you did the right thing...take it to the track- its a lot safer and the only way to get a true measure in terms that mean something...
I still cant help but shift a little quickly in the mustang- you know, even at 2000 it will still make a little chirp, and I like to 'forget' to shift once in a while just to hear the engine, but no taunting of the ricers or anything else- just last night some idiot in a little white honda with a big fartpipe was revving next to me at a light, zooming around cars without signalling...passed him three times at traffic lights he caught by speeding up, then he'd go zooming off in and out of traffic...
Idiots like that probably go brag to their buddies as to how they pulled away from a Mustang GT, yet you know in the back of their feeble brains they know in a real contest they would be embarassed badly...
Ive seen some 'nicer ricers' - really fixed up cars, not my cup of tea, but done up with more than a crooked stripe and a fart pipe, and they are usually more grown up- but not always...nobody can 'race' the idiots, as without a start/end the one who 'wins' will always be the fool that stays in it longer...
my car may do 100 in the 1/4, near 150 flat out, but I aint gonna take it up there to 'show' a 90 mph ricer, whats the point.
anyone that gives you any greif, tell them to show you a timeslip or shutup...street 'wins' even bloated dyno claims dont mean anything if the car cant hook up/go, and if they cant drive it...
go to the track, work on some decent reaction times and 60 foot times, plus the ET/MPH, those tell the true tale of you and your cars ability.
heck I recall a guy in highschool with a K-Car that could literally blow the front tires doing burnouts- yet its a safe bet it was a 18 second car with a 4 second 60 foot time
you know what we need- like the Kids soccer 'card' photos, with the stats...if some noisy honda pulls up revving by a light, just toss them a card with track timeslip photo -and pic of car so they cant say its their slip