Trucks and 7s

This really bugs me.
Trucks are good for moving things around, landing out of airplanes, and hopping curbs.
But driving behind them is bad in a 7 cause you're low, they're slow, and they've got a big ass.
Get too close and they'll even chip your windshield.

So if I can I always pass them.
Some of them can't even see you out their side mirror if they're jacked up, so it' does no good to hang out near them.

I drive an 88 FC turbo, btw. It's not as sprinty as my 81... but it's a lot smoother on the highway.

Every once in a while though- some guy in a huge black truck will waste me off the line, whether i'm trying to get in front or not from the stoplight, without hardly even trying, although I tend to hold back at lights cuz I run with a straight-pipe and I don't like to draw attention to that when cops could be around. It's loud and sounds nice like a big cat, but trying to go over even 4k rpms sounds like I paint a target on my back... so I save it for just the right time.

It feels weird seeing big trucks speed past me, when my car is an elegant tribute to sports-driving and their's is a monument to compensation.... but I want to know how it happens. Is it just that newer trucks with much bigger engines are faster despite the way they look (it was a "shiny" truck, after all) or is my car just really not running as well as it should? I know my car's louder at the same output- so sometimes it almost feels like a handicap, and maybe i'm just not letting loose enough power-- but 7s seem made for free-flowing exhaust, and I'm not even talking about speeding here- just getting up to speed faster.

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I love my RX-7, but there is something cool about pumping up a diesel truck to seriously scary amounts of torque. And the Dodge Dakota that keeps outrunning my Mustang at the autocross is a seriously fun ride.

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Erik Ugly doesn't matter as long as it passes tech.

Doesn't it kindof defeat the whole point of 7's though?

I mean- math is math. If the truck has more power it wins, even if it's not designed to look like a silver bullet.

So really- I should just sit back and let the diesel-heads crowd the road.... because they've invested the time and money to have that power---

it just feels wrong though....

and yeah- I think I'd still try to get in front if I can get away with it- even driving an underpowered car. But I'm not gonna red-line drag from every stoplight just to pass a truck when I can hardly hear them at full throttle...and mine sounds.. .well like a drag-strip.

For the record... I do also have a Bronco for the winter (I mean mazda manufactured half the parts anyway right. ) and it's lots of fun too- in a different way- but it's not comparable to the retro-futuristic personal transport system that is the 2nd gen turbo.

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DAMn it...

Well, and then I keep getting pulled over for not having a muffler. Guess I"m gonna have to do something about that. I seriously hate too though because the 3" straight-pipe with the high-flow mid-cat is so beautiful in its streamlined functionality.

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