Dumb things done in FTO's

Robb · Post by **Robb** » Mon Mar 22, 2004 5:39 pm

Ok I'm just curious as to what sort of dumb ass things people have done in their FTO's.. I'll start..

1. Driving at approx. 200 kph (needle dropped below 180 and started going nuts) in a 70 zone on a friday night up a road that usually has cops with cameras on it..

but as I'm still here I guess there were no cops that night..

(happened about 1year ago)

2. Same road but other direction doing 140 kph in left lane with a bus infront ahead of me and a car about two car lengths behind the bus in the right lane.. I scream up behind the bus without slowing down and then hook it into the right lane cutting infront of the car nearly cliping both bus and car...

Yes I believe this is probably the dumbest thing you could do on the road except for the sh*t they show on those cop chase shows on tv (Australia's worst driver's).. Although that effort would have looked the same minus the cops chasing me of course...

I do feel ashammed of that effort as I could of got people killed

but the adrenalin rush was orsum (I only joke cos no one got injured, I'm not really that sadistic).. I dont think I'll ever do something that stupid again...

So what dumb ass things have you done.. I know your not all angels speak up..

Robb...

ruchi · Post by **ruchi** » Mon Mar 22, 2004 5:44 pm

perhaps you could explain your signature, as you obviously got caught that time

FOULZ · Post by **FOULZ** » Mon Mar 22, 2004 5:58 pm

over took a pajero and an excel in a small street with NO INSURANCE and a fresh new paint job and bodykit, came round excel to see another 4wd come straight at me and i just sh*t myself.........
so i gave it a boot and closed my eyes....i dont know how my car didnt get fucked up in that situation...

also had a mad little cop chase through the back streets of south hurstville, it went for bout 5-6 mins then the fucker caught me coz i took a right instead of a left.

Guni_GuGu · Post by **Guni_GuGu** » Mon Mar 22, 2004 6:13 pm

OK stupid things I've done not in an FTO, don't have one yet, but soon will....

A week after I had my licence, I went out to this party, and ended up hooking up, with, seriously, one of the hottest girls, I have ever seen, anyways, we were in public at the party, so we needed some privacy, we went to the car (Mum's barina at the time LOL ) and we started up again there, then my idiots friends, come to have a perve, so I was like, fuk this, and drove off... However being ridiclously drunk on a saturday nite, we ended up driving all over melbourne, stopping at certains spots, like lakes and sh*t, so we could get back into it... but seriously, I could've really hurt someone that nite, or been busted for drinking, I was really luckly.

Second stupid thing I did, dropping off my friend at his place in whoop whoop country area, we decided to see what my 2nd gen mx6 could so, down these long ass stretches... she hit 200k's on the way up, wouldn't really get much faster then that... dtopped of my friend, coming back home, the car was lighter, and there was a nice downhill, so I tried again.... hit 235, before, the car went over a little bump lost controll, and sure enough, another car, came down the other side, so I had to avoid her, was slowing down, but still out of controll, to avoid the other car, I drove off road, into 4-5 tree's. Rolled the car, and well, smashed everyting, hangning upside down, I espcaed tru the back window, front one, had a huge tree in it's way... got out, and about 5 mins later the car was on fire....

That was the stupid thing, I think i've ever done, and I learnt my lesson hard. I would never ever try anything like that ever again, unless i was at a track.... I was extremely luckly, not to hurt anyone and come out, with only minor cuts everywhere....

Bluntman · Post by **Bluntman** » Mon Mar 22, 2004 6:25 pm

140km/h sideways up a hill late at nite, just got my car, had 2 mates in the car, 1 asked how fast she go, didnt realise the bridge ahead popped up a little bit, bit sideways in the air, landed nice and smooth, continued sideways for bout 500m. missed two parked cars, one on each side of the road and a tree. Mate spilled his beer in the back, mate in front talked like a little girl for a while after it.
lucky nothing happened!! and lucky i grew up on a farm and have cars sideways many many times.......

Post by **Supplanter** » Mon Mar 22, 2004 6:48 pm

Dragging a VT S Comonwhore at 180km in an 80kmh zone notorious for cops and speed cameras... when I realised how fast I was going it scared the bejesus out of me

, not a good idea to do that at 1am in the morning with minimal sleep... and all this happened this morning

GPXXX · Post by **GPXXX** » Mon Mar 22, 2004 8:35 pm

the Victorians will be able to relate to this - if you have a low-ass kit fitted up front on your FTO, the dumbest thing you can do is go to Knox City shopping centre and park in one of the multilevel car parks behind the cinemas... they got this absolutely FUBAR'd massive speed-hump at the bottom of the ramp and no matter which angle you take it on, IT WILL CRACK your FRONT END.... i know this because i learnt it the hard way... nothing sounds worse (....well, almost) than painted fibreglass scraping along the concrete until you hear a crack!

Guni_GuGu · Post by **Guni_GuGu** » Mon Mar 22, 2004 11:33 pm

GPXXX wrote:the Victorians will be able to relate to this - if you have a low-ass kit fitted up front on your FTO, the dumbest thing you can do is go to Knox City shopping centre and park in one of the multilevel car parks behind the cinemas... they got this absolutely FUBAR'd massive speed-hump at the bottom of the ramp and no matter which angle you take it on, IT WILL CRACK your FRONT END.... i know this because i learnt it the hard way... nothing sounds worse (....well, almost) than painted fibreglass scraping along the concrete until you hear a crack!

How low is your car mikey? and what springs/shockers you got on?

That sounds horrible, how can't get over that hump..

HEK-71Q · Post by **HEK-71Q** » Tue Mar 23, 2004 12:07 am

hmmm...Xmas period last year...headed to Old Pacific Hwy around 1am with mate's Integra V-tir. doing at least 90 on curves and i was even on the other lane for 3mins...there was this bend and i kinda lost control but regained it..but my mate didnt....he ended up connectin to a tree front left side. If he missed, he wouldve ended up down the cliff......n at the time i had 3rd party as well...tsk tsk tsk...
and on the way back..... i had 4 people with meand got pulled over twice by copppers...lucky they didnt notice its a 4 seater car. Phew!

GPXXX · Post by **GPXXX** » Tue Mar 23, 2004 7:09 am

Guni_GuGu wrote:How low is your car mikey? and what springs/shockers you got on?

That sounds horrible, how can't get over that hump..

the ground clearance on my car has exactly 100mm with 2 passengers on board... (yet lately I've been thinking of lowering further as well

)

d_stroy_r · Post by **d_stroy_r** » Tue Mar 23, 2004 1:53 pm

The most crazy thing i've done is last friday.lol

Me and my m8s were xtremely bored and around 3am, we were driving around normal suburbs and we saw trees in the middle of the road, so we were doing moto-khana styles around them. Remember that there is only 2 lanes. It wasn't really scary since the road was str8 and there was no cars at all. I would never do that at day-time.

Radium · Post by **Radium** » Mon Apr 12, 2004 4:24 am

Going up old south head rd in vaucluse, turning into vaucluse rd. Hardly anyone ever comes out of that turn, so I usually take it about 3 times faster than you're supposed to and use up the other side of the road.

Well this time, there was a dude in an old commodore waiting at the lights going the other way. I didn't have enough time to slow down so I hooked it around the corner, lost control, was heading straight for his driver's side door. He would have been wiped out for sure, I was doing about 60 around a fairly sharp corner. Luckily I got traction back right in time and managed to swerve off centimetres from hitting the commodore.

I saw the guy's face as I was heading for him - I would not have blamed him if he chased me and kicked my arse. I drove home doing 30km/h all the way. It's this sort of sh*t that makes you stop and think about how much you can lose with one stupid move.

GPXXX · Post by **GPXXX** » Tue Apr 13, 2004 12:04 am

overtook a friggen' campervan on a single laner at the Princess Hwy with oncoming traffic about 150m away... God i love my 3rd gear

scared the living daylights out of my friends though' :shock: LoL...

pagan · Post by **pagan** » Sat May 22, 2004 4:22 am

LOL hmmmm lets see

this one particular corner, completely blind while passing under a bridge turns sharpy back around the way you came. i take it every time fast, but on special occasions as ive posted on another thread ive taken that corner at over 100Km easy, i cant say for sure coz i am sure as sh#t not looking at the needle at that point. i cut across into the opposing lane and hope to god there is not another car commming!!!!

had a cop chase at 200km i didnt mean it but i got mad at a moron who broke down in front of me. but did he pull over? NO! he decided to drive home at 10km oblivious to the many many cars behind tooting. so after 20 minutes of no one letting me out of the lane i floored it out into traffic and cut infront. i hoped they would vbreak or dodge me and they did, only as i gunned it there was a cop car behind the bush just as i did it. very bad timing

it was either pull over and lose my license or keep going and MAYBE lose my license as i had jack all points left. so i floored it. i lost the cops when i hit 200km then cut through 4 red lights!!! then the train booms came down and i was forced to slice into a corner at 170km. it was a 6 lane road with no island in the middle 50 metres from the lights. i cut through that gap from the wrong side of the road and was gone. got to work got out of the car lit up a smoke and sat on the floor for 40 minutes freaked out at how calm i was through out the entire thing... and the fact that even after i had lost the cops i couldnt get my foot of the accelerator ... obviously there was a lot of panic behind the cool mask.

oh and that was also the last time my work mate ever asked me to pick him up

(thats right he was in the car and admitted he was more scared by my calm expression then the actual chase) hasnt stopped asking me for the keys just around the block ever since LOL

that was a very stupid thing to do i know, and i was VERY freaked out when it was over, but to be honest that would be the dubbest thing i have ever done in a car by a long shot.

bare in mind this beats driving through a hospital gardens a month after getting my license and smashing through a bank 6 months after that... although that was not my fault, Pelting down rain and sleet, smooth as a babies ass road and my tire burst on a tram line at 40 km into a corner, after that the sleek road did the rest.

payaya · Post by **payaya** » Sat May 22, 2004 7:54 pm

thought i had tip in tip mode but was in full auto made, went to upshift at redline put it in nutural.

reversing for 20 minutes to get to my destination when i lost all foward gears when my tip box went.

mrx · Post by **mrx** » Sun May 23, 2004 7:41 am

payaya wrote:thought i had tip in tip mode but was in full auto made, went to upshift at redline put it in nutural.

reversing for 20 minutes to get to my destination when i lost all foward gears when my tip box went.

Sorry, but that is really funny!

Slither · Post by **Slither** » Sun May 23, 2004 9:32 am

man ive done that a couple of times, luckily i was only at about 3-4000rpm at the time so all i did was rev it to about 6-7000 before i realised what i'd done!! Still makes u look a real dick, especially if your tring to get goin quickly!!

Hyper · Post by **Hyper** » Thu May 27, 2004 4:08 am

I was sitting at a set of lights one night when a corolla pulls up next to me, the driver starts revvin' his car and the passengers are giving me a hard time, so the lights go green and i leave this car full of clowns sitting at the lights wondering what they did wrong. What i didnt see, thanks to my VS spoiler, was the cop car creeping up behind me at the lights. Lucky for me they had a "passenger" in the cage so all i got for doing 30 k's over the limit was a finger wave and a mouth full of abuse out of the open window of the cop car.

Driving down the club strip in town i notice a group of ladies in the early 20 age bracket eyeing off the car, so i pull the "how you doin'" nod and look back in front to find the car in front is 3 inches away and at a dead stop. I brake hard and come to a screeching halt close enuff to see what size screws he has in his back number plate. Needless to say i now spend more time watching the road ahead instead of whats walking on the side of it.

GPXXX · Post by **GPXXX** » Fri May 28, 2004 2:57 pm

dumbest thing i've done to my FTO to date:

spending all that time and effort looking for parts etc and fitting a turbo in it, then forced to take the entire thing out again in time for the mallacoota cruise... that's right, there will be no turbo in my car for the mallacoota cruise (which can be a good thing i suppose judging by the current fuel prices) which effectively means the car will be temporarily reverted back to NA form ...

it's a long ass story but in short, i had no choice since i was dealing with lazy bum chums from a truly incompetent ECU company who shafted me left, right and centre in the past 3 weeks with the delivery of my engine mangement system...

Slither · Post by **Slither** » Sat May 29, 2004 1:42 pm

oh that sucks!!!

well at least u get your last shot of n/a fun before u go turbo on us!!