A loss i guess..

[catalyst]

So i was out to get a bottle of gatorade after the first day of school today, and i am on rt 6 heading home.. when a riced out white civic pulls out infont of me and goes to the far lane.. he waits there going pretty slow, but as i pass him i hear him downshift, and he basically matches my speed.. his exhaust is loud as fuck..

I keep on accelerating in 4th gear at about 40 MPH.. and im basically keeping up with him.. so i downshift, he hears it, and the civic fuckng explodes forward like 2 car lenghths, spewing BLACK smoke out of its exhaust... i was like WTF!? so i keep on accelerating.. and i end up about 3 car lenghts behind him at 80 MPH.. but every time he shifted to get up to that speed a ploom of black smoke poured out of his exhaust.. im not talking like grey or light black smoke.. but BLACK smoke and LOTS of it too..

i honestly think it was a shitload of NOS with gutted cats maybe? I doubt he was turboed, he looked like a moron and the civic was beat to shit..

what do you guys think?

[Rooz]

He was burning rich, why? not sure....

[xsperf]

haha ebay chip!!!! lol jk

wait so you raced him and he was faster than you?

[DEATH2000]

there is no way you coulda lost to him if he was spewing black smoke man. And i see alot of riced hondas that spew black or grey smoke. it could be a bunch of stuff but its not normal or good.

[catalyst]

That thing was fast for a civic.. he must have had something done to it.. but that smoke was so fucking wierd.

His exhaust was soooo fucking loud too.. i bet you could hear it like 3 miles away..

[thekid]

Had you only downshifted to 3rd? If so there is your problem. Perhaps if you had hit 2nd which would haev been easy enough to do to get moving then up to 3rd, maybe it would have been different.

[catalyst]

Yea i know second would have probably been the better gear, but still that thing seemed fast.

Maybe it was a vtec swap or something, the car also had 3 people in it.

[Chris]

i dunno, but i don't think i'd want to be anywhere near a car spwing black smoke when it redlines....maybe its just me?

[Spieluhr]

anyone ever notice how coffee can exhausts sound like bumble bees buzzing? Just noticed that today.

[EuroStyle]

Haha, you lost to a civic

He probably was running rich like rooz said, after he "tuned" his car with his new stand alone engine management system.

Oh well, now he's going to be paying for new piston rings, and head work.

If you down shift in a bmw it accelerates, if you down shift in a civic it explodes. I love the "H".

-Matt

[Addicted?]

my car blows a little black smoke at 7 grand full boost when i shift hard from 3rd to 4th

David

[04bostonsound]

All I really have to say is that its not called NOS its N02, Nitrous Oxide. NOS is what they call it on the fast and the furious, but it is infact a brand name. I raced a civic with nitrous, it was an easy kill, but he shot out a little puff of black smoke, not very much though.

[c1apton]

That "plume" of black smoke was his "Exxon endorsement" - he probably poured more out his tailpipe than the Exxon Valdez

You were wise not to continue his game because you preserved your car while he puked 50k of mileage in parts out of his exhaust. I'm surprised you didn't notice an oily film on your paint or metallic chips blowing at you. Usually when I come up to a "ricer" like that - I turn my wipers on.

HONDA {tranlates to English} = Crop Duster

[TJsBimm]

I raced a civic coupe and it was pretty quick and it was pouring black smoke I thought the the car was going to blow! But I showed his ass what i could do! Also my car wasn't at it's full hp bc the boot on the throttle body was ripped!! Haha ricer ate shit!!!!!!Fixed now after i noticed when i got home

[c1apton]

You know, if you REALLY want to make a "ricers" day - next time, roll down your window (2 options) A) point at one of his rear wheels/tires or B) just point at him & start laughing That'll get their goat anyday. Remember the 3 "Rs" -

Racing Rice is RETARDED