Good story, don't die to beat a mustang though, just not worth it.
Wow, you are lucky no one did anything dumb in front of you. I had my friends 99 VR4 in the middle 160s and they really don't like to stop...
FWIW the one and only time I raced in "traffic" which was about 4 cars we got spotted by a cop in a parking lot eating dinner and he nailed us a mile up the street. Got lucky that night, he said if he saw it all and had clocked us we would be sitting in lockup with no cars.