You know you're a ricer if....

[tman]

-You put your automatic car in neutral at every stoplight in order to roll it back and try to fool other people into thinking you have a manual transmission
• DuPont gave up trying to figure out the shade you were asking for
• A chameleon lizard undergoes fewer shade changes than your custom paint scheme
• Your rims and tires are so large, that you have to install the tire/wheel from underneath the car because it simply won’t fit in the wheel well going in from the side
• Your paint job is from the Wrong end of the color spectrum
• You see cars like yours in a Shriner’s Parade for Children and clowns are driving them
• You bring an empty Maxwell House coffee can with you to compare size when you shop for an aftermarket exhaust system
• Your Eclipse GS-T hardtop has a SPYDER emblem on the rear
• You push your car through the staging lanes. That way, maybe you can break into the 16s by keeping the motor cool between runs
• You add a super tall rear wing, and a hundred pounds of aftermarket ground effects, neon and stereo yet you gut the interior and yank out the rear seat for weight savings
• You have to find a way to drive AROUND speed bumps in a parking lot
• You painted the UNDERBODY of your car to match
• If your rear spoiler is taller than you are
• You have more stereo WATTS than engine TORQUE!
• If your tailpipe extension is the most expensive mod you’ve done to your car
• Your tailpipe extension fell off during quarter mile race and you went three tenths of a second faster due to weight savings
• You think Nitrous Oxide on you Hyundai Sonata puts you in the same performance league as the 300SRT8
• If you claim that the aftermarket cold air intake system you just installed doubled your horsepower or took 2 or more seconds of your E/T
• You spent all night on the internet trying to find a company that makes a turbocharger system for your Hyundai
• Your four cylinder has four exhaust pipes (:Hey, one for each cylinder!)
• If you think that 180 HP and 185 lb/ft of torque are impressive for a mildly modified engine
• Your car has more decals than you do the quarter in seconds
• If you have more neon lights on your car than a strip club
• If it takes you 8000rpm to reach 30mph from a dead stop at WOT
• If you equate the sound of performance with the sound of a Weed Eater
• If you drive a Ford Escort station wagon with Kanji, wide tires, and Limp Bizkit stickers on the rear hatch
• You claim you lost because your missed a shift… and your car is an automatic
• Drive around in a $20,000 import with $10,000 in mods, and still live with your parents
• You’ve spent more on graphics and decals than you have in gas, for the whole year
• You sound like you’re going 90, but you’re creeping past 25
• Yugo’s give you a run for your money
• You continuously run red lights because they are invisible through your red window tint
• 15’s are considered HUGE rims
• You can reach back and defrost the rear window by hand
• You think your mom’s Corolla is fast
• You rev on school buses
• Hell, you rev on people in electric wheelchairs
• You buy race gas to drop you from 17.02 to 16.9 in the quarter, and then tell all your friends how fast you went
• You add a second battery to power all the neon, and the mini disco ball
• Your dad is worried cause you bought a car with less displacement than his lawnmower
• YOU REALIZE THAT ALL OF THE ABOVE IS TRUE AND YOU STILL THINK YOU ARE COOL!!!

[Mr3GTP]

[lamehonda]

all except for the having more stereo watts than torque. Isn't that pretty typical these days in most cars?

[tman]

I have 300lb ft of torque and 425 watts in my stereo. Like you said, not that uncommon.

I think that line was trying to call out the punks with 150 ft lbs of torque and 800 watt systems that think theyre awesome

[Damien]

Hm, I remember this. Quite funny hte first time around.

[GForce957]

Pretty funny, although I have had to go around speed bumps in my bullitt because it was lowered from the factory and it would scrape, and I am probably going to have to do it with my rx-7. Plus I see tons of people push their cars to the staging areas around here, it takes so long to actually go.

[skibum1111]

Then there's always getting your ass handed to you by an suv that has double the weight of your car.