Retarded ricey tow hooks on daily driven cars [Archive] - Zilvia.net Forums | Nissan 240SX (Silvia) and Z (Fairlady) Car Forum

holisticbeatz

07-05-2005, 05:02 AM

So I'm browsing through Honda-tech.com looking at some pictures in the General Appearances sub-forum. I click on a few links and I noticed how many CivicIntegras had those retarded ricey tow hooks installed. I think these CivicIntegra owners installed 'em so they can look like race cars. But I think they look really stupid.

Fisrt thing, I wouldn't trust those aluminum hooks. Sedond, they block the factory tow hook location.

:down: :ghey:

See for yourself:
http://www.honda-tech.com/zerothread?id=1295713
http://www.honda-tech.com/zerothread?id=1240454
http://www.honda-tech.com/zerothread?id=1297338
http://www.honda-tech.com/zerothread?id=1286350

http://tinypic.com/6qy9sl.jpg

http://tinypic.com/6qy9om.jpg

http://tinypic.com/6qy9u1.jpg

http://tinypic.com/6qy9uw.jpg

http://tinypic.com/6qya1f.jpg

ThatGuy

07-05-2005, 05:13 AM

:gives: :mepoke:

MakotoS13

07-05-2005, 08:02 AM

seriously, you dont know what those people do with their cars... but who cares anyways?

HyperTek

07-05-2005, 08:24 AM

they are prepared to have thier NA engine blocks die when they run 87 octane...

the toe hook thing is a part of the "US JDM" craze... :bowrofl:

SochBAT

07-05-2005, 08:28 AM

Naw, they are ready to get their cars towed away, cuz they break the max db limit with their bee-hive of a n exhaust.

Someone should be rice and install one of those towhooks on the passenger side of the car.

240trainee

07-05-2005, 08:36 AM

Lol. I've thought about welding a hook on the front of my car. Comes in handy when you put your car in a ditch. though those cars look too nice to be put in a ditch, lol. Now, those ones on the back of that cars are stupid, they are coverind up a tow hook with a tow hook. but a front one could come in handy, like i said. :2f2f:

MakotoS13

07-05-2005, 08:54 AM

okay, whats the difference between that and having:

-2 grand in rims that you had to wait 3 months to get
-10 inches of rim when you have 8 inches of tire(after stretching)
-rims that stick out an inch from the fender
-a motor with a glass valvetrain that you imported because "it isn't a truck motor"
-any lnumber of other "dorifto" bullcrap artifacts plastered on your car for the sheer purpose of announcing to the world "i can sling the back half of my car into a concrete barrier and not care cause that's how the japanese do it".

its just as stupid as all of your retarded little fascinations that don't matter. just because its on a honda doesn't really make it any less ricey than all of you kids' antics.

Yuri

07-05-2005, 09:10 AM

hmmm, I want one, just so I don't destroy my frp front bumper if my car ever needs to be towed. But they do look pretty ugly on those hondas, if only because they stick out so far. Just wait until one of those cars hit roadkill and impale them on the tow hook. :p

WanganRunner

07-05-2005, 12:21 PM

I have no opinion on the tow hooks...

but those are four NICE honda products in those pictures. Hate all you want, those are very clean cars.

R33GTS-T

07-05-2005, 12:28 PM

i don't see installing aftermarket tow hooks as rice so long as the car is actually used on a track where an off track venture could require a nice beefy tow hook that's easily accessible.......now, i wouldn't install aluminum tow hooks necessarily but hey......that's on them

Maeda

07-05-2005, 12:47 PM

Werd.
I'll do it.

It makes life a LOT easier then pulling the bumper off in a ditch before you get towed.

Chernobyl

07-05-2005, 02:28 PM

that first integra posted is very sexy. Love the gab(?) wheels.

as for the tow hooks... no worse than the things 240 owners do to their cars, really.

95Blue240sx

07-05-2005, 02:38 PM

I agree, that integra is sexy. I think those wheels are rotas.

Anyways, as others said, we do shit to our cars that other people laugh at. My co-worker was giving me shit when i put my z32 brakes on. Saying WTF are you doin? Your car isnt any faster, so why do you need to stop faster??

Makes sense to me. Quit hating.

24Zero

07-05-2005, 02:39 PM

I don't understand why they don't get one like the S2000. It's functional. When you need it, you take it out of the trunk and screw it in the hole in the front bumper. If they "need" one great; just why is it permantly mounted. Hell I would be afraid I would trip over the damn thing.

R33GTS-T

07-05-2005, 02:48 PM

lol....i imagine you would probably walk into it after first putting it on.........i'm considering throwing a tow hook on the front and rear of my 33.........still haven't decided yet though

Chernobyl

07-05-2005, 02:54 PM

Oh and :rofl: at those who say they don't trust aluminum for the hooks. It'll hold, no worries there.

R33GTS-T

07-05-2005, 02:57 PM

Oh and :rofl: at those who say they don't trust aluminum for the hooks. It'll hold, no worries there.
i would imagine you know this from personal experience??? the only reason i was thinking of not using aluminum was b/c i figure it would just flex and bend under the stresses of the tow truck trying to pull it :shrugs:

Chernobyl

07-05-2005, 03:04 PM

I know this from being a mechanical engineering graduate. There's enough cross-secional area there that it'll hold just fine. It's definitely not pure aluminum anyway, but an alloy.

R33GTS-T

07-05-2005, 03:28 PM

thanx.........that's good info to have :cool:

uno

07-05-2005, 04:05 PM

i bet like 50 people have seen this thread and now ordered them just because they have a new mod to put on. great you really did start the ricer tow hooks! lol

zenkiDori

07-05-2005, 05:28 PM

tow hooks can be very useful. we learned this trying to pull my buddy's hachi out of a ditch.

EricPE

07-05-2005, 05:35 PM

Phlip

07-05-2005, 05:46 PM

I don't see these as a wholly "horrible" or "rice" idea, just that I would not personally do it on my own car. I saw mention of removeable ones somewhere in this thread as I skimmed trying to avoid ignorantly blind hatred and agreed with that as an even better idea.

... I still won't do it, but hey, I paid for my car, not you guys...

OMGWTFBBQ

07-05-2005, 08:35 PM

seriously, it's their car leave them alone. Having come from Honda-Tech a while ago I know for a fact that a few of those cars do see track time and Tow-Hook is a functional thing. If your gonna call them stupid, you could call anyone who gets a body kit or anything appearance related dumb for getting it.

SilviaDriver

07-05-2005, 08:56 PM

why not buy the tow hook mod it to where u need it to fit then take it off and leave it in your car. when you need the hook take it out put it where u modded it ot fit and take ur shit out of the ditch. when done remove and throw back in trunk.

my stock tow hooks are fine iwht me. plus i cant see spending approx 100 for something like that, when it can be had for a lot cheaper. it probably cost those guys 20 bucks to amke.

cheez80

07-05-2005, 08:57 PM

they are mainly used at the track for an assist vehicle. the aluminum ones work fine, and you can even mount one on your roof if you like. stop bashing them cuz your car probable sucks compared to the ones you posted.

ignorance.

g-dimension's car has it mounted exactly like that. their car is pretttty hot, but it was wrecked last d1 :(

91CRXsiR

07-05-2005, 08:59 PM

speaking of retarded tow hook mods... wtfs up w/ those damn stuffed animals on the tow hook? that looks so damn ghey

airsoft

07-05-2005, 10:36 PM

^^^ I never understood that stuffed animals thingy.

Anyone care to ejucate?

trsilvias13

07-05-2005, 10:39 PM

i have a pair of those, but never put them on. i got them for free from a honda friends. wonder if i should put them on or not?

KwKouki

07-05-2005, 10:39 PM

its a tow hook.........why does this bother you?

speaking of retarded tow hook mods... wtfs up w/ those damn stuffed animals on the tow hook? that looks so damn ghey

http://img298.imageshack.us/img298/840/m50ef.th.jpg (http://img298.imageshack.us/my.php?image=m50ef.jpg)

ITs my theft system.....get too close and he will rip off your leg. Chicks dig it also. REALLY love when they bend over to check it out and say "aww how cute"

SochBAT

07-05-2005, 10:56 PM

maybe cuz... its teh 'cool' thing to do? i just have it there to show me when i need a car wash. When bubbles is covered with dirt and mud, i know to give it a car wash.

KwKouki

07-05-2005, 11:03 PM

maybe cuz... its teh 'cool' thing to do? i just have it there to show me when i need a car wash. When bubbles is covered with dirt and mud, i know to give it a car wash.

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

cheez80

07-05-2005, 11:44 PM

Chicks dig it also. REALLY love when they bend over to check it out and say "aww how cute"

YES couldn't have said it better myself. i merely have a scooby-doo, though; nothing jdm tite.

DocTaDrifT

07-06-2005, 12:44 AM

^ dang i gott hang something too i need to see if this works haha

reefer1114

07-06-2005, 12:57 AM

seriously who gives a fuck.

Irukandji

07-06-2005, 12:58 AM

i hear a distant voice saying: "nobody cares about your whining"

FaLKoN240

07-06-2005, 01:18 AM

Haha, looks like your hater thread has been stopped by functionality.

That animal thing on the tow hook is for chick factor? Hmmmm. . .

KwKouki

07-06-2005, 01:20 AM

Haha, looks like your hater thread has been stopped by functionality.

That animal thing on the tow hook is for chick factor? Hmmmm. . .

That wasnt my reason for putting it on there, but I am now glad I did :wiggle:

!Zar!

07-06-2005, 01:22 AM

I threw one on my tow hook for the jdmomgwtfbbq factor. But all the chicks I know love it.

TurDz

07-06-2005, 02:38 AM

I've seen plenty of cars go into the drift at ButtonWillow...haha man, those tow hooks are very useful in that situation.

And the stuffed animal on the stock tow hook...such a drifter thing to do! i saw a teletubbie and others at drift day norcal a couple days ago.

KwKouki

07-06-2005, 03:30 AM

I guess I was born with dorifto style :hahano:

A buddy of mine put a snowman head x-mas tree ornament thingy on my TA's towhook one night at a party.

I also had the bracelet on the shiftboot before I knew what drifting was. A girl left hair-tie made of cats eye beads there one night, and it stayed in my car till I sold it.

91CRXsiR

07-06-2005, 03:35 AM

i have bracelets on my shifter was well.. but ive never seen anyone else w/ them.. cept my bro

thx247

07-06-2005, 09:29 AM

You think they would photoshop in a picture of the track with the hooks

Too bad I don't see H+A's around here, maybe I would have seen this already. No worse than some of the 240 stuff I've seen though. Whatever floats your boat.

nistech

07-06-2005, 12:22 PM

i went in a chevron to get gas the other day this guy had a cigs pack hooked on to his 240s tow hook

blue109

07-06-2005, 12:43 PM

thats sweet. all 4 of the pics you posted are hot ass cars. nicer than 80% of the bucket 240s running around with the obligatory black primer. good job though.

sLip techniques

07-06-2005, 01:20 PM

i have goofy on my tow hook :D and i actually like those modded tow hooks.

Inland180

07-06-2005, 05:01 PM

all i know is that... the rear left tow hook on 240 suck ass!! all they do is dent the tip of the muffler!! thats why i took it off!

gorgasm

07-06-2005, 06:01 PM

that type r is hot. :wiggle:

kuramaya

07-06-2005, 06:18 PM

FYI A tow hook is a required item on the car at alot of drift events in Japan...but My car has 4 stock ones, dont your USDM 240's have the 2 on the back below the bumper and two in the front?..They are tiedown points, but can be used as tow hooks as well

Inland180

07-06-2005, 09:31 PM

i mean they are useful if you really track your car all day and like ending up in the ditch but all i know is that on the US 240 s13 the rear left one sucks!!!

Johny5

07-06-2005, 09:34 PM

slownslurious

07-06-2005, 09:59 PM

kuramaya

07-06-2005, 10:14 PM

i mean they are useful if you really track your car all day and like ending up in the ditch but all i know is that on the US 240 s13 the rear left one sucks!!!

I had to cut the rear left one off for my exhaust to fit :bite:

sLip techniques

07-06-2005, 10:41 PM

^ why didnt u just take it off...? lol

thx247

07-07-2005, 12:13 AM

The stock tow hooks are not very good if the car is up to the axles in dirt. This happens frequently. I'm going to start bringing a shovel out to the track.

I wish every car had those higher tow hooks, or a cage (ultimate "tow hook"

91CRXsiR

07-07-2005, 02:51 AM

haha funny, i was just figuring out a spot to dremmel through my front bumper so i could put a tow hook on, rear as well. its because you don't have aero kenny so you're not worried about anything breaking while you're being towed :love:
dont they have to jack up the rear end and drag the front? ... that would destroy my lip and prolly my bumper.. damn ricey teins

Johny5

07-07-2005, 05:15 PM

well yeah, you have to remove the bumpers front or rear during tow. but still the higher tow hook can put your car at lesser of an angle, which might in turn save your exhaust etc. sometimes cars get knee deep in shit and the hooks are buried (oem ones) then what? uh-oh someone call "ricey honda tow hook" man cus he's about to save your ass.

enen11

07-07-2005, 05:40 PM

when was having a bracelet on the shiftboot "drift"?? i have a bracelet on my shiftboot since long time ago.

kuramaya

07-07-2005, 06:04 PM

^ why didnt u just take it off...? lol

on the 180 its welded to the frame....only way to get it off is too cut the bitch

CrazyIvan

07-07-2005, 06:20 PM

hater
all those hondas are very nice.
you're just jealous thats all

oh and the hooks do come in handy when needed.

BlackZenkiS14

07-07-2005, 10:17 PM

Ok, tell me this looks dumb :rolleyes: This is my buddy scott's car:
http://www.dzmedia.com/dmitry/Photography/Auto/scottrx7/foglightcloseup.jpg
http://www.dzmedia.com/dmitry/Photography/Auto/scottrx7/special1.jpg
http://www.dzmedia.com/dmitry/Photography/Auto/scottrx7/zoom1.jpg

91CRXsiR

07-07-2005, 10:25 PM

it looks dumb

but im sure its functional in some way

Chernobyl

07-08-2005, 01:45 AM

that whole car, from the a-pillars forward, looks dumb :/

holisticbeatz

07-08-2005, 01:49 AM

Yea it looks dumb with that red thing sticking out like that. Plus those rims don't help either. LOOKS like ass. Other than that, his car is pretty fresh.

Ask you friend one question for me. Ask him, have you ever used that tow hook for any reason besides aesthetics. Also, ask him if he has ever used that little chrome APC fire extinguisher? Actually, forget the fire extinguisher question. Its a FD, those rotaries are ticking timebombs.

Maeda

07-09-2005, 01:39 PM

Wait. Since when is it ricey to have a fire extinguisher? Anyone been in a car fire? It sucks.

Now next order of business...
WTF is with calling some thie 'drift' or not?
Is the word drift evolving to encompass everything that is remniscent of what driftar morons do to their cars?
Shit on tow hooks is drift?
BRACELETS? This one just confuses me...

I'm just curious...

I'm just going to stick with stupid interior mod's and stuffed animal collections.

sLip techniques

07-09-2005, 03:27 PM

omg why do people change to non popups on a pop up car :ugh:. I agree the front tow hook is ugly, like a big red pimple on your face. The rear tow hooks however look kool to me though.

radhaz

07-09-2005, 04:53 PM

Ok, tell me this looks dumb :rolleyes: This is my buddy scott's car:

Looks fine to me, but most circuit regulations require you to put a red arrow pointing toward the tow hook(s).

SilviaDriver

07-09-2005, 05:16 PM

Ok, tell me this looks dumb :rolleyes: This is my buddy scott's car:

it looks dumb. car looks ultra high and front aftermarket bumpre iwth no sides and rear.

i could care less if it has 1000rwhp

ThatGuy

07-09-2005, 05:21 PM

^^+1

That car could've been built much better, IMO. If Scott is happy with it, then more power to him. But personally, it's ugly.

S14DriftR

07-10-2005, 12:55 PM

Wait. Since when is it ricey to have a fire extinguisher? Anyone been in a car fire? It sucks.

Fire extinguishers are definatly not rice, and a very very good thing to have on any car. Placing them on the A piller is retarded tho and I have always considered that rice as well as getting the apc chrome ones. They can be just as easily acessed behind the front seats mounted to the cage or to the floor, just somewhere fairly close to the drivers seat. Even in a full bucket its just as fast to pop the harness, twist and reach into the back seat as it is to reach across to the passenger A piller.

Maeda

07-10-2005, 12:59 PM

S14DriftR

07-10-2005, 01:14 PM

On a side offtopic note.
Is that seriously your chosen handle or is it a joke?

It is seriously my chosen handle, as a joke. I drive a S13 coupe ;)

radhaz

07-10-2005, 01:47 PM

Fire extinguishers are definatly not rice, and a very very good thing to have on any car. Placing them on the A piller is retarded tho and I have always considered that rice as well as getting the apc chrome ones. They can be just as easily acessed behind the front seats mounted to the cage or to the floor, just somewhere fairly close to the drivers seat. Even in a full bucket its just as fast to pop the harness, twist and reach into the back seat as it is to reach across to the passenger A piller.

It's supposed to be "securely fastened" in reach of the driver without unbuckling the harness. I'm not sure where you would mount it on your back seat though. Roll bar's make great location's for mounting extinguishers for most folks. There's nothing ricey about safety, but there are ricey safety devices like the $50 apc chrome extinguisher. My friend has one in his car he bought a few hours after he had just put out an engine fire in his car and had used up his last one. I bust his balls about it, but it was all they had in stock and I don't blame him for buying it.

S14DriftR

07-10-2005, 01:59 PM

Not on the seat itself, most people I know that have cars equiped with extingushers no longer have back seats. My arms are long enough to reach the center of the floor where the seat used to be, with the harness unclipped. I personally would rather unclip than have it up front but thats all personal preference, the events I drive in dont have rules regarding the use or placement that i have to comply with.

GForce

07-10-2005, 05:13 PM

I'm glad to see the response this has gotten. I have a Honda as my daily driver, and it irks me when people automatically assume that because that it's a Honda, it's rice. I don't see how he could say "look at this rice" and then post a pic of a Type R.

One of my old cars was lowered and had a body kit on it, and when I had to get it towed once, I really wish I would've had one of those hooks on it.

kuramaya

07-10-2005, 06:18 PM

Fire extinguishers is not ricey when you are running after market fuel pumps, FPRs, injectors, have relocated batteries, turbo manifolds that heat up to 1300 F etc etc..ricey is some guys on zylvia putting 18 by 10 wheels on their cars and body kist and their car is running a KA24DE with 140 HP at the wheels with an intake an axleback..there are a lot of guys on here that pose like it is out of control

SilviaDriver

07-10-2005, 06:46 PM

ricey is some guys on zylvia putting 18 by 10 wheels on their cars and body kist and their car is running a KA24DE with 140 HP at the wheels with an intake an axleback..there are a lot of guys on here that pose like it is out of control

1. its zilvia with an I. are you gonna spell Silvia with a Y too? "sylvia"
2. so is heartwork a poser outta control? he has 18x10 with body kit and with no engine mods at all. so i guess ieatrice and [email protected] use to be posers too.

kuramaya

07-10-2005, 07:06 PM

1. its zilvia with an I. are you gonna spell Silvia with a Y too? "sylvia"
2. so is heartwork a poser outta control? he has 18x10 with body kit and with no engine mods at all. so i guess ieatrice and [email protected] use to be posers too.

so i spelled zylvia wrong ..big deal brother...

I never said those guys were posers by name...I say that was what I though rice was...dont go putting words in my mouth and saying I am talking shit about individuals cause I didnt...that is some nutswinging right there at its best

SilviaDriver

07-10-2005, 07:10 PM

i never said you called poeple out by name. you seemed to generalized everybody under the "body kit stock KA with 18x10" rice. and to my knowledge those are the names that came to mind and one of them is a good friend

what i DID do was pulled names out from people i do know whom has a stock ka [or some did] with your definition of "rice" and asked you if you do consider those people rice

kuramaya

07-10-2005, 07:15 PM

i never said you called poeple out by name. you seemed to generalized everybody under the "body kit stock KA with 18x10" rice. and to my knowledge those are the names that came to mind and i also know one of them personally.

everyone has their own definition of what they think rice is..thats called opinion...this thread was about tow hooks being ricey...well my argument with that was they are required at drift events so how can they be ricey..thne someone said fire extinguishers were ricey, I said they were not and explained why you should have one, then I gave my idea of what rice was..and youjumped on me saying i was talking shit about people...I wasnt...why didnt you jump on the guy saying fire extinguishers were rice and name cars with fire extinguishers..i am entitled to my opinion, this is a public forum..some guys like big wings, I think they are ricey..one of my best frinds over with an S13 with 400 Hp has one and I tell him everyday it is ricey..I say shit like "hey man the airport is that way" or, you can't taxi around my neighborhood..its all opinons..its all good
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