Quote Originally Posted by chunky View Post
LMAO @ all this.

When I meet people in person, I never have issues. I typically don't have issues posting on the forums either b/c I check my EGO. Of course, EGO is a big part of the street racing culture, so guys like me will always be the exception. The drama and all that doesn't bother me. It's just a part of what happens when you have a bunch of ego driven car guys posting in the same space.

One thing that does bother me is the amount of shit being talked on 13-14s cars. It's a lot harder to get a stock honda that ran 16s off the showroom floor into the 13s than it is to buy a c6 and run 12s off the showroom floor. Who deserves more respect from the so called motor heads? Which guy is justified in having the ego? The guy that just happened to make enough money to buy an expensive car, but can't tell you a thing about degreeing cams or the guy who knows his motor inside and out b/c he had to work hard to get every last bit of HP out of it? I don't care how much money someone spent on a car, you can't buy knowledge & experience.

Consider the concept of built vs. bought. The douchebags that turn their noses up at a 13/14s honda are typically the ones that paid someone else to build their car. I know a lot of guys that have really fast 400-500hp cars, that BUILT their own cars that still have respect for the work that goes into making a honda motor make power.

So yeah, the guys sporting the huge egos driving fast cars that they know nothing about make me laugh. They brag about how fast their car is when really they had very little to do with how fast the car is. I have a lot more respect for the BUILT 13/14s hondas than I do for the bought C6s.

Before everyone jumps down my throat, I do fully recognize that many of the 500hp car owners did in fact build their own cars. However, look at the guys talking the most shit, and you'll see what I'm talking about.
You see, here's the HUGE disparity.

The guys who build their 14 second cars are probably the ones that are more concerned than the guys who paid a lot for their cars. I don't understand what is so hard to understand about people not wanting to be bothered by slower cars who ask them to gimp their ride just to make the slower person happy.

I don't give a SHIT about my reputation or ego on the street. My car is not a defining characteristic of my persona. If someone "respects" a 15 second Honda more than my car, then good....everyone has different opinions. I know one thing that never crossed my mind when I bought my car was how it would affect my fucking street rep.

This is where it boils down to maturity. Anyone who thinks that the car they drive makes them more or less cool....or that their vehicle is what constitutes how much respect they deserve as a human being is completely delusional.

Now let me ask this. How often do you see 11 - 12 second cars going out of their way to call out 8 and 9 second cars, if they gimp themselves? I just don't ever see it. The only thing that comes close is you have a lot of people who use different setups, and sometimes people will ask for a motor or pump gas run.....but even then, those people often times don't use that stuff on the street all too often anyway (unless it's for money).