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Confessions of a Ricer
i confess...besides my 4x4 blazer and my silverado, i too have a ricer streak. i've had this car for roughly 3 years, it's a '96 saturn sc2 couple with a 1.9 DOHC engine and a 5 spd stick. this car's story begins as gas prices were going up, i decided i wanted a car to drive back and forth to work in and this thing got 33 mpg...well, i drove it around for a couple of weeks and it started making a tapping noise, lo and behold, twas a bad main bearing. so we took her apart and found the bad bearing and noticed the crank was scratched. soo...while it was down for repair i ordered a muffler and an intake for it, my dad thought it was funny and suggested we get some nice internals...so we got a lightened flywheel, LuK clutch, clevite77 main and rod bearings, got the crank balanced and polished, and some MSD plug wires. why stop there? went online ordered a drop kit, some finn 107 gunmetal racing rims, clear signals and a sticker kit! yup, a sticker kit. along with all the performance stickers it's got 2 marilyn manson decals on the front bumper and a skull ripping though the hood, not to mention the big ricey red windshield wipers. honestly, i don't think it looks too bad, especially for a saturn. i've had my success in the idiotic streetraces i've participated in and the car's earned itself quite a repuation. anyways, i'll shut up, heres some pics...
i have some black euro headlights coming in the mail for it and in the next couple of months i plan on putting a cold air intake and pacesetter header on it, then it's off to the track to get smoked by the real cars it's so fun to drive though. |
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I actually quite like!
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1.) Take all the red stickers off and it will look clean. Reminds me a of a Firebird.
2.) 33mpg? My arse. You better be driving it like an old lady. No, I can't say that either. Grandma's car is a 300whp Volvo with Turbo, so you need need to drive it carefully, slowly, and no pushing the gas peddle too hard. My CRX advertised 40mpg and with all the highway driving (at 75mph) it's hardly getting 30mpg... 3.) Euro lights on a Saturn?!? 4.) Looks pretty cool. 5.) Describe the street races. I've pulled Integras (most of them Rice), but never tried a Saturn. There's crap around here to race. And gas is expensive. lol.
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That is pretty cool actually.Not as rice as some cars that i have seen
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sorry star but it looks like a black and red tow truck to me now.......
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The car runs good/stronger when it wants to.
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fast learner my *** and no one says an auto cant whup a novice stick... my z28 is a POS auto....350SB and 700R4 but i beat manuals.....
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700R4 ain't a POS, great 1st gear for a solid launch. Even my POS Firebird has good acceleration in 1st... after that.. It's the equivalent of 3 mice running on a wheel. But, better then a honda with 2 mice.
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If I did a Mini-Me Headswap to get Vtec, I should gain some performance. But with a new motor/trainy combo going for $800, I could do that instead and gain 70hp... Yah, right. Quote:
You gotta understand that there are a few diffrent types of street racing/street cred things... 1.) Real, full on racing. 2.) Stop-light to stop-light without breaking the speed limit. Pure fun just to see. 3.) Rev your engine and see who's got the more violent diahrea. And then a $50,000 sports car vs. a $7,000 A-B DD?
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The ion is based off an Opel I do believe, so yes, European
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The car sits around 3000rpm and it kills the gas millage on the high way. Not geared super well, and I drive 80 miles a day on the high way... Since when is Opel european? What's funny is, there is never Euro lights on Euro cars in Europe. They have the real JDM (NOT clear) type lights.
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races that i can remember:
1) honda prelude , supposedly a 14 sec car, took him off the line, she spun out like a mofo and never caught up, i let off at 115 or so mph 2) F350 powerstroke nondually, he pulled me off the line but i caught up during 2nd and pulled past him in 3rd, a little traffic so i let off at 90ish 3) mitsubishi eclipse...loud fartcan, was revving like he was retarded, light turned green and i jumped him badly, his reaction time sucked, but he fell way behind anyways and couldnt catch up 4) v8 dodge dakota, he had an automatic and launched with a powerbrake, took me off the line but started pulling in second and passed him before i hit third, we both let off around 80 mph b/c of city traffic 5) Honda CRX, riced out to the max, baby blue...big silver spoiler, loud as all hell and was burning lots of oil, i didnt think he wanted to race looking at the cloud of smoke behind him, but we ran, dunno what he had done to the car but it wasnt even a challenge lol... not hating on CRX's, there's a couple of fast ones around here. forgot to mention, soon the stickers are coming off and it's getting painted gunmetal like my truck |
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Since Opel is made, and sold in Europe. Saturn and Opel share alot of cars, most new Saturns are based off new Opels. And, the Saturn sky is imported as the Opel Sportster GT in europe.
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i tought we wernt suposed to talk about illeagal stuff like street raceing...Etc............
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"Excessively speeding to pass the guy next to you"
Happy now?
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forgot to mention that this saturn yanked my carport off the front of my house and pulled my 4x4 blazer (broken with a bad clutch) out of my back yard, aside from being a ricer, it's also a towtruck...i knew that towhook had some kind of purpose lmfao... Last edited by suicide_star; 03-02-2008 at 08:53 PM.. |
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