Signs You Have Too Much Horsepower
- The emissions test guy starts laughing as soon as you pull onto the rollers.
- You can't drive your car in the rain.
- Your 'significant other' is afraid to drive your car.
- You are afraid to drive your car.
- You spend more on tires than on food.
- You spend more on car insurance than on house payments.
- You look in a state police car and see a picture of your car taped to the dash.
- You have to go to the track to buy gas.
- Your mechanic names the new wing of his shop after you.
- You're tempted to wear your fire suit just to drive to the office.
- You arrive somewhere before you left.
- You get pulled over for doing 155 in a 35 but the cops will let you go if "they can look under the hood."
- You remove the $2000 stereo system to save 6 lb. of weight.
- You are not allowed to run in the Silver State Challenge.
- You get an anonymous phone call asking if you are interested in being in the Cannonball Run.
- Your face looks like you are riding a NASA centrifuge when you drive the car.
- You need parachute braking.
- Your 'Significant other' won't even ride in the car.
- There is no possible way to "sneak out" of your neighborhood at 6 am.
- Your pets scramble for their hiding spots as soon as the garage door is opened. (Pets, and all the neighbors...)
- Family photos throughout the house are replaced with life-sized posters of your car.
- Fuel is delivered to your home: in 55 gallon drums!
- You carry earplugs in your car.(doesn't everybody???)
- You find out that side mirrors don't hold up at speeds exceeding 145 mph
- You have to screw your slicks to the wheels.
- Your exhaust pipes are larger in diameter than your driveline.
- Your fuel pump flows enough to water a golf course.
- Your compression's high enough you could run diesel fuel.
- Your engine idles at 2800 rpm.
- You measure the fuel you use in "gallons per mile".