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Location: Tha 248 to the 586 to the 313 all the way to the 734 Gender: Male Total Likes: 10 likes
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| | | DOMESTIC OR IMPORT? < on 2/19/2008 3:51 AM > | Reply with Quote
| | | What do you think has the better performance/looks?Big american muscle or some imported hunk of plastic?personally I like big ol' american muscle like challengers,chargers,trans ams,firebirds,camaros,chevelles,corvettes,grand nationals,riverias,and such.
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| bandi Lippy Mechanic Bastard
Location: Trent Hills, ON Gender: Male Total Likes: 734 likes
A liminal mind is all I've ever known.
| | | | Re: DOMESTIC OR IMPORT? < Reply # 5 on 2/19/2008 8:14 PM > | Reply with Quote
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| Samurai Vehicular Lord Rick
Location: northeastern New York Total Likes: 1901 likes
No matter where you go, there you are...
| | | Re: DOMESTIC OR IMPORT? < Reply # 13 on 2/20/2008 5:12 AM > | Reply with Quote
| | | I hate to get involved with this, but to me a RICER is mostly defined as this: bone stock Civic, Sentra, Cavalier, Sunfire, SC1, SC2, Accord, Corolla, Camry, Supra, Mustang, Camaro, Firebird, etc... with an unpainted body kit, ENORMOUS fart cannon muffler, chopped springs (instead of the proper kit and offset adjustment), a spoiler that would look out of place on a Top Fuel Dragster, a ridiculous-sounding stereo (sourced at walmart and installed in his/her driveway), painted a ridiculous color and boasting badges of something they're not (ie "Type R", "SI", "SiR", "GTR", "RS", "SS", or decals of aftermarket parts they wish they had... my personal favorite being NISMO decals on a Honda or MUGEN decals on a Toyota. Ricer is bad taste and trying to imitate a style. NOW, if you've got 700hp under the hood to back up your bad taste, well, that automatically excludes you from the above definition. I think what frosts and frustrates me the most is that i have been doing Domestic Front-wheel Drive performance since 1996 and have been racing compact cars since 1991. I started with a 1980 Ford Pinto with a Lima 2.3L OHC engine and was reasonably successful. At the dragstrip, even with my 91 Cavalier, my 88 Cavalier and my 98 Cavalier, i was reasonably successful against cars that had 'twice' the engine I had. Substance over style, kids. You can have a 68 Mustang and still be a ricer. You can be rocking a turd brown 85 Civic and not be... it's what's IN THE CAR that counrs. I'm now driving a 2007 Chevrolet Cobalt SS/SC with a supercharged 2-liter DOHC engine... and STILL the domestics get no respect. We have a world class engine, a world class chassis and our build quality is the best that i have ever seen in the 12 years that I have been a GM enthusiast, and still we get slapped by these oversupreme fucktards about resale value??? What about the fact that my 21k Cobalt will walk a 33k Mustang on a road course? Or spank ass on just about every other car in it's class??? Resale value... blah. Anyways, folks... seriously, the age of the musclecar has come and gone. Gas is pushing $4 a gallon here in my neck of the United States and to be honest, I have never seen points and condensers, and I have forgotten how to tune a Holley four-barrel. Give me fuel injection, forced-induction and small displacement as well as 30+mpg! I had toyed with the idea of buying this 86 Camaro shell here in town and instead of putting the tried and true 350 V8 in it, I had spec'd out an LSF 2.0L Ecotec turbo for it complete with Solstice GXP/Sky Redline 5speed transmission for it. And the go beat on V8's. To quote a favorite sticker: THE ONLY REPLACEMENT FOR DISPLACEMENT IS TECHNOLOGY wow, went a little offtopic with rice, but wanted to get back into the old school versus new school idea...
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