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You Know You're A Mitsubishi Owner If

Posted: Fri Jul 29, 2005 11:20 am
by Sabre
You know you're a DSMer if....

>1. You've ever had to explain crankwalk to a mechanic....

>2. You have a garage full of spare engines, just in case....

>3. You've hit your head on the B-pillar during an AWD launch....

>4. You bought half of your performance parts at Home Depot.

>5. Your freinds get beat in a race and call you to run the rematch for them.

>6. You only carry a Palm Pilot to log your engine's data.

>7. You know more about the 4G63 engine than some engineers at Mitsubishi.

>8. Your wife/girlfriend wishes your car never exsisted.

>9. You look at riced out civics and roll your eyes

>10. A junk yard to you is an upgrade yard.....

>11. Your car consists of parts from more than 10 other DSMs.....

>12. You take offense to the word Riceburner.....

>13. Your DSM is the most unreliable car you have ever owned, but still
your favorite......

>14. The UPS guy comes over for a beer on a regular basis

>15. You can launch your oil dip stick 20ft.

>16. Honda owners look at you funny when you say "free mods"

>17. A normal weekend involves removing your transmission 5 times.

>18. Your "grocery getter" is a 12 sec car...

>19. You had to remove your radiator fans, because they just don't fit in
front of that Turbo.......

>20. At the Strip you sit around with the Z28s and WS6 guys and talk
**** about hondas

>21. You can get your 4cyl to a12.5 second1/4 for $775.

>22. You know what Galant VR4s are

>23. You know that you dont need nitrous to run a 1/4 mile in under 12 seconds

>24. You know about the automatic windshield wipers on 1st Gens

>25. You what an "idle surge" is but can't figure out how to fix it.

>26. "Stock" means that the car has all of the parts it came with, you didn't add a thing, you just dremeled or removed a few, that's all.....

Re: You Know Your A Mitsubishi Owner If

Posted: Fri Jul 29, 2005 12:29 pm
by Tarmac02
sabre wrote:You know you're a DSMer if....

>1. You've ever had to explain crankwalk to a mechanic....

>2. You have a garage full of spare engines, just in case....

>3. You've hit your head on the B-pillar during an AWD launch....

>4. You bought half of your performance parts at Home Depot.

>5. Your freinds get beat in a race and call you to run the rematch for them.

>6. You only carry a Palm Pilot to log your engine's data. Pocketlogger's are great tuning tools

>7. You know more about the 4G63 engine than some engineers at Mitsubishi.

>8. Your wife/girlfriend wishes your car never exsisted.

>9. You look at riced out civics and roll your eyes Who doesn't?

>10. A junk yard to you is an upgrade yard.....

>11. Your car consists of parts from more than 10 other DSMs.....
ROFL... lets see, JDM engine, mismatched hood,... etc

>12. You take offense to the word Riceburner.....

>13. Your DSM is the most unreliable car you have ever owned, but still
your favorite......
So easy to upgrade.

>14. The UPS guy comes over for a beer on a regular basis

>15. You can launch your oil dip stick 20ft.

>16. Honda owners look at you funny when you say "free mods"

>17. A normal weekend involves removing your transmission 5 times.

>18. Your "grocery getter" is a 12 sec car...

>19. You had to remove your radiator fans, because they just don't fit in
front of that Turbo.......
Funny because I just had to bend the radiador fan back to where it would work again because the 50trim that was in there

>20. At the Strip you sit around with the Z28s and WS6 guys and talk
**** about hondas
Who doesn't talk shit about hondas
>21. You can get your 4cyl to a12.5 second1/4 for $775.

>22. You know what Galant VR4s are and wish I had one

>23. You know that you dont need nitrous to run a 1/4 mile in under 12 seconds

>24. You know about the automatic windshield wipers on 1st Gens This one killed me too the first time,... hit a bump or launch too hard, WIPERS

>25. You what an "idle surge" is but can't figure out how to fix it.
Evos have it too if you start modding.

>26. "Stock" means that the car has all of the parts it came with, you didn't add a thing, you just dremeled or removed a few, that's all.....

Highlighted all that apply...

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Posted: Fri Jul 29, 2005 2:56 pm
by Sabre
lol, nice! I agree about the honda's too :)

Hmm, the Galant VR4, such an awesome sleeper!

Re: You Know Your A Mitsubishi Owner If

Posted: Fri Jul 29, 2005 7:22 pm
by gsx-lex
Tarmac02 wrote: Highlighted all that apply...
I started to do this but realized that i can claim almost all of them (though I've never launched a dip stick over a couple of inches and my UPS delivery man HATES me!)

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Posted: Sat Jul 30, 2005 2:08 am
by WANGAN_X
roflmao

one thing though

you can get them to 11's for 775, 12's for 300

Posted: Fri Jul 14, 2006 9:36 am
by bludragontrboawd
DUDE THAT IS HILARIOUS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I for one can be a PERFECT example of ALL of that! omg.. the time and tears... but the joys it brought when i DID have it working.. *sigh*...the good ole times.. I got to know my ups guy pretty well too.. tim... cool as hell too.

Posted: Fri Jul 14, 2006 12:24 pm
by drwrx
I don't consider my self a DSMer (at least not any more), and yet half of that list still applies to me!

Oh, and for the record, I KNOW all about 12 second Galant VR4s!

Posted: Tue Jul 18, 2006 10:16 pm
by bludragontrboawd
NIce Dr WRX.. man.. my gurl HATED me working on my talon all the time.. but i had her working with me a few times when i was changing the Awd tranny, and she got up under there and started bolting things up with me! and NOW she drives a 06 350z! i told her that if i had my talon, i would smoke her.. she said.. if you still had your talon.. it would still be up in the air you and under it fixing it... i'm like.. TO SHAY!..

Re: You Know Your A Mitsubishi Owner If

Posted: Thu Apr 10, 2008 9:25 pm
by GVR-4Chad
">22. You know what Galant VR4s are"

love it....perfect list...good stuff oh man I'm crying.

Re: You Know Your A Mitsubishi Owner If

Posted: Thu Apr 10, 2008 10:19 pm
by Mr Kleen
you're :wink:

Re: You Know Your A Mitsubishi Owner If

Posted: Fri Apr 11, 2008 12:08 pm
by Sabre
Mr Kleen wrote:you're :wink:
I see no "your" above... so what are you correcting?!?!? ;)

Re: You Know Your A Mitsubishi Owner If

Posted: Fri Apr 11, 2008 12:37 pm
by Mr Kleen
Sabre wrote:
Mr Kleen wrote:you're :wink:
I see no "your" above... so what are you correcting?!?!? ;)
the title of the thread. :wink:

Re: You Know You're A Mitsubishi Owner If

Posted: Fri Apr 11, 2008 12:46 pm
by Sabre
You know, you can edit that ;)

Fixxored... That's what I get for copying/pasting ;)

Re: You Know You're A Mitsubishi Owner If

Posted: Fri Apr 11, 2008 4:45 pm
by Mr Kleen
Sabre wrote:You know, you can edit that ;)
more fun to :poke:

Re: You Know You're A Mitsubishi Owner If

Posted: Mon Apr 14, 2008 9:56 pm
by zaxrex
Don't worry, he is just an enthusiest... :lol: