928 owners

Attention 928 owners!!!

I went into the city this morning to auto zone to buy some polish for my 928. while siting at the red light at wal-mart a new mustang with the sticker still on the window pulled along side. The driver was a younger guy with what appered to be a salesperson in the passenger seat. The mustang started reving his motor and the salesman laughed. When the light turned green, i lit the tires and the race was on. we were even until 3rd gear and then it was all over but the crying. at the next red light, same thing happened again except this time, the only time i saw the stang was in my mirror. Sorry ford owners, if ya cant keep bring something worth out time, just stay on the side lines and watch.

masterdiver

awesome kill story! way to put that thing in its place!!

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ORIGINAL: masterdiver

it was all over but the crying masterdiver

I love it!!!

i actually have a member of another forum who owns a 928 who was talking about killing a mustang recently!

Must have been a 6 cylinder. A 928GTS only runs a mid to high 14 in the quarter. A stock 05 GT is a mid 13 car. 928's are slow fat pigs i hate to say.

Slow? Haha.

Is your 928 modded, though? I can't see a stock one beating a new Mustang GT.

Maybe it was modified. There was one in Hot Rod magazine within the last year, the owner claimed that he had bored and stroked the original 928 engine to 6.5 liters (396 cu in). Seemed hard to believe, but that would do it.

Did the article say how much HP that 6.5L 928 had? Just out of curiousity I'm wondering what the gas mileage was on that.... lol.

I don't remember much about it, except that he had two of the cars, both modified, one with a blower. They looked pretty bling actually, almost ricers with a lot of chrome and scoops and if memory is right, one had a hole in the hood with a SC sticking up. But I do recall they were pretty fast, for 928s: 12s in the 1/4, something like that. I don't think fuel economy was important to him, though.

Lee, I've noticed the term "ricers" in quite a few posts. This term is not used in the U.K. and I was wondering exactly what it means and where it came from?

I presume that a ricer is a modified Japanese car?

You hit on a very debatable point here in the U.S. There are whole forums where people argue about this.

Ricer refers either to something on the order of either:

1) A small car, nominally a four cylinder Japanese coupe, but possibly any small four cylinder car. It may or may not be modified so it is fast (or at least faster than it was originally) but it is garishly festooned with big rear wings, aero kits, tape-on scoops and louvers, neon light kits, dazzle tailights, extreme lowering, chrome wheels, wide fender additions, lighting kits, decals, etc., etc., and a "chrome "Fart Muffler" (a single four inch wide ltailpipe and low restriction muffler which makes the engine sound like -- well, hence the name), all of this far exceeding the limits of even bad taste. It might actually have some mods to make it go faster, but most are posers - they make styrofoam intercooler look-alikes the guys mount below their radiator, and people actually sell a little underhood gadget that makes a sound like a pop off valve whenever you let off the gas, and some of these people mount a cluster of guages up on top of the dash but they don't measure anything (I saw a clock - useful at least).

2) The owner of such a vehicle, usually young, stupid, and broke.

Owners of American muscle cars look down on both as sub-species barely deserving of notice, much less respect. It is considered bad form, when driving any type of DECENT car, to even take notice of them, obnoxious and garrish as they may be.

There is debate about the precise interpretation of the finer points here. Is a "Ricer" only a four cylinder car? No, V6 Mitsubish Eclipses are often turned into ricer by their owners. Is in only a Japanese car? No, not any more: American manufacturers also make the material for Ricers - the worst example I've seen on the street, actually, actually, was a Ford Focus, but Dodge makes the Neon and Chrovlet makes a thing called the Cobalt (probably sold in the UK as a Vauxhall). A few people say that ricers include modified VWs (A hotted up GTI, say) but generally VW owners have good taste (plus, some of them are respectable fast).

A few people unfamiliar with the correct intepretation of the term also apply it to any really modified Japanese car. In my opinion, a Suburu STi or Mitsubish Evo, either of which can do the standing quarter mile in the low 13 second range, stock, is not a ricer. An owner that adds bigger tubos, etc., to make them faster, is not a ricer -- that car is worthy or respect and the owner of congratulations for avoiding the temptation to "rice" it. But some owners make them a ricer by tacking on wings, etc., but . . .

There is also the phrase "to be riced" which does not mean to be beaten by a ricer in a street race (God forbid!), but to actually lose your cool when some snivelly little ricer pulls up along size you and buzzes and makes rude finger gestures and wants you to race, and instead of ignoring them totally, momentarily unleash the 400 Hp lurking under the hood of your good old American V8 to put them in their place. Considered very bad form.

Thanks for that Lee,
yes, I think I know the sort of car/person you mean. In the U.K. we call them "Boy Racers" and they even have specialist magazines for them, the most popular being "Max Power Magazine."
I don't know about them having no money though, alot of them spend stupid amounts of money on their euroboxes adding whole discotecs to the interior, a small fortune on fiber-glass, expensive wheels, etc, etc. If they do add any horse-power to the car, it usualy just counter-acts all the extra weight they've added with above mentioned mod's! At the end of the day, they could've bought a proper sports car for less money, but you know what it's like when you're that age, they know everything and we know nothing!

The problem with youth, it's wasted on the young!

Usually if you hear them rev the engine, you can tell in a hot nanosecond if the car is actually making power, or if it's just a fart can...
Cars modified to make power usually rev deeper into the RPM range, and there's a distinct difference in the sound, it's tighter somehow. If you get one sounding like that, and a distinct lack of stickers, it's probably someone who actually knows what he's doing under the hood. I go to local car shows, and the one mod I see that'll make me laugh faster than anything else, is the chrome "cold air" intake tube...that draws in thru a K&N filter...under the hood. ("Woah! Dude!! Good for 30 horsepower!!!) Where's the cold air? I built my Fiero (Caddy V-8) for the sole purpose of messing with the their minds. Can't wait to get my 944 up on it's feet. (Sorry for the late commentary on the subject.)