Ricer=Angry

[SubyFusion]

I hate Acura Integra’s, if someone were to give me one I would blow it to pieces!!!!! There is just way too many of them!. I can go for a drive without seeing one, I mean it would be fine if they were stock and nice looking like an Acura should be, but no of course not they always look like shit, sound like shit, and ride like they don't have any suspension. Take tonight for example nice quiet night went to get something out of my legacy, and I heard something, I was like what the hell is that it sounds like a freaking moped about to explode, and then I see it’s a freaking Acura, figures right he’s just driving around slow as hell, just revving his engine to the max in front of people’s houses, I mean it’s 12 at night come on, and this guy can’t drive for the life of him, it take like 5 min for him to change gears, I was like wow plus its back firing and it sounds like total shit!!!!!. I just wanted to jump in my legacy, and show him what a real car sounds like you know what I mean, some cars just sound like shit!. I hope his engine blows up soon then I wont have to hear that crap anymore

[kimokalihi]

Integras do suck but I don't know what's worse, ricers or the headache I have after reading that run on sentence of yours.

[SubyFusion]

Sorry it's late as heck, I don't even know why i am awake

[kimokalihi]

Haha. I was at work reading that. Just got home. It's early still

[evolutionmovement]

I hardly see them anymore unless they're stock and well taken care of—a combination of the economy's impact on ricers and New England's rust-inducing climate seems to have cleaned up the roads. I think Honda's rust protection never progressed after the 1980's (and Nissan, Toyota, and Mazda are hardly better). The ricers I do see (or hear) are usually just shit subcompacts that had no sporting pretenses to begin with.

[kimokalihi]

Lucky you. I see them every day. It's so rare to see a nice honda.

[cj91legss]

oh wow, yeah here in wa.... you can't throw a rock without hitting 10 integras or civics that look like shit with their cut springs and flat black steelies

Although now that i think about it, i had cut springs on the wagon for several months... and primer black steelies.... Wow talk about knocking yourself.

[evolutionmovement]

I am lucky, though I'm sure I'd see more of them if I lived in a less affluent part of the state. I don't mind having the shittiest house in the neighborhood—better than having the nicest house in the shit. Still, the economy apparently hit everyone—the Lamborghini dealer down the street folded last year or so and I don't see the older woman with the Gallardo that I kept trying to run into at Starbucks (But I have to say that I never normally drink there) to see if she'd be looking for a younger guy who looks like Keanu Reeves, is an author, and has designed his own "car". Dammit.

[kimokalihi]

oh wow, yeah here in wa.... you can't throw a rock without hitting 10 integras or civics that look like shit with their cut springs and flat black steelies

Although now that i think about it, i had cut springs on the wagon for several months... and primer black steelies.... Wow talk about knocking yourself.

Hey, I like black steelies! haha. I have them on my metro and I rocked them on my subaru legacy wagon for a long time. Beats those stupid rotas that have red (or insert any color here) spokes with polished lips.

[SubyFusion]

there is nothing wrong with black steelies, i had them on my car for about 2 years with the vintage hub caps

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[cj91legss]

lol i wasnt really knocking steelies that bad... on a car that's NOT lowered they can look ok. When you see a civic or integra driving down the road on what you can Obviously see is cut springs (bouncing like a mother f*cker when runnig ver a small rock) that's when they're rediculous

[SubyFusion]

hahahaha ya thats how they ride, like all watch it go around the corner on a perfectly smooth street and its still bounces like crazy, must be all the rocks on the ground

[93forestpearl]

You get to a point where you merely laugh at the ricers instead of wasting fuel on embarrassing them.

[Legacy777]

Yeah....I've been at that point for a while.

[evolutionmovement]

Yeah, there's no sense wasting gas and risking my license when even the Mazda 3 could handily embarrass them. They're like gnats—wave them away and forget them.

[John Drivesabox]

I had a 1980 Oldsmobile Cutlass with cut suspension. And white fur headliner, man I miss that car.

Reminds me of going to the exhaust shop after hours and stealing scrap exhaust, cutting it up and bolting on the most retarded Ed Roth style exhausts you've ever seen on a real car. Good times! I always wanted to put a 3 foot shifter in an old CRX with exhaust coming out the front fender. Sorry, the preceding was the ramblings of a very bored person.

[SILINC3R]

You get to a point where you merely laugh at the ricers instead of wasting fuel on embarrassing them.

woops, i did that the other day, i was coming back from Seattle to Bellingham and i saw this white Acura from a mile away and just started laughing. my friend was like what are you laughing at and i was like just wait. so of course he was in the left hand lane so i had to shift over. it was very riced out body kit and all. black wheels with blue lip. so i looked over at the two guys in the car and laughed, down shifted to 4th and just took off.

[SubyFusion]

lol it might be a waste of gas but its funny as hell

[familydad]

i just love the look i get from them when i pull up to a lite, ( being RHD) we have a ricer here at our condo and every morning hes reving that thing up and making all kinds of noice. so i use my airsoft on his car to set off the alarm in the day time, one night he just left the alarm off and what do you know, all his sh!t was striped, now he's pimpin in a old beet up f150, OWNED

You get to a point where you merely laugh at the ricers instead of wasting fuel on embarrassing them.

woops, i did that the other day, i was coming back from Seattle to Bellingham and i saw this white Acura from a mile away and just started laughing. my friend was like what are you laughing at and i was like just wait. so of course he was in the left hand lane so i had to shift over. it was very riced out body kit and all. black wheels with blue lip. so i looked over at the two guys in the car and laughed, down shifted to 4th and just took off.

[93forestpearl]

I won't lie. Sometimes I had the nerve to give a free lesson. Usually 2nd gear gets the point across. Even with the short-assed 6 speed.


My favorite is the people you wax, and then they come back for a 2nd or 3rd run, as if they did something wrong. There is no getting around a slow car...

[evolutionmovement]

Or they pass you, once they catch up, after you obviously taught them a lesson and buzz by with the hazards on as if they somehow won. Like, yeah, my gears are so short, I top out at 85 and THAT's why I blew your doors off.

[gijonas]

Or they pass you, once they catch up, after you obviously taught them a lesson and buzz by with the hazards on as if they somehow won.

No thats just V-TECH kicking in..You know the mad JDM top end

[kimokalihi]

Vtech is overhyped big time. I have been in a couple vtech hondas (stock) and when it kicked it I didn't even notice a difference in acceleration except the added noise.

[evolutionmovement]

They've smoothed out the newer ones. I don't follow that kind of thing as much anymore, but I'd guess the system's more advanced than the original, which was just two sets of cam lobes with the lower speed cams being designed less around performance than the top end cams (on top of being designed around the differences in air speed requirements for the two rpm ranges, of course). Because of that, originally, the difference when the top end cams kicked in was pretty marked, but you're still talking relative power from what was sub-2.0l N/A. From a guy who grew up around V8s and some real sports cars (that almost nobody makes anymore), they never impressed me in terms of performance.

[entirelyturbo]

The newer i-VTEC systems are a little more dynamic and smoother. I think they can kick in as early as 2000rpm if the conditions are right.

My Fit has VTEC, but it's nothing like any other VTEC system. Out of it, it's a 3-valve. In it, (around 3800rpm) it's a 4-valve. The actual valve timing never changes.

What's funny is that it seems to be more helpful out of it. Fuel is supposedly atomized better as the air swirls into the cylinder from the one open intake valve, and airflow and volume isn't as important in low rpm, so the engine benefits from a decreased load by not having to open 4 valves.

I don't care though. It's been impeccably reliable daily transportation, and that's all I ever want it to be.