Stupidest thing you've ever heard about car performance

[FoxGT87]

I don't even know. When he said 309 stroker, I corrected him and asked if he meant a .070 over 302, and he swore it had a stroker crank in it.

i was more so saying that the guy is a mechanich at a Ford dealership... and is spouting off some really bad mechanical BS. it makes you wonder how he got his job and how well the cars he worked on have been worked.

i wouldnt want to have a guy work on my vehichle that couldnt tell me correct info on the cars he was working.


makes you wonder... makes me wonder

 

[LarsD]

It's the lack of pistons not the lack of tuning, although I have a buddy with a 500hp miata that would walk all over mine I still have to give him crap for having half a motor

I have a friend with a 550hp Civic, thing is real deal nuts. He ran a 11.4 a while back with a smaller turbo then he has now. Even daily drives it to work.

i was more so saying that the guy is a mechanich at a Ford dealership... and is spouting off some really bad mechanical BS. it makes you wonder how he got his job and how well the cars he worked on have been worked.

i wouldnt want to have a guy work on my vehichle that couldnt tell me correct info on the cars he was working.


makes you wonder... makes me wonder

Oh no, this was at a hole in the wall place, not a dealership.

 

[FoxGT87]

not a horsepower mod story, but i was at WingHouse watching UFC 102 last night and towards the end of it i went up to relieve myself and was eavesdropping on these two guys convo.

"Dude, are you alright to drive"

"yeah, I'm alright to RACE"

*pause*

"Race what?"

"Race anything, but especially a motorcycle."



I thought that war freaking hilarious. my buddies thought it was pretty funny too i have been saying im alright to race all day today

 

[NIKwoaC]

What you should give him hell about is how much power he could be making if he had chosen a better platform to begin.

If everybody had that attitude, we'd all be driving LS-powered F-bodies. Nothing wrong with thinking outside the box!

 

[QUICK91LX]

Once back in high school I pulled up to a local cafe in my 91 LX 5.0 and as I was heading up the steps to go inside I saw this kid who was a well-known douche and a year behind me in school near the door and he goes "Nice Mustang" very sarcastically. I waved him off and continued towards the door, but then he goes "Not really, its a piece of ****, everybody drives a stupid Mustang" so that kinda got to me so I said "Oh yeah a-hole, if my car is such a piece of **** what do you drive?"

His response?

Proudly: "A Saturn"

I laughed and asked him if he thought there was a reason Mustangs are popular and also pointed out the 7 Saturns in the immediate vicinity. The only other Mustang besides mine in the area was an SN95 V6.

Later I saw him drive away in his 94-ish beige 4-door Saturn with a missing hubcap cracked quarter panel and low-hanging Auto-Zone special fart can loudly advertising the fact that it was also equipped with a slushbox transaxle.

EDIT: I have more stories of stupidity, I just have to try and recall them in enough detail to make them worth posting.

 

[SVT32VDOHC]

A guy told me that his 350LT1 Caprice was a rocket. It was stock, and no matter what kind of Mustang he raced, he beat. He even raced his buddies car that ran 9's and he beat him. I looked at him, and didn't even know what to say, so I walked away.

 

[mc0311grunt]

Once back in high school I pulled up to a local cafe in my 91 LX 5.0 and as I was heading up the steps to go inside I saw this kid who was a well-known douche and a year behind me in school near the door and he goes "Nice Mustang" very sarcastically. I waved him off and continued towards the door, but then he goes "Not really, its a piece of ****, everybody drives a stupid Mustang" so that kinda got to me so I said "Oh yeah a-hole, if my car is such a piece of **** what do you drive?"

His response?

Proudly: "A Saturn"

I laughed and asked him if he thought there was a reason Mustangs are popular and also pointed out the 7 Saturns in the immediate vicinity. The only other Mustang besides mine in the area was an SN95 V6.

Later I saw him drive away in his 94-ish beige 4-door Saturn with a missing hubcap cracked quarter panel and low-hanging Auto-Zone special fart can loudly advertising the fact that it was also equipped with a slushbox transaxle.

EDIT: I have more stories of stupidity, I just have to try and recall them in enough detail to make them worth posting.

those idiots crack me up. They put a fart can on their car and they automatically have a 10 second car. There was an idiot like that in high school with a neon while I was driving a 86 Notch . this kid had a regular neon, a 5 inch monster tach, Can Can exhaust, Boeing 747 wing, and a miss matched body kit. He had the fastest car in school according to him. Well one day he made the mistake of showing up at Irwindale with this pile. I raced him and all he saw were tailights. Shut his fat mouth up pretty quick. Of course he had the typical ricer excuses(tuning problems, Track not prepped right, too hot out)

 

[57fairlane]

Went where everyone meets, there were some turbo 240SX's there. I know these cars can be very fast, but obviously not last night.

those guys are the worst.

Every "modded" 240 I have seen has like 4 different color body panels, no bumper so you can see the intercooler and 20 gauges on the dash/console.

I raced a guy who claimed up and down he had 500 flywheel HP. Ported head, bigger turbo, so I was thinking it might be legitimate . . . beat him by maybe a car in the 1/8. My car at the time had 260rwhp with a c4, not quite 500 flywheel

 

[90mustangGT]

Less cylinders means lower friction and less weight. See our 5.0's are slow because they have too much engine to lug around. I guess 13" rotors will hurt stopping power because it's going to take more to stop a big rotor than a small rotor.

 

[stykthyn]

NOS energy drink works in our cars too. I readz it on teh interwebz so its gots to be true

 

[Shaolin Crane]

NOS energy drink works in our cars too. I readz it on teh interwebz so its gots to be true

haha did you see that post where some guy put NOS energy drink into his GSXR thinking it was NOS injector cleaner

 

[stykthyn]

yeah man. did they ever get that thing fixed? I stopped reading around page 50 and that was 7 hours after the first post. classic lol

 

[tannerc91gt]

I'm pretty sure they never fixed it, the guy refused all offers for help because he didn't want people to see his face, wow that would suck, but man that thread was hilarious

 

[90mustangGT]

haha did you see that post where some guy put NOS energy drink into his GSXR thinking it was NOS injector cleaner

How about that guy that drank that watter wetter type stuff thinking it was an energy drink that belonged to his roomate and complained that it tasted bad, but he still drank it? Ricers

 

[stykthyn]

I'm pretty sure they never fixed it, the guy refused all offers for help because he didn't want people to see his face, wow that would suck, but man that thread was hilarious

I just went and checked that thread, he fixed it and someone had some NOS shirts made for him and he posed wearing it at some bike event. pretty gay if you ask me. dude makes a mistake of epic proportions and he practically get NOS endorsement(its in the thread) from it. I should **** some **** up and get paid mad monies for it.


link to water wetter? I would like to read that

 

[LaserSVT]

I just went and checked that thread, he fixed it and someone had some NOS shirts made for him and he posed wearing it at some bike event. pretty gay if you ask me. dude makes a mistake of epic proportions and he practically get NOS endorsement(its in the thread) from it. I should **** some **** up and get paid mad monies for it.


link to water wetter? I would like to read that

How about the link to the page number with the pics, wondered what that douche looked like.

Anyone remember the dude with the F-body that ran brake cleaner throught the engine and then water to get it out?

 

[rock4451]

Monster makes a drink called NITROUS now, you know it's only a matter of time before someone puts it in their car.

 

[stykthyn]

How about the link to the page number with the pics, wondered what that douche looked like.

Anyone remember the dude with the F-body that ran brake cleaner throught the engine and then water to get it out?

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[matador91]

My buddy had a 2001 dodge neon with cold air, srt4 exhaust, lowered, and in his words " my car is so fast, I think my ECU has a piggy back on it." he thought he could give my 331 powered stang a run for it's money. Lets just say he lost horribly.

 

[Shaolin Crane]

My buddy had a 2001 dodge neon with cold air, srt4 exhaust, lowered, and in his words " my car is so fast, I think my ECU has a piggy back on it." he thought he could give my 331 powered stang a run for it's money. Lets just say he lost horribly.

that thing couldnt outrun my truck