This morning I went to go pick up my car from the shop.
Today is one day I will never forget!
When the car was done the mechanic (owner of the performance shop) took me for a ride in my mustang to see if it drives ok. My car did not need a chip... he got it to idle somehow.I thought I was going to need a chip.
Anyway he drove 1/4 throttle. 1/2 throttle and 3/4 throttle.
We then went to an open road by the shop away from cars and people and he wanted to see how it goes WOT. The road is little over a 1/4 mile long.At the end is a stop sign and you can go left or right not straight.He goes WOT the car is pulling like crazy We get to about 80 mph and all of a sudden he yells.....
OH ***** WE HAVE NO BRAKES!!!!!!!!!!!! The stop sign is maybe 50-70 yards away.I was so freaking scared.I thought to myself he races cars I hope we don't lose control. Up ahead (the road ends and you can only go left or right) He starts swerving to slow the car down and it slowed to maybe 40-50 mph and he yells HOLD ON and tries to make a 90 degree right turn going at those speeds.The tires are sguealing and we go into the ditch right towards a big tree.I see the tree and I thought to myself I'm going to the hospital.
I grab onto something and closed my eyes as hard as I could.
He misses the tree and we pop out of the ditch back onto the road.
Then when we get back onto the road the brakes came back.
We pulled over all shaken up to check for damage. Turns out the damage was minimal.My front bumper was busted up along with the headlight and a dent on the side of the car.My front tire and rim was also scraped.Thank god he was a good driver.
Turns out my master cylinder is leaking.The freaky thing is it brakes fine now.
I need to replace it ASAP though.
As far as the damage he is going to replace everything damaged.
I was lucky we didn't spray the nitrous.I might not of been here right now.
I know the guy so i wasn't really mad at him.
Anyway driving my car back home I felt a big difference in power.WOW. night and day from stock.
The exhaust is so much louder.Almost too loud now (magnapacks,O/R H,headers).I LOVE the idle.What a difference.That cam has alot of lope.
I figured what happend today would of ruined my day but I'm just so happy with the H/C/I that I'm actually in a good mood.
One thing I forgot to mention was he said when we were going WOT that I was hitting the rev limiter on every shift.I have a shift kit in my AODE and he said it shifts too late and a chip will fix that.Anyone ever have this problem?
Also if you are wondering why he didn't use the E brake.He said we would of spun the back end out and he would of lost control.
Sorry for such a long post!
Merry Christmas and be safe.
Today is one day I will never forget!
When the car was done the mechanic (owner of the performance shop) took me for a ride in my mustang to see if it drives ok. My car did not need a chip... he got it to idle somehow.I thought I was going to need a chip.
Anyway he drove 1/4 throttle. 1/2 throttle and 3/4 throttle.
We then went to an open road by the shop away from cars and people and he wanted to see how it goes WOT. The road is little over a 1/4 mile long.At the end is a stop sign and you can go left or right not straight.He goes WOT the car is pulling like crazy We get to about 80 mph and all of a sudden he yells.....
OH ***** WE HAVE NO BRAKES!!!!!!!!!!!! The stop sign is maybe 50-70 yards away.I was so freaking scared.I thought to myself he races cars I hope we don't lose control. Up ahead (the road ends and you can only go left or right) He starts swerving to slow the car down and it slowed to maybe 40-50 mph and he yells HOLD ON and tries to make a 90 degree right turn going at those speeds.The tires are sguealing and we go into the ditch right towards a big tree.I see the tree and I thought to myself I'm going to the hospital.
I grab onto something and closed my eyes as hard as I could.
He misses the tree and we pop out of the ditch back onto the road.
Then when we get back onto the road the brakes came back.
We pulled over all shaken up to check for damage. Turns out the damage was minimal.My front bumper was busted up along with the headlight and a dent on the side of the car.My front tire and rim was also scraped.Thank god he was a good driver.
Turns out my master cylinder is leaking.The freaky thing is it brakes fine now.
I need to replace it ASAP though.
As far as the damage he is going to replace everything damaged.
I was lucky we didn't spray the nitrous.I might not of been here right now.
I know the guy so i wasn't really mad at him.
Anyway driving my car back home I felt a big difference in power.WOW. night and day from stock.
The exhaust is so much louder.Almost too loud now (magnapacks,O/R H,headers).I LOVE the idle.What a difference.That cam has alot of lope.
I figured what happend today would of ruined my day but I'm just so happy with the H/C/I that I'm actually in a good mood.
One thing I forgot to mention was he said when we were going WOT that I was hitting the rev limiter on every shift.I have a shift kit in my AODE and he said it shifts too late and a chip will fix that.Anyone ever have this problem?
Also if you are wondering why he didn't use the E brake.He said we would of spun the back end out and he would of lost control.
Sorry for such a long post!
Merry Christmas and be safe.