So some idiot in a civic (couldnt tell you guys what year) with a HUGE wing and stickers galore pulls up alongside at a stoplight. The guy starts making retarded hand signals like he wants to race me. I burst into an uncontrollable fit of laughter like "is this guy serious?!" So then he starts revving his "Badass VTEC", so i knew what i had to do. the light turned green and i freakin TOOK OFF! by the time i hit 60 he was about eight car lengths back so i let off. about 10 secs later he goes flying by me at about 80 with his damn hazards on like he beat me! Whatever i got a good laugh outta that one!

Yep,thats what they do.

You first ricer fly by, you must be proud! They will keep doing it and will not let up.

Matt

What really pisses me off is that they go tell all their ricer buddies that they beat a firebird!

Just follow him next time and show them. Or live with the fact you will have more ricers to burn.

Matt

Its true, they all go off and tell their friends they smoked an F-Body. However there IS a good side to that, they will all go out and try to race some and get smoked haha! Then they will go back and call their friend a liar LOL!.......silly ricers

Hmm, most ricers wont even look at me.... But I cant wait to find one that will try and race me, lol

that's why you are suppose to turn your hazard lights on first, if not let him pass then creap up behind him and kiss his rear bumper. switch to another lane and floor it!!!!

I dont think any realistic person would ever believe that naturally aspirated (or blown for that matter) v-tec could smoke an f-body. I've toasted all sorts of hondas tauting 100HP shots of NOS, BIG wings, etc. It's all fun and games!

Unless it's a WRX STi, or an EVO it's not worth the gas.

BTW The ricer flyby used to be referred too as the Mustang Flyby, Back in the Day.

"It seems the more things change the more they stay the same"

Turbos rule, those Evos and Subies rip with them... as does anything else! Very streetable single turbo LS1s can go 10s easy with stock ci and weight! I've always yelled TURBO and the domestics don't do it. Why?!?!?!?!?!?! Remember the last GM turbo? 20 years ago Buick V6s with a single turbo was a 12 second car stock. Stock Evos still aren't there. They are nice and work the displacement for all it's worth, but force feed V8s that same air and see what happens. GM put a killer new supercharger on the LS9 to make the ZR1 and the CTS-V(yeah they're going after Germany's best) 600hp stock horsepower. Are you kidding?!?!?!?!?!?! That's why no turbo. However, if you just gotta have the turbo four, why not a new dual scroll turbo powered 300hp Ecotec in light chassis of your choice!

GM is a performance company right now! Hope it continues

For $3000 I can get a turbo kit for a 2.2L Ecotec that with stock will run 11s.

Matt

I like turbo's too, they do make cars haul...but i dunno for some reason i have always though they were like steroids for cars, even though i know it's not cheating...i just like being able to make lots of power N/A...it's always more challenging. Forced Induction is definitely the easiest way to get loads of power, and plus i think i dislike them somewhat because they are all the ricers talk about "well if my car had a TURBO in it, i would eat your bird" lol! It's true though, you dont really see any V8's with turbos, nowadays they are all S/C. And i dont really care for Evo's and Sti's mainly because they are every ricer's dream to own haha, plus all the owners of them seem to be very cocky...i have lots of respect for them because they are quick little buggers.

Thing is N/A power is that it can become unstreetable very quick. I just like power so I really don't care how one goes after it, just get it. As far as not seeing V8 turbos... rubbish! Pick up the new GM High Tech Performance magazine, and behold what ruled the LSX shootout. Turbos are more efficient power adders than belt driven superchargers(until this new 4 lobe job on the LS9, supposedly very close to turbo efficiency hence GM's choice instead of turbo on the new beast) and as long as EFI continues to be more user friendly, tunes can be set on the same car to run street gas at low boost and good stuff at the track with big boost! These set-ups are more flexible than anything else out there and why not go for the free boost from the air that normally just is wasted exhaust.

In the new Hot Rod magazine an experienced turbo man made 550hp with a cheap chinese made turbo blowing through a completely stock 5.3L LS series truck motor. That is crazy easy power, why not take advantage of the LS series airflow to the max? Oh yeah, same motor with a used Z06 cam... can you believe it picked up 100hp!?!?!?! At the wheels, with only a used production cam and a truck motor - 650hp!

Turbos rule!!!

I was always under the impression that aluminum block engines had problems with unnatural aspiration (maybe just superchargers?) because the integrity of the engine under high psi load isn't as good as the heavy iron blocks... thoughts?

I don't evedn bother with ricers anymore. Not worth my time. And like others said, they all do the same thing, the ricer flyby. So your best bet is to just keep in the gas.

nice haha when we had the mustang the 5.0 me and my friend would pull up to the light in his car andlike another mustang like 96 v6 or a jimmy or something yes i said it small little sport utility vehicle would rev and we would be miles off let off the gas and they would fly by like woo hoo i won lol . i havnt got to run anyone really in my camaro yet . screwed around with a C6 but they wernt having any . (older couple ) LOL . i woulda got beat anyway so alls well . but i need some takers or wheres the fun . . haha ill go to the strip there will be takers there lol . - SRCamaroguy89