Man, taking the car out of it power band might have been the reason he pulled so hard so fast. Going 90mph in 3rd your already running 5876rpm's. So just shy of 6k in a gear thats tapper off very soon. Now fourth would have gave you more room to just push the gas and fly with him, because 4th gear at 90mph is 4520rpm's and seeing that stock turbo's fall off around 4500 to 5k, you can see what I'm talking about :)