You know you're a DSMer if....

[Emcee gsxtc]

1. Your DSM is the most unreliable car you have ever owned, but still your favorite.
2. Your wife/girlfriend wishes your car never exsisted.
3. You have a garage full of spare engines, just in case.
4. People always ask you what is a "free mod"
5. Your freinds get beat in a race and call you to run the rematch for them.
6. Your Palm Pilot is only for logging your engine's data and nothing else.
7. You know more about the 4G63 engine than some engineers at Mitsubishi.
8. A junk yard to you is an upgrade yard.
9.Your car consists of parts from more than 10 other DSMs.
10. Your car consists of parts other than DSM parts (GM MAF)
11.Your screen name has one of the following in them: DSM 4G63 FWD AWD TSI GSX GS RS TURBO V8 KILLER
12. You take offense when a HONDA or Domestic dude calls you a Riceburner.
13. You've hit your head on the B-pillar during an AWD launch.


14. The UPS or FedEX guy has been to your house at least 25 times..
15. You can launch your oil dip stick 20ft.
16. You no longer have A/C and dont care at all.
17. A normal weekend involves removing your transmission 5 times.
18. Your Daily Driver 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 shit about hondas.
21. You can get your 4cyl to a12.5 second1/4 for $775.
22. You know that you dont need nitrous to run a 1/4 mile in under 12 seconds.
23. "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.
24. Eveytime you launch your wipers automatically turn on
25. You are always hanging on the weekends with other DSMers
26. Most of the time driving on the road you are looking for other DSM's.
27. You know if the talon in front of you has a turbo, if it is fwd or awd all from a mile away.

[FattyBoomBatty]

very nice. 3 or 4 of those can be applied to starquest guys.

[DSMPARTSGURU]

MISSED ONE!!!!


#28: if the car isnt running right its alway's the "caps", they are always bad, and there cheap, why wouldnt you change them?

[santa]

haha I would have to say I've been through a lot of tranny's...

Kevin

must I really bust out the thread from dsmtuners.com?

I think I should

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

You bought half of your performance parts at Home Depot.

The UPS guy comes over for a beer on a regular basis

You know what Galant VR4s are

You know about the automatic windshield wipers on 1st Gens

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

If you have a running tab at the local tranny shop....

If you've tried to bolt your old 14b onto a riding lawnmower....

If your driveway has divets in it cause your car never moves....

If you have a trophy case full of Honda and Mustang emblems...

If you eat "rice" for dinner....

If people recognize your car by the sound of it's lifter tick....

If you drive 5 extra blocks for a gas station that has 1 more octane point

You have had to send a tow truck back to the towing garage because you needed a flat-bed.

You always request parts for an Eclipse because the parts stores always lookup the AMC Eagle.

You drop whatever you are doing when the UPS man brings a new part for the car. And then spend the rest of the day installing it.

You change your tires, plugs and fuel curves for the winter.

if you think your dsm should have come with a flatbed/tow truck following you from the factory.

Every tire shop/parking garage/car wash/repair shop guy stalls out when he lets out your ACT 2600 clutch.

If your on a diet because you ran out of weight reductions for your car...

If you have a stick in your car, that's job is to prop up the hatch.....

The pages of your shop manual have more wear than the tires on your car.

Some people would like to go to Europe, you'd like to visit Normal IL.

You know the meaning of VFAQ

You get in alot of races because your car "auto-revs" for you.

You've almost been strangled to death by the automatic seat belt.

You have a bucket full of nuts and bolts and your car seems to run fine and you can't figure out where the heck they go.

when being towed you have to lift the front end of the car with your hands so the intercooler clears.

If everytime you launch, you can't see the damn road all the way through 1st gear (AWD)

You hear a different vibration inside your car for different RPM points (1G)

when people say "is your car running again?" you say "kinda"

you have ever explained "fuel cut" to a scared female passenger

you have gotten in many arguements on how "your car CAN't be THAT fast". it is a friggin 4 cylinder mitsubishi!!!

you have to explain to a mechanic of 35+ years what "boost creep" is.

when someone asks you how the car is running you never say "awesome" or "great", just "its running"

your friend with a 5.0 says "at least my car is reliable"

When over the school's intercom you hear "Excuse me but the white mitsubishi eclipse is still running.

The local shop calls you to ask a question about a broken eclipse they have in there shop.

when people driveur car...and ask-whats that noise...you always reply with-which one

Every time you scrape the front bumper, you and everyone else in the car feel the pain.

everytime billy badass mustang driver says "buy a domestic" you scream at the top of your lungs "IT IS A ####ING DOMESTIC YOU DUMB SHIT!"

If you avoid car conversations with new people, so you don't have to start from scratch.......

If you tell people you have a two seater so that you don't have to watch them suffer in the back seats.....

If you have ever lit a cigarette off the exhaust manifold......

If you have attemted sex in your car once, and vowed never to do it again.

people who first drive your car and launches at 4500 and ask "why wont this thing burn out?!?!" (awd)

You've had to explain how your turbo timer works to your mechanic.

You always give your shop manual to the mechanic when bringing your car in for work.

Your girlfriend laughs her ass off when she's riding with you and a Honduh revs on you.

Your car was faster 2 years ago than all your friend's cars are now.

Youve explained what "DSM" means so many times, you have the speech memorised

If your girlfreind prays that a contender doesn't stop at the light next to you.....

If you capitalize the word Turbo as if it's a name......

When you spool right next to a kid with his window down and wwhHAA-- PSHSHhhh, blow off and break the poor kids neck, just becuse it's funny.

The 10mm and 12mm sockets are the dirtiest in the set.

You lose more 10mm and 12mm sockets in a month than most people do in 3 years.

When something on the car breaks, you spend hours on the internet researching a better, faster, and cheaper part

If on more than one occasion an old guy in a Vette has said "what the hell do you have in there"?

If you price out performance parts that you can't afford to buy

If you own stock in an octane booster company

When you look in the rearview between the 1-2 shift and scream-- "AHhh that one shot a flame!"

If when driving through the getto your car backfires and clears an entire neiborhood.

You know that this sig is all to true. --> "DSM's, turning ordinary people into mechanics since 1989."

some people like listening to the radio, you prefer your windows down listening to your turbo & bov.

ur mechanic calls u at 10:30 at night asking u how to turn ur car off (hehe i love turbo timers)

during a hard launch, you ask your passenger to lean forward to prevent wheel hop

You read this and to every one you think "That applies to me...."


I could ad so much more, but I think people would get mad

[At-Least-It's-An-Evo]

#29 When you drive and smell something funny you assume it's from your car.

[A//// Guy]

Or you sold your DSM but you still hang out on the DSM forums tehehe

[DSMkel]

Anybody that rides in your car asks, "What's that noise?" and you reply... "Which one?"

[Alpine TSi]

Originally Posted by Emcee gsxtc

24. Eveytime you launch your wipers automatically turn on

I know I am being dumb, but I don't get this one....?

[Matt D.]

Originally Posted by Alpine TSi

I know I am being dumb, but I don't get this one....?

Wheel hop causes the wiper switch to turn on. Was quite amusing the first time I saw it.

[Alpine TSi]

Ahh... Suddenly it makes sense.

[1slowdsm]

Originally Posted by DSMkel

Anybody that rides in your car asks, "What's that noise?" and you reply... "Which one?"

Hahaha I like this one!
I was reading all of them and was thinking "whoa, so much of this is true that it's weird!" I guess I must be one of 'em. Shucks!

[Jana]

That list almost makes me miss my DSM......

[INTRIGUED]

hahaha I just had that question asked the other night. Also love the wiper one too that happens all to often. Damn you FWD!

Originally Posted by DSMkel

Anybody that rides in your car asks, "What's that noise?" and you reply... "Which one?"

[AJ]

Originally Posted by DSMChick

That list almost makes me miss my DSM......

That's why you now call "Blender" magazine, "Turbo" tonight? YOu love it!

[CarPsyco84]

Now someone just needs to make the quizie thingy so that we can all put em in our AIM profiles, you know the "what percent DSM'er are you?!?!?!"

[copper_gst]

"If you have ever lit a cigarette off the exhaust manifold......"

I've done it more than once!!

[dsm95gsxer]

You have more parts in your room than in your garage.

[AJ]

Originally Posted by copper_gst

"If you have ever lit a cigarette off the exhaust manifold......"

I've done it more than once!!

ahh the good old days!