Originally Posted by Neal376

anyways, that turn on the SSP is pretty ****ed up. theres a pothole in the left lane over there that always gets me

Originally Posted by nyclio

Okay, so I was on the Southern State Pkwy westbound headed toward the Belt Pkwy a few weeks ago. It was around 11 at night and I was racing a TL. We we were going back and forth, and he was ahead of me for a little. We came upon the part where the SSP splits off into the Belt and the Cross Island. Now this is a blind curve. We were each doing 100+ coming around the curve since the roads were empty. Or so we thought. Dead ahead was a WALL of traffic.

We hit the brakes HARD (we had VERY little stopping space). Neither car would've stopped in time. He swerved his TL up onto the grass. As for me, I had no space to go. There were two lanes. I pulled my car hard to the right. THe wheels had stopped spinning but the car was still skidding. A car in the right lane swerved to give me some space to stop. I heard minor crashes and dings, but the car came to a full stop a few inches behind another car - and 3 more cars behind me came to screeching stops. My car was at a 45 degree angle. Needless to say, I had probably pissed off a bunch of people so I cut across the divider and jumped on the Cross Island and hauled *** out of there. I pulled off the highway to inspect my car, only to notice that there was not a SCRATCH on the car. I could not BELIEVE how lucky I got. Someone else must've gotten their car damaged (minorly thankfully) that night.

I don't know what happened to the TL guy.

I obviously DO feel bad about what happened, and it made me pull off the aggressive driving some since I don't want to be responsible for anyone getting hurt on account of me. I'm just glad it didn't happen that night. Wake up call for me.

Anyway moving on - my point to this long post if anyone got this far - I have an '05 G35X sedan (pretty much all stock), and I have 2 questions:

1. Could I have damaged anything in the car in stopping so quickly?
2. Would it be worth upgrading my tires/brake combo to get better performance and handling?
3. If number 2 is yes, and cost weren't an issue...what would be a good buy?
4. And lastly, if number 3 applies, where would be a good place in the NY area to get everything installed?

Originally Posted by PeteNJ

1. Hopefully, it will be great for the rest of us if you stay off the road.
2. Nah, better to invest in classes on "How not to be a douchebag 101"
3. See #2
4. See #2