Dumbass at work...

[hatchbackgirl]

So, one of our managers where I work has a Vette that's a few years old. He knows I love Honda, Toyota, etc; and he comes up to me in the lunchroom today and asks me "So, when are you going to stop buying that import crap and get an american car?" I tell him "When they acually start making their cars in America, and make a car as well as Honda" He says "But Imports are too expensive" Basically the only argument he could come up with was that Toyota's and Honda's are too expensive, and why don't you just save money and buy a Chevy cuz you'll sell it in a couple years before it breaks. The dude is just basically a moron, but I couldn't come up with any good comebacks. Why do people always have to hate on Imports? What should I tell this guy next time? (He does this on a regular basis)

[badazaccord]

Tell him why buy and sell cars every few years when you could just own one for 10 years and spend your money on fixing it up. Trust me i own a ford-only cause i need a beater for winter a chevy-soon to be a show truck and a honda-which everybody hates lol owell cause its good on gas and has alot of potential for fixing it up.

[KennyKen]

Boost your hatch and stomp his vette...I think he'll shut up ;) .

[David]

one word

vtec.

[myshtern]

Arent you a girl?
Tell him he has a small penis.

[chrisbarnett01]

Not all domestics are shit.

The few that have seen my garage will understand.

[Nightfall]

Boost your hatch and stomp his vette...I think he'll shut up ;) .
:werd:

[InRox01]

imports and domestics for teh win. like both, hate one you miss out. ;)

[hatchbackgirl]

Arent you a girl?
Tell him he has a small penis.
LOL, that's messed up...

[SlamMan]

Buying a car that last a long time and keeping it for a long time is a good financial move. Buying a car every few years is a poor financial move.

Basically, just tell dude that you know more about money than he does.

[Kwando]

tell him to kill himself... if he needs a gun Dave_L has one

[B20badboy]

Arent you a girl?
Tell him he has a small penis.
And say that is why you bought a vett to make up for lack of something else!

[redb20teg]

Boost your hatch and stomp his vette...I think he'll shut up ;) .

+1

that's what i did with all my cousins that have camaros and mustangs. When I boosted the integra, i smoked them all and they no longer had anything to say.

[Dave_L]

tell him to kill himself... if he needs a gun Dave_L has one

I also have a shovel so we can dig a big hole for putting....well... you know, whatever we want in it. ;)

[David]

imports and domestics for teh win. like both, hate one you miss out. ;)
I concur

[myshtern]

imports and domestics for teh win. like both, hate one you miss out. ;)
Werd, tell him to judge cars on their qualities rather than where they were made.

[M@]

Tell him...

"I have 4 words for you, douchenozzle. Power to weight ratio." Then be sure to mention the fact that there are 4 cylinder Hondas, Acuras, etc. putting out the same amount (if not lots more) power than domestics that weigh 1500+ lbs more. :)

[Nightfall]

Wasn't there a domestic... quad 4... or some shit, that they put in a reletively mid sized to light car? I think they produced like 180 foot pounds out of a 4 cylinder engine, way before Honda even came close to those kinds of numbers?

[Weston-work]

The guy is obviously a moron, so simply reply with arguments that make no sense. It's much easier to confuse the hell out of an idiot than it is to educate him.

Wasn't there a domestic... quad 4... or some shit, that they put in a reletively mid sized to light car? I think they produced like 180 foot pounds out of a 4 cylinder engine, way before Honda even came close to those kinds of numbers?

We like to forget about such things. ;)

[David]

Tell him...

"I have 4 words for you, douchenozzle. Power to weight ratio." Then be sure to mention the fact that there are 4 cylinder Hondas, Acuras, etc. putting out the same amount (if not lots more) power than domestics that weigh 1500+ lbs more. :)
125 hp honda > 300hp Corvette?

[Weston-work]

125 hp honda > 300hp Corvette?

Well, David, let's do the math... We will say that the Corvette weighs 3500 lbs. That's 0.08571 HP/lb. In order to make a 125 HP car match that ratio, you only need to lighten it to 1458.4 lbs. That's only 1000 lbs of weight reduction you need... pretty simple, if you ask me.

Of course, newer Corvettes have more than 300 HP... a 400 HP one would be about 0.11428 HP/lb, which means the 125 HP car would need to weigh 1093.8 lbs or less. This is easily accomplished with a cutting torch and the expert guidance of chris_venturini.

[stu]

Tell him you're going to complain to HR about his constant harassment. He can put that in his pipe and smoke it. ;)

[yapann]

So, one of our managers

the only argument he could come up with was that Toyota's and Honda's are too expensive,
ask for a ri$e :)

[David]

Well, David, let's do the math... We will say that the Corvette weighs 3500 lbs. That's 0.08571 HP/lb. In order to make a 125 HP car match that ratio, you only need to lighten it to 1458.4 lbs. That's only 1000 lbs of weight reduction you need... pretty simple, if you ask me.

Of course, newer Corvettes have more than 300 HP... a 400 HP one would be about 0.11428 HP/lb, which means the 125 HP car would need to weigh 1093.8 lbs or less. This is easily accomplished with a cutting torch and the expert guidance of chris_venturini.
yeah, but the corvette would still have 4 times the amount of torque...plus where will you put all the women that your newly modified car will attract if you don't have any seats?

[stu]

Honda with equal power to weight ratio of a Corvette < < < A Corvette.

[myshtern]

Honda with equal power to weight ratio of a Corvette < < < A Corvette.
Corvettes are defintely cool cars, but if I wanted a race car I would build a Honda/Acura. The Corvette costs a lot of money.

[hatchbackgirl]

ask for a ri$e :)

Yea right, like that'll happen.... :rolleyes:

[Weston]

Honda with equal power to weight ratio of a Corvette < < < A Corvette.

Good thing I have a better power to weight ratio, not just one that's equal. :D

[Slo4G63]

It's going to be impossible to "educate" this guy. Obviously he knows nothing about imports and the potential they have. I know many domestic owners that give respect to where respect is due. Then again it doesn't help when he probably sees imports out there all filled with fancy disco lights, exhausts that probably made them lose hp/tq.

One day he'll come across an import while in his vette and possibly get educated.

[B20badboy]

Wasn't there a domestic... quad 4... or some shit, that they put in a reletively mid sized to light car? I think they produced like 180 foot pounds out of a 4 cylinder engine, way before Honda even came close to those kinds of numbers?
The oldsmobile calais I have one broke down at my job mine has the front wheel drive v6 but it was pretty fast before it took a shit on me been sitting for like 2 years needs a timming belt.

[InRox01]

Yea right, like that'll happen.... :rolleyes:
:rofl:

[M@]

125 hp honda > 300hp Corvette?
I didn't say whether or not they were modded Hondas.

[chris_venturini]

what a toolbag, everyone knows the only way to go fast is to buy an economy car, what was he thinking.... corvette?....GAY!

[M@]

what a toolbag, everyone knows the only way to go fast is to buy an economy car, what was he thinking.... corvette?....GAY!
:rolleyes:

[chris_venturini]

:rolleyes:
double :rolleyes: :rolleyes:

[Weston-work]

what a toolbag, everyone knows the only way to go fast is to buy an economy car, what was he thinking.... corvette?....GAY!

:werd: :rofl:

[M@]

double :rolleyes: :rolleyes:
Quadruple :rolleyes: :rolleyes: with an order of VTACK on top!

[chris_venturini]

stop whoring it up

[M@]

stop whoring it up
you first

[Weston-work]

Chris_V has a license to whore. Matt is practicing without a license.

[M@]

Chris_V has a license to whore. Matt is practicing without a license.
It's okay, I'm a doctor.

[David]

I didn't say whether or not they were modded Hondas.
Ok, I'll share some of my relevant experiences.When I boosted my Civic (dynod at 210whp, the good setup as some call it) I raced my friends stock ls1 from a roll. He instantly caught a car on me from the start, and slowly inched away from me all the way up to the top of 4th. This was a stock car, vs my unreliable, loud, obnoxious Honda Civic. If he would have put i/h/e on that car I would have been left for dead.

Just have fun in your car and stop worrying about everybody else's. Honda Civics aren't the end all pinnacle of car design, they are economy cars that are, and always will be slow (minus a few cars you saw on honda-tech).

[M@]

Heh.. ok, blah blah blah. 210 hp? That's not good, actually. Seems I ran doors to 135 with an SS on the bottle at only 9 psi on a blown turbo. Apparently your kit wasn't THAT good. My Civic was very reliable until my V-AFC came unwired, loud? Sure.. but so was the SS I ran, not obnoxious though. :rolleyes:

[Weston-work]

David's make good HP for what it was... a SOHC D16 @ 8 psi.

[M@]

David's make good HP for what it was... a SOHC D16 @ 8 psi.
Ah, my fault.. didn't realize it was a single D. Meh... I still stick to my opinion that Civic's aren't eco-shitboxes. But, to each their own.

[Weston-work]

It may not be a Kia/Hyundai, but it's still not a luxury car or a sports car.

[Steve_C]

Chris_V has a license to whore. Matt is practicing without a license.I'm the keeper of Chris's license, ain't that right Chris? :D

[David]

Heh.. ok, blah blah blah. 210 hp? That's not good, actually. Seems I ran doors to 135 with an SS on the bottle at only 9 psi on a blown turbo. Apparently your kit wasn't THAT good. My Civic was very reliable until my V-AFC came unwired, loud? Sure.. but so was the SS I ran, not obnoxious though. :rolleyes:
210whp is pretty good for a Honda...doubling your hp in any car is pretty good. To get any more power out of it I would have had to either swap an engine in, or build mine. Which would have been incredibly lame considering that would have cost thousands of dollars to beat my friends 100% factory car.

[M@]

210whp is pretty good for a Honda...doubling your hp in any car is pretty good. To get any more power out of it I would have had to either swap an engine in, or build mine. Which would have been incredibly lame considering that would have cost thousands of dollars to beat my friends 100% factory car.
Well, like I said.. I didn't know it was a single D.. my bad. *shrug* I was only at 9 psi on my fucked turbo and holding doors with plenty of BPU domestics.

[Weston-work]

You also have much shorter gears than David did. His headgasket was pretty badly blown too, especially after he tried to fix it himself. :rofl:

[David]

That was before my headgasket was blown...even though it never was.

either way, I should start a Anti-Honda Honda owners club

[M@]

You also have much shorter gears than David did. His headgasket was pretty badly blown too, especially after he tried to fix it himself. :rofl:
*shrug* You gotta' run whatcha brung.

[Weston-work]

That was before my headgasket was blown...even though it never was.
...

David... There were some pretty obvious carbon traces in at least 4 places when I changed your headgasket! I've never seen one blown so badly.

[David]

That was just vtec residue

[M@]

That was just vtec residue
:rofl:

[Weston-work]

That was just vtec residue

Well, then you were leaking VTEC pretty badly between cylinders, as well as into the coolant passage.

[stu]

If you were door to door with an LS1 on 9 psi, he wasn't spraying, promise.

[Weston-work]

If you were door to door with an LS1 on 9 psi, he wasn't spraying, promise.

:werd:

[hatchbackgirl]

Wow, this went totally Off-topic... LOL....

[David]

Just wait, it'll come 'round full circle again. Just come back in 2 more pages.

but in my bordom, I worked out that a Civic SI would have to have 250hp to match the power to weight ration of a Camaro. Match. I should get a Camaro, badass cars.

[KennyKen]

Just wait, it'll come 'round full circle again. Just come back in 2 more pages.

but in my bordom, I worked out that a Civic SI would have to have 250hp to match the power to weight ration of a Camaro. Match. I should get a Camaro, badass cars.


Except in the snow...I have tried.

But that is why you get a piece of shit beater to rough up in the snow. I think once my turbo honda gets out of my system I am going to invest in something with a lot more power. I do know that my 180ish whp turbo d does alright for now ;) .