Another rice experience

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MOTOP
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Useless post but worth sharing.

First off, can somebody tell if my car looks like it is asking for challnge? Imo it looks very tame and those wheels resemble stock steelies with no hubcaps from a distance (main reason why I bought em).

So I go from work yesterday. On the red light this bowl of rice pulls up to me. 94-ish Civic with all the body panels of different color, vynyl interior, -5 camber all around, fartcannon and !!! 235/40/17 tires (gotta be for that turbo H22 he has under the bonnet :) )

There are three kids in the car, all wearing baseball hats backwards. The **** behind the wheel starts revving on me. I roll my passnger window up and turn up the music. His snowplow sounded like it had I/H/E at most, not a very pleasant sound. Green light, he slams it. I normaly start, roll up to him on the next light, roll down passenger window and tell him "Grow up, child". He doesn't look at me and starts revving even more. Green light, I push accel slightly harder just to piss him off, he drops the clutch and !!!!! stalls. I accelerate to 30 (speed limit), as he passes me as I yell "Learn how to launch" and roll the window up. He wouldn't even look at me and takes next right turn. My good mood was guaranteed for the rest of the day.

Don't mean no Honda disrespect, but kinda happy that kids like that don't ride Nissans.

P.S. I'm putting a camera in my car so next time I post something like that I back it up by the picture.


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Doesn't look like it to me. I don't like your wheels though. But that is just my preference, I like a polished wheel.

The Honda's do seem to be the preference for rice. I haven't seen many rice Nissans. Wonder why that is?

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Maybe in YOUR area, but I have seen Nissan drivers act just like that

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In the Bay Area, any sporty car with 17" rims, especially black is asking for a challenge. Your wheels look nice, though. I like the color but with lesser spokes.

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those kind of people don't just stick to one peticular "kind" of cars, and you know now that drifting is becoming main streem, these kids will be driving a swapped 240's soon!!! belive me you.. you will see it more now...sux for us...but you can't do anything about it

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Those are 16". 17" is an overkill for daily driving in Bay Area IMO, the quality of the roads is awfull.

Lesser spokes = thicker spokes = thicker spokes = less clearance for possible brake upgrade.

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1. ur car doesn't look provoking2. it's not just hondas3. "bonnet"? my word, are u turning bloke on us? j/k

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Black240 wrote:those kind of people don't just stick to one peticular "kind" of cars, and you know now that drifting is becoming main streem, these kids will be driving a swapped 240's soon!!! belive me you.. you will see it more now...sux for us...but you can't do anything about it


Anand,

No s***.

I was looking for a parking near my GF's house yesterday (San Francisco Marina district). I saw more 240ies than anything else. Like 5-6 S13s and 4 s14s in the radius of 3 blocks. All looking stockish though. But it is true. The car is making a comeback.

I sometimes feel like people think that I'm a riceboy myself, but I don't give a s***. I bought this car in 2000 when a very limited group of individuals actualy knew what 240 was capable of.

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Sil40_Mayhem wrote:1. ur car doesn't look provoking2. it's not just hondas3. "bonnet"? my word, are u turning bloke on us? j/k


1) Thank you for confirming that ( I think that GTR badge on mustang looks more provoking than my black 16"-ers)

2) It is MOSTLY hondas.

3) I just tried to make a sarcastic comment Jeremy Clarkson style (anybody saw his videos? )

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In Indy there are few rice Nissans. But there are a ton of Honda's. I see plenty of s13's and 14's, but not rice. It must just be the area. Honda is big here for rice and it seems like there is more and more Dodge rice around since the SRT.

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i've noticed a huge influx ($6 million dollar word) of 240 in my area. a year or so ago, there were only a few, and most were driven by older people, like ladiese. now i see younger guys driving them all the time. and where im going to school, it seems like everyone tries to race you if you pull a little on them. EVERYTHING, trucks, ladies in non-sporty cars, anyone.

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stillmatic wrote:In the Bay Area, any sporty car with 17" rims, especially black is asking for a challenge.
bingo. black wheels, exhaust, and no rice says race me here in sc.

-demetrius

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must find way to contain the rice but until then (its rice ..... eat it!:D )

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spec-v5150 wrote:Maybe in YOUR area, but I have seen Nissan drivers act just like that


like you :ylsuper

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demcj wrote:bingo. black wheels, exhaust, and no rice says race me here in sc.

-demetrius


LOL. I have stock exhaust. Maybe that's what got him so excited. I bet if I had 3" N1 style and mean sounding BOV, that guy wouldn't even have pulled next to me.

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DOOD!! you have black rims!! No DUH you wouldnt race him off the light. Black rims makes you da Drifta!

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LMAO.

U better be joking , coz the only thing that black rims make me is the owner of a car with black rims. No less no more.

All those stereotypes are just ridiculous

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Of course i was joking! I guess ineed to work on my e-sarcasm. :(

Regardless nice car, and excellent way to handle the situation.

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hey that just made my day too!!

and one more thing, i love ur car, and i mean LOVE, and LOVE those rims too!!!!

great looking car!!!! :ylsuper :ylsuper

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MOTOP wrote:1) Thank you for confirming that ( I think that GTR badge on mustang looks more provoking than my black 16"-ers)

2) It is MOSTLY hondas.

3) I just tried to make a sarcastic comment Jeremy Clarkson style (anybody saw his videos? )
seriously the car (rims included) looks nice. i don't doubt that the majority of "shameless acts commited against automobiles" are carried out on hondas, i was just voicing that there are other car owners who commit these atrocities. oh and isn't Jeremy Clarkson the dude that does the "Top Gear" videos (including the one w/the blue GT-R)?

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HongKongChick wrote:hey that just made my day too!!

and one more thing, i love ur car, and i mean LOVE, and LOVE those rims too!!!!

great looking car!!!! :ylsuper :ylsuper


Thank you.

Oh, did I mention that I got a really nice deal on those rims/tires.

Tires.com

Whole package balanced and shipped costed me $850.

Only problem about black rims, they get really dusty (my D/S rotors help that a lot too) and require more maintenance.

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Sil40_Mayhem wrote:seriously the car (rims included) looks nice. i don't doubt that the majority of "shameless acts commited against automobiles" are carried out on hondas, i was just voicing that there are other car owners who commit these atrocities. oh and isn't Jeremy Clarkson the dude that does the "Top Gear" videos (including the one w/the blue GT-R)?


That's the guy. I saw him having a hard time launching 1000hp JUN R33 GTR. He said that rear didff wasn't working ( excuses).

He also said it is like " riding an explosion"

http://carfreaks.b0nk.net/jeremy_clarksons/

ENJOY this great site. Has a bunch of other goodies. I used teleport pro to dump the whole site. Takes about 11 gigs on my HDD.

P.S. Moderators, I'm sorry i don't know what are the rules on posting links to copyrighted materials. I found it on Google.Feel free to edit it.

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MOTOP wrote:Thank you.

Oh, did I mention that I got a really nice deal on those rims/tires.

Tires.com

Whole package balanced and shipped costed me $850.

Only problem about black rims, they get really dusty (my D/S rotors help that a lot too) and require more maintenance.


um....that's cool, i might have to look into it!! thanks!!

:D still a very very nice car u got!!

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Megaseth wrote:and where im going to school, it seems like everyone tries to race you if you pull a little on them. EVERYTHING, trucks, ladies in non-sporty cars, anyone.


Hahah, I know that feeling, people always rev on my S13 (stock except some suspension stuff) and my friend Wes' FC (Series5)...

Its funniest when its a guy in a civic hatch (or the like) with his girl in the car trying to show off, we've had a few kills like that, hehe, but I can't race anymore, gotta be a good boy... :rolleyes


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