Post by jdmcivic on Jan 21, 2004 11:05:01 GMT -5
Ricer vs. Racer
"For many years, racing has been a very competitive sport. People have grown accustomed to this sport beginning on the streets. Back in the day, Ford and Chevy were the muscle cars of drag racing. Soon after, imports began making it onto America's shores with Ferrari, Porsche, and Lamborghini to show their performance not in drag racing, but in handling turns and high speed driving. In America and Europe, these cars were used in both drag racing and Grand Touring races.
To join the competition Japan came up with a whole line of potential cars of their own. They've brought over cars from top class manufacturers such as Mitsubishi, Nissan, Toyota, Mazda, and Honda, each company having a racing background. But the fun with imports isn't in the factory settings that they're shipped with, but with the vast array of after market performance parts that can be installed on them. They can even be tuned to outclass Mustangs and Corvettes!
Since then, many cars have been transformed from sophisticated, daily driven forms of transportation, into high performance racecars to this day. Now, cars from Japan have been chosen by many professional racers for official drag racing and road racing competitions, leaving great reputations for the racers and for the manufacturers.
But all of this can get out of hand. Since the power of Japanese cars has been revealed, many people try to get in on this action. They go out and buy an import car and hook it up, but not in the way of a racer. People go out to buy many parts for their cars, thinking it will go faster if they continue to spend more money, that's where the problems start.
When people think that they are the fastest on the street due to a couple of low budget performance parts slapped onto their cars, this type of attitude brings disgrace to the racing scene. Especially when they are using cars from Japanese manufacturers who have been known to have many racing backgrounds behind each one. Not only are they using these cars to become so called "racers" but they turn their cars into slow, distasteful looking, show cars, supposedly made for racing but not at all fast. These types of people are better known as "ricers".
Ricers can be defined as people who own a Japanese car and modify it without the knowledge of how each part works or benefits the car. These types of people only talk about the most common way to produce power, which are bolt on parts (intake, header, exhaust) and body kits, which are mainly used for showing off since their real function serves at only high speeds. When talking technical about their cars, they can't give one good idea about tuning.
When it comes down to them using high power components like turbo or nitrous such as NOS (Nitrous Oxide Systems) that's when the situation gets dangerous. When they think of turbo, they only think of the power it will produce but don't take into consideration that, if used incorrectly, it can destroy their car. As goes for nitrous, it is for racing use on the track only with an alert on fire safety because of its danger of flammability. These idiots will take this stuff on the streets, risking not only their lives, but the people around them as well.
The humility of ricers does not have an effect on the real players of the racing scene, but sometimes it's very amusing for them to be around. Ricers give a really good example of what not to do, and where not to go, when it comes to racing.
Now that the definition of a ricer is out, it is the time to reveal what a real racer/tuner is. A racer is the true warrior of auto sports fun. They show respect to everyone in the sport who knows what they are doing, especially those who have the knowledge to make fast times on the drag strip or on the road course. It takes time for racers to gain knowledge of good performance tuning before harnessing true power from their car. One knows you cannot gain power from a mere bolt on part just by installing it, but to use it effectively, you'll have to fine tune it and have good reason behind choosing the part.
Safety comes first before everything. Whether working in the shop or garage, racers handle everything in a professional and efficient way so that when the time comes in the real racing world, they will already have the experience. So when dangerous situations occur in the shop or on the course, immediate action is taken in a professional manner.
Racers think more about how to get the best performance out of their cars, and try to go beyond their level as a tuner/racer. Ricers are more into typical trends that everyone does with their cars, and cannot be original. Bottom line, the main difference between racers and ricers is that racers know what they are doing and ricers do not!
Body kits, euro taillights, vinyl graphics, big sound systems, and cheap performance parts, are choice parts for a ricer's ideal car only because everyone else is doing it, not for themselves. Not to be misunderstood, sound systems and body kits can be awesome when done correctly. Everyone has the freedom to do anything to their car, it's the bandwagon that kills everything with lack of originality.
As a racer, cars and parts are a non stop list of fun and excitement. And when they build their cars, all are works of art by the owner, and two cars will never perform the same as the other."
Function over fashion!
"For many years, racing has been a very competitive sport. People have grown accustomed to this sport beginning on the streets. Back in the day, Ford and Chevy were the muscle cars of drag racing. Soon after, imports began making it onto America's shores with Ferrari, Porsche, and Lamborghini to show their performance not in drag racing, but in handling turns and high speed driving. In America and Europe, these cars were used in both drag racing and Grand Touring races.
To join the competition Japan came up with a whole line of potential cars of their own. They've brought over cars from top class manufacturers such as Mitsubishi, Nissan, Toyota, Mazda, and Honda, each company having a racing background. But the fun with imports isn't in the factory settings that they're shipped with, but with the vast array of after market performance parts that can be installed on them. They can even be tuned to outclass Mustangs and Corvettes!
Since then, many cars have been transformed from sophisticated, daily driven forms of transportation, into high performance racecars to this day. Now, cars from Japan have been chosen by many professional racers for official drag racing and road racing competitions, leaving great reputations for the racers and for the manufacturers.
But all of this can get out of hand. Since the power of Japanese cars has been revealed, many people try to get in on this action. They go out and buy an import car and hook it up, but not in the way of a racer. People go out to buy many parts for their cars, thinking it will go faster if they continue to spend more money, that's where the problems start.
When people think that they are the fastest on the street due to a couple of low budget performance parts slapped onto their cars, this type of attitude brings disgrace to the racing scene. Especially when they are using cars from Japanese manufacturers who have been known to have many racing backgrounds behind each one. Not only are they using these cars to become so called "racers" but they turn their cars into slow, distasteful looking, show cars, supposedly made for racing but not at all fast. These types of people are better known as "ricers".
Ricers can be defined as people who own a Japanese car and modify it without the knowledge of how each part works or benefits the car. These types of people only talk about the most common way to produce power, which are bolt on parts (intake, header, exhaust) and body kits, which are mainly used for showing off since their real function serves at only high speeds. When talking technical about their cars, they can't give one good idea about tuning.
When it comes down to them using high power components like turbo or nitrous such as NOS (Nitrous Oxide Systems) that's when the situation gets dangerous. When they think of turbo, they only think of the power it will produce but don't take into consideration that, if used incorrectly, it can destroy their car. As goes for nitrous, it is for racing use on the track only with an alert on fire safety because of its danger of flammability. These idiots will take this stuff on the streets, risking not only their lives, but the people around them as well.
The humility of ricers does not have an effect on the real players of the racing scene, but sometimes it's very amusing for them to be around. Ricers give a really good example of what not to do, and where not to go, when it comes to racing.
Now that the definition of a ricer is out, it is the time to reveal what a real racer/tuner is. A racer is the true warrior of auto sports fun. They show respect to everyone in the sport who knows what they are doing, especially those who have the knowledge to make fast times on the drag strip or on the road course. It takes time for racers to gain knowledge of good performance tuning before harnessing true power from their car. One knows you cannot gain power from a mere bolt on part just by installing it, but to use it effectively, you'll have to fine tune it and have good reason behind choosing the part.
Safety comes first before everything. Whether working in the shop or garage, racers handle everything in a professional and efficient way so that when the time comes in the real racing world, they will already have the experience. So when dangerous situations occur in the shop or on the course, immediate action is taken in a professional manner.
Racers think more about how to get the best performance out of their cars, and try to go beyond their level as a tuner/racer. Ricers are more into typical trends that everyone does with their cars, and cannot be original. Bottom line, the main difference between racers and ricers is that racers know what they are doing and ricers do not!
Body kits, euro taillights, vinyl graphics, big sound systems, and cheap performance parts, are choice parts for a ricer's ideal car only because everyone else is doing it, not for themselves. Not to be misunderstood, sound systems and body kits can be awesome when done correctly. Everyone has the freedom to do anything to their car, it's the bandwagon that kills everything with lack of originality.
As a racer, cars and parts are a non stop list of fun and excitement. And when they build their cars, all are works of art by the owner, and two cars will never perform the same as the other."
Function over fashion!