Umm, do I look stoopid to you?
 

So this kid was getting in his car in the parking lot of my work and I noticed it was a 5th gen coupe, kinda. It had a bondo widebody, it was primered out and had lambo doors. I ran out immediately to talk to this dude.

I was like, "What's up, Man? Looks like you have a lot of work into this thing. You do these doors your self?" He says yes and I notice there isnt' any back seat and the entire car had been Dynomatted. "Dude, what kind of sound are you putting in here?"
"Two JL 10's and two JL amps"
"That's a lot of Dynomat. I thought maybe it was fire retardant lining or something. I have a Civic too."
"Oh yeah, which one?"
"That red 5th gen over there."
"Oh, I dont' know my gens."
"It's a '94."
"Cool, so is this one."
"Yeah, I noticed. Kinda hard to tell though. You get to anything under the hood yet?"
"Yeah. Lemme think. It's the vtec D like yours probably is, Skunk2 cams, Skunk2 IM, Skunk2 cam gear, Skunk2 cranks (huh?), AEM CAI, (blah, blah, blah)..."[sm=dontgetit.gif]
"Sweet, you ever run it at the track?"
"Yeah, it went like 13.30 at 112mph."[sm=bs.gif]
"Damn. Was that with the widebody?"
"No, but it was with the 17's and all of my sound."
"Right on. Well I gotta go. Keep rockin' those Skunk2 cranks."

Why can't people have a normal, truthful conversation?

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RE: Umm, do I look stoopid to you?
 

that is weak.. I've bumped into a few people like that. The guy that works where I get my oil changed (I dont have a garage yet..) is always trying to tell me "what I should do with my car." First off, if you don't know the difference between n/a and f/i, let alone what they mean, you have no say in what should or shouldnt go under my hood.

it's very aggravating..[:@]

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^ agreed. There was some guy that I talk to everytime I go to get new tires just like that.

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LOL, chasing down idiots, that's great. :D Does this count as a kill?

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i met a kid once that claimed to have high compression pistons in his rx7[&:]

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thats freaking rediculous high compression pistons in an rx7? thats like an iron block in a civic....... but hey i know a mexican with a civic hatchback that is RWD or so he thinks aka hes a dumbas that dont know crap about cars, he has evan peeled out and pretty much been shown that its a fwd but he doesnt beleive it.

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Rx-7=rotary motor=no pistons.

and...

http://static.flickr.com/40/86131241_4ecc6109ca.jpg

Sniped!!!!

RE: Umm, do I look stoopid to you?
 

dam is that his car?? lots of work needed on that..you should of recommeded him to HCF so he can learn real stuff

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Nah, I just googled "primered Civic" and thats what I got.

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I got a good one. A classmate of mine is a VW guy, drives a GTI. So he goes to a VW meet and was talking to this guy. He asked him if he had piston return springs. The guy did indeed have a set of high performance pistons return springs. I can't stand ppl who BS about thier cars. I got another story. This kid comes into my auto shop class and needs his brakes changed, he drives a WRX Impreza. The kid claims that his car was running 385 HP. His mods: boost controller, straight pipe exhaust, STi injectors and he was running 18PSI. I knew he was talking BS, i didn't call him out on it but i should have. The funny thing is that this guy comes into a class of Auto Service students (in my class thats level 2 auto shop) and tries to BS about his car. He is pretty much gonna find the guys that know the most about cars in the school, and he still tries to fool us. He brought his car in yesterday, cylinder 4 has low compression. Suspected cause is a blown head gasket due to running ~21 PSI. (21PSI thing is my own theory on why the gasket blew).

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Ill count myself lucky that Ive never actually had to deal with someone bull****ting their way through a conversation about their car, face to face. Ive heard plenty of horror stories about dealing with idiots though. I always love the ones where they say that they drive at some terribly insane level of speed, with I/H/E. You can pull the sheep over the average person's eyes will all the "mumbo-jumob", but you cant fool me too easily.

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some douche who worked at a gas station had this beat up old primered hatch and he was telling me he runs 12s and 10s with NOS. and he wanted to race me. it was pretty damn funny.

RE: Umm, do I look stoopid to you?
 

i actually have a piston return spring. its for my paint gun.[&:]

but is the number 4 cylinder the back one on the passenger side?

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Wow, WOW! Just ask the nimrod to show you the differential and that should shut him up. Egos are the alcoholism of the psyche, self-destructive.

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It is the rear cylinder on the drivers side. So if your facing the car, its the rear cylinder on the right side.

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oh damn. usually its the one on the passenger side, you know, the one right next to the turbo. it gets so damn hot that you cant keep it from detonating on that cylinder. worst thing about Subies.

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What about the transmissions? I've heard that the manual trans in WRXs are prone to break. The guy who had the blown head gasket (known as 385) has had his trans rebuilt 2 or 3 times.

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LMAO!! there is alot of stuff that he sounded retarted on, but i dont understand the entire car bein dynamatted...lol i guess he thinks the tin foil lookin color is pimpin or somethin....obviously

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almost any transmission will cave under hard driving, esp on an AWD.