After getting stood up by some friends, I decided to cruise up and down this wide-open, long road for a little while. It's a pretty big street where a lot of 'curious' people go with their fast cars--or thinking it's fast, at least. I went up and down this road a few times before I began to get bord. So I decided to sit in the center median (5-8 car-lengths wide) and wait. I figured that since the Rice population is enormous here in the San Fernando Valley, there must be a ricer cruising by and minute. There I sat for a few minutes before I saw bright, blue headlights (and blue fog-lights to go w/it, or coarse) coming up behind me. Bingo! He went on by and pulled out after him. Hmmm... what could he be thinking... The next thing he did was flashed his hazard lights at me for a second or two. A blue Civic Si! very rare...
But wait! I know him (and hate him)! White 18" rims, cat-back Greddy exhaust, DC header, cold-air induction, ignition crap, and thats all that I know of.
before I go any further, is it just me or is there this Ricer Uprising/Revolution thing going on? I was actually getting worried for a bit because people started telling me that they can get pretty fast with simple mods. Intake and exhaust and these things are supposedly in the 14's!?? I knew that his car wasn't stock so I got kinda worried. 8,000 RPM redline, V-Tech bullsh!t, etc, etc.......
Anyway, he gets in the left lane (we're going about 40-53ish)and I stay in the right lane. I'm in 3rd gear (I have 2:73's in the back) and I can hear his buzz-rocket humming away at about 4K. As soon as I get within a cars length or so behind him, so d-shifts and nails it. At this time I am still in 3rd (now that I think about it, I don't know why I didnt dump it in 2nd) @ about 3K RPM. About 60 MPH. His cars screamin'! Thats when I get on the gas harder and enter 'race-mode'. Hes about 1 1/2 cars ahead of me. I immediatley start pulling (he obviously saw me), pulled up to his passenger door, let off the gas just a touch to stay thereabouts for enough time to give a smart-*** laugh and look at his car (showing him what a waste of time and gas this run is. its funny what you can express in a split-second facial expression), then DROPPED the hammer and started pulling and pulling on him. I took 3rd up to about 4850RPM (hes a number of cars back by now), speed-shifted into 4th, and bye-bye Si. As soon as I nailed 4th, gone... About 10+ cars back. (HAHAHAHA...oh I loved this race) Anyway, After shutting down at about 90 or so, a few seconds later...oh yes...the notorious ricer 'fly-by'. I stayed behind him for a little bit. After we get through the twisty part of the road, he makes a right onto Molhulland Hwy (for all of you South Cali people). After we pass the shopping center thing on the right, I get up next to him, he rolls down his window, and the 'oh-my-god-how-humiliating' look drowned his face. I never came across a ricer that would talk after a defeat, but oh well. He knew who I was and got in that bad-*** mood and said "having fun following me" or something like that. I said no, just trying to make a U-turn, but NICE TRY. I made that last part 100% heard and his passenger started cracking up. I guess it was the fact that I knew and hated that guy that made it funny as hell. Ok, I'll shut up now-
-Andrew
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1991 GT Hatchback
-MAC cold-air induction
-FMS 9mm wires
-MAC 2 1/2in. Cat-Back exhaust
-Slowly, but surely
[This message has been edited by CobraMan (edited 01-02-2001).]