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I beat a ford..you gotta read this!
Old 10-27-2004, 07:51 PM   #1 (permalink)
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I beat a ford..you gotta read this!

Ive owned my 98 12V for a while now. One of my friends liked it so he went diesel shopping. He called me up, said he bought a ford! He got a 2001 psd 7.3 F-350 single wheel 4-door. Oh well, at least its a diesel, I said. So one day he wanted to race (he was pullin a small empty single axle trailer, I was pullin my 24' enclosed trailer full). I kept sayin no. Finally he just decided to leave me. Well, I gave mine some gas and kept up pretty darn well. not bad for about 6,000lbs difference. about a month ago, I got my #11 plate. He then decided he needed a chip. he bought the superchip programmer. Friday night, I was pulling my enclosed trailer again with a 1972 340 challenger Rally in it. I see him in my mirror closing in. He gets next to me, on a 4 lane road. the road turns to 2 lanes in about 1,000'. He is empty, by the way. He tries to beat me to the bottleneck. Im in fourth (5-speed) at about 45mph. I floor it. He floors it (auto) and I hear his down shift. Mine makes full boost, and I actually pull away! Man was I proud. He did admit later that he was tryin to beat me. He must have one of the sick power strokes or something, cause I was pullin about 6,500lbs. anyways, I was really proud of my truck.
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