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I am an idiot and deserve to be banned.

Rob5454

Rob5454

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Okay, so about a Month or so ago, I got my license. It was the best feeling in the world, you know, being 16 and able to go anywhere it seemed like.

Well I being the stupid teenager that I am, got on 35 at like 2 am with this girl and she said that we should see how fast we could get the car. We went 105 and then slowed down to 100 and cruised there for about a minute. The car was fine. That was dumb and all, but it didn't have any bad effects. In fact, that run actually got me something I really shouldn't share on this site....

ANYWAYS, I liked going fast that time, so I went on a back road and put the pedal down to the floor until I was at 112. (governor limit) I never took the pedal off the floor until I saw the RPM gauge drop down to 2000 and then up to 3500 and then back down to 2000. By then, the engine was making a weird clicky like noise. I figured that the engine needed to simply cool off, so I drove to a mall with that same girl and was at the mall for about 3 hours. When we left, I tried to find out if the engine was still making the noise. It sure was and that time, it was worse. I decided to go home. When I got on 35 to go no faster than 70, the noise got even worse. By the time I was exiting, the engine shut off. All the power stuff worked fine except for the power steering. I parked in a small office building lot and called Triple A to be towed.

The next day, I learned that the car needed a new engine because it completely seized up. I now do not have the Grand Prix any more and am going to finance a 2012 Mazda 3 because the GP did have some other minor issues. Ban me if you want as I no longer have what I think is an amazing car. I'm switching to a Japanese car...
 




A healthy motor can be floored with worries. Specially a 3800 motor. Definitely something was wrong before hand.
 
Advice from an old man, we gain experience by making decisions, most of them bad. Like others have said it most likely wasn't all you or the speed.
 
Speeding is bad, going 100 in a 3800 is not.

The things ive done to 3800s on the highway would make your head explode in comparison to going 100 in a 200hp grand prix... lol....
 


W-bodies are like herpes, bout the time you think theiyre gone, they come back in force lol. They grow on you like herpes too ;)
 


hey i worse when i was 16 to spend quality time with a girl. that motor was not your fault something else was bad i run my gtp too 100+ at the track regularly, get a 98-02 gtp for a couple grand and see how fast that 100 mph mark comes up.

Now however that I am a new dad i need to practice so here we go,

Why the hell were you going so fast after just getting your licence? impress the girl with torque and just use the motor to push her back in the seat for the sensation of speed lol
 
To quote Will Smith..."She kicked her shoes off onto the floor and she said, 'drive fast - speed turns me on'. She put her hand on my knee, I put my foot on the gas, we almost got whiplash we took off so fast...the roof was open, the music was high and this girls hand was steadily moving up my thigh...she had opened up 3 buttons on her shirt so far - I guess that's why I didn't notice that police car..."
 
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