You might be a ricer

[RogueIce]

I've seen these high-school grads with their Honda Civics and Mazda Protege cars with giant spoilers, bizarre neon tubes and tinted windows.

Gah, damn parking lot was full of 'em. And they loved to peel out and shit and take turns fast as hell, and do 180s on the field.

Man, if I had been the SRO there, I would've made a small fortune in traffic fines.

[Enigma]

All this talk about about fast cars makes me wish for that Corvette Lingenfelter (sp?) 0-100km\hr in 1.9 seconds.

[Pablo Sanchez]

I ennd up with a dented fender, and your shitbox is
totalled, MAHHAHAHA

I want to buy an ancient car, from before the concept of "crumple zones" and "safety." Give me a car made entirely of steel and wood and I'll teach you not to cut people off.

That or a BA-64

[aerius]

I want to buy an ancient car, from before the concept of "crumple zones" and "safety." Give me a car made entirely of steel and wood and I'll teach you not to cut people off.

That or a BA-64

Our family had '76 Olds Cutlass Supreme coupe with heavy chrome-plated steel bumpers. That thing was solid, we got hit by an import shitbox once and all it did was flake a bit of chrome off them rear bumper, we barely felt our car move. The import shitbox had its plastic bumper crushed in, the headlights shattered, and ripples on the hood and fender.

It was pretty fast too since it had a nice V8 engine, my dad had to put in heavy duty transmission since the stock one kept dying, too much power I guess.

[Moonshadow]

Just wait until i drop a 350 in my Ram-50. I won't even do the paint job for a month just so i can hunt down Ricers and embarass them. My Dynasty does a pretty good job at it, but not as good as the D-50 from hell will.

[Crayz9000]

One of these?

(OK, that's a '75 Starfire. But I don't suppose it changed that much)

Actually, it looks just like the top one on this page. It has the Firenza trim package, although the hood markings are mostly burned off thanks to the Southern California sun.

The good part? We picked it up for just under a kilobuck.

[Peregrin Toker]

One of these?

(OK, that's a '75 Starfire. But I don't suppose it changed that much)

Actually, it looks just like the top one on this page. It has the Firenza trim package, although the hood markings are mostly burned off thanks to the Southern California sun.

It has a slightly different front. The silhouette of the car is basically the same, although I think the '75 Starfire is prettier.

The good part? We picked it up for just under a kilobuck

I suppose it needed some restauration?

[Crayz9000]

It has a slightly different front. The silhouette of the car is basically the same, although I think the '75 Starfire is prettier.

Depends on your perspective, really. The rear spoiler, while mostly non-functional, isn't too stupid (unlike most ricers) and does improve the outline a bit. I don't really like the taillights from the '75 to '78 models, though. Something about the way they were rounded.

I suppose it needed some restauration?

The interior is a little burned-up, and we're going to give it an engine change in a few months (a bit of valve clatter, don't want to wreck a perfectly good engine). The good part is that we have a 4.1L V6 ready to put in, and a trip down to a wrecking yard yielded a complete interior in very good condition.

[The Yosemite Bear]

Someone asked me if a bear caused all the damage to my car...

I said no the front end was ****-ed by a doe. (Tore off the front bumper, and put two hoofs through the hood and cracked the front window on that jump too.)

[TrailerParkJawa]

I laugh at many rice rocket boys. Especially the ones that got mommy to buy their car. They look like such bad-ass' kicking it at the Junior College.

[Kyle]

All this talk about about fast cars makes me wish for that Corvette Lingenfelter (sp?) 0-100km\hr in 1.9 seconds.

That's be nice, but it's overkill. A Camaro has no trouble beating the shit out of any of those little front wheel drive four cylinder rice burners.

I love those idiots who think they can keep up, especially the expression on there face when I drop the clutch and they suddenly realize what they've gotten themsleves into.

Hail the LS-1 V-8.

[Iceberg]

There was a ricer in my speech class that didn't believe that a totally stock Corolla would beat the ass off of his riced-up Corolla.

I taught him otherwise.

[HemlockGrey]

If you think nothing of doing 90 on a residential road, tailgating, cutting people off or weaving between lanes like the dumbass dickless wonder that you are...YOU MIGHT BE A RICER.

Or a Philadelphian.

[Captain Cyran]

Ah, Western New York...home of the Ricers.

They're all over the damn place here, I want a big tank of a car so I can mess with them.

"What the fuck are you tailing me so close for?" *Press on the brakes*

"Whoops...my bad."

[Coyote]

In Boise its all the wanna-be tuffboyz from the local high school, 80% of which are Mormons acting bad. They are so pathetic. I smoke them in a 1987 Jeep Cherokee, for Christ's sake.

For the money they spend on mods they could have just bought a real car with some cojones in the first place. The fancy tricked out Mazdas with expensive paint jobs are blasted by the Mexican farmboys in their own modified 1970's primer-colored muscle cars... hehehe

[RogueIce]

They are so pathetic. I smoke them in a 1987 Jeep Cherokee, for Christ's sake.

From my experience in a jeep, with my psycho cousin at the wheel...that's pathetic.

[Hyperion]

There was a ricer in my speech class that didn't believe that a totally stock Corolla would beat the ass off of his riced-up Corolla.

I taught him otherwise.

I beleive it, hell I've done that, just with a stock 4-door Civic against a majorly riced 2-door Civic. Most of you would have loved the guy's face when I literally shot past him right off the stop and he was just getting going. Granted he did keep up pretty well, probably more from me not wanting to drop into passing gear and rev up the engine.

Where most of the ricers fuck themselves for performance is the damned exhaust. The love putting constricting addons in their exhaust to make it sound like a dirtbike, what most don't seem to understand (probably because they have never personally worked on their car) is that such things cause backpressure, and lots of it, which does 2 things: 1) kills performance, 2) eats engines like popcorn, especially if you "race". About the only noise-making addon I would do to my car is a 3" straight-pipe from dual headers, that is a major reduction in backpressure, and gives a very noticable boost in performance, even with a stock motor, but causes problems in cities (noise) and makes passing a smog-check a bitch.

And as I have said many times before: at least half of the performance of a car is the driver's skill.

Btw, I did clock my 0-60 time in my car, which is stock everything except the stereo and lights, ~14 seconds, but I was really hammering it, it is not something I would ever do other than to prove I could do it, which is what happened when I did it about a month ago. (hell, I was peeling out in 3rd)


Oh, and any reccomendations on transmissions to get to replace the one I have now? From the factory there was a problem with the synchros on 2nd, and the problem is getting worse. (one reason I am careful not to do uber-fast takeoffs, even though I can, just the dumb gear jumps out and the engine over-revs.)

[Hamel]

My brother is a wannabe ricer

Yeah, that's pretty bad

[The Yosemite Bear]

My uncle once raced George Lucas, has 5 Z's, 2 Jaguars (V12), and a Shelby....

Does he count as an Original "Ricer"?

[Shaka[Zulu]]

hmmm... I dust ricers regularly in my bone stock '99 GMC Jimmy 2-door SUV with the 4.3L V-6, which I got to replace my stolen '92 Typhoon (oh how I miss it still). when I'm really serious, Ill even drive it like a stick (ie use the L1 L2 & L3 -- I can keep it in a desired gear right up to redline that way) to this day no ricer has yet proven to be a serious challenge without nitrous, and by the time they get to using it, Ive let off cuz Im at the speed limit for the road. About the hardest Ive had to push so far has been against a bud of mine in his 95 mustang (not a ricer, but still), and I was hauling his new 29" sony WEGA (just bought from brandsmart) in the back at the time!!!

[Peregrin Toker]

For the money they spend on mods they could have just bought a real car with some cojones in the first place. The fancy tricked out Mazdas with expensive paint jobs are blasted by the Mexican farmboys in their own modified 1970's primer-colored muscle cars... hehehe

Only a fool would drive a ''89 Mazda 323F souped up to 160hp and expect it to be faster than a '71 Dodge Charger R/T with 425hp in its stock version.

[phongn]

They are so pathetic. I smoke them in a 1987 Jeep Cherokee, for Christ's sake.

From my experience in a jeep, with my psycho cousin at the wheel...that's pathetic.

Some ricer once attempted to race my dad on the Bayside Bridge while he was driving a Ford Expedition (4.2L V8) ... oh, how amusing it was when our lumbering SUV beat him.

[Illuminatus Primus]

Some ricer once attempted to race my dad on the Bayside Bridge while he was driving a Ford Expedition (4.2L V8) ... oh, how amusing it was when our lumbering SUV beat him.

On Bayside?

[phongn]

It's a clear straight-away with no cops except on the southern entrance zone (just watch for airplanes checking speed). Thus, while the Expedition can't handle very well (lest it tip over), it's engine makes up for its huge mass.