Thanks, I needed a laugh...

Got a good laugh on my way home from work tonight. I pulled up next to a Honda at a traffic light, and saw he had an old really used-looking aftermarket exhaust (tip?) and a bunch of VTEC and other ricer stickers on the side. I thought, man, with that old looking exhaust and all those stickers, he must be FAST!!!

Anyway, I was trying to decide whether or not to race him off the light, when I heard a funny noise coming from his car. My music hit a quiet spot, and I realized it was him trying (unsuccessfully) to start his car. The light went green a second later, and I boosted it away (just for the heck of it) laughing at how sorry his car truly was.

Hahaha!!!!!!

Thats funny.

Whats even funnier is that celicas engines are in the front...

I was at autozone this morning buying more oil for my neighbor's BMW 325xi that takes 8 qts of Mobil 1, I only had 6 on hand. It has 15,000 mile factory oil change interval. Anyway, there was a gorgeous silver 350Z parked out front. It had a carbon fiber hood, really nice looking wheels and tires and a upper and lower billet style grill. What caught my attention was the emblems on the back. It said Skyline 350 GT-R. As usual the R was the wrong size, so he put that on. The best part was inside. He was buying Autozone brand oil and a fram filter for it, I know this because he had the oil at the counter, but was asking for the filter, cause he couldn't find his car in the book.

Who would add a $2 "R" decal to a 30K sports car, and use AZ oil & a fram filter?

Had a riced out Cavalier next to me at a few lights today. Ugly body kit with the dual exhaust cutouts but only one exhaust tip, the works. Kept pulling right next to me at each light and taking off fairly fast but I had a friend of mine in the car and didn't wanna race this idiot with her in the car.

Best part was when I got in front of him and looked in the mirror not only did his body kit look terrible but it had been painted with a rattle can and you could see the spots that he missed and didn't put enough paint on. It would have looked better if he just left them unpainted like the rest of the ricers in my area do.

Oh yea, he also had turbo stickers on his back bumper but it definitely wasn't turbo'd. I'm sure he just put those on so he's ready when he gets his turbo.

Couple weeks ago, drivin ont he highway doin 5 over, some kid in a stock Neon was doin like 12-15 over, passing everybody.

Caught him at a light and I gave it just enough to stay in front of him. When I hit 5 over, he kept up til 15 over again.

Managed to catch him at another light.

This time, I launched it hard and broke traction a bit and flew past him.

Stopped at 65 and slowed back down to 60.

...


Never passed me again.

I've seen a few of those. I swear I saw a Cavalier with drag radials once...

I had fun with an RX-8 the other day. Second time I'd gone with one. The first time was months back, I was behind one on a two lane road, and we turned onto a four lane highway. Apparently he knew I wanted to race, and as soon as he turned he lit off. Since he was in front of me, he had the advantage, but with my car in second, I matched him all the way up to 80. At that point, I slowly started to pull closer to him, until I hit the rev limiter at 97 cuz I forgot to shift. I thought I broke something for a second. lol I let off at that point.

The other day, I was two cars behind someone driving 30 in a 45, and there was an RX-8 in between me and him. Same two lane road, actually. Anyway, I was tempted to pass both of them at once, but decided against it. When there was a gap in traffic, the RX-8 went to pass the other car. I followed, not really trying to race, just get up to the speed limit. Apparently, the RX-8 took it personally, and floored it. I saw him pulling away, and floored it myself. By the time I hit 60, I was matching him, and when I let off at 80 I was gaining on him fairly quickly.

I've always thought RX-8s were fast cars, but I'm beginning to doubt that. That makes twice that I started accelerating a couple seconds after the RX-8, and caught him in the top end anyway (which is our cars weak spot).

*EDIT* Don't know what I was thinking...just looked up the hp/torque for the RX-8, and the torque just sucks...although 232 hp for a 1.3L engine isn't half bad. lol

yeah the ricers that rev their engines at the lights really get on my nerves. used to happen alot when i drove my 97 plymouth breeze though im quite sure it had to do with the fact i had a full modified drift kit and diagonal frenched plate in the trunk, and a full motion fast bag air ride setup on it.and pimping the red oxide primer for quite a while since every time i thought i was finally ready for paint i decided to do another body mod. but really nothing motor wise since i wasnt doing it to race i was doing it for a style i wanted, had a crappy cherry bomb muffler with a slant cut tip on it and an intake. oh and btw it was a 2.0L automatic so you know and i know it was slow as hell.
had a funny situatio out 1 day though was sitting at a stoplight with my wife and our 2 kids in the car and some kid in a riced out honda pulls up beside me and starts revving his motor. i just look at him and laugh and flip the all down switch on my switchbox and start bounceing the front a little bit then right as the light turns green hit the switches to bring it back to regular comfortable ride height and slowly leave off the light he took off but not fast enough to excede the speed limit.
funny part of it was when i pulled into the gas station about a 1/2 mile up the road to get gas a cop pulled in shortly behind me and pulled up beside me as i was gassing up and come to find out he was hiding out at that intersection and was sure he was gonna see a race when the other car pulled up beside me, he told me he actually got a laugh when he seen me hitting the switches since the honda was a known car for doing the stoplight racing(he thought they were gonna catch the kid good that time)

RX-8's are slow unless they are turbo. Now try and match one at a road race and you will be history. My good friend is an expert SCCA road racer and bought a 06 RX-8. You should see him fly in that thing. He took it to the strip just to see and ran mid 14s stock. Since he has a CAI, lighter wheels & tires and a lighter muffler. The stock exhaust is fine for his set up, sort of like our GPs.

I seen a clip on streetfire.net this celica did 140, I don't know if it was true or not but once he got over 110 it took forever to get to 140.

The area I live in, all I see is honda, toyotas, and nissans rice out, ya'll wouldn't believe it.

But today a yellow supra was on the oppites side of the road and we were at a stop light and he rev his motor and boy did that things ring my ear drums.

Here's a question: Does anyone else have people in TRUCKS try and race them? Maybe it's just a Texas thing, I don't know. I like trucks, but they just aren't for racing. It's quite amusing most of the time, actually, because they frequently refuse to give up. I had a couple trucks coming up behind me recently, and one pulled up next to me at the light. He revved his engine, and just for the hell of it, I squealed the tires off the line, and speed away. I didn't go much over the speed limit through. His buddy sped past me, and slowed down (ricer fly by, anyone?) and I passed him without speeding up. The first truck came up behind me, floored it, and moved over to pass me. As soon as he moved over, I floored it, and even with two friends in the car he didn't stand a chance. He was going to try again, but I had to turn off that road. lol

So, anyway, does anyone else have trucks try and race them?

(I said trucks aren't for racing, but I was watching a show about the DHRA at my local track. They had trucks that weighed four tons and were completely street legal except for the NOS in the bed running 10's. That's awesome. )

Yea, this blue Silverado SS went past me one time and then I speed up a little bit because I thought I heard a turbo under there when he went past me.

At the light he reved up his trust and that thing is loud, but on the other side of him was a white Isuzu rodeo with exhaust. I raced for the hell of it since it was at night and no cops wasn't around or people on the road. So the light turn green and all three of us went for it, me and the silverado ss left the rodeo in the dust but I notice a reflective light and I took this turn that goes on the highway because I knew it was the police and one of the other trucks got caught because I seen some lights flashing right as I got on the highway.

Its not a texas thing, I get that too especially with those damn dodge ram trucks, about 90 percent of trucks here got exhaust on them and they think they can beat anybody.

i must agree trucks are for hualing and for pulling, BUT i have a couple tmes beaten other vehicles in my truck, their quicker than you think

I get r-tards in Ford trucks around here who think they have race trucks because aftermarket exhauts add like 75hp. ya know

So yes I get people trying to race me all the time in trucks and SUV's, especially those in Ford Exploders