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Hot -rodders vs. Ricers...
HOTRODDERS: keeping a low profile and letting the et's tell the story
RICERS: Hoping the outrageous body kit will distract anyone from discussing et's HOTRODDERS: Sideways into third gear RICERS: Sideways to avoid high-centering on a speed bump HOTRODDERS: Tall spindle conversion for better camber gain and tire wear RICERS: Lowering 3 inches and ruining tires with 4-degrees of negative camber HOTRODDERS: 600 HP on 92-octane pump gas RICERS: 300 HP on $3-a-gallon 100-octane race gas HOTRODDERS: Swapping stock 14 inch wheels for 17s to clear trick brakes and suspension RICERS: Swapping stock 14 inch wheels for 20's despite stock brakes and suspension HOTRODDERS: Boost gauge on a blown car, nitrous gauge on a squeezed car RICERS: Both gauges on a normally aspirated car HOTRODDERS: 500 lb-ft of torque at 3500 rpm RICERS: 50 lb-ft of torque at 35,000 rpm HOTRODDERS: Headers and 3-inch exhaust RICERS: Stock pea-shooter exhaust pipe with 5-inch tip HOTRODDERS: 600 HP makes for an earth-shaking street car RICERS: 600 watts per channel makes for an ear-shattering street car HOTRODDERS: Buying an aftermarket shifter for shorter throws RICERS: Buying an aftermarket shifter for the lighted knob HOTRODDERS: Composite parts for light weight and aerodynamics RICERS: Composite-veneer dash trim and gauges HOTRODDERS: Upgrading to a 9-inch cuz you keep breaking stock rears RICERS: Realizing that your built motor will keep breaking half-shafts forever HOTRODDERS: Functional air ducts to cool the big-block RICERS: Six different cosmetic air dams in random locations HOTRODDERS: Polishing tail-light lenses to bring out the red color RICERS: Installing clear tail-lights to bait cops HOTRODDERS: Cruising and burnout contests at car shows RICERS: Disco-dancing and stereo competitions at car shows HOTRODDERS: Old-Tech pushrod chevy LS6 pushing 405 HP RICERS: State-of-the-art, dual overhead cam Honda VTEC pushing 180 HP HOTRODDERS: Race-class lettering on the rear window RICERS: Japanese "Honda" lettering on the rear window of a Nissan HOTRODDERS: Tach mounted on the dash in the drivers line of sight RICERS: Bobbing-head doll mounted on the dash in the drivers line of sight HOTRODDERS: Nitrous oxide RICERS: "Noss" HOTRODDERS: Installing a 12-point cage after breaking into the 11's RICERS: Installing a 12-point cage for more places to mount gauges HOTRODDERS: Feeling the car shake form a lumpy cam RICERS: Feeling the car shake from booming base HOTRODDERS: Doing a short burnout to warm the tires before a pass RICERS: Weaving from side to side cuz nascar racers do it HOTRODDERS: Comfy stock buckets on a 9-second street car RICERS: back-breaking fiberglass racing buckets on a 17-second street car HOTRODDERS: Spending $2000 to get a new Z28 into the 11's RICERS: Spending $12,000 to get a Civic into the 12's HOTRODDERS: Showing off a 500 HP dyno sheet RICERS: Boasting that thier 150 HP mill makes more HP/liter HOTRODDERS: Installing subframe connectors to stiffen the chassis RICERS: Connecting the subframes with neon lights HOTRODDERS: Throttle steer RICERS: Torque steer HOTRODDERS: Leaving on the third amber light at the strip RICERS: Blowing through red lights on the street HOTRODDERS: Turning a $2000 "fixer upper" into a 10 second car RICERS: Spending $20k on a car then another $20k on mods only to turn it into a 10 second car |
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Classic!
Sleepers: Rebuilding the carburetor in granny's Caprice and lumbering your way up to a comfy 150mph.
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Howdy All,
Here is a little history. Hot rodding got its start on the dry lakes of Southern California. They would come up from the L.A. area to Muroc dry lake which is on Edwards Air Force Base and here at El Mirage. Southern California Timing Association still has time trials on El Mirage dry lake once a month through the summer.
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Back when I first started driving my cousin and I were big into Subaru's. (we both still drive them) On our old ones we used to find the cannister for the gas evap and stencil large letters onto them. So when someone opened the hood it would read
"RICE CONVERTOR"
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Since even a stock WRX can toast my car, I'm not saying anything... |
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What about riced BMW's? I see these things everywhere. They also all seem to be 318's Buy a 318 slap a bad set of rims on it and a fart can, and you to can pretend you have an M3.
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Get an M3, slap a bad set of rims on it and a fart can, and pretend you are a "ricer"...
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I resemble that remark...
I wouldn't call that "ricing." Ricing is performing modifications solely for the purpose of appearence. Sure F1 and Indy cars have big wings on the back. But then they are rear-drive and are actually capable of the speeds at which they come into play; most Civics are not. Now, a slighly lowered Civic with some real suspension tuning and engine work I can respect. But I refuse to take seriously someone who puts a 5" exhaust tip on a car that otherwise has 2" piping. Most of those things literally sound like a lawn mower with their funky mufflers. Four cylinders, no matter how loud they scream, will never have the authority of a V8. What I don't understand though, is how so many people can be so tasteless. They put a big, ugly, and certainly not aerodynamic spoiler on (sometimes with more than one wing), a huge 18-20" set of wheels that do nothing more than cost a lot of money and kill any ride quality the car once had, they put on "euro" tailights (hey buddy, you wanna see cool taillights? My Fairlane has them, your Accord does not), do a hackjob on the interior to put in huge subwoofers and enough lights to land a 747, and then somehow convince themselves they've got a great car. And never mind that detroit iron will blow away any ricer, no matter how good, at 1/4 the cost. You can buy an old Lincoln for $1000 and have a driveline (although not a car, but there are plenty good candidates there too) you could build a 10-second car off of. I guess that's just not "cool" anymore.
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And that was before I rebuilt the carburetor. Stock everything, except for new OEM shocks.
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It's cool. I guess we are not as cool driving our fast, awsome handling, German cars.
What's the thing with these little cars? I drove a 2001 Honda Civic and an 04 Jetta 1.8T; their not that nice. I remember thinking how I could buy a 500E or a nice S420 for what the Jetta cost. Frankly I thought my Camry could take the Jetta, you had to rev the piss out of it, for it to go.
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I just read somewhere the impreza was at the top of the lemon list....
I love the ricers, without them, nobody would race and then lose to me. I can only beat the americans on the freeway and even then only sometimes. |
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