Disrespecting A Ricer....
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You guys are always stomping those silly ricers. Nothing wrong with putting them in place, of course. But, how do YOU disrespect them?
Neon SRT-4- "Wow! You have a blow off valve, so you must be fast!" "Hey! Watch this!" The light turns green, and I use my AWD advantage in my STi to jump 3 cars on it across the intersection. Then, I say, "Hey! Did you see that?" Also, say to the SRT ricer, "I bet you can't do this!" Then power my rear windows down in the STi. SRTs have roll-down rear windows, even in the "power window" models.
Honda Civic- I just roll up my window on them. If he's a real tool, I'll ask him what he's done to it to run 16s.
Honda Accord- Need I say more?
Any of the others just get a nice rev in return, and a "thumbs down" if the driver's a tool.
Ok, don't get me wrong. I don't go around insulting everyone that drives a ricer, but if the driver's a total ***, he deserves it. There are people out there that drive imports that like cars as much as anyone else. I'm talking about the hat-facing-backward 50 Cents-listening assbags running around with chips on their shoulder.
Neon SRT-4- "Wow! You have a blow off valve, so you must be fast!" "Hey! Watch this!" The light turns green, and I use my AWD advantage in my STi to jump 3 cars on it across the intersection. Then, I say, "Hey! Did you see that?" Also, say to the SRT ricer, "I bet you can't do this!" Then power my rear windows down in the STi. SRTs have roll-down rear windows, even in the "power window" models.
Honda Civic- I just roll up my window on them. If he's a real tool, I'll ask him what he's done to it to run 16s.
Honda Accord- Need I say more?
Any of the others just get a nice rev in return, and a "thumbs down" if the driver's a tool.
Ok, don't get me wrong. I don't go around insulting everyone that drives a ricer, but if the driver's a total ***, he deserves it. There are people out there that drive imports that like cars as much as anyone else. I'm talking about the hat-facing-backward 50 Cents-listening assbags running around with chips on their shoulder.
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Their used to be this onewhite kid who would drive around on the weekends. He had a honda civic I think, and he had cut the springs under the car to make it lower. Apparently he didn't cut them good enough and when he went by he would bounce up and down. Used to call the guy hoppey. He had the typical ricer attitude, he'd slouch in his seat, and hang his head toward the middle of the car, with one hand on his steering wheel. The cap tipped upwards, playing his tight rap.
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Their used to be this onewhite kid who would drive around on the weekends. He had a honda civic I think, and he had cut the springs under the car to make it lower. Apparently he didn't cut them good enough and when he went by he would bounce up and down. Used to call the guy hoppey. He had the typical ricer attitude, he'd slouch in his seat, and hang his head toward the middle of the car, with one hand on his steering wheel. The cap tipped upwards, playing his tight rap.
Their used to be this onewhite kid who would drive around on the weekends. He had a honda civic I think, and he had cut the springs under the car to make it lower. Apparently he didn't cut them good enough and when he went by he would bounce up and down. Used to call the guy hoppey. He had the typical ricer attitude, he'd slouch in his seat, and hang his head toward the middle of the car, with one hand on his steering wheel. The cap tipped upwards, playing his tight rap.
I drive an 05 STi as well as my Camaro, and I'm the furthest from a ricer as you can possibly get. I'm not a fan of companies. I'm a fan of cars.
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"I'm a fan of cars."
Me too. I respect both the Evo and the STI quite a bit. They are fast and with the 4-wheel drive, just incredible backroad and rally cars. Both can do the 1/4 in the low mid 13s stock, although one has to realize that they do this in part by jumping off the oline quickly due to the 4-wheel drive: at 13.3 second STI will not pull from 75 on up like a 13.3 second Camaro. But regardless I think they are great cars. They are fairly easy to modify although I understand that beyond taking about a second off the quarter (costs about $4K), they become relatively expensive to modify further. And because of that 4-wheel drive, they can control that power well.
Really good cars.
As to Neons, I'm not as big a fan, particularly because they are dangerous to race against with all that FWD torque steer: they jump sideways (into your lane!!!) when they shift gears or hit the NOS (I know, one came right into my lane once, but fortunately I was far enough ahead that we didn't touch). Out on the street, cruising, no other car is as worrisome to me as a Neon driven by some
aggressive kid scratching for a race and showing off, the cars are hard enough to for an experienced, cool-headed driver to control.
Factory performance parts and aftermarket can add gobs of power to them, for not a whole lot of money (I've seen one dyno over 380 FWHP, and it did 11.4 in the quarter mile). But in my book more than about 275 HP in them is just way more than the chassis and drive train can control well. That mnuch power makes it a terribly unbalanced car (its not that balanced with what it has stock, for that matter) and I don't respect that in any car.
I think it was Motor Trend or maybe Car and Driver that recently commmented after driving a SRT with only the stage II factory boost upgrade: "This SRT sort of goes where it wants to go."
Me too. I respect both the Evo and the STI quite a bit. They are fast and with the 4-wheel drive, just incredible backroad and rally cars. Both can do the 1/4 in the low mid 13s stock, although one has to realize that they do this in part by jumping off the oline quickly due to the 4-wheel drive: at 13.3 second STI will not pull from 75 on up like a 13.3 second Camaro. But regardless I think they are great cars. They are fairly easy to modify although I understand that beyond taking about a second off the quarter (costs about $4K), they become relatively expensive to modify further. And because of that 4-wheel drive, they can control that power well.
Really good cars.
As to Neons, I'm not as big a fan, particularly because they are dangerous to race against with all that FWD torque steer: they jump sideways (into your lane!!!) when they shift gears or hit the NOS (I know, one came right into my lane once, but fortunately I was far enough ahead that we didn't touch). Out on the street, cruising, no other car is as worrisome to me as a Neon driven by some
aggressive kid scratching for a race and showing off, the cars are hard enough to for an experienced, cool-headed driver to control.
Factory performance parts and aftermarket can add gobs of power to them, for not a whole lot of money (I've seen one dyno over 380 FWHP, and it did 11.4 in the quarter mile). But in my book more than about 275 HP in them is just way more than the chassis and drive train can control well. That mnuch power makes it a terribly unbalanced car (its not that balanced with what it has stock, for that matter) and I don't respect that in any car.
I think it was Motor Trend or maybe Car and Driver that recently commmented after driving a SRT with only the stage II factory boost upgrade: "This SRT sort of goes where it wants to go."
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"I'm a fan of cars."
Me too. I respect both the Evo and the STI quite a bit. They are fast and with the 4-wheel drive, just incredible backroad and rally cars. Both can do the 1/4 in the low mid 13s stock, although one has to realize that they do this in part by jumping off the oline quickly due to the 4-wheel drive: at 13.3 second STI will not pull from 75 on up like a 13.3 second Camaro. But regardless I think they are great cars. They are fairly easy to modify although I understand that beyond taking about a second off the quarter (costs about $4K), they become relatively expensive to modify further. And because of that 4-wheel drive, they can control that power well.
Really good cars.
As to Neons, I'm not as big a fan, particularly because they are dangerous to race against with all that FWD torque steer: they jump sideways (into your lane!!!) when they shift gears or hit the NOS (I know, one came right into my lane once, but fortunately I was far enough ahead that we didn't touch). Out on the street, cruising, no other car is as worrisome to me as a Neon driven by some
aggressive kid scratching for a race and showing off, the cars are hard enough to for an experienced, cool-headed driver to control.
Factory performance parts and aftermarket can add gobs of power to them, for not a whole lot of money (I've seen one dyno over 380 FWHP, and it did 11.4 in the quarter mile). But in my book more than about 275 HP in them is just way more than the chassis and drive train can control well. That mnuch power makes it a terribly unbalanced car (its not that balanced with what it has stock, for that matter) and I don't respect that in any car.
I think it was Motor Trend or maybe Car and Driver that recently commmented after driving a SRT with only the stage II factory boost upgrade: "This SRT sort of goes where it wants to go."
"I'm a fan of cars."
Me too. I respect both the Evo and the STI quite a bit. They are fast and with the 4-wheel drive, just incredible backroad and rally cars. Both can do the 1/4 in the low mid 13s stock, although one has to realize that they do this in part by jumping off the oline quickly due to the 4-wheel drive: at 13.3 second STI will not pull from 75 on up like a 13.3 second Camaro. But regardless I think they are great cars. They are fairly easy to modify although I understand that beyond taking about a second off the quarter (costs about $4K), they become relatively expensive to modify further. And because of that 4-wheel drive, they can control that power well.
Really good cars.
As to Neons, I'm not as big a fan, particularly because they are dangerous to race against with all that FWD torque steer: they jump sideways (into your lane!!!) when they shift gears or hit the NOS (I know, one came right into my lane once, but fortunately I was far enough ahead that we didn't touch). Out on the street, cruising, no other car is as worrisome to me as a Neon driven by some
aggressive kid scratching for a race and showing off, the cars are hard enough to for an experienced, cool-headed driver to control.
Factory performance parts and aftermarket can add gobs of power to them, for not a whole lot of money (I've seen one dyno over 380 FWHP, and it did 11.4 in the quarter mile). But in my book more than about 275 HP in them is just way more than the chassis and drive train can control well. That mnuch power makes it a terribly unbalanced car (its not that balanced with what it has stock, for that matter) and I don't respect that in any car.
I think it was Motor Trend or maybe Car and Driver that recently commmented after driving a SRT with only the stage II factory boost upgrade: "This SRT sort of goes where it wants to go."
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ORIGINAL: bones srt4
you guys are so funny with your misinformation. first there is no torque steer , it has a quife lsd. second i thought ricer meant a car not made in the u.s.
you guys are so funny with your misinformation. first there is no torque steer , it has a quife lsd. second i thought ricer meant a car not made in the u.s.
This isn't funny and there is no misinformation here. There was a lot of torque steer in a stock one I drove, about as much as I've ever experienced in any FWD car, and the car mags all commented how the modded SRTs have it in spades, gquoting the one factory rep as "They sort of go where they want to go."