Funny things RICErs say (radically immature car enthusiasts)

[Johnny1996]

It's not just civics. Just today I was coming home from work and I saw what I thought was an Integra riding my 🤬 for over 10 min (Cheap HID lights, decals everywhere, no muffler). Got on the highway and it did a pathetic WOT flyby. Turns out it was a 10th gen SC Thunderbird . There was lots of traffic so he nearly took my rear bumper off when he pulled out to overtake me. I followed him for a while and the traffic thinned out. Got a clear stretch and let all my 343 horses lose until this guy was a spec in my mirror. I usually don't mess with ricers but don't know why this guy was so ticked off... maybe it was my license plate

The world needs more people like you to put ricers in their place.

 

[Harry6784]

Nothing wrong with modding your car, in fact I encourage people to do it. Allows you to learn more about your car and mechanics in general. But don't add a $49.95 fart cannon to your economy car and think you own a ferrari...

 

[Azure Flare]

Ah muscle car drivers, ricers need somebody to stoop to their level.

 

[Harry6784]

Ah muscle car drivers, ricers need somebody to stoop to their level.

Technically my car is a Pony car

 

[Johnny1996]

Pony car, muscle car, same thing to me.

 

[RandomCarGuy17]

^Not to me.

 

[Azure Flare]

The American Muscle Car, or "Merica Musculus Vroomicus", is identified by it’s intermediate sized body with a power plant and transmission taken from a far larger member of its genus, such as a full-size sedan or pick-up truck.

They can outrun their enemies in a straight line incredibly fast, while emitting incredibly loud metallic booms and shrieks. Subsists on a diet of anything smaller than it and high octane leaded fuel. Is deathly afraid of curves.

The Muscle Car has small cousins called "Pony Car." They are generally far smaller in size and weight, powered by compact, high output six and eight cylinder engines.

While maybe not quite as fast in a straight line, Pony Cars can easily out-handle their large cousins.

Can be found annoying BMW 3-series and modified Honda Civics.

 

[Johnny1996]

If someone says "to me" then doesn't that usually indicate opinion and not the want for an explanation?

 

[Azure Flare]

I just saw that as an opportunity, so I took it.

And no, they are different.

 

[Johnny1996]

I just saw that as an opportunity, so I took it.

And no, they are different.

I just get mad when I state my opinion and someone explains otherwise these days because of high school. I have to put up with it nearly every school day.

 

[Harry6784]

It's a subset of the larger Muscle car group. It's like calling a Amuse S2000 GT1 Turbo a "honda". Technically it's not a honda but you're splitting hairs if you say it has nothing to do with a honda. But don't worry, I don't lose any sleep if someone calls my car a "muscle car" 👍

 

[Slash]

To most people these days, any American car, wether classed as a muscle or pony car, 2 door or 4 door, with a large V8 as an option, is a muscle car. Year is irrelevant anymore.

That said, pony cars do have the advantage in handling...take the Mustang's road racing history for example.


But anyways, you're lucky the car wasn't installed with a 302 or 4.6L lol.

 

[Azure Flare]

Or a "Hemi".

 

[Slash]

Oh boy

 

[Ze Elephant]

Walking from the middle school to the high school one day (our band room is in the middle school) I made a comment about a red pickup in the parking lot being the only one in that row. Just after saying that, I was quickly informed by an idiotic hick (who had said before that an average car would have "about 400 horsepower") that said truck "Has a 454 big block. Nothing you own will ever be as fast or powerful as that." Funny thing is, upon talking to one of my friends who knows the owner of the red truck with the 454 well, I discovered that he messed it up (don't remember exact details of what he did) and now it makes less power than a stock 350. Yep, real smart hick kid, real smart...

 

[Azure Flare]

A 454 big block can be a powerful engine, but then again, so can a turbocharged 1.5L 4-cylinder.

 

[Ze Elephant]

A 454 big block can be a powerful engine, but then again, so can a turbocharged 1.5L 4-cylinder.

I know, but I had to laugh because of his direct insult to me and that the specific truck was an almighty crap wagon.

 

[Harry6784]

A 454 big block can be a powerful engine, but then again, so can a turbocharged 1.5L 4-cylinder.

 

[Azure Flare]

@Harry6784 I was referring to this, it has a turbocharged 1.5L 4-cylinder. It's BMW engine, when the boost was turned up to "11", produced 1400 HP, the most powerful engine ever in F1.

 

[Harry6784]

Spend the same 1 mill modifying a 6.0L V8 and you'll make much MUCH more power. F1 needed a light yet powerful motor, extensive turbocharging was required. Though not impossible to get big numbers from a small 4 banger, it isn't very cost effective.

 

[Slash]

A 1 million dollar 6.0 V8 can and will make so much power it wouldn't be useable. Seeing over 50,000 horsepower wouldn't be out of the question, considering $10k builds are netting over 3,500hp, sometimes even cheaper.

 

[Azure Flare]

$1,000,000 could fund an engine made using exotic materials, and probably some hi-tech bits like pneumatic valve springs.

 

[Bopop4]

That BMW 1.5 was running 60 pounds of boost to get to that level of horsepower.

For qualifying, it was just used to make 1 good lap before it was junk, same with the 1 lap tires.


The closest thing you can compare to the 1.5 turbo is a Top Fuel motor, because they basically have the same lifespan...

 

[WrxScooby]

This thread is becoming more and more ironic.

 

[White & Nerdy]

Technically my car is a Pony car

It'll always be a muscle car to me, partially because "pony" carries negative connotations to me (long story), but mainly because I don't get bogged down in that kind of minutiae. If it's American or Australian, it has a V8 available or easily swapped in, and it's not classified as a "light truck", then it's a muscle car - though FWD vehicles (see - Chevrolet Impala and Monte Carlo, which despite the now-discontinued V8 option aren't really muscle cars even in SS form). Of course, there are some exceptions - the Buick Grand National is a muscle car despite using a turbo V6, the Vauxhall VXR8 is a muscle car despite being British (in name only, which is why it counts).

 

[Azure Flare]

...partially because "pony" carries negative connotations to me.

Yes, we already know that, Says the one who claims a Pontiac POS is "practically a muscle car"...

the Vauxhall VXR8 is a muscle car despite being British (in name only, which is why it counts)

It's about as British as it is American.

 

[White & Nerdy]

Yes, we already know that, Says the one who claims a Pontiac POS is "practically a muscle car"...

I didn't say it was "practically a muscle car", I said it was close enough to pass for now. Certianly a lot better than a Corolla.

It's about as British as it is American.

Hence why I said "In name only", but Australia can build muscle cars too.

 

[Slash]

It'll always be a muscle car to me, partially because "pony" carries negative connotations to me (long story), but mainly because I don't get bogged down in that kind of minutiae. If it's American or Australian, it has a V8 available or easily swapped in, and it's not classified as a "light truck", then it's a muscle car - though FWD vehicles (see - Chevrolet Impala and Monte Carlo, which despite the now-discontinued V8 option aren't really muscle cars even in SS form). Of course, there are some exceptions - the Buick Grand National is a muscle car despite using a turbo V6, the Vauxhall VXR8 is a muscle car despite being British (in name only, which is why it counts).

The GNX is considered a muscle car because of it's relations to the V8 Monte Carlo and Cutlass, despite it's engine (and performance that outmatched the V8 cars, at the time anyways). That's about it. Though, you could somewhat tie it to the older Gran Sport, but the relation there is really strained (via Buick Regal GS).

 

[White & Nerdy]

Also, @Azure Flare: As I've said before, I know my car isn't cool as such. I just think it's inherently cooler than a Corolla, Civic, or modern compact because of its larger engine, 5-lug wheels, and basic, non-gadget-overloaded interior. I know, however, that as soon as it goes on the Cool Wall it's going to go immediately to -2 and stay there because:

1. "Let's make this the least cool car ever on the wall!"
2. "Eeew the interior is so horrible and look at those panel gaps!"
3. "That engine is too big and sounds like a tractor! An I4 would be better!"

The Prius couldn't go that low even though it deserved it, but the Sunbird will even though it doesn't, because it's my car.

 

[ImmalovemaGTR]

Sooo... to all the torque guys out there

If you say torque wins races, then every race car should be a diesel?
And no, they win in Le Mans because of the good fuel economy, not because of the torque (and they have much of it )

Not everything in the world of cars is about a big displacement and thousands of Newtonmetres of torque. Weight is important and smaller engines weigh less. And the relation between what comes into the engine and what the engine produces (power, torque,...) should also be good and big block V8s do NOT have a good relation.

This does not mean I don't like big engines that produce much torque... Vipers are some of my favourite cars and of course I like Muscle Cars (and Pony Cars )

Just sayin'