hahahah ricers are funny, i got a guy about a month ago, with my stock 97 dodge. i beat him off the line with my 84 honda XR350 dirtbike and my 04 raptor 80 quad in the bed. it was only untill the next red light but him and his little glow lights under his car backed off after then. I will give some of them props though. I know alot of guys that own them that do turn 10's on the 1/4 mile. there runnin NOS and got little turbos and there fuel rails, and fiberglass hoods. guy next house over from me tows home a flat black honda and dumps it in my front drivway, then me and him rolled it into his back yard. I said hey whats this hunk of crap. ( cause it didnt start and front and rear bumpers were taken off) we get the car to its parking spot and he opens up the back trunk and im sitting there looking at 10 grand in parts waiting to be put in, turbo intercooler, NOS big fuel rail..........whole 9 yrds.

 

Yup, it's easy to make imports fly. My summer project is a 96 Miata

For as light as it is, it would be rather simple to make it extremely fast. I think they run high 15's on less than 100whp.

 

i remember reading somwhere about a monster miata... a ford 302 shoehorned under the hood... .. i never did see pictures of it though..

quick google search gave up this

 

I keep running into the folks that just have to be ahead of me. Anyone else notice this?
No matter how fast I am going, they just gotta pass...then they see their speed and pull in front and hit the brakes. I accidently hit the switch for the 2 one million candle power Lightforce lights one time...You know the car is close when all I can see is the top of the car and the red glow from the brakes...morons. I hope he had sunscreen on.

Theres a 92 Corolla 4 door around here that I have seen literally crush vettes and Cobras...kinda funny to watch as its a kid that I know got the car given to him by his parents...and he has this HUGE grin on his face. I was really impressed with how it took off.
I got up beside him one time and asked what year it was. He then told me about his nitrous jets and was going to show me how it performed...I caught a glimpse of a cop car coming towards us and I suggested he hold off. He was so greatful I did that. It was his moms old car.

Scotty

 

One of the engineers I worked with had a '72 Porsche 914 with an aluminum small block 350 in it.....couldn't tell by looking at it. We had a bunch of ricers that would get together and run in our roll area. Used to laugh my **** off when they piled up somewhere. Ron (the guy who owned the 914) would just giggle at the rice boys when they started talking about speed....

Talk about scary fast.... Quiet too....from the outside....

 

http://www.toy-jet.ls1fun.com/index.html

 

Nick, there is no shoehorning involved. A 5.0 stang block will fit with no firewall modifications Guess what's going in my miata?

 

that monster miata was an APril foos joke a few years back from motortrend or one other car magazine

for the real over the wall push the mega miata was touted as being available witha supercharger.

 

The Mazdaspeed miata comes factory turbocharged. They're ok, most people yank the stock ecu out and put a standalone to make more power, since it's no fun to drive stock.

v8miata.com makes v8 conversions

 

i dont have stories about beating any ricers but i do have other stories about settign off their alarms in coffee shop parking lots!

i rolled into a drive through (tim hortons up here) and got my coffee just idling along ..never ever revved it ...some dork with his integra had one of those garbage cans on his lil tailhole and was surrounded by his friends...i just idled by him and he started revving the thing over and over giving my "new age im a white thug and i wana be on welfare " look

i parked her 3 cars down from him to enjoy my coffee and make a couple girlie calls and he's still revving so i popped her in neutral and gave it a sick rev and smoked the lot up.....it set off his friends alarms on two cars....i laughed to myself smiled at them and just idled away....that made my day

 

I know some ricers are fast ill give them props but if you think your fast in your moms dodge neon your an idiot. My truck is slow ill be the first to admit it, but when homofos in neons want some i usually come up with a win. and revin irks me when my friend first got his 01 chevy straight piped dual 3in all the way to 4in tips. talk about lound. I was driving it through town and some wanna be ricer revs me. You rev this spark plugged truck and if it revs back your ears are gonna bleed. So i let him have it.
BUT what kills me the most is people revin empty trucks. Your askin for trouble if your revin the wrong truck round here.

 

as an import owner, I have to correct something.

bone stock 4 cyl, big wing, three color paint job (not including fake carbon fiber), fart can muffler, that is a ricer.

black car that leave you thinking he is running a cloaking device when its actually an I4 or I6 with a turbo bigger than the motor, thats a tuner.

Ricer is a joke.
Tuner is an import hot rod.

 

ricer is all as much about the guys behind the cars as the funny looking cars themselves....head bands...wife beater shirts showing a massive 140 lb frame....white shoes...sun glasses at night....side burns and hair gel.....id forgive the car for being stupid cause its just an import but i cant forgive the owners!!

 

i agree with you all the way, a muffler, and a wing doesn't make you a stud. So they think they can hang but the can't. A tuner on the other hand is all together different story, there is no way i would mess with one of those guys.

 

ricers go out of their way to get noticed....

tuners/racers are sleepers and will take your pink slip if you let them....