You Know You're a Ricer When...

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... you find yourself using the excuse 'yo, but you gots twice as many cylindas, dude after EVERY race
... your gumby pants make it hard to shift
... you have stickers that even most asians don't get
... you have stickers for parts you dont have
... you refer to 50hp as the 'big shot'
... when you drive by, WWII veterans run for shelter
... your exhaust tip diameter is 4 times the inner muffler diameter
... birds make nests on your spoiler because its taller than the trees
... you sell crack for the image...not the money
... you have 'N/T' polished on the side of car and you don't know what bracket racing is...
... you will only race if the other guy removes four sparkplugs
... you can't race uphills
... you brag to have nitrous and have a 14.50 dial in
... your exhaust system for your 1.8L is bigger than most Pro-stock cars
... you spent more money on stickers and stripes than your parents paid for your car
... you go to a performance shop and immediately start rummaging through the decal bin
... your tach is bigger than your head
... you have a shiftlight and your car is an automatic
... you refuse to race because it's a "show car"
... your only mods are cut factory springs and a 5" chrome exhaust tip
... at Autocross events you don't participate because you have a drag race setup and at drag events you brag about kicking [censored] on the autocross.
... you have more lights on the front of your car than the USS Voyager
... you brag about a turbo kit that never seems to get installed.
... your exhaust sounds like a dying Moose, [censored] of bumble bee, or just plain [censored]
... your bright green $300 air filter is bigger than your engine.
... You have more exhaust decibels than your engine has horsepower.
... You have aftermarket FRONT wheels for racing but stock rear wheels.
... Your engine makes twice as much horsepower as torque.
... 17" rims up front, 13" out back on your FWD.
... You put your automatic car in neutral at every stoplight in order to roll it back and try to fool other people into thinking you have a manual transmission
... DuPont gave up trying to figure out the shade you were asking for. .
... A chameleon lizard undergoes fewer shade changes than your custom paint scheme.
... Your rims and tires are so large, that you have to install the tire / wheel from underneath the car because it simply won't fit in the wheel well going in from the side.
... The dealer laughs when you bring your car back in for service under warranty, and you've only had it 6 months...
... Your tires / rims stick out from the lip of your car by more than 1."
... Your paint job is from the WRONG end of the color spectrum.
... You installed spacers on your STOCK wheels and tires to get them to stick out past the fender.
... You bring an empty Maxwell House coffee can with you to compare size when you shop for an aftermarket exhaust system.
... Your Eclipse GS-T hardtop has a "SPYDER" emblem on the rear...
... Your sum knowledge of suspension is: "the more negative camber, the better the handling."
... You add a super tall rear wing, and a hundred pounds of aftermarket ground effects, neon and stereo yet you gut the interior and yank out the rear seat for weight savings.
... Your rear wing AND your rear window have a third mount brake light...
... The back lighting in the gauges in your A-pillar gauge pod work long before the actual gauges are hooked up.
... You cut 4 coil springs and scrape the chassis on the ground. Sparks are cool when you corner at normal traffic speeds!
... You have to find a way to drive AROUND speed bumps in a parking lot.
... You install clear corner and brake lights.
... You install colored bulbs in your aftermarket clear lenses.
... You ever put neon on the bottom of your car, and then busted it on the first speed bump you went over.
... You painted the UNDERBODY of your car to match
... If your rear spoiler is taller then you are.
... if you can fit your fist in your exhaust tip
... You have more stereo WATTS than engine TORQUE!
... You spent $5,000 on the engine and you can not out run a stock Camaro, Firebird, or Mustang
... You want the 'wastegate' sound, but don't want to install a turbocharger system.
... You think Nitrous Oxide on your Hyundai Sonata puts you in the same performance league as the Chevy Corvette.
... The automatic version of your car runs 2 seconds slower in the 1/4mile.
... If the 1970 Plymouth Daytona Superbird has a smaller spoiler than your car does.
... You think the Del Sol is a sports car...
... A torque converter does NOTHING for your car.
... You think a deep farty noise = the sound of high performance
... If you think that horsepower is far more important than torque
... If you have ever claimed that switching to a cone filter has given you more than 5 HP.
... If you have ever considered installing more than one set of fog / driving lights.
... If you claim that the aftermarket cold air intake system you just installed doubled your horsepower or took 2 or more seconds off of your E/T.
... You spent all night on the Internet trying to find a company that makes a turbocharger system for your Hyundai...
... If you removed your side view mirrors and put them at the TOP of the door / window frame.
... MOMO is 'absolutely required' to go fast.
... Your four cylinder has a dual exhaust system installed.
... Your four cylinder has four exhaust pipes ("Hey, one for each cylinder!")
... The color of your interior upholstery hurts the cones and rods in other people's eyes.
... If you cannot drive your car in snow as the ground effects create a plow effect.
... If you have installed driving lights to compensate for headlight blackouts / tape.
... If you think that 180 horsepower and 185 lb/ft of torque are impressive for a ‘mildly’ modified engine.
... If you have stickers on your car for parts that you could not point out if asked where those parts are installed.
... You think pushrods are a bad thing…
... Your car has more decals than you do the quarter in seconds.
... Every Honda you EVER owned, all the way back to your 1978 Accord was either a V-Tec or a TYPE-R.
... You took your rear seat out and gutted your interior for weight savings but you installed 400 pounds of electronics, neon, DVD, Sony, etc.
... If you gutted the interior to save weight on a car that you will never take to the track…
... You lean your seat so far back when you are driving, that every time you hit a bump, its your back and not your butt that hurts.
... You have hydraulics and sixteen switches on a car you claim runs low 10s on the street and corners better than a Porsche.
... If you can estimate that your car makes more than 250 HP without ever running it at the track or getting a dyno reading.
... You claim that you can get a titanium block for your engine.
... If you have ever thought Hyundai and "performance" went hand in hand
... If you've ever gone to a parts shop or speed warehouse and asked for a 1" to 6" exhaust adapter...
... If you've ever contemplated adding "TYPE-R" stickers to your Sonata…
... If you've removed more than 1/2 of the coils from your springs by cutting them yourself ...
... If you have more neon lights on your car than a strip club...
.. You own a "TYPE-R" Hyundai or Mazda.
.. You couldn't afford headlight masking, so you just painted them with flat black Krylon and it's peeling. Badly.
... You claim that polishing your intake gave you 5hp.
... You own a V-TEC Hyundai or Mazda (especially a V-TEC rotary engined Mazda RX-7)
... You have neon INSIDE your car or in your ENGINE compartment
... You ever claimed that high gas mileage made your car superior in performance to V8s.
... If it takes you 8000rpm to reach 30mph from a dead stop at WOT.
... drive around in a $20,000 import with $10,000 in mods.. and still live with your parents.
 
Thankfully, this fad has been dying down recently. At least in my area it has. Most people with money to waste are going back to the lowrider look, which I think is much easier on the eyes anyway.
 
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I have one to add that I saw this morning on another message board...

"You added a 'Turbo' emblem to a Mazdaspeed vehicle."

Emblems and stickers announcing what's under the hood (especially if it's a lie) annoy the h*ll out of me. Mazdaspeed insinuates turbocharging....adding a Turbo emblem to it is like saying Porsche 911 Turbo Turbo. People's desire to stand out usually ends up with statements in bad taste.
 
There's not a lot of ricers in the Detroit Metro area... it's not our style. The gear heads here stick with their Mustangs and Camaros, if they can't afford a 60s/70s muscle car.
 
... you refuse to race because it's a "show car"

needs to read:
... you refuse to race because it's a "show car", but you haven't painted it yet.
3 tones of primer and bondo don't count.


another one that bugs me on all makes is adding accessories with your car's brand on them. you don't need the back window, license plate frame, vanity plate, hitch cover, windshield, suspension parts, bumper, step bars, or door handles all to say chevy (or insert any other brand) the factory badges do a fine job of communicating your brand.
 
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Originally Posted By: tom slick

another one that bugs me on all makes is adding accessories with your car's brand on them. you don't need the back window, license plate frame, vanity plate, hitch cover, windshield, suspension parts, bumper, step bars, or door handles all to say chevy (or insert any other brand) the factory badges do a fine job of communicating your brand.


If you don't add all the stickers, how would the other kids know that you and your masterpiece are officially sponsored?
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Originally Posted By: CBDFrontier06
I would imagine driving a Toyota through Detroit is taking your life in your own hands.

Sadly, this is still prevalent among the few less-enlightened folk.

BTW, the Big Three still maintain segregated parking lots.
 
I went just the opposite with my 86 Capri. I got fender badges that say "2.3" in the same style the Capri RS's got "5.0" that way no one can claim it looks like it has a V8. I am very clear with people that the car is slow as molasses. The whole import tuner stuff really ticks me off. A bunch of punk kids that don't know jack about REAL performance trying to tell you you have no idea what you're talking about. I'd like to see them recurve distributors, rebuild carburetors, and be able to properly degree a cam.
 
Over on the Metro forum, someone took the "16-VALVE" logo off a junked Pontiac (I think?) and trimmed off the 1 so he could put "6-VALVE" on his Swift.
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Originally Posted By: ethangsmith
I'd like to see them recurve distributors, rebuild carburetors, and be able to properly degree a cam.


And shoe a horse
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Originally Posted By: Kestas
Sadly, this is still prevalent among the few less-enlightened folk.

BTW, the Big Three still maintain segregated parking lots.


I just about sh*t when my brother told me this. He worked at the Norfolk, VA F150 plant for 29 years and had to park his Monte Carlo SS in a lot across the street. In this day and age, I can't believe someone hasn't sued over it yet.
 
They are private companies. They can do what they want within the law. Labor laws address discrimination against age, sex, race, etc... but not against the kind of car you drive. It's fair game.

In the companies' defense, for those that buy new, they give attractive incentives for employees to buy their product.
 
I guess I'd be parking across the street. I can't think of a current Ford that I'd want. I'm sure they're perfectly fine cars, but none of them appeal to me. My brother encountered that too when he bought his Monte Carlo. Ford's closest competition was the Thunderbird Turbo, which he was having none of (he'd never experienced a powerful 4-cylinder engine, so he didn't realize that the T-Bird was actually a superior car to the 1987 SS he bought.) So, he just parked his brand new Chevy across the street from the factory.

IMO, that's just redneck ingorance....forcing people to park in a specific lot depending on what they choose to drive. Pathetic. They must be running the rest of the company in a similar fashion.
 
Best line of all: Seen on a ricer tv show: "I have $80k in the engine, now I can run in the 13s." Better than the stooges...lol




You've spent more on graphics and decals than you have in gas, for the whole year
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You sound like you're going 90, but you're creeping past 25
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You upgraded to the "big bore" 2 inch exhaust
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You lose 2 mpg by installing a body kit
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Your wing is so large that if you go faster than 65, your bumper drags
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You think "displacement" is something that happens to homeless people
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Yugo's give you a run for the money
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You continuously run red lights because they are invisible thru your red window tint
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15's are considered HUGE rims
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You can reach back and defrost the rear window by hand
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You will race anyone, anytime, and already know that you will lose
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You think Moby is one of the greatest composers of our time
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You spend all your money pimping it out because spending money to make it faster is a waste
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Your little sister is the only one impressed with your car
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When you win a race, you don't really win, it's just that the other guy felt soooo sorry for you
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You think your mom's Corolla is fast
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The cross section of your exhaust tip is bigger than the contact patch of your tires
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Your aftermarket tach is bigger than your fist
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You bought the big [censored] tach to try to scare off the fast cars
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But all it does is let people know how hard you have to push it to exceed the legal speed limit
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You rev on school busses
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[censored], you rev on people in electric wheelchairs
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You buy and install custom rims a pair at a time
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YOU REALIZE THAT ALL OF THE ABOVE IS TRUE AND YOU STILL THINK YOU'RE COOL!!!
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You've entered a 12 step program called "How to come to terms with your limitations"
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The bill of your hat gets caught when you roll the window up
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You really want to kick my [censored] right now
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You cut 2" holes in your rear bumper and don't know what they're for
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You cut 2" holes in your rear bumper and DO know what they're for
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You go to the auto paint store and pick out the most retina burning color you can find
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You buy race gas to drop you from 17.02 to 16.9 in the quarter, and then tell all your friends how fast you went
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You add a second battery to power all the neon, and the mini disco ball
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You add a wing on TOP of your car, 'cause wagons need down force too
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You've ever painted bare, raw fiberglass black and said "Look! It's just like carbon fiber!"
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You get pimped out props from the mini truck crowd
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You still only get dates from high school girls
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You actually own a pair of light up glasses from Checker Auto
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When you install your super phat wing, you put the pointy ends up
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You purchase and install a body kit, one piece at a time
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You saw the "Rice Boy" magazine in the back of Sport Compact, and inquired about a subscription
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Your brother is [censored] cause you stole the muffler off his dirt bike (it was a direct fit!)
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Your dad is worried cause you bought a car with less displacement than his lawnmower
 
Originally Posted By: Dan4510
You've ever painted bare, raw fiberglass black and said "Look! It's just like carbon fiber!"


Best one in that list!
 
... at the "races" you remove all of your seats to save weight but you leave in your speaker boxes and amplifiers.

... you've entered a primered car in a car show with a sign "under construction".

I've both in person.
 
I think with some of the wings that these people have on their cars that if they angled them just right that they might be able to create enough lift to get their cars off the ground. And some of them have wheels that are worth more than their piece of junk. At my school their is this older Kia Spectra that have chrome wheels and a body kit on it and it just looks horrendous.
 
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