T-Bone
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Well, the showdown finally happened and even semi-pampering my Sy, the outcome was as expected (I think this is the 2nd time I have gotten on it since I have owned it). My bro was visiting and took the seat behind the SRT/10. I, of course, saddled in behind the Syclone and he stays behind me like a good boy to the showdown locale. First light we hit, he runs up and says "Nice ploy...you're running race gas punk" to which I smiled, said all is fair in love and war and to basically shut up, stop whining and keep following. We catch a light at the showdown drag and the cross traffic light goes yellow. I'm antzy now and have a guy filming so I am determined to blow the SRT/10 out of the county. Start building a little boost and the truck starts creeping...brakes can't handle the pressure...light turns red and I count one, one thousand and off the brakes. The truck bounds out of there like the stone that left David's slingshot....only problem is the turn light on the opposing side came on and I blew right through the red light. My bro stays put (good for him) and I run to about 85 and shut it down waiting on him to catch up. On down the road, we stop and I tell him when his back bumper passes me, it's on and immediately start to spool. He budges forward and I see his taillights for about 1/2 second and whoosh.....we are off again except as I am passing him very quickly, I hear him yelling my name. I slow down and he is frantically motioning behind him and saying COP. I look and a TN state trooper is rounding the curve with his whip antenna's bent over about 50 degree's and lights a blazin. We tool ahead and he pulls up next to my bro who is of course behind me where he belongs (we're rolling down the road) and over his loud speaker says "I know I didn't just see going down what I think I saw" and rolls on past him and me. We thought he was gonna be waiting at the off ramp for us but he turned and sped on to his crime scene (?). Wiping our foreheads and not willing to let it end like that, we take our chances with one more shot on a side road. Needless to say, my young bro should have stayed in TX.....he got waxed with a shine to boot. The race was over at 20 but I rubbed it in to 118 and felt sorry for him. The guy filming was so shook up over the advancing cop, he only got the first part of the run where the SRT/10 sits dumbfounded at the light.....and to think all this went down on 8 lbs of boost 
. Bottom line is 505 HP isn't enough for the 15 yo Syclone that hasn't outgrown its training pants yet (3,018 original miles).
. Bottom line is 505 HP isn't enough for the 15 yo Syclone that hasn't outgrown its training pants yet (3,018 original miles).
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