My second car (cutlass was first) was a 150$ 280z. I had it a few months and wanted to fix it up, rust bucket, didn't run, and someone offered me 250$ so I sold it. Third car was a 1000$ 1990 civic. For only having 80 something hp it would hang with newer normal 4cyl cars, this being 2005-07 when I had that car. It served its purpose well, the 1.5 single cam could wind up to 8500 and shift, the auto shifter would shift it at 6500 but it'd spin higher if dropped down to low (I liked when auto shifters would actually keep it in gear above redline, not like new cars auto shifters).
This is how the engine blew- I got a deal from a local lube shop that gave me a few years oil changes for what equated to around 10$ a job, so I took it. The second oil change, the shop drained the oil, put filter and plug in but no oil :shock: I had no idea. The car ran for 2 months of everyday driving until it blew its engine, this is hard everyday driving frequently got it up to 8500rpm. It threw a rod around 300,000 miles with no oil and beating it up hard (nothing wrong with the car other than the distributor coil/main relays used to go out once in a while). The shop paid for a new engine and I've never let anyone do anything on my vehicles since, besides balancing tires cuz I can't do that (I don't even let them install tires).
Since then had a few other old cars, jag, camaro, el camino. I'm averaging a car a year for 7 years, gotta keep it up :lol: . None of the cars were anywhere near as reliable as the honda. My new truck even isn't nearly as reliable (though thats because I never stop effing with it).
Drivers of foreign cars and ricers are two different things entirely.
A friend of mine explained to me some ricer thought. He used to have a done up turbo acura a long time ago so he claims he knows. It's all about cockiness and thats why a lot of people hate them. If they have something that can beat a new camaro from a 75 mph roll they think their car is god's gift to the streets. He has an lsx big block firebird with th400 and 456 rear, he runs stock tires off a 9" (1/2 stock chevy axles welded to and balanced w/ 1/2 ford axles). When he races for money at the 1/8 mile he tells them, this isn't a stock ls1 do you still want to race, and they're so cocky he got away with it for a few weeks before they decided his car was quick.
My problem with 'ricers' are they have no idea what they're doing. Another friend of mine whose dad owns a lucrative shop, bought him a gov't auctioned early 2000's Lexus SC 430. He thought he was the hottest sh*t ever, and had the fastest car on earth. He laughed when I tried to explain gear ratios and torque etc, and I tried to explain that my self bought and built v6 truck would demolish him from a roll, he never understood until we actually raced. He wanted to trade it in on an auctioned old ferrari that his dad could score for cheap, even though I tried to convince him a z06 was much faster and cheaper.
Some ricers just don't get it. They see cars not as adaptable machines (except for that famous ricer line "twin turbo it") but as visual stimulation. The more visually attractive the faster and better it must be.
...Not to be confused with the clueless female logic of the more visually stimulating the car the better it must be, which is partly true.
That makes it a lot funnier.
