tis' true. there wasn't a single car i saw in that vid that had a 15" double stack wing, a 2" in and 6" out muffler turned sideways, no neon lights.... that is rice....

 

 

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back to ricer sayings...

have you guys ever heard this one? it's my favorite ricer saying:

"holy s***!!! i didn't think a diesel could do that!!"

 

i call those big exhaust tips "tato shooters"

 

Make that, "my lug nuts require more torque than your Honda makes"

 

YES! I took a kid in a supercharged Honda a couple weeks ago. Not only did I "take" him, I absolutly blew his doors in by about 100 yards, and that was just racing light to light in town.

 

The people who stick underbody neon, huge F1 wanna-be wings, a 5 gallon fart can, and loud 'grafixx' on their imports are related to the redneck wrecking crew idiots who plant triple/double chrome light bars, 66 KC daylighters, and 16" lifts on diesel pickups and think they have the next Baja 1000 winner.

It's too bad, really, because those little imports--especially the Hondas and RWD Toyotas--make huge amounts of power.....hell even the professional NHRA and NOPI drag racers are running through stock replacement halfshafts...600hp, snap a CV joint, drive to Carquest and buy a new one for 59 dollars. Wish my truck or GN could say that. "give:

I'm still trying to figure out how to beat the local WRX STi with my '87 Grand National......hasn't been working out too well, think I'm 0-9 now.

Anybody wanna help my effort out, because I'll either beat him or die trying....LMAO

(off soapbox)

Dan-

 

"Rice is for eating
NOT
D R I V I N G"

 

When it comes to power for dollar, I think that the little 4 cylinders are pretty unbeatable. Not just the imports; the same things can be done to Dodge Neons and what not. I'd probably have one if I didn't get a Diesel truck for some damn reason...

I actually had somebody explain to me what the fart cans were for once. "You need to have the loud exhaust so you can tell what RPM the engine is at, so you know when to shift." It doesn't make much sense, especially considering that most of these guys run 6 inch tachometers with shift lights, but it was enough of an excuse for me to be pleasantly surprised.

The best things about the little 4 cylinders is that they rev so much they make a lot of horsepower for a given amount of torque, which means you can shave seconds off of them for a while before you start breaking stock driveline components; torque-heavy motors like our Diesels are very disadvantaged in comparison, because while you are theoretically capable of converting the torque to horsepower with driveline gearing, by the time you do that reliably you have massive amounts of money and weight into everything south of the flywheel.

I knew a guy in high school with a 13 second Acura. He knew his stuff really well, with the exception of the definition of "stock". I fought with him for months that a stock Acura could not go 13 seconds, until he finally said "stock motor with aftermarket cam, pistons, valves and porting". Duh...

 

there is a guy that i work with that thinks his maxima is the heat and told us that he took out his rear seat to get more power. then he put this little thing in his exhaust that makes it sound like he has a turbo. also we convinced him that he needed to change his blinker fluid and his exhaust bearing