GT2 Posted September 14, 2006 Report Share Posted September 14, 2006 Maybe you lived in an isolated area to the world prior to FandF, but in So Cal there had been plenty of aftermarket and speed shops for years prior to the movie. I had owned 2 custom civics prior to the movie and there was plenty of avaialble aftermarket parts for the cars. I had friends running turbo'ed Integras and CRXs back in 1996. If anything, the evolution of the internet has caused the aftermarket industry as a whole to grow significantly, not the movie. The Honda-type hype was what spawned the movie, otherwise the movie would have never been made.+ to that!Ive been exposed to, around and under sports cars/ small cars since the late 60's.People on the left and right coast have been racing and tweeking cars way befor that!Boy Phil, what kind of talk is that for someone who lives in the susposed " motor sports capital of the world" ? :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil94850 Posted September 15, 2006 Author Report Share Posted September 15, 2006 lol.. its funny how you guys get sometimes anyways.... i agree sure there were parts of the u.s. where it was more accesible than others, one person said back in 96, thats not that long ago and im not talking about then im talking back in muscle car days compared to today. im talking about, in the 60s as someone said, we didnt have ecu chips and such. im not saying a movie is what created all im saying is the movie gave it a really BIG push. After that movie all you saw was kids running around with jacked up spoilers and big jerk mufflers. It may have been in the so. cali area and places but not much here in the mid-east or west however you wanna look at it. i also agree the internet probably did give it a big push also, but back in 96 the internet was still in a growing stage alot came from film exposure. im not taking away from the guys that did alot of early tuning and i think its great they did, all im saying is people toss the "rice" word around and some dont realize call it what you may its made alot of people very rich...must be some good tastin rice B) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TM850R Posted September 15, 2006 Report Share Posted September 15, 2006 im not taking away from the guys that did alot of early tuning and i think its great they did, all im saying is people toss the "rice" word around and some dont realize call it what you may its made alot of people very rich...must be some good tastin rice Those blue fog lights arent very tasty. I think thats really what started this whole argument.Invest in some nice OEM projector fogs. They are the best looking you can buy for our cars. Throw some HID's in there and your all set. Just my thoughts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Che'_Moderator Posted September 15, 2006 Report Share Posted September 15, 2006 It may have been in the so. cali area and places but not much here in the mid-east or west however you wanna look at it. So what your saying is the movie brought import cars to crackers.It made being a poser cool again :lol: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil94850 Posted September 15, 2006 Author Report Share Posted September 15, 2006 lol.. che you said it i didnt. as far as the blue lights, i get alot and i mean alot of compliments on them, i have blue xenon headlights and at night it all looks good.i agree the projectors and some jewels would be much better but when on a budget all you can do is all you can do. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oreo931 Posted September 15, 2006 Report Share Posted September 15, 2006 It's foolish to think that "tuning" was spawned by a movie. Partly because that would assume Holywood had an original idea, but mostly because well before the first Civic was produced there were people adding power to their daily drivers.Owned said it right...I have been around ricers ever since I can remember, and my memory spans much earlier than when the fast and the furious was released...I am pretty sure that we are beating a dead horse here (you being the dead horse), but in end, youre just wrong. Agree to disagree I guess... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RussB Posted September 15, 2006 Report Share Posted September 15, 2006 I have been around ricers ever since I can remember, and my memory spans much earlier than when...It cracks me up when a young man such as yourself says something like that...When I was a kid, there WERE no "Ricers". My sister-in-law got one of those early Honda civic's (CVCC's) Maybe around '74-ish? Man, it makes me feel old :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ivanfbi Posted September 15, 2006 Report Share Posted September 15, 2006 HAHAHAHA, this is funny, I didn't call you ricer or didn't mean to say anything offensive, i just constacted the fact that this is a ghetto mod. It's all good, 9 out of 10 of these volvos have something ghetto-ish on them. ohh and i have a volvo...2...3 of them, I just don't put them in the sig, cuz one is busted, other is for sale and the daily driver has no mods on it besides HID and R bumper, when I will have something to show, you'll see it in my sig. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
T-5Bandit Posted September 15, 2006 Report Share Posted September 15, 2006 lol.. its funny how you guys get sometimes anyways.... i agree sure there were parts of the u.s. where it was more accesible than others, one person said back in 96, thats not that long ago and im not talking about then im talking back in muscle car days compared to today. im talking about, in the 60s as someone said, we didnt have ecu chips and such. im not saying a movie is what created all im saying is the movie gave it a really BIG push. After that movie all you saw was kids running around with jacked up spoilers and big jerk mufflers. It may have been in the so. cali area and places but not much here in the mid-east or west however you wanna look at it. i also agree the internet probably did give it a big push also, but back in 96 the internet was still in a growing stage alot came from film exposure. im not taking away from the guys that did alot of early tuning and i think its great they did, all im saying is people toss the "rice" word around and some dont realize call it what you may its made alot of people very rich...must be some good tastin rice For the love of all man! Your original statements referred to the "ricer" industry, not back to the 60's. The movie may have brought visibility to the general public, but it did not give it a really BIG push. The movie with all it's detail to the cars and the street racing scene would have NEVER been developed or produced had the import not been existing and so popular. The internet was a HUGE push for the growth of the automotive aftermarket industry (and not just for the import scene), which began and was very rich with e-commerce from 1998-2001 with the dot com boom.All the parts you were referring to (ecu, exhaust, wings, etc.) were all READILY available well before the release of the movie in 2001. Greddy and HKS manufactured turbo kits and exhausts for imports from mid-90's. Clear corner lights, clear taillights, body kits, wings, etc. all READILY available from various manufacturers and resellers in the mid-90's for imports. Again, all well before the movie released in 2001. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mogatu'r Posted September 15, 2006 Report Share Posted September 15, 2006 So what your saying is the movie brought import cars to crackers.It made being a poser cool again LMAO, hahahha! crap I just need it to laugh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maiku Posted September 15, 2006 Report Share Posted September 15, 2006 all i have to say is that is ghetto fabulousroute it behind the airdam and it'll look bettar Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fromtheshadows Posted September 15, 2006 Report Share Posted September 15, 2006 The mod would be cool if the filter was down in the bumper too. 6 inches of rain wont hydrolock your engine either.I think I kinda know what hes saying. I was in Japan from 1997 to 2001 where they'd been getting 300 +whp from 4 cyl for years with just an aquarium valve bc and salvage turbos. I left America in 96 and it was all about the new trans am the volvo 855r was dubbed the "fastest station wagon ever built" by ppl whove never seen an r32 stagea. When I came back post Fast and the Furious it was ricer city and the value of a used Supra jumped threefold . Of course it helped bring jdm swaps to america, but I rarely see a tastefully done "H" anymore and have a hard time believing they exist. I do agree that fast and the furious gave the industry a lot of momentum and money. But just like punk rock, pop culture kinda killed it for me. So I bought a 96 volvo and said "Im through with making cars fast". Then I chipped it.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil94850 Posted September 15, 2006 Author Report Share Posted September 15, 2006 i wont agree im wrong... i just agree to disagree.. opinions are like as@hol@es everyones got one. im not gonna go on a 4 page deal defending myself its silly to do so. moving on to something more important....no prob. ivan. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
T5Chris Posted September 15, 2006 Report Share Posted September 15, 2006 If you watched the documentary of the Fast & the Furious, the interview with the director's and producers said that they were inspired to make a movie about the performance car trend that was already going on. They were just taking from it, the popularity was already there long before. I grew up in orange county, and the whole street racing thing was really big before that movie ever came out. I know friends from all age groups that have been into it, and were actually the ones that got me started...and that movie wasn't even in production at the time. The movie might have made the image of ricers "cooler," but if you took the movie away, there would still always be performance enthusiasts, cars, and tuning. Fun Fact: One of our colleges, UC Irvine, was coined the name University of Civics and Integras. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Texas850Turbo Posted September 16, 2006 Report Share Posted September 16, 2006 Back to the intake- I find it's better if you keep the stock air intake pipe and add another pipe into the airbox- more airflow the better, right?!! Some guy on swedespeed(I know) did some testing for that method and found actual increases. Seemed okay to me! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Archived
This topic is now archived and is closed to further replies.