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Import tuners are so ANNOYING!!!

LOL!!! I was working as a mechanic for a shop and this guy brings in his civic for an alignment,the alignment was so fucked I couldn't even get a reading before having to get a half decent toe setting so the monitor could actually calculate the rest of the other readings,it had a massive exhaust leak, it wouldn't go into 3rd and 4th gear,half of the car was held together with zip ties and this guy was seriously (and I mean SERIOUSLY) telling me he wanted to start racing it to get some money out of it,long story short all of his tie rods were worn out,he didn't have the money to pay for parts and labor so he had to drive that beast home,,,,true story. I DO NOT have anything against a guy or girl trying to fix up their ride with a low budget,I'm not a millionaire or anywhere close to being one but come on some of these guys are just way tooooo out of touch. BTW Rumblefish360 hit the nail dead on with his last comment,,,that was the whole reason I started this thread :eek:ccasion14:
 
One of my students pulled into the parking lot this past June with a 3 series BMW with like 10 degrees of negative camber. Maybe 15 degrees. Said it was 'the style'.
 
It's called "stance" and its like if the car had a sexual preference it'd be gay.
 
Maybe it's just me but it seems a lot of the tuners have something big against the old classic american cars, but not all. Just tonight I was turning on to another street from a stoplight with some clown in a 4 door volkswagon and Weedwacker 3000 muffler all over my rear. Soon as I was straightened out from the turn he felt the need to peel by me in the other lane with his thumpity thump blaring and exhaust sounding off like a chainsaw the muffler fell off of. Just drove by giving me a dirty look. I just grinned and found more comfort in watching the streetlights reflect down the hood like passing runway lights and hearing that 512 rumble off the buildings as I drove down the road. Behind him was a 2000 something Mustang with a couple teenage guys in it. They pulled up next to me, gave me thumbs up and shouted "nice car man". So why is it, a great majority of "ricer" guys I pull up to won't even look at you, wave or anything and then proceed to be an *** driver? Meanwhile, most of the Ford and GM guys at least have the common courtesy to wave or say hi, when waving or saying hi to them. I don't know...maybe it's a in-security issue. I know one thing, car guys stick together even if the other car isn't wearing their favorite badge. We all talk smack, but in the end we all love cars. Those other guys running around with half a racing stripe, press on chrome wheels and UFO wing don't fit that bill to me. More time is spent with attention grabbing cosmetics and audio warfare, all in the name of vanity.
 
Actually I think the rice-burners are really useful.......they keep the idiots occupied enough so they can't mess about with our B-Bodies :)
 
Mr.SpeedFreak said:
Like others have said, there's the good and the bad as with any group of people. I'm 21 so all of my friends my age are into imports and we get along fine, then there are the ricer morons (rice: Race Inspired Cosmetic Enhancements) that just slap wings and fartcans on stock, slow cars. And all my import owner friends laugh at them.

My friend has a non-STI turbo'd wrx and tried to race me from a rolling start last summer (I was in my 67 Chevelle, 454/700r4) he was behind me and got a running start, turbo spools up and he goes to scream past me and right as he comes even with me ( still cruising in 3rd), I drop 2nd and punch it. Left him like he was standing still along with a Chrysler 300 that tried to join in I guess lol similar stories with my other buddies' cars.

Some of them are actually quick though, never got to race it before he crashed it, but my friend had a turbo'd Toyota mr2 I helped him replace the turbo on, went for a ride and that thing pulled as hard as another friend's 440 6 pack '68 Roadrunner. I wouldn't mind owning a supra, nsx, or r32 gt-r at some point but nothing will come close to how much I love driving a big block muscle car

Me and my import driving friends appreciate all kinds of cars, respect each others' taste in them and get along great. It's just the the actual "ricers" that give real car guy import owners a bad name. (there are plenty of them around)
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Well said Mr SF
 
I appreciate the tuner cars, and the work that goes into them. But WHY do all the WRX guys drive like ******** during my morning commute? If I see an asshole weaving and passing, and usually see him at the next light, why is it always a WRX driver?
 
Ryguytoodry said:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BbXEArHeN00

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWdpMuxQpHo

Can't hate 1/4 times...
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Yeah, quick light little cars, I still don't care at all for the fat slicks on the front, there's just something wrong about that look... Not a big fan of FWD anything ever... but you don't need to like all them rice burners/Saki sippen' rice rockets, thou some are very fast...LOL... IMHFO Some are OK, especially the AWD or rear wheel drive cars, or rear engine cars, some cool N20, turboed/supercharged cars too, the rest are, well you probably well know, what the consensus here is... Just because Johnny jumps off a damn bridge, doesn't me I will too...LOL... Sorry, To each their own !!, but it's not my cup of Asian tea, at all thou... I don't mind others doing it & As long as they are having fun, it's what they want to do... IMHFO it's far better than, all the youth, just all sitting on their lazy a$$es, just pretending &/or playing video games in their parent's couch somewhere or doing drugs... It also teaches them, some very good life skills too.... Doesn't mean I will ever like them... Give me a good old American muscle car any-day
 
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