Loud Exhausts and Performance Tuning

A few years ago, um ignore that, it might have been more than a few, I was really into car tuning. I think we're talking the early 90s when I was a bit of a boy racer and thought life didn't get better unless the sound of my exhaust could be appreciated by all my neighbors.

Well I've grown up since then, but now and again I still have moments when I remember studying car magazines, parts catalogs, or just talking to friends about the latest ideas for getting an extra millisecond of acceleration. My little group didn't have much money, so we had to get our hands dirty.

Tuned cars that came out of our garages didn't look special but we were proud to take on the guys whose dads had money and didn't give a second thought to buying body kits and new turbos for their sons.

In my home town there was a diesel mechanic who worked on big rigs, but he was into Audis and had did Audi Tuning on the side, he was a friend so we got to use his workshop for working under our cars, a hoist makes a huge difference when you're changing oil or bleeding brake lines.

Across town there was a specialist Honda Civic Tuning workshop, much cleaner, better tools, and the guys really knew their Japanese cars, except they were more expensive and had their own rally race team. The Honda Civic doesn't sound like much of a rally car, but those guys won a lot of local competitions.

Recently I've been getting annoyed with all the young guys and their loud exhausts. They race around the streets here like it was a race track, I swear lives are in danger, not theirs, the rest of us. Then I remember what I was like, man history repeats itself all the time. Except my generation did it better!