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TnTRice · 02-25-2008, 10:25 AM

I think everyone here has been in the same situation where they'll be talking about cars and then someone else tries to jump in and nothing he says amounts to a hill of beans.
here's my story:

There are a group of us talking one day about our cars and things we'd like to do to them and just minor stories about things we've seen at the track. This one guy walks up and listens for a bit and starts going around the group asking "so what do you drive". . . "RSX-S, Integra GSR, Civic Si, RSX, RX8" are his replies. He says "cool, cool, but i think i have you all beat!". we all kind of just looked at him and were like "alright, we'll bite, what do you drive?". the start of his reply is what caught us the most, but what followed shocked us more. "I have a 2004 Celica GT-S. . . " a brief pause. i kicked and asked "isn't the starting HP on that about 185?". . . "Yeah, well not mine, i've done some modifications to it". . another guy speaks up "what did you do to it?". . and this is what got us. "I put in a twin turbo motor from a 98 Supra, a 4-2-1 racing header" and thats where he stopped. I had to ask "how did you put a RWD motor and Tranny in a FWD car?". . now at about this time everyone was laughing, but in a straight face this guy says. "Oh i didn't put a RWD tranny in, the stock tranny bolted right. . . IT HAULS". So as you can see we've all ready determined that this guy was full of it and we as a group started to tear the story apart. Now every time i see this guy around work i'll say "Hey man whats goin' on?" and he'll just walk by without saying anything more.
This only comes up because now i'm deployed again and we were just at the chow hall and this guy ended up sitting with us and brought up cars again. He asked what my plans were for my car, and if i've found any good deals and so forth all friendly conversation, until he tried explaining i-vtec as added allowable RPMs to a non-car guy. Trust me i didn't leave that other guy in the wind, i explained VTEC to the best of my ability to him and dropped a couple of "Honda Tuning" magazines off to him with articles about the how it all operates. This guy is trying to get into the tuning world so i thought i'd help him out of the bull that was being pushed on him.

sounds like i'm ranting but just thought i'd share

02-25-2008, 10:25 AM	#1 (permalink)
TnTRice Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: sumtown (southern), New Jersey United States Posts: 302	some people just can't talk cars I think everyone here has been in the same situation where they'll be talking about cars and then someone else tries to jump in and nothing he says amounts to a hill of beans. here's my story: There are a group of us talking one day about our cars and things we'd like to do to them and just minor stories about things we've seen at the track. This one guy walks up and listens for a bit and starts going around the group asking "so what do you drive". . . "RSX-S, Integra GSR, Civic Si, RSX, RX8" are his replies. He says "cool, cool, but i think i have you all beat!". we all kind of just looked at him and were like "alright, we'll bite, what do you drive?". the start of his reply is what caught us the most, but what followed shocked us more. "I have a 2004 Celica GT-S. . . " a brief pause. i kicked and asked "isn't the starting HP on that about 185?". . . "Yeah, well not mine, i've done some modifications to it". . another guy speaks up "what did you do to it?". . and this is what got us. "I put in a twin turbo motor from a 98 Supra, a 4-2-1 racing header" and thats where he stopped. I had to ask "how did you put a RWD motor and Tranny in a FWD car?". . now at about this time everyone was laughing, but in a straight face this guy says. "Oh i didn't put a RWD tranny in, the stock tranny bolted right. . . IT HAULS". So as you can see we've all ready determined that this guy was full of it and we as a group started to tear the story apart. Now every time i see this guy around work i'll say "Hey man whats goin' on?" and he'll just walk by without saying anything more. This only comes up because now i'm deployed again and we were just at the chow hall and this guy ended up sitting with us and brought up cars again. He asked what my plans were for my car, and if i've found any good deals and so forth all friendly conversation, until he tried explaining i-vtec as added allowable RPMs to a non-car guy. Trust me i didn't leave that other guy in the wind, i explained VTEC to the best of my ability to him and dropped a couple of "Honda Tuning" magazines off to him with articles about the how it all operates. This guy is trying to get into the tuning world so i thought i'd help him out of the bull that was being pushed on him. sounds like i'm ranting but just thought i'd share