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Car Forum / Driving, Maintenance, Tuning / Driving / March 2008@#$%&^ ricers!
Got home from work early today, as I had taken the afternoon off because I *thought* we were supposed to close on a refi today which didn't happen, but I had to drive down to the title company anyway (don't ask. If you get me started, you'll just get a long, expletive-laden tirade about how getting a simple mortgage seems to be a process only convenient for people without jobs, making them useless to anyone who could actually afford to pay them, and involves at least three or four different entities that refuse to communicate with each other and yet all need to share information to make the process run smoothly. But I digress.) Anyway, I was sitting in my basement alternately watching TV and taking work-related phone calls and was finally contemplating hanging up my trusty (OK, not really, but that's another expletive-filled rant) cell phone, changing into something a little more comfortable, and perhaps attacking that big mess of chickweed in the front yard that the previous owners thoughtfully left for me. Just as I'm thinking of actually getting up off the couch, I hear something strangely reminiscent of the 60-cycle Hum of Death(tm) and being in a house full of ancient appliances, fixtures, etc. immediately leaped up to investigate. Stalled fridge compressor? nope... Old Blaupunkt tube radio suddenly getting all Christine on me? nope... was just about to head back downstairs to kill the main breaker when for whatever reason I just did a lap around the first floor and noticed that the racket got louder the closer to the front of the house (where nothing of any importance is located) I got. Opened front door, suddenly it's REALLY loud. The neighbors across the street apparently got a visit from some ricer in a fart-canned RSX and it was just sitting there on fast idle (if you do the math - and I did, because I'm silly like that - to exactly duplicate a 60 Hz tone with a 4-cyl, Otto cycle engine, you'd be turning exactly 1800 RPM - WTF?) farting away. Holy crap was that loud, I think sticking your head under the rear bumper of the Fabulous BeaterPorsche while it's running still wouldn't be as loud as listening to this POS thrashing away while it's parked across the damn street. (never mind that the Porsche idles low enough that you can practically hear each asplosion individually...) Even the Studbuster with it's straight-through mufflers wouldn't make that much racket, and certainly you couldn't mistake that lovely cammed-up V-8 idle for a ballast burning itself up... My lawn. Off it. I guess I'm officially a Crotchety Old Guy now. Damn, I don't *FEEL* old. nate  Signaturereplace "roosters" with "cox" to reply. http://members.cox.net/njnagel >Got home from work early today, as I had taken the afternoon off because >I *thought* we were supposed to close on a refi today which didn't [quoted text clipped - 37 lines] >My lawn. Off it. I guess I'm officially a Crotchety Old Guy now. >Damn, I don't *FEEL* old. At least he didn't have a billion watt stereo with a thumping stereo that shakes your windows. > In article <frukv101...@news2.newsguy.com>, Nate Nagel wrote: > >Got home from work early today, as I had taken the afternoon off because [quoted text clipped - 43 lines] > > - Show quoted text - He might have...but the fart can drowned it out. :) >> In article <frukv101...@news2.newsguy.com>, Nate Nagel wrote: >> >Got home from work early today, as I had taken the afternoon off because [quoted text clipped - 45 lines] > >He might have...but the fart can drowned it out. :) The windows would still visibly shake though. >>Got home from work early today, as I had taken the afternoon off because >>I *thought* we were supposed to close on a refi today which didn't [quoted text clipped - 40 lines] > At least he didn't have a billion watt stereo with a thumping stereo > that shakes your windows. That's easily identified as a non-life-threatening noise, and is easily counteracted by application of superior volume of acceptable music (Also Sprach Zarathustra, perhaps; Toccata and Fugue in D Minor if I'm feeling old school; perhaps some Black Sabbath; or if I feel real obnoxious (and the neighbor's kid isn't home) maybe "Nuggets" (from Cake's Fashion Nugget, anyone familiar with it will know why...) nate Signaturereplace "roosters" with "cox" to reply. http://members.cox.net/njnagel >Just as I'm thinking of actually getting up off the couch, I hear >something strangely reminiscent of the 60-cycle Hum of Death(tm) and [quoted text clipped - 18 lines] >certainly you couldn't mistake that lovely cammed-up V-8 idle for a >ballast burning itself up... So you're saying you'd prefer to have this car visit your neighbor's house? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ANak8V7bo0 Signature"Dave's not here, man!" - Tommy Chong >>Just as I'm thinking of actually getting up off the couch, I hear >>something strangely reminiscent of the 60-cycle Hum of Death(tm) and [quoted text clipped - 23 lines] > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ANak8V7bo0 Holy s**t I had no idea a Chevy could sound that good. I bet all the other neighbors would be pissed as hell though, that sucker sounds loud. I bet emissions testing is an experience too. nate Signaturereplace "roosters" with "cox" to reply. http://members.cox.net/njnagel >> So you're saying you'd prefer to have this car visit your neighbor's >> house? [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] >other neighbors would be pissed as hell though, that sucker sounds loud. > I bet emissions testing is an experience too. Here's the thing about loud exhausts: they may sound good when you hear them for 1 or 2 minutes at a time, but what's it like to live with that noise day in and day out? Even with the stock exhaust the C6 is none too quiet inside the cabin; Corsa Sports would be unbearable - at least until I went completely deaf! Maybe Dan is right - I *am* an old geezer!! :) Signature"Dave's not here, man!" - Tommy Chong > >> So you're saying you'd prefer to have this car visit your neighbor's > >> house? [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > > Maybe Dan is right - I *am* an old geezer!! :) No, I agree with you. I like the *sound* of the car in that video, but if it's as loud IRL as it seems in the video it'd piss me off to drive it. If you could just keep the sound but turn the volume control down a little bit that'd be fine. When I put the carpet in the Stude I will most likely use some Dynamat under it rather than the factory jute padding and also replace the cardboard trunk divider with something a little more substantial for just this reason - I like the sound, but not the volume. Replacing a side-dump exhaust with pipes coming straight back under the bumper also goes a long way. My dad has a Chevy pickup with headers, duals, and Turbo mufflers and it's not much louder than stock from inside the cabin as when he had the tailpipes made he had them bring them out under the bumper instead of behind the rear wheels as stock. nate > 1800 RPM - WTF? "Performance" chip so badly mapped, the computer thinks that's what it has to do to keep things running? (Possibly compounded by toasted sensors and/or leaks?) That sort of thing also explains the F1- wannabe blatting of unburned gas when they lift the throttle, which often you get plenty of time to listen to, since despite the annoying noise and the high revs, the car just isn't going that fast. (Well sorted out, some of them can be quite fast. Most of them, like, frankly, most of the hotrods from back in any day, just have an appearance and sound that call attention to the owner -- usually a major priority of males in that age group -- or at best reach some modest height in one dimension of performance at great cost in all- around driveability. The Fast and Furious wannabees, like some other cliches that come to mind, such as "scrapers" or really exaggerated four-by-fours, should probably be interpreted in terms of intramural courtship rituals and dominance posturing, not as machines.) > My lawn. Off it. I guess I'm officially a Crotchety Old Guy now. Recently caught myself formulating the advice that I'd give to Kids These Days, if I thought there were any chance they'd take the iPod out of their ear and listen: "The adult world does not want to see your buttcrack or hear your subwoofer." The use of the words Kids These Days, even as an unexpressed thought, probably says it all. Gotta go get a glass of water to take a pill. --Joe >(Well sorted out, some of them can be quite fast. Most of them, like, >frankly, most of the hotrods from back in any day, just have an [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] >intramural courtship rituals and dominance posturing, not as >machines.) Find a place where ricers gather and drive by other people, sit back and watch. It's like watching an episode of Wild Kingdom. De-evolution in action. |
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