texanidiot25 Master EcoModder Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Cypress, TX Posts: 331 Formula - '96 Firebird Formula/Trans-Am 90 day: 19.31 mpg (US) Thanks: 8 Thanked 31 Times in 18 Posts	Downshift into 2nd, or 1st if I'm really motivated to lose speed. Usually a 4in square steel bumper gets the message across, however. Alliteratively I can slam the choke shut and floor it. Let the exhaust smell atrocious, it's worked quite a few times. In the CRX I'd downshift into second, shut off the motor and start pumping the gas. The carb would dump enough fuel into the hot exhaust that it'd violently backfire and release a sweet cloud of smoke from it too. Or, I'd just rev it up over 5,000 rpm at which the piston rings would let it burn oil. Did that at a stop light where a squid kept being a prick. __________________ Lets see how far it can go "All I know about music is that not many people ever really hear it. [...] But the man who creates the music is hearing something else, is dealing with the roar rising from the void and imposing order on it as it hits the air. What is evoked in him, then, is of another order, more terrible because it has no words, and triumphant, too, for the same reason. And his triumph, when he triumphs, is ours." -Sonny's Blues