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That thing got a Hemeh?...it sure corners like one!
Disclaimer: This is NOT a Street Racing Thread
As many of you know, I've lost 2nd and 4th gear on my 4.11 trans and I'll be installing 4.44's in the coming weeks! As a result, I've been a good citizen of late, and driving the posted speed limit wherever I drive... This morning, I happened to be driving to the parts store to pick up a few things for my weekend projects (installing a new trans cooler & draining and replacing my ATF), when I pass a guy in one of those new Jeep Grand Cherokee's with a hemi engine (saw the hemi badges when I drove by him before he turned onto the highway). This guy catches up to me in a hurry and proceeds to sit on my tail for the long 11 mile drive into town on a 2 lane highway with a 55mph speed limit - traffic didn't permit him to pass me. As we get closer to town, the speed limit steps down to 45mph and then to 35mph and I slow down to stay within the law, and I can see this guy getting more and more perturbed in my rear-view mirror. We eventually come to a section of road where you have to make a sharp right and then an even sharper left to get onto an on-ramp to merge onto a 4 lane 55mph highway. The 'hemeh' Cherokee hangs on my tail through the first right, but on the sharper left turn I take it at ~35mph with no drama (thanks to the SVX's excellent suspension) and proceed up the ramp to the highway. When I look in my rear view mirror, the Cherokee's rear had swung around about 5 feet on the guy, and he had to brake hard to stay off of the guard rail. Needless to say, he didn't hang on my tail after that as I continued to drive the speed limit the rest of the way into town. -Chike P.S. Think my front & rear polyurethane bushings and 16x8" RX-7 wheels with sticky max performance summer (160 treadwear) Dunlop SP Sport 8000's had anything to do with how I took that corner?
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huh....weird..those Cherokees do so well at the autox here...
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What youse guys don't get is that tall suspention just plants, them there 265/65/15s harder in the turns so's we can,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
takes our time to pass ya in a big way! Next time, yur mine!
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You ba$+@rd
I've been trying to do that for years closest I got was following an SHO one night, they kept going faster, and I stayed right on them.......... Did I mention I was driving a 1977 F250 nose heavy 460? I'm jellous of you
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-Chike
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srt-4 corners fastAr
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-Chike
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tho in a straight line I'd steer clear of it |
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...or have it steer over you
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