Those loud Jap cars

[saddle up]

I Don't know about where you live, but here in Portland Oregon there is a plethora of them Jap cars with the loud mufflers.
I'll be damned if I don't have to deal with one of the idiots daily on the commute to and from work, mostly in the pm.

If you are going 70, they got to pass you and pull in front of you. During rush hour they are darting in and out of lane like they are on a 600. These are the as&*(&^% that you got to look out for.
On the other hand these are the same butt holes that I like to pass and wave good bye to as I wind out. It seems that just because they have a loud muffler that their car is an instant race car. It really jerks their chain when you blow them away. lol
I used to be a kid too. But at least I had a big block, or at least a v-8.
The funniest sounding Car is the subaru's with that boxer four. Sounds weird. But above all the Honda's hold the record for the loudest piece of trash on the road. Just a loud muffler with no motor work. Once in a while you come across a NOS Honda, but they still don't out pull the XS

[chrisso]

Its a universal problem;we got em here. They drive 10 yr old beat up Holden Commodores(V6 only as P platers arent allowed V8s or Turbos) .as soon as it rains they can only drive sideways with their huge zorsts & massive Doof Doof Subwoofers.Changing lanes every 50 feet and never indicating.

[BobE]

The wife and I refer to them as "Fart Cars" because they sound like an overgrown fart and are just plain annoying in general.

I have a good friend in Columbus, OH, whose teenage boy was getting into those cars, until Daddio introduced him to a 428 CobraJet Mustang...now the boy owns his own 70 Mustang....the fart cars stay far away from him, won't even try to run it with him.

And the rumble....nothing like a V-8 rumble!

[79XS11F]

HMMMMM ... I don't know what to say... When I was young every bike I owned was hopped up sooner or later and they did make a pile of noise. Even now at 50, my 750 Kat makes a pile of noise and my hopped up 11 will really make a pile of noise. Some of these cars with the loud mufflers are driven by people who "may" be just like some of us. I say if you don't like the noise .. keep blowing them away so you don't have to hear their noise. Blow them away faster if they drive like they think thier on a bike.
Rob

[powerram50]

yes portland is full of them.it is fun to whip on them in the dodge spirit.they sound loud but the honda's are slow.

[Ken Talbot]

I had one pull up alongside me at a light a couple of years ago while I was driving the Taurus station wagon. The kid was looking over and making all the right sounds like he wanted to go. He must have been sleeping when the light changed. I punched the wagon, got a real nice squeal from the front tires, and beat him across the intersection by "lots". At the next light, I looked over. He just sat there staring straight ahead, and turned off slowly to the left when that light changed. Now that was fun!

[Geezer]

Try stuffing a potato up the pipe, that should help... ;o)

I guess I'm lucky, there's not too many of those out on my side of Portland.

Geezer

[powerram50]

i live near portland international raceway so they buzz around here alot.plus i work in vancouver.i was riding the bike most of this morning.most cars know not to mess with a bike.i know i learned the hard way when i was 16.i had a v8 and some no name bike left me like i was not even moving.

[Montreux_Blue]

Originally posted by Ken Talbot
I had one pull up alongside me at a light a couple of years ago while I was driving the Taurus station wagon. The kid was looking over and making all the right sounds like he wanted to go.

Was it something like this?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6yuvZthN6yE
This situation looks like more fun.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ygUHCFzZTE
And this one just brings back memories of high school!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hm5_exEftNc

[Crazcnuk]

We hove those here, too. But the REALLY funy ones are the pickups with no work done and no mufflers!

They sound so stupid. You can hear them wind out like a Nascar unit, but they are only doing 15 mph!

I call the little cars (Fast&Furious) Go-karts. Compared to REAL cars, they are just kiddie go carts.

It used to be funny when I would show up at the drag strip, friday night, in prep for the weekend racing. The street legal go kart racers would be there doing runs.

Every once in a while I would fire mine up and pretend I was tuning something... 8.2 litres does sound cool, especially if I uncork the headers.

I have mine as quiet as I could get it, for the street though....

Read my sig line!

[TADracer]

Its the generation gap

The insurance industry killed the muscle car market and then in the 80's and 90's along came a whole new generation of teenager that knew nothing of the raw power a real muscle car had. All they knew is, Dad gave me the old family car! A Honda accord! So the kid got a job and put $30,000.00 worth of goodies on a $300.00 used car and now he can do the quarter in 14 seconds.

Its really nothing more than that. The generation following the muscle car era was brought up on gas sipping 4 bangers from overseas and all the US market had to offer them in the late 80's was the Mustang II? Hell, I wouldnt even drive one of those!

Sorry guys, there is just nothing you can do to a 4 banger to make it sound like a V-8 so we must live with the high-pitched whine.

[81xsproject]

I took one of the idiots off a light in SWMBO's Subaru legacy wagon.

[SiP]

I beat one away in the wifes Chevy Venture Van lol!! The guy was PISSED and what made it funnier is the girl he had in there was laughing as well.

I don't think you should label this as just jap cars though - I've seen/heard those stupid things on all sorts of vehicles.
My kid wanted to put one on his Geo Storm for gods sake - I told him "you spent $500 bucks on a stereo, speakers and a sub woofer and now you want to put an exhaust on that will make no difference to your performance that meansyou won't be able to hear it, plus you'll have to park at the end of the road 'cos you're not starting it up outside my house."

[egsols]

Like Craz's sig says, it's all about compensating. Why do people put 22" low profile wheels on a Hummer or other 4 by 4? Obviously the ME pills aren't working and surgery is too expensive.

[egleaves]

A couple of years ago the kid delivering newspapers on my street thought having one of those "mufflers" was a good idea. I live about halfway down a dead end street that is all uphill on the way out. Not only was I jerked from my sleep at 5am every morning, but then I had to hear it again 20 seconds later even louder since he was accelerating up the hill! This lasted about two weeks before I called the newspaper to complain and suggested they tell that kid to take his paper route money and spend it on a muffler that works. The following week....all was quiet.