Can someone explain to me what the appeal is of installing the equivalent of a lawn mower muffler on your car? I'm talking about these goofy looking foreign cars, that people lower, paint goofy colours and install cheesy aluminum wings on. WHY? I really want to know. The mufflers sound like shit. The spoilers look like shit. Is a spoiler or wing on the back of a Hyundai that can barely do 95 really going to help improve performance? What gives. The other day I say some kid in one of these cars with an LCD installed on the dash? WTF? Is it the "Fast and the Furious" movie that drove tons of people to take cars that already look retarded and make them look more retarded? Just the other day I was on my V-Rod revving it up before I took off (it was cold) from a stop and was behind a goofy low riding FAF car with one of those goofy monza mufflers. The guys starts revving the piss out of it. Behind him on a motorbike I could hear how really shitty it sounds. I know he thought he was cool, but seriously, I was back there laughing my ass off. So to those that destroy goofy looking 4 cylinder cars and install LCD's, wings, and monza mufflers? Why do you do it?
i have no idea.. but i laugh at them... these guys are laughed upon all over the performance car community Wings/spoilers are great if you need them.. eg: 500HP circuit or drift car that really needs the extra downforce mufflers free up the flow of the exaust up to a certain point then they start making your car shitter.. and its no use of your not replacing the whole exaust they usually take their springs right out or chop them making them non captive and very unsafe.. you can get adjustable racing suspension cheap as these days why dont they get them? my brother got them for his track drift car for 1200 new zealand dollars (about 500 US) with adjustable ride height damper camber and spring rate these guys are trying to make their cars faster or better.. but they no nothing so rice up their cars.. they dont even get a good car to start off with so modifications are VERY limited for them they also get shitty wheels... 6 inches wide... 1million kgs becuase they are full chrome no wonder they crash... LAUGH AT THEM! hopefully they will wake up and get a real car and modify it properly not one my granny would drive..
I have no idea!! But I am with you on the shi* factor; both looks and sounds. No matter how much you polish a terd...it's still a terd. on the other hand...I'd rather have one of these, something that doesn't sound like a chainsaw
I race against these knukleheads on occasion (on the track, of course). Most of them don't really have any idea how to drive, their cars make tons of noise but can hardly get out of their own way. Plus they look really silly. Most of the time we just laugh at them.
Yeah it's pretty scarry when my 3800 Buick Powered (no longer made) 4 door Olds can out accelerate these yahoos when they pull up next to you at at a stop sign. ] I like that. Can I used that? That's brilliant! Some comedian recently did a joke about those cars comparing the sound to a mosiquito buzzing by your ear. I like the chainsaw analogy! Nice pics btw. When you buy something that was meant to be something, there is a difference then taking something that is nothing and making it into something funny. If that makes sense. I'm not too far from the Volo Auto Mall. If you ever get a chance to visit the area, it is a must see. They have everything there from KITT, the original Bat Mobile, Grandpa Munsters Coffin Car, you name it.. Just about everything is for sale too. Last time I was there they had all the cars from "The Fast and the Furious" movies. Most of the cars were used over and over again and close up you could see the different layers of paint and other modifcations. I must say that Hollywood did a tremendous job making these terds look like cool cars. However, they actually modified them. Real engines, not these pukey stock crap machines. Real sports suspensions, etc... Of course the NOS was all BS, that and these laptop powered set ups were of course bogus. I still get a kick out of that guy in the movie doing like 150 and instead of paying attention to the road he is playing with a laptop on his seat as if that is going to some out affect the performance or enhance engine power while he is supposed to be driving. I love make beleive.
check out http://www.laughatrice.com/, or this car, or this thing from outer space but i agree, adding spoilers and neons to a car make you as individual as a tree in in the woods. and adding ugly, expensive rims to an ugly, cheap car dosnt makes the car any better...
Thanx for the link. That site is hillarious. I will have to take some pics of the ones around here. Between the kids that come up from Chicago, to the posers that think their from Chi-Town around here, there are some pretty sad looking goofy vehicles. I like this guys comment about that Mustang: "Yeah, there you go numb nuts. Lets rice out an AMERICAN car. Way to go Shitstain"
Don't assume all of those cars are slugs, though... I remember pulling up to the line against an Eclipse with ground effects, neon lights, wings, etc... The light turned green and the thing just disappeared down the track, ran something like a high 9 at 130+ MPH. My car is pretty quick, but this dude just blew my doors off. I found the guy later on in the pits with his hood open... the only thing he had done was installed larger turbos and played with the computer. If they're done right, they can be really really fast. But for the most part people just slap an aftermarket muffler on and install a high-flowing intake kit (air filter, basically) and expect the car to be the fastest thing around. That doesn't happen.
Yes... Truly stupid when you consider that the people who are putting spoilers on their cars for the "supposed" performance, are putting a rear spoiler on a *front wheel drive* automobile. I guess that statement doesn't mean much to anyone unless you know some basic physics. Nonetheless, for those with understanding, let us laugh at the fool and his money which are soon parted...
the terd thing isn't mine hence the italics, so feel free to use it it's a great saying photographers have where if you take a shiddy picture - no matter how much you try to fix it in Photoshop, it's still trash! ----- yeah, I don't get it...since when did sounding and looking like poo become a good thing. ----- thanks on the pics. A buddy of mine invited me to a 'Goatfest', I'll take the rumble of 5.7 & 6Litres any day of the week over the mosiquito's!! (no goats were harmed in the making of those pics)
Whats even funnier is when people claim to understand physics repeat this wrong belief. No matter what wheel drive your car is, at high speeds your rear wheels are going to get loose. Especially with skinnies. Not that the cars with huge rear wings are usually reaching high speeds.
I think where the real law of physics applies is to the fact that adding a monza muffler to a rice burner is not going to make it go fast enough that a spoiler will make a difference in keeping the car on the road, whether fwd, or rwd.
Well I have a spoiler on my car but mine doesn't look like shit. I don't know why people do that shit either, making a piece of shit 1980 Honda look and sound all bad ass when it ain't shit. I might do it to my car, though...but I don't think mine's a piece of shit like the ones you mention.
True, but you are like 16 right? We all did stupid crap to cars when we were 16. That was the thing to do when you get your first ride. Trick it out. Hell, I installed Air Shocks on my 78' Z28, traction bars, etc... What a waste of cash, but it was fun. The thing is a lot of the people pimping out ricers are 30+ Nice car btw.
It always makes me smile when I pull up behind one of those tricked out Civics in my plain, unmodified Civic. The thought of putting a spoiler on a car that works just to keep up with the flow of traffic on a steep hill cracks me up. I always figured that it was a kind of declaration "My mom/wife/girlfriend made me buy this practical commuter car, but in my heart I'm driving a Ferrari." Or is the idea that you put a motor with actually horsepower in a wimpy looking car to fool your opponents?