Lately I have been getting a rediculous amount of these little turbo nuts wanting to race their fart can cars, can someone please explain to me the reason behind this, they have to know they are going to get their ass beat by American Muscle every time, yet they keep doing it. Its like me pulling up along side John Force with a station wagon and reving the engine! Whoever it was in that supra tonight on I-10 , stick to racing hondas, or get alot bigger shot of nitrous. Sorry had to vent.
What's up with these ricers??
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Now I am all about American muscle, proud owner of an ls1 but some of those turbo 4bangers are noting to mess with. Some of those stock seeming supra's are 1000hp ++++ I have personally seen a POS civic hatch hand a cobra its nuts on a silver platter but those are rare. Most are stupid teens that think just because they put a fart can on there 135hp civic it makes them unbeatable. Watched fast and furious too many times
Ricers are aggravating, and they do suck, but they aren't to be taken lightly. Their area of the sport is just as diverse as the domestic side and the numbers are just as high. The good old saying "no replacement for displacement" is gone and dead. Don't be fooled by diesels either, I've built them to run into the 10's.
Oh sure there are always the occasional well built imports , I just havent had any of those sitting beside me reving and trying to race me out of the light yet, That at least would be some competition but the chances of every seeing a 10 second import on the street is slim to none and slim already went to bed.
+1, there are several 9-11 second 120-140+ mph trapping 4-cylinder imports in my town.
What is.. "some"...those are only high 12 second cars stock.
Uh some break the 10 second mark with a downpipe and a tune.
Stock 370Z has run 12's. Mine feels about like a stock C5, to me. Imports are decent now days. $3500 puts a neon srt4 in the low 12's. Cheap sr20det swap puts a 240 in the low 13's@110 or so with a canned tune.They finally cracked the programming on the srt8's? Nice!
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Not bad, but far from a heavy hitter now days.
alpinehyperlite
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I'd rather go over the river and through the woods than keep it on the street, but to each their own. 
Needs to run Mike's civic here in Shreveport. You're down on power, but it looks like you can hook it up.
I'd rather go over the river and through the woods than keep it on the street, but to each their own.
There are places in BR where the cops just hide and watch. I may or may not know where those places and times are, and I NEVER participated in such activity. I honestly wish there was more access to tracks just to eliminate the whole concept of lighting them up on the street.
Auto-x is 1000x's better, less investment, waaaaaaaay more track time.
