Hi,

when I turn the ignition, I press the accelerator pedal a bit, creating some noise, a bit silly I guess.

Sometimes I'll get the revs just right do that the turbo whines and makes a dump valve noise when you change gear. I know, childish and I should have grown out if that by now

I often Launch Control my car and turn the anti lag on.....

 

But only off the pubic roads you understand ;)

I used to have an Opel manta with launch control used to spit 3" flames whether you drive nicely or not, got pulled over quite a lot

I used to have an Opel manta with launch control used to spit 3" flames whether you drive nicely or not, got pulled over quite a lot

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Now that i like the sound of :) Mine doesn't spit flames the Prodrive back box makes sure of that :(

there's a hill near me that's a 40 zone, when I go downhill in 2nd I feather the throttle and get it popping and banging all the way, it's so funny seeing people jump or looking around smiling and watching me go past :D

 

I must get 50 smiles per gallon

I had a virtually a straight pipe from the manifold it just had a muffler which is bigger tube with lagging in it but it's still straight. Good old Demon Tweeks

I drive near Meadowhall shopping centre now and again, sometimes I drive into the multi storey car park, drive around in first gear making lots of noise, and then drive back out again

You know what they say about men and boys and the difference . . . There isn't any difference

Haha I do the exact same thing Dave!

I also rev my car randomly at traffic lights - not to start races or anything like that. But just because I like the noise :)

I do a thing at the lights a bit like the revving but I just tap it really fast almost like an anti lag sound should try it :D 

That's brilliant, just to think the amount of people you annoyed setting them car alarms off! lol. My brother used to have a white Opal Manta and he loved it, regrets selling it. Also used to do banger racing in them :) .

 

I also like tend to rev the car every now and then at traffic lights just to hear it purr!

back in Austrralia my 2003 Forester XS auto had a folding out cup holding next the radio , i used it for my 2m/70cm handy talkie as being a licensed radio amateur

 

now here in the UK the cup holder is gone in my 2006 XC auto! please Subaru why did you remove it

 

now i have no place for my handy talkie grrrrrrr

 

 

but you did give me bigger mirrors as the small ones on the XS were just a joke B)

My Opel Manta was heavily modded, 2.0 16v Opel GSI engine tuned up quite a bit, 1.6 Carlton gearbox as they use the Getrag gearbox with no seals, wax about 200bhp, which I appreciate isn't much today but back then was pretty serious, 0-60 was just over 6secs. It was also painted ford zinc yellow which didn't stand out much, what with that, the flames and the 109 Db it used to run at its not hard to see why I used to get pulled over a lot.

I have to be more sensible nowadays

My old MKII Escort. Where I lived you came down a hill, took a sharp right (almost back on yourself) then up another hill (which was my street). Every single time I'd come down the hill (quickly) slap it into second, lock it up with the clutch, turn in, power on sideways back up the hill.

 

I'm a good driver but that was a: stupid b: showed a total lack of mechanical sympathy.

I found that when in a multi storey car park, I can set car alarms off just by driving normally past them. Is it wrong to smile when they go off :)

I found that when in a multi storey car park, I can set car alarms off just by driving normally past them. Is it wrong to smile when they go off :)

Not at all I do the same thing I can even go down a road and do the same thing :D

We're all just big kiddies then?

We're all just big kiddies then?

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Yep agree, its all harmless bit of fun.

anyway my excuse is im having a mid-life crisis at 43

We'll in that case I can use that excuse too as we're the same age

drifting, totally silly and highly dangerous  :P