Alright, so I'm driving home from a LAN party in Benbrook, TX at about 8 in the morning in my crown vic, and me and my friends are all tired from staying up all night. I'm the only occupant in my car, computer in the trunk, most of my group is about 10 cars behind me, and me and my friend clark are leading the pack. I'm trying to stay awake, as is he, so we're messing with each other trying to see which will punch it first. Well, we finally both punch it at about 60 or 65 at the same time, all goes well... I downshift into second, and because I'm running with no mufflers I make plenty of obnoxious rumbling. But then at 80mph, something happened.
I'm effectively running on 7 cylinders right now. My #8 cylinder has either a faulty coil pack or a bad plug boot (its a distributorless motor), so it doesn't fire all the time, especially when its warmed up or the air is humid. Understandably, the car isn't as fast as it should be with one cylinder missing every now and then. My '97 was mechanically one of the best cars I had ever owned, and if I column-shifted into second at 35 or 40, or if I dropped it into 2nd at 50 or so, I could get a squeak out of the tires. Nothing to a GN, but fairly impressive for a monsterous four door sedan with a measly 4.6 liter in it
However, this time, when I shifted into third gear at 80mph, my tires didn't just squeak or skip. No. I laid down solid rolling rubber and my car started turning sideways. I let off and it immediately skipped back into place. That means the road wasn't oily or crummy. There was a bit of mist, but it wasn't drenched. Not enough for me to have to use my wipers. My facial expression couldn't be explained any better than this:
How?? That's got to be a one time fluke. That was the most insane thing anything of my vehicles have ever done.
I'm effectively running on 7 cylinders right now. My #8 cylinder has either a faulty coil pack or a bad plug boot (its a distributorless motor), so it doesn't fire all the time, especially when its warmed up or the air is humid. Understandably, the car isn't as fast as it should be with one cylinder missing every now and then. My '97 was mechanically one of the best cars I had ever owned, and if I column-shifted into second at 35 or 40, or if I dropped it into 2nd at 50 or so, I could get a squeak out of the tires. Nothing to a GN, but fairly impressive for a monsterous four door sedan with a measly 4.6 liter in it
However, this time, when I shifted into third gear at 80mph, my tires didn't just squeak or skip. No. I laid down solid rolling rubber and my car started turning sideways. I let off and it immediately skipped back into place. That means the road wasn't oily or crummy. There was a bit of mist, but it wasn't drenched. Not enough for me to have to use my wipers. My facial expression couldn't be explained any better than this:
How?? That's got to be a one time fluke. That was the most insane thing anything of my vehicles have ever done.
