1. Kanji stickers. Lots of 'em.
2. Big honkin' wing on the trunk lid. The higher, the better, try to make it even with the roofline.
3. Blue LED winshield washer nozzles. Those alone will allow you to break the speed of sound at sea level.
4. A fart can. The more annoying and loud, with the biggest diameter exhaust tip, the better. You want no back pressure at all on your exhaust valves. Think constipated bumblebee.
5. Slam 'er with camber. Make certain it rides so low, and the camber is so boogered up, that you're only wearing on the inside edge of the tires. That's handling!
6. 20" or bigger rims, with tires so low profile that they have no room for air inside. Think lumber wagon ride, thin rubber bands over a big metal wheel. Bling.
7. High-amperage elctric air induction boost blowers. They don't really add much horsepower via the intake air squeeze, but look impressive, especially if you have to add an extra gel cell battery or two. Nobody's yet figured out that if you simply geared those larger electric intake blowers that use jet engine starters to the driveshaft or crankshaft pulley with a simple electric or one-way clutch you'd realize some extra on-demand oomph.
Of course, Chris isn't a riceboy. I know that, and he knows that. But if ever there's a time that Coca-Cola comes out of my nose, it's when the ricers pull alongside me on the road.
The ceramic brake pads are quite nice. I put a new set on my '01 S-10 and was immediately rewarded with better stopping power, less brake dust on my rims, and they appear to be somewhat more fade resistant as they get hot. My stopping tests get somewhat stymied, however, because the quirky S-10/Sonoma/Hombre anti-lock brakes do their thing pretty soon in the whole braking sequence. (The way they pulse the brakes makes you feel like you've lost control)
I'll agree about better sway bars and shocks. I just converted the same S-10 pickup to the Chevy ZQ-8 package, with bigger front sway bar, rear sway bar, anti-hop shock absorber tying the differential to the chassis (like the older panhard rods), extra frame rail crossmember ahead of the rear axle, Bilstein shocks, and quick ratio steering box. (2-3/4 turns lock-to-lock) Late model '82 Corvette rims and Dayton Daytona H-series unidirectional tires finished the package. I left the stock 5-speed tranny alone. Wow! Now it kinda reminds me of my old VW GTI, albeit with oversteer, I wonder if they let small pickups into SCCA? Pretty obvious I just paid off the loan on the truck.
