thought this was pretty funny.... bashing all rice burners

[marcar1993]

i work in an auto parts store and i can tell you that half the time its the customer calling sh*t the wrong name. honestly. ppl come in for front brake shoes all the time. and if you came in for a harmonic balancer sleeve i would search harmonic balancer as a general search, hell id prob only type in 'harm bal'. now i can only speak for myself not all auto parts stores but most of my experience is ppl calling stuff the wrong name, and it takes a while to learn the lingo everone uses: a rotor seal? wheel seal. a rear differential seal, but in the front? pinion seal. it takes time to learn how everyone names things themselves, lol.

While I have to agree many people don't even know what they drive let alone the parts they need. Like the guy who wanted parts for his brig ham. Finally we went to look at the car, it was a 90's chrysler lebaron broughme.

As for the bolded part. I understand they're not asking for this, but what about a car with 4 wheel drum brakes... They made those into the 70's.
I do love that the parts guy corrected my dad when he asked for front wheel cylinders "Sir they're called calipers". No they're not, they're inside a drum, with shoes not pads. Oh and there's 2 per wheel... Then instead of using the #'s my dad gave him he tried to look the parts up for a 1960 Plymouth in the computer!
He got the manager over and looked up the #'s. Unfortunatly they didn't have any... But NAPA did. 8)

 

[Doober]

You continuously run red lights because they are invisible thru your red window tint

Actually this isn't correct Red would filter out the green... something like a blue or green tint wouldn't allow you to see the red light.

 

[megaladon6]

really confuse them,ask for a radiator for a 60's vw beetle.

 

[marcar1993]

Or ask for anything for an 83 corvette. Or cooling system parts for a corvair.
If you really want to confuse them without bsing them, ask for a left hand water pump...
For a flathead ford...

 

[Minion1186]

my one buddys brother just bought a toyota celica,its stock engine,silver paint but an aftermarket radio and a neon in the interior and thats it,and i obviously had to say my cutlass would beat it,which it would.I remember my buddys brother saying "it could do 150 mph because the speedo ends there" and i start laughing because thats such a ricer thing to say,but he laughed when i said my cutlass has an 85mph speedo,after i said that i said "but it'll do 100"!he also said he wants neons on the undercarriage.lol

 

[marcar1993]

So many of my friends think of the "can go as fast as the speedo can go". Several have learned what the sight of a speedo bouncing off the bottom of the pin back at 0 looks like(in my dad's t/a). And my uncle and one friend, both of whom never doubted it and new better anyway, saw what happens when the needle dissapears into the gauge cluster just above the gas gauge... (in my cutlass)
That was an interesting game of catchup with 30 t/a's... Maybe I'll post that story up.

And don't make to much fun of the idiots that put neon under they're car. I make $$$ of the dumb kids at my school who do that... and other stupid "upgrades, yo!" 8)

 

[username]

"drive around in a $20,000 import with $10,000 in mods.. and still live with your parents. " When I was going to school I had picked up an old exp escort for $300 to drive back and forth to save miles on better vehicles.Anyways this thing would use a quart of oil for every tank of gas. and I loved spanking ricers with this thing I had 300 bucks in this old beater and for the most part I could beat all the blinged up hondas blowing smoke evertime I pushed in the clutch

 

[HighwayJunkie]

I have been driving my Monte around all day and for some reason my Vtec won't kick in, it is pissing me off! lol
:shock:

 

[01GPGT]

here is my "rice" mobile. 2001 grand Prix GT that runs 12.9x's

during the build

stock sub frame

GM 3800 series 2 L36 the N/A engine with the 9.4 compretion pistons just put in the cam for the supercharger build

supercharger one and headers 8)

alsmost done

 

[2000.malibu.ls]

here is my "rice" mobile. 2001 grand Prix GT that runs 12.9x's



alsmost done

i love gtp's a stock gtp will probably beat at least 30% of the people on this forum in a race. those things have awesome torque, id love to get my hands on one.