another "rice" question

[ultraflo]

I have a story for you guys...

A buddy of mine that is a member of a local club that started out as lowered mini-trucks, but is nearly over-run by custom import cars that are lowered and, in some cases... "riced-out" ...some are actually self-proclaimed show cars and they would never claim it as a racecar... however, a couple individuals in this club think they have some real serious race cars and I wanted to see them in action... on the drag strip! Since they were throwing around all these #'s... HP, ET, top speed, etc.... I figured it would be a good idea to get them all together and see what they could really do. My buddy and I came to this conclusion after him watching the footage of my car from the last several outings... watching it go from 11.60's at the beginning of the year to 10.30's at that point in time (several weeks ago, new best in sig) he became interested and wanted to see what his non-turbo Imprezza would do in the 1/4... along with his buddies car's from the club. We made plans for the Friday night trip to the track on a Wed. night and he let these guys know... about 6 of them agreed to the outing and had plenty of time to get ready.

Friday comes along, we all meet up at a Hardee's. The bench racing begins.... I don't normally hang with these guys (now I know why), but I figured it would be good to see what this import stuff is all about. I thought they were serious about going... well, they guy with the 'fastest' ride finally shows up about a half hour late... strolls in all calm, get some food, and starts talking about going back to the shop to change his intake!!! This was around 7pm... we were supposed to be on the road already, and they wanted to sit around and TALK about it... which was fine with me, until the subject of switching intakes came up. At that point, I realized that these guys are a bunch of strokers (my opinion)... looked at my buddy like WTF? ...getting the same look from him, we decide to say "Well, we're going! ...Later!"

I swear they would've sat around and bench raced the night away... and the weather was great!!! Three of the six didn't even bring they're import racecar with them... they just showed up. I couldn't believe it... I actually gave these guys the benefit of the doubt and they pulled this stunt!!! On the way to the track, my bud tells me about what happened at the Indy Truck bash they all attended awhile back, which is the only time the 'fast' car of the group (honda civic with a Jackson Racing 'charger) went down the 1320... the guy was bragging about how it will go 13.50's and he mustered only high 14's... so I began to see things for how they really are.... posers, ricers, jerk-off's ...any of those terms will do for me!

I could go on... but will refrain... I'm currently trying to get my friend to get these strokes rounded up again so we can ALL go to the track... I really want to see these cars go down the track. There just aren't ANY imports making a serious effort in my neck of the woods... I have yet to line up with one that can even remotely hang with the 'stang. And all I ever hear are excuses!!

For example, once they got their ***** together.... and made an attempt to catch up with us... the 'fast' guy got pulled over and called my bud afterward and said he couldn't make it because he got pulled over??? I laughed pretty hard at that one... he didn't even get a ticket!!! LOL!

Some day......

Oh, btw... my bud's Imprezza went a best of 16.56... he was disappointed and doesn't plan on taking it back... me, I just give him hell about owning an import... he comments back that my hood is too big ...we've known each other too long, so it's all fun and games! He talks about my car to his import friends are they are all unimpressed for the simple fact that, as they put it... "dude, it's a Mustang." Like, big deal! "I could make my import twice as fast with as much money as he's got in that...." that's funny, I thought it was the other way around. But, hey, what do I know??? Not much apparently...