[bluntedelvis]

Got another list. You Might Be A DSMer?
This was posted on a local forum in Albuquerque. Pretty Good list.

1. If you've ever had to explain crankwalk to a mechanic....
2. If you have a garage full of spare engines, just in case....
3. If you've hit your head on the B-pillar during an AWD launch....
4. If you bought half of your performance parts at Home Depot.
5. If your freinds get beat in a race and call you immediately after to 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. If a junk yard to you is an upgrade yard.....
11. If your car consists of parts from more than 10 other DSMs.....
12. If you take offense to the word Riceburner.....
13. If 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. If a honda owner ever looked 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. If you have had to remove your radiator fans, because they just don't fit in front of that Turbo.......
20. When at the strip you sit around with the Z28s and WS6 guys and talk shit about hondas - My favorite one
21. If you can get your 4cyl to a 12.5 1/4 for $775.
22. if you know what Galant VR4s are
23. if you know that you dont need nitrous to run a 1/4 mile in under 12 seconds
24.you have more gauges then an airplane
25. Your best car is still on blocks in the yard and you have another year of payments on it
26. You break at least two tie rod ends on a launch
27. A flat tire means another flower pot for the yard
28. You know that breaking forks during a hard shift doesn't refer to waiting tables at a diner.
29. You know about the automatic windshield wipers 1st Gens have at the dragstrip
30. "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...
31. That breaking an axle means replacing the axle and the wheel bearing because they are siezed together
32. When your wife/girlfriend owns and races a DSM just like you
33. When you street/track kills reads something like XX and 0
34. When you've removed the engine from your DSM in your own garage more than once (IN the middle of FUCKING WINTER)
35. When you have nightmares about getting into second gear
36. When the word SHOOTOUT means driving your DSM half way across America (for some) just to beat up on it, and not a gun fight
37. When reference to modding a DSM comes up in just about every major argument you have with a loved one
38. You have to add a quart of oil befor you leave to go anywhere
39. You have to rebuild your trans every time you do an oil change
40. People on slicks with 3 times your displacement bitch about spots
41. $6,000 is the TOTAL COST of your 11 second street car, not the cost of the mods to get it there