The riciest person you know
 

The riciest person I know just bought a new car.

The old car: 2002 Ford Taurus, park-bench style wing on the trunk, underglow, stock rims painted gold, gold grill, GIANT NISMO sticker on the windshield (yes, NISMO), K&N "cold air intake" which was just a cone filter in the stock location. His performance mods were an intercooler (The turbo never made it onto the car), and custom exhaust which sounded horrible. Last time I saw it, he had primered the whole car, put green HIDs in the stock housings, he had some kind of strobes in all the lights, and he had fitted some LEDs to the headlights to mimic the audi thing. It has been rolling on the donut for at least 2 months. There was a lot more I am forgetting, but that's the idea here.

He comes running over and knocks on the door on Friday really excited to show us his new car. He says it's a Mitsubishi Eclipse, AWD, Turbo. I have my doubts, but it sounds like a vast improvement over the Taurus.
Turns out bought this car without actually looking at it. I'm sure he went to check it out, but he clearly didn't pop the hood because it is not a turbo. It's actually not even an eclipse, it's an Eagle Talon. And it's FWD. So instead of buying an AWD Turbo Eclipse, he bought a FWD N/A Talon with an automatic. He is the source of much amusement to me, though I almost feel bad for him sometimes.

And did I mention that he doesn't even have a drivers license? He lost it a long time ago (a year maybe? Many mods past on the taurus) for something and won't get it back for another month or so.

He seems to enjoy working on his cars, but he spends a lot of time re-doing things because he doesn't read instructions or get information about what he is doing before he dives in.

So, can anybody top this? I wish I could post pictures of this taurus, but I don't think I have any. I'll take a look.

Vash bought a talon?

A guy I know from work drives a 2 door, I think 06?, civic Si. He has a password JDM tow hook, 18" wheels...and he claims he beats EVO's all day long. He says, "off the line it's a dog until it cracks vtec, then it's all over". Oh yeah, fart can equipped.

I once put spinner hub caps on a 97 cavalier.

Also, my cousin used to street race in a Geo Tracker.

If he doesn't know how to work on it, an NA DSM was the smartest one for him to get anyway.

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The first time I read the title, I thought it said "The Richest Person You Know" and I got excited.

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Here's the taurus before he primered it, painted the grill and wheels gold, and messed up the headlights. The NISMO sticker is my favorite. I asked him about it and he couldn't explain it.

Ask him if his ride gets him women?

Is this a joke? Could anyone be that stupid?

Fortunately for me, since the tree fell on my taurus its been sitting in the driveway. Its pushing me to buy a newer DD that isn't a COMPLETE piece of shit this time around. lol

Last weekend was the first time I started it since halloween. I used it to take garbage down to the dumpster and spilt a bunch of shit in the trunk. I'm debating whether I want to try to get $1000 for it or push it off a cliff for fun.

Saw this at the 7-11 the other day. Yeah, it's a Sable with a VW logo.

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Use to see a Dodge Caravan back in Cali driving around with chrome spinner hubcaps and a "Powered by Honda" windshield sticker with cut springs.

Edit: Buddy sent me this.
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I know I guy with an Oldsmobile alero 2.4 with green strobing underglows 2 layers of autozone tint done by him, huge blue tear style graphic up the side, giant harbor freight brand tach (automatic) , monster logo in the back window and a "sneaky p nawz system" that is so hidden you can't even see it cause all the street racing he does.lol

Still think the taurus has him beat though.

... Umm. Also on my crashpad, and my center console door
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SWAG
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Friend of mine went through a ricer phase but we did that shit right.
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Started out he got "sponsored" and put a bunch of stickers on his car for shit he didnt have. Then when we all had quick cars he got tired of getting drug, we talked him into making it fast.

Turbonetics kit, ported head, reground cams, MAS BOOST. BLAH BLAH BLAH. Quick for a tC.

He saw the light though and has an Full size chevy truck now thats LS1/T56 swapped. Got 4.56s out back, a nasty cam and head work. Runs good for a truck.

Getting the transplant
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We used to go hard park and troll people.

There was this kid in key west who used to go to all the local meets and never had a car. He claimed that his 550whp sti is in the shop getting "turbo tuned" and "methanol injection tuned" and "intercooler nitrous sprayer tuned".

But alas, he shows up to a meet with a subi. A wrx with a sti wing, sti hood, sti window wing thingy, sti badges, sti interior pieces and sti stickers. But....he thinks it's a real sti and starts yelling that it is and that is runs a T88 and "stage 5 rally gears" and recently went down the track with a pass of " fuckin' 10 seconds at like...at like 160, nigga" Mind you this is a spoiled, white kid w/ parents who just bought him the car just to shut him up.

When we tried to tell him that his car was a near stock wrx (intake, fart can, bov) and that it was slow as shit and he was a gaping shit box, he would flip out and tell everyone to "run me when my shits tuned, dawg...see what happens. Tell me my shits fake then, dawg."

This was a few years ago and we all still joke about it. I guess I was just jealous of his car wisdom, like when he told me I needed a boost controller for my supercharger.

Oh, it's no joke. And it's so much worse now. I wish I had a picture of it with its body kit (that's why it's primer gray). I forgot to mention the body kit, didn't I?

:giggle: Oh wow. Throw a tow hook on it and it becomes a real fucking race car.

This guy used to troll us at taco bell. Not me videoing

I'd actually rock the shit out of that door panel. Even better if it were somehow more Japanese looking. Maybe some koi and dragons. :bowrofl: Black background with cherry blossoms would be cool. I'm actually being serious though, and laughing at the same time. At this point, I no longer give a shit about how my car looks. I haven't washed it in probably 9 months. Last time my interior was touched was when I did the truck bed liner a few months ago.

^I know that guy... the steering wheel has a hello kitty horn button.

/me is a ricer... hell even my coolant is color matched

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Except for all those ugly yellow zipties. Nice PlayPlace under there. :giggle:

I lol'd at the exhaust wrap on the rad hose

That engine bay reminds me of this:
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I was honestly being lightly sarcastic over the 12 yellow zipties.

should I try pink instead?

as stupid as this sounds, that's actually functional. I have a blow-through maf setup atm. So my stock IAT sensors are in a metal tube just under that silicone elbow. The heat from the upper rad hose actually heats up the tube enough that my IAT's read ridiculously high, making my engine run like poo.

that wrap will be gone soon as I get ms2 up and running properly.

met this dude at a local meet recently

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I know somebody who has an 800whp STi. He has the Cosworth stage whatever block and a 35r. Nobody has ever seen it, but what people have seen is an 04 salvage STi with a turboback exhaust and wheels. Also, for what it's worth, subies can't make close to 800whp with a 35r.

Pretty much nothing can. 35Rs dont flow 80LBs/Mn of air and even if they did EJ heads are not efficient enough to flow that with a T3 hot side as a limiting factor. I suppose if you had something with a ~10K redline and cams with egg sized lobes you might be able to hang on to the TQ far enough to get 800WHP. It would just have no useable TQ relative to the power level.

IIRC the 4G63 guys were starting to push genuinely over 600WHP with useable powerbands on the 35Rs about 5 years ago.

I worked with this guy years ago that claimed that BMWs numerical naming scheme was HP based. So a 325 had 250HP, and if it was a 5 series, you added 100HP to it. So a 525 had 350HP. He also claimed to be a MMA/KravMaga expert.

I used to work with this guy from Puerto Rico who had a ver typical fastandfurious civic sedan (body kit, wing, wheels, interior everything painted the same color, fart can). He actually had balls and some skill and could throw it around the corners remarkably fast for someone with a car like that. He was also a pretty skilled mechanic which really made me scratch my head in amasment when he showed me his "water injection" kit. It consisted of a 24oz coke bottle with some tap water in it and a hose going from it to a vac connection on his intake mani. I kept asking him what it was for and how it worked and he just kind of bs'ed his way around it. Nicest guy I ever met and definitely knew more about working on cars than me, but he had absolutely no sense when it came to mods.

Not sure why, but I thought it said that too until reading your post. I was kind of confused by the story and wondered how I would top it with "another rich person who did something stupid". I wish I had read it right because I would not have even come in here....

I dunno, did black ever occur to you so they wouldn't sick out?

It has, but the local walgreens only had a pack of rainbows when I went looking for some on foot. I do have a bag of black ones now, but haven't bothered to use em yet :giggle:

I should mention my subie friend took all the pink ones, since he thought they looked like the STI's cherry blossom pink :giggle:

Old **** buddies BF and he happens to own a miata

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That poor poor car. If I had a black NB with a hard top I'd take care of it and not put stupid shit all over it.

yea +1

bald ass tires too.

this is a joke, right?

I wish it was :violin:

PM me pics of the girl