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Ricer Wishful Thinking
Listen up folks, just because you want a Ferrari, and can hang tacky sh*t off your Japanese car, doesn't make the result a Ferrari. Or even a pseudo-Ferrari.
At least this time around the guy actually did a good job 'rodding up the motor... an overbore, balance job, and new turbo are things you actually have to remove the motor to do (and therefore add horsepower). So, while it may be ugly, it probably scoots.
Still, none of that stuff is cheap. I have a feeling if he'd pooled the money he spent on this thing he'd get most of the way to, say, a mid-70s Ferrari 308. If he's got the skillz to do all that engine work, he'd have the ability to keep it running I'm sure.
Well, there's something to be said for owning a silly-looking rice racer that can actually put out some good horsepower. It's like a stealth Ferrari... while people are laughing themselves sick at your riced-up Honda, you punch it and leave them in the dust.
Still, if I were modding a car, I wouldn't even bother to mod the body any more than necessary to make the engine fit and keep the car from falling apart at top speed. Except maybe painting it to look like a Pokemon. "Dude, that Pikachu Civic wiped you out!"
Posted by: Tatterdemalian on November 20, 2003 08:06 PM