Fast Lane Chapter 1: Preparations
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Fast Lane: Chapter 1: Preparations
"Ok, Jimmy what's the plan? I need a car before anything" I said. "We could finish that crazy 300zx project you started. How much power was that thing supposed to have anyway?" he asked, pulling the cover off of the project car. I'd built this '93 300zx to look like a hot wheels car. The midnight blue paint and vinyls gleamed in the light. It had taken me the past year working on it nonstop. It was going to be the most powerful car I'd ever built. "Its got 1100 horsepower and 1035 ft/lbs of torque. I won't be surprised if this beast literally shreds asphalt. Its time to get her running. Help me drop the engine in." We quickly got to work welding in the last of the custom brackets that would hold the powerful V8. Lighting a cigarette I stoped and looked over my handywork. Everything was slowly taking shape; I took a drag and pulled the cover off the motor i had for the car. It was gorgeous, I couln't wait to put it in place. I custom built the supercharged LS9, new pistons, cams, crank, ported and polished head, a 250 shot direct port nitrous oxdie system, and to top it off a stand alone engine management system. It screamed power, nothing would stand a chance against it. We moved the engine hoist over and picked up the heavy motor. After uncovering the transmission we rolled the engine over and bolted them together. Carefully, we raised everything up and positioned it over the engine bay, slowly started lowering it all in. The big V8 slid into place ever so smoothly, like to was meant to be here. With it bolted in we romoved the hoist and started connecting the wiring harness. After everything was wired up we closed the hood and stared. "I can't believe it. It's gorgeous." Jimmy said to me. He looked over at me and I nodded. "It is man. You ready to fire it up?" He nodded and threw me the keys. I hopped into the driver seat and looked at the stallion. "Moment of truth" I said as i turned the key. The engine turned over for a minute before firing and roaring to life, the sound of the loping engine filling the garage. "YES!!!" we cried in unison. "Man she looks like an import but sounds like a muscle car. Nobody is going to expect this!" he hollered over the engine noise. I shut it down and rolled her into the paint booth. "Draco whatcha doing? Its already got a gorgeous paint job." I stayed silent and sealed the car in the booth. Going into a hidden panel in the workbench I pulled out a vial of blue liquid. "Ya wanna fill me in here? What the fuck is that stuff?" he asked me. "Its a formula designed by an old friend. dip a car into it and it alters the properties of the metal and so far we can't even ding it after that. We don't have a vat of it so I'm going to do the next best thing. I'm putting this into the ventilation system of the paint booth so it gets misted all over the car. I want to insure that the little 'accident' that happened in my last race never happens again." I said as I poured it into the vent system. "Lets come back in a few hours. We have business to take care of anyway. It'll be done by time we get back." I told him.
Jumping into his red Viper, we took off to go meet with the loan shark to try and work out a deal. She was not going to be happy, but then again who would be after losing a hundred grand? Twenty minutes later they arrived at a small office building in the center of Bayview. Jimmy parked and just sat there before turning to me. "Man I hope this turns out ok, I've heard what happens when people fuck Rachel over..." I slowly got out of the Viper and started walking. "We'll be fine man. We've been through worse" I said as he walked up. We stared at the building for a minute before walking in, almost instantly the vixen behind the desk ran over to us. "Rachel is in her office, she is expecting you two but be warned, she is extremely pissed" she said before sitting back at her desk.
We anxiously knocked on the door of her office before walking in, to see the black panther staring out the window. Without turning around she started to speak. "Don't worry I'm not mad about the car. I am however pissed off at Team Prototype. They are the ones who tried to kill you..." I stared slack-jawed. "H-how did you know that?!" I asked quickly. She turned to face us. "Believe it or not I decided to go see you drive the other night. I saw the leader or Prototype, Cody, driving the pickup that ran the red light and hit you. I hope you know you still owe me for the car." Thats when Jimmy started yelling. "How the fuck does he still owe you?! Cody is the one that should be paying for this! You said it yourself that you saw him try to kill Draco!" I was stunned, he was right, how do I still owe her for the car? "I still need to make my money back don't I? If you need a car let me know. i have work for you to do Draco. The only reason I'm offering you a vehicle is because your driving was flawless. Honestly I'm quite impressed to see that kind of skill from an unknown driver." "Thank you, but I have another car that I just finished building. What kind of work do you need me to do?" I said to her as she walked over. "What you do best of course. I need you to drive for me. With Jackson Heights having just opened theres going to be a lot of sprint and drift races going on up on the mountain. Due to the dangers of racing on a mountain stakes will be high. The smallest wager I've seen on a race up there is 5g's In the meantime go get some sleep and make sure your car is ready to go. I'll call you with the details tomorrow."
With that Jimmy and I left and headed back to the garage. Halfway back we pulled up next to a nicely modified Acura NSX at a red light. The driver of the NSX looked over and revved her engine, we revved back and she grinned, this was going to be fun. The light turned green and we were off, with a cloud of smoke and squealing tires. Through 1st, 2nd, and 3rd gear the acura was keeping up. I was trying to figure out what that slight whining noise was as she pulled ahead, and thats when it hit me, she'd replaced the twin turbos with a supercharger, this was going to be a challenge. I shifted to 4th and caught back up. She looked over and smiled as she shifted again and started pulling ahead. I slammed my foot to the floor and slowly passed her right as we passed through the light. "Damn that was close dude! I've never seen an Acura keep up with a V10 Viper quite like that." "I know, right?" Jimmy said as we pulled up to the garage.
Pulling in, we parked the Viper and opened the door to the paint booth. We slowly rolled the 300zx out and put it on the dyno. "Hop in dude, I'll watch the stats on the computer." Jimmy got in and started the car up. After it warmed up I gave him a thumbs up and he ran through the gears at full throttle to give us exact numbers on how much power this beast would crank out. Sure enough 1100 horsepower and 1035 foot-pounds of torque with a 10,000rpm redline showed up on my screen. "Numbers are perfect bro! We built a true monster dude. I can't wait to take her on a real run." I said, grinning from ear to ear. "Sounds great bro, but we should probably get some sleep and find out what Rachel has in store for us tomorrow. He said as he started walking towards his room. "Alright. See you in the morning Jimmy." I said as i headed for my own room. Laying down I could only imagine what tomorrow might bring. With that, I fell into a deep and restful sleep.
I was woken up to the revving of a twin turbo V8 echoing through the shop. "Gah, what time is it? Really Jim? It's 5am, what the hell..." I said as i walked out into the shop to see my brother KC's electric blue Ferrari 328GTS sitting on the dyno. "What's that crazy fox having us do this time?" I muttered to myself. Suddenly the noise stops as the engine is killed and Jimmy hops out to go check the readings on the computer. "Hey, Draco, just finished installing a twin turbo setup on KC's Ferrari. Now he's pushing 817 horsepower and 794 foot pounds of torque. Your brother is fucking nuts dude." He said as he hopped back in and drove into the paint booth. "Tell him to be here at noon to pick it up. I'm going to put an Italian racing stripe on it for him." With that he closed to door and got to work. I pulled out my phone and called KC. "Hey bro come pick up your car at noon, the twin turbo setup turned your ride into an all out monster at just a little over 800hp. Jim's in the booth putting an Italian racing stripe on it for you. Alright then, I'll see you in awhile." Hanging up, I started working on a couple other cars so I get them back to their respective owners and make a little cash for the races tonight. Over the next few hours a supercharger and NOS kit were added to some guy's 350z, a B18A1LS was swapped into a girl's CRX, and an RB25DETT was swapped into a 240sx. After getting them to come pick up their cars we had a little over $12,000 in our pocket. Now we were just waiting on KC to show up and bring us another $3,000 for the work on his car. It was shaping up to be a really nice day. Thats when things got a little interesting.
My phone went off and I picked up. "Hello?" "Hey there, Draco, its Rachel, theres a huge downhill drift event going on in Jackson Heights tonight. Everyone is meeting in the parking lot at the summit. The meet starts at 11 O'clock, you better be there." There was a click as Rachel hung up. "I'm assuming that was Rachel calling, right?" Said Jimmy as he and KC came around the corner. "What does she want with you guys?" KC asked. "Well you remember how I got that Skyline? There was a little mishap..." I said as I recounted my tail to the blue and white fox. "Sounds like you could use another driver on your team. Thats a lot of money to make up in a short amount of time. Lets do this!" He said excitedly. "If you guys are going to race with me then I'll prep your cars with the same solution." We squeezed the Viper into the booth with the Ferrari and sealed everything up, letting the solution work it magic on the two cars.
Over the next few hours we shot pool and played cards, waiting for the cars to be ready. Finally they were ready to go. The three of us fueled up and put new sets of Toyo tires on all our cars. With the roar of our engines we sped off to go race around Beacon Hill and see what our cars could do. It was going to be a very fun night.