My SSR: 2005 SlingShot Yellow #14279 – Flamed Engine Cover – WindSupreSSR – Corvette Servo + a lot more!
Road hazzards
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Originally Posted by waysouth6speed
Lots of wide open spaces and straight roads in Florida, just gotta watch out for gators crossin' the road!
We have lots of wide open spaces being we only have 630,000 population for the whole state. But, instead of having to look out for some little ole gators... we have to keep an eye out for huge whitetail deer, moose, and elk.
My SSR: 2006 FPR 6 speed Silver w/ Blue Flames by www.airkolors.com
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Originally Posted by DakotaDocMartin
We have lots of wide open spaces being we only have 630,000 population for the whole state. But, instead of having to look out for some little ole gators... we have to keep an eye out for huge whitetail deer, moose, and elk.
Our deer are alot smaller and compared to a moose a 'gator is like a speed bump! Be careful!!!
Many years ago a couple buddies and I were coming back from the Munich octoberfest in a rented BMW doing about 120 on the autoban, I see in the rear view two red dots getting closer and closer faster and faster, then all of a sudden two Ferrari's passed us like we were sitting on the side of the road, WOW, then just that fast they faded ahead back to red dots then gone!!!I had to check my speedo again and sure enought 120 steady!! 2Otters
Just a word of caution when speeding through Kansas near Hayes on I-70....DONT!!!!.....Got tagged there in April while enroute to the NCM in Bowling Green Ky for the C5 bash....A couple Corvette buddies and I were caravanning running about 90 (92 to be exact)....Tommy Trooper wrote all three of us...$277 a pop!!!!....Bastard got us with "instant on"...by the time the Escort screamed it was too late...we'd been had.......I tried joking with him, but he had NO sense of humor......you'd a thought we were running a fricking BUCK 50!!!...DAMN, a 22 over ticket in Colorado nets you a $100 fine....but of course Colorado is a tourist state, we dont depend on our revenue solely from "BS" speeding tickets......(Who the hell want to go to Kansas on vacation??? ).....Thats another thing...Colorado with it's twisty hiways has a 75mph speed limit on it's interstates....Kansas, with it's miles and miles (and miles and miles) of straight hiway...70 mph speed limit!!!...What a frickin rip!!!!....That's like having a naked honey rub up against a happily married man just to see if he'll "bite"!!!!
Oh well, we were all WWWWAAAAYYYY over due...The year before we went to SanteFe NM to meet up with a bunch of Corvette buddies doing the Route 66 tour....We got south of Raton on I-25 where we really did put it on a BUCK 50 until we hit Las Vegas NM...DAMN, WHAT A RIDE!!!!
Dan Samento
Canon City, Co
2005 SSR...NFORSSR
2002 Corvette Convertible..NFLIGHT
1999 Corvette Coupe...NVADER
2000 Harley NightTrain...NYTRYD
2004 Silverado 4x4...NVIGR8R
2002 Monte Carlo SS...SRNDPTY...(wife's car)
Have hit the 140 mark a few times. Had the speed limiter eliminated when I upgraded the tires and got the S/C. Does it pretty easily, with more to go, but is not that confident feeling. Last car was an M3 which was so stable and in control at 150 or so that I got rid of it before I wound up in jail. I was regularly finding myself at the 120 mark and totally relaxed. Even tho my SSR is capable of those speeds it is not at home there. Crazy as it sounds, I traded the M3 for for the SSR to slow myself down. Even at over 500 HP now, I rarely find myself over 90 which is ticket time instead of jail time. Both vehicles are animals, just different and just beg to be driven differently.
Regardless, all things considered, my SSR is easily my favorite ride yet,and I have been driving since 1960 which makes me about 40 i think.
I too find myself driving more "sanely" in my SSR than in my Vettes....I grew up driving non-overdrive cars that cruised the hiway at about 60 mph at 3000 rpm....I got real used to driving on the hiway at that rpm....driving more "in tune" with the engine rpm rather than the speed (if that makes sense)......Because of such, I still tend to drive at a speed where the engine tachs around 3000rpm, not necessarily paying that much attention to my speed (shame on me)....Of course driving a car with an overdrive transmission yields a higher speed at the same rpm than a non-overdrive car at the same rpm (given both have the same rear-end gear ratio)......Ive found when driving my C5 Vettes at this rpm (both have 3.15 gears) I usually run close to 100 if traffic allows (luckily this part of Colorado has lots of open road and not too many troopers) praying the Escort does it's job if I happen upon the rarely seen CSP)....Whereas in my SSR with it's 3.73 gears I run about 80 at 3000 rpm....The Vettes and the SSR tach out at about the same rpm with the Vettes running 100mph and the SSR running 80mph...
Dan Samento
Canon City, Co
2005 SSR....NFORSSR
2002 Corvette Convertible...NFLIGHT
1999 Corvette Coupe...NVADER
2000 Harley Night Train...NYTRYD
2004 Silverado 4x4...NVIGR8R
2002 Monte Carlo SS....SRNDPTY (wife's car)
My SSR: "Slingshot Yellow" 05 auto License plate "BIG V8"
Badge???
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Originally Posted by nforssr
Just a word of caution when speeding through Kansas near Hayes on I-70....DONT!!!!.....Got tagged there in April while enroute to the NCM in Bowling Green Ky for the C5 bash....A couple Corvette buddies and I were caravanning running about 90 (92 to be exact)....Tommy Trooper wrote all three of us...$277 a pop!!!!....Bastard got us with "instant on"...by the time the Escort screamed it was too late...we'd been had.......I tried joking with him, but he had NO sense of humor......you'd a thought we were running a fricking BUCK 50!!!...DAMN, a 22 over ticket in Colorado nets you a $100 fine....but of course Colorado is a tourist state, we dont depend on our revenue solely from "BS" speeding tickets......(Who the hell want to go to Kansas on vacation??? ).....Thats another thing...Colorado with it's twisty hiways has a 75mph speed limit on it's interstates....Kansas, with it's miles and miles (and miles and miles) of straight hiway...70 mph speed limit!!!...What a frickin rip!!!!....That's like having a naked honey rub up against a happily married man just to see if he'll "bite"!!!!
Oh well, we were all WWWWAAAAYYYY over due...The year before we went to SanteFe NM to meet up with a bunch of Corvette buddies doing the Route 66 tour....We got south of Raton on I-25 where we really did put it on a BUCK 50 until we hit Las Vegas NM...DAMN, WHAT A RIDE!!!!
Dan Samento
Canon City, Co
2005 SSR...NFORSSR
2002 Corvette Convertible..NFLIGHT
1999 Corvette Coupe...NVADER
2000 Harley NightTrain...NYTRYD
2004 Silverado 4x4...NVIGR8R
2002 Monte Carlo SS...SRNDPTY...(wife's car)
Hey Nforssr
I got the impression that you were "on the job" was I wrong or are the troopers in Kassas not interested in your badge. just curious.
Im only "on the job" when Im "on the job"....I dont carry my badge off-duty....I do carry official I.D. that in the event I ever had to "get involved" in something while off-duty I can show official identification......But, it's not a speeding-permit......Back in my traffic days I never wrote a fellow officer, although it used to p*ss me off when they would flash a badge as if to say "here's my speeding permit"....You play you pay I say....There are things in life worth paying for...like a triple digit blast in a C5 Corvette!!!....Ive been tagged several times over the years, the most recently about 3 months ago in nearby Colorado Springs...a chichen sh*t 71 in a 60, in a passing zone for that matter....in my 4x4!!!...Lucky I wasnt in my Vette(s) or I'd probably been doing twice that speed!!!
As far as the Kansas trooper...he came off telling me he had reports we (three Corvettes) were drag racing across Kansas...I told him we had been running single file the entire trip, with me in the lead...and although we were running 22 over that certainly didnt constitute drag racing......He argued that it did constitute drag racing...at that point I said "Ive been a cop for 25 years and I know otherwise, so write us for drag racing if you want and we'll beat it in court, or write us speeding tickets and we'll pay them and be on our way"...He didnt ask for verification that I was a cop, and simply returned to his car and wrote out the tickets.....Had I known they were going to be $277 a pop I would have probably rather taken the drag racing tickets!!!
Oh well.....Maybe he'll screw up in my town someday!!!
Dan Samento
Canon City, Co
Nice sunny day today. So I just thought I'd take it for a spin. What a spin.
Did something I haven't done in a long long long time.
It was a first for this SSR; it's never been past 100 before.
120
It was effortless and just climbed with ease.
Then I backed off and yes there was more speed to spare.
Did this about 6 months ago but I was in my Corvette. I noticed a highway patrol car with it's red lights on coming from behind me. I pulled over and waited on him. He asked me did I know how fast I was going. I told him not for sure but I do know that I was clipping along at a pretty good speed. He said well - you when thru my radar at 133 MPH. He asked me how I like the Corvette and I said I liked it real well. He asked me what I thought about it's performance and I told him it had great power when needed. He asked me why I was speeding and I told him that since this a back road with no side streets, I want to see what it would do and how it would handle. He gave me my drivers license back and told me to just be careful. We drove off together and were side by side and he motioned for me to get on it. I smile and shook my head no, smiled at each other and drove off. I was looking for a big ticket or go to jail. This was a great day.
and I hope you know that. I live a short distance north of that construction cancer called Metropolitan Atlanta, with it's gazillion people who drive around all day and night, and do so while talking on their cell phones, reading the newspaper, eating snacks, and putting on make-up (the men, too, apparently), and oh, the latest fashion in development is "active adult" communities, which means our roads are full of tottering old folks who alternate between driving 35 in the left lane and 75 mph in the right lane (and that is just in the subdivisions)...so I doubt that I'll ever have the chance to safely go over 80. It sucks. I need to take a trip out west, I guess.
ITS ALMOST THAT BAD HERE IN FLORIDA BUT SOME TIMES ON TURN PIKE YOU CAN LET THE DOG HUNT, BEEN TO ABOUT 120-125 BUT WAS GETTING A SHIMMY OUT OF RIGHT SIDE FRONT BAD BALANCE ENDED UP BEINGTHE PROB, NEEDTO PICK THE RIGHT TIME AGAIN TO TEST, THIS TIME GOING TO JUST HOLD IT TILL THE MOTOR TOPS OUT................
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).....Thats another thing...Colorado with it's twisty hiways has a 75mph speed limit on it's interstates....Kansas, with it's miles and miles (and miles and miles) of straight hiway...70 mph speed limit!!!...What a frickin rip!!!!....That's like having a naked honey rub up against a happily married man just to see if he'll "bite"!!!!
