View Poll Results: How do you drive your stroker?
Sunday drive
8
13.33%
I obey all traffic laws
18
30.00%
Go speed racer
26
43.33%
NASCAR style
8
13.33%
Voters: 60. You may not vote on this poll
How do you drive your stroker?
Mountain Pass
Joined: Feb 2004
Posts: 164
Likes: 0
From: Spokane, WA
I voted NASCAR, but I don't do that all the time. I only drive "slighty" over the speed limit, but when I come up on someone going slower I definately show them the power as I blow past them. Then, when I'm off the main highway I tend to run as fast I can without getting temps too high.
Senior User
Joined: Jun 2003
Posts: 369
Likes: 0
From: Colorado Mountain Country
Originally Posted by doc526
I voted speed racer. 70-75 on the highways and the occasional light to light drag with friends or the tin can racers.
Logistics Pro
Joined: Aug 2005
Posts: 3,884
Likes: 180
From: Morgan Hill, CA
Just make sure the drivetrain is totally warmed up before you jump on it. That's what I do. If I warm up the motor with my high idle, I still make sure I drive it at least five to ten miles to let all the gears, axles, etc warm up.
Junior User
Joined: Sep 2005
Posts: 86
Likes: 0
50/50 When not rushing around I just cruize around. the other 50% of the time, my truck gets used!
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Logistics Pro
Joined: Mar 2004
Posts: 4,221
Likes: 3
I take it pretty easy around town, freeway try to stick around 70 or so, unless I'm in a hurry (don't like to be in a hurry, though). Getting on on-ramps and such I like to let it loose a little.
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Lead Driver
Joined: Dec 2003
Posts: 5,250
Likes: 42
I make sure to always have my tach under 2k--> always!! Well, there are the occasional times someone upsets me and I just have to floor it and shake things up a bit. My wife calls it road rage. I think its just giving a free lesson. I can swear though that when I floor it and push it hard I can see the fuel gauge move!!
Postmaster
Joined: Nov 2003
Posts: 3,595
Likes: 0
From: Utah County, UT
To work is more like a sunday drive, home from work is like nascar, only becuase I stopped somewhere and have to make it in time for dinner. Most of the time it is on ramps and little folger can cars, nothing like folgers to wake a truck up.
Post Fiend
Joined: Jul 2005
Posts: 14,582
Likes: 12
From: 21791
i would like to consider myself "speed racer" but being im 16, i can't get too many violations (or one big one) or i'll be video game racer until im 'effin 21.
i have a big foot but i rarely go over 1/2 throttle except mashing the pedal to make it shift. i am afraid of making applesauce out of the torque converter. i either want a 6.oh T/C or a BTS. i know with an aftermarket torque converter i can mash it and forget it. no worries of spinning the torque converter off. or can these take it and am i just being a pansy? im ordering a T/C lockup now.
oh when driving, i am only happy when going 10-15 over the speed limit. i hate people who drive the speed limit. im an "overachiever" i like to do more than i need.
i have a big foot but i rarely go over 1/2 throttle except mashing the pedal to make it shift. i am afraid of making applesauce out of the torque converter. i either want a 6.oh T/C or a BTS. i know with an aftermarket torque converter i can mash it and forget it. no worries of spinning the torque converter off. or can these take it and am i just being a pansy? im ordering a T/C lockup now.
oh when driving, i am only happy when going 10-15 over the speed limit. i hate people who drive the speed limit. im an "overachiever" i like to do more than i need.
Postmaster
Joined: Nov 2003
Posts: 3,595
Likes: 0
From: Utah County, UT
Interesting way of putting it, "overachiever", by your definition would include my driving habits as well. I like it, new bumper sticker reads: I am not speeding, just achieving more than YOU! 
