Setting the record straight.Whats your thoughts between ricers and real project enthusiasts(your input) thanks

What I notice any time when going to events is that people tend to get themselves a car which is already tuned. I mean kids get there drivers license and get themselves a civic which already has a complete bodykit and most probably some engine tweaks. The buy themselves a Mugen or Spoon sticker and call themselves tuners. The same guys are the ones who are upsetting any event. While most of us go to tuning events to show off the cars or to see what others build those kids come up with their rides (they cannot even spell the word fender) and make their (illegal)racings on the events. That's the cause why police see you and me on the street and stop us just because they think we are the same.

What I tried to say is that a tuner is a guy who puts all his love, all his money and all his spare time into his car and instead of driving illegal races on the street he takes care of his car because he could otherwise damage it in an accident. The ricers all the others. Getting a car which is already tuned and just racing around.

I agree man i been messing with this lude for 3 yrs haha a pain,but fun.I tell you what blew my mind is my wife.I was in a bike acc(run over) i had a broke hand and trying to get the starter off..She see the trouble im having and comes out there to help oh yeah its rainning to,but we manage to get it off..

Your wife is also ricer addicted? You are a lucky man. Any time I'm looking for cars or even think of them my wife just runs crazy. You are so a lucky man.

But NismoKid is right. As long as you put time and sweat into it you are a real tuning enthusiast.

Crazy the cops here are always watching and making up stuff to pull us over.My wife understands my passion haha i rub off on her..She at the point where at a red light to where she can tell me model make and pretty close what size rims are on the car or truck haha crazy

We always run into ppl (ricers) hahaha you ask them about there cars and they try to explain and you know they full of it or you notice all stickers on there ride but when they pop the hood(if you can get them to) its all stock haha but hey i guess thats part of life we all need to laugh a lil every now and then...

good points from all of you. But what makes me identify a ricer from a tuner is the really bad taste. You some times cars with that much potential whether its a honda or toyota. and those guys just pimp them up with no plan in mind. you can tune a car with a target in mind and you can just put anything you can find on it just for the sake of having tuned it. The last ones just look like crap.

Yeah you are right. Bad taste is ricer haha. I remember an article on the last superstreet magazine issue I think where they listed the dos and don'ts of how to tune and they got really the point. let me see if i can find that article on their homepage..

I have a few stickers on my whip, but I'm not racing illegally nor am I smacking every one in the face with nonsense about my vehicle. Does that make me a ricer? I'm honest about what I've done to my ride, even if it has only been a few bolt on stuff that don't amount to much. All in all it doesn't really matter too much about those cats. They do mess it up for the real tuner with, (what most latinos call), "La Fiebre". Loosly translated, it means  "The heat". That's what Puerto Ricans call it when there is a race on the streets. Any way, Those kids are starting off much as we did, though annoying as it is, and we have to educate them as much as we dare to. They can be stubborn and a bit on the know it all side. LOL! I'm more worried about the attention they bring to our life style when they get into accidents related to their illegal racing. The Vice President of the United states, Joe Biden, has it in for tuners and the life style here. I don't know how far he'll get with it, but it certainly doesn't help us when noobs (young new drivers) get behind the wheel of some thing they yet have to control and race. That's just my two cents worth. In short, though, I do sort of agree with you all.

I think also that one thing makes us visit sites like this, visit forums, visit shops, taking care of our rides, washing them once a week if not twice :), trying to get the latest parts etc.......
It's the love to the cars what makes us doing all the "crazy things" above. We maybe could sit here in a Audi forum or BMW forum and talk the same things but we are on an import forum cause we damn like em. All those Toyotas, Hondas, Nissans, Mazdas, Mitsubishis... we like them and we love them :)