U know u have 2 much horsepower if:
1. The emissions test guy starts laughing as soon as you pull onto the rollers.
2. You can't drive your car in the rain.
3. Your "significant other" is afraid to drive your car.
4. You are afraid to drive your car.
5. You spend more on tires than on food.
6. You spend more on car insurance than on house payments.
7. You look in a state police car and see a picture of your car taped to the dash.
8. You throw your underwear in the garbage rather than the hamper.
9. You have to go to the track to buy gas.
10. Your mechanic names the new wing of his shop after you.
11. Jacques Villeneuve and Michael Schumacher wave you by.
12. You can make the Kessel Run in less than 12 parsecs.
13. You're tempted to wear your fire suit just to drive to the office.
14. Red signal lights shift to green as you're approaching then shift back to red as you're receding.
15. You arrive somewhere before you left.
16. You get pulled over for doing 155 in a 35 but the cops will let you go if "they can look under the hood."
17. You remove the $2000 stereo system to save 6 lb. of weight.
18. You are not allowed to run in the Silver State Challenge.
19. You get an anonymous phone call asking if you are interested in being in the Cannonball Run.
20. Your face looks like you are riding a NASA centrifuge when you drive the car.
22. You need parachute braking.
23. 'significant other' won't even ride in the car.
24 There is no possible way to "sneak out" of your neighborhood at 6 am.
25. Your pets scramble for their hiding spots as soon as the garage door is opened. (Pets, and all the neighbors...)
26. Family photos throughout the house are replaced with ife-sized posters of your car.
27. Fuel is delivered to your home: in 55 gallon drums!
28. You carry earplugs in your car.(doesn't everybody???)
29. The only spot on the car which receives any regular cleaning is the windshield. (what else is there to clean???)
30. You find out that side mirrors don't hold up at speeds exceeding 145 mph.
How Do You Know You Have Too Much Horsepower
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Re: How Do You Know You Have Too Much Horsepower
What's the problem?
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Re: How Do You Know You Have Too Much Horsepower
#14.. I gotta get me some of that!
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Re: How Do You Know You Have Too Much Horsepower
I finally get #14 now, doppler effect LOL
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.....I especially like number 7!!
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Re: How Do You Know You Have Too Much Horsepower
3 , 4 , 23 thats just about enough
i'm a firm believer in scaring myself then when your not so scared finding more grunt to scare yourself shitless and so it goes on
i'm a firm believer in scaring myself then when your not so scared finding more grunt to scare yourself shitless and so it goes on
Build it, Race it, Break/Bend it ; Repeat.