This slang term was used by motorists in the mid-90s and means an attempt to independently create the so-called "buggy" - a sports car modification with the most lightweight body, meaning the removal of all parts and assemblies that are not vital.
By lightening the design to a minimum, the developers get a slight increase in dynamic performance - which is important for some sports disciplines, but the protection of the body is reduced, and you can immediately forget about the comfort and convenience of driving. In professional drag racing or drifting, every extra unbalanced gram of the hull can become a significant obstacle on the way to victory, and racers consciously choose to sacrifice everything superfluous.
A cramp is an unprofessional attempt to repeat a similar result by the owner himself, while it is worth remembering that a lightweight car becomes practically unsuitable for normal driving.
Also, although this is not a completely correct definition, any self-made "collective farm" tuning, typical for the domestic auto industry from the outback or just cars with old rusted or rotten bodies, is often ironically called.
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The most popular occupation among fans of professional ring or drift racing is the construction of a cramp. There is no exact definition of the term "cramps", but they often characterize a car re-equipped for sports competitions, not intended for civilian use.
Any machine is taken as a basis. All unnecessary details are removed from it: seats, interior plastic, bumpers and headlights - everything that can lighten the weight of the body. The motor is changed to a more powerful and high-torque one (the 2jz gte motor is ideal). For drift runs, the stock suspension is completely changed. Often, only its name and appearance remain from the previous car (example), and all the technical stuffing belongs to another car.
When building a cramp, you should take into account
- this is the most costly. Having bought even a car without documents at a price of up to 150,000 rubles, it is necessary to purchase spare parts, the cost of which can be at least (!) 300,000 rubles;
- you need to understand the technical side. The car can be given to work in the service, but then it will cost even more;
- the main thing is to do everything quickly. With a cramp, interest in its construction can burn out very quickly. It is necessary to complete the creation of the machine as soon as possible, and it is easier to do all the additional improvements after the “tests”.
Attention! Long communication with drifters causes addiction and an irreversible desire to build Korch.
Cramping is a kind of sports car tuning. The name comes from the verb "chicken". Indeed, a writhing car looks worse than a nuclear war.
The main idea of the cramp
Contrary to popular belief, the point of tuning is not to wrap the car with incredible bumpers, file the springs and smear colorful airbrushing. Tuning is the fine tuning of the engine and suspension of a car in order to increase speed and improve handling.
The speed can be increased by a more powerful engine, or by changing the aerodynamics of the car. And yet (Attention!) You can lighten the weight of the car by removing everything superfluous from it. And he will go faster. This is the meaning of the cramp. Remove all passenger seats, cut off bumpers, radiator grille, remove plastic panels in the cabin, floor mats and everything you can do without on the road. They reach the point of absurdity. Sometimes even the driver's seat is removed, and a tiny wooden stool is put in its place. The car loses weight and noticeably increases acceleration speed. But it looks like a tattered, shabby piece of iron, as if from a landfill.
Two types of cramp
A car “killed” by a tavern at first glance does not inspire respect. But usually, a well-groomed, pumped engine is hidden under the torn iron. And the cramp-car is capable of driving like a rocket. Moreover, only experienced, skilled drivers who are able to squeeze breathtaking speed out of a powerful engine and lightweight body writh their car.
The cramp has a reputation for being a brutal, cool sports car. What the owners of the rotten dead VAZ “kopecks” are incredibly happy about, because their auto junk looks cool, like an adult cramps, especially if the car is mutilated a little more for the effect.
This is how, in addition to the sports cramp, an amateurish senseless cramp appeared.
Sports cramps - this is the maximum relief of the car.
Only what is necessary for movement remains on board.
Amateurish cramps - disfigurement of the car, enjoying the aesthetics of decay: headlights sealed with blue tape, stripped interior, rusty steering wheel with thin knitting needles, etc. The car is given the most ugly and uncomfortable configuration.
Let's talk about what a "crunch" is. Too often in recent times, this word is used at the sight of cool tuned cars. This is not entirely true.
Let's start with the fact that according to the dictionary, a synonym for the word "cramps" is "clunker". Yes, yes, it is clunkers, various rubbish, retro rods to the extreme, that can rightfully be called writhing.
This is junk
And this is a rat rod, which can also be called a cramp
But the word "cramps" also has another, more official or something, designation. Korchem is a car prepared for competitions, the changes in which were aimed at globally reducing its weight and improving dynamic performance by removing part of the body or interior parts. Those. any racing car converted from a regular production car can be called a cramp.
Let's say drift cramp...
... cramps for the dredge ...
...off-road cramp...
... ring cramps, etc.
But there is a third, modern, interpretation of the word "writhing". Now this is the name of any more or less tuning car. This is definitely wrong. But, with a stretch, writhing can be called deeply modified cars created for shows or exhibitions and in which it is very inconvenient to travel on public roads. As people say, "if the cramps are cool, then he should go to the drag on a tow truck!".
This is cramps 
And this is not! 
So, gentlemen, let's stop supporting this gopo-slang, and will not call tinted Priors writhing!
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Now many young guys who have an old domestic car or a foreign car "in years", which has at least some kind of aggressive look, call their cars "writhing". It is worthwhile to figure out what this very “cramps” is?
In fact, cramps are a car prepared for special competitions with many different specific modifications. This is all done in order to improve the dynamic characteristics of the car. An example is a buggy, which has a minimum of interior and exterior details, but at the same time a large power reserve. But the buggy comes off the assembly line like this, and the cramps are still a converted production car.
These improvements are quite significant and in most cases radically change both the appearance of the car and its technical characteristics.
The cramps are not suitable for everyday driving, since there is practically nothing factory left in the car, and in the cabin, in order to lighten its weight, everything is removed, up to the seats and upholstery and, of course,. Under the hood, the same thing happens, the parts of which, there is an easier quality alternative, are replaced. Such cars are prepared in well-equipped garages, people who have almost their entire life connected with cars and they are well versed in them. Although there are such craftsmen among ordinary guys. A person can be engaged in absolutely any kind of activity, be a lawyer, cook, builder, but with all his heart love his car and have a desire to give it a second life.
As mentioned above, cramps are a sports car, but not every such car participates in any competitions. Car enthusiasts who love their car remake it to their liking, put their soul into it, sit in garages for days and give a lot of money to reincarnate their swallow and eventually show their offspring to people.
Mostly domestic cars are taken as the basis for uprooting, due to the fact that they lend themselves very well to any modifications and tuning, and from the factory they already have a minimum of parts. They remove almost everything from the car that adds extra weight to it and replace such parts with lighter ones or put nothing at all. The engine is also amenable to drastic improvements or changes altogether, the same thing happens with the chassis. So, on the korcha you can see plastic wings, the absence of bumpers and body kits, headlights, dimensions, or their replacement. And under the hood they often put powerful units, bright, eye-catching parts and components. Some remove the factory glass and put plastic ones in their place. The seats are also an extra detail in the car, so the rear row of seats is almost always absent, and struts appear in the back instead. They paint all this miracle brightly and colorfully, and to add variety, they glue bright stickers, brands of companies associated with motorsport, or vice versa, create an aggressive look for the car, war paint and a minimum of unnecessary visual additions. Unless, all the big massive wheels, beautiful wheels or splicing, which also complement it. In a word, it will be difficult not to pay attention to such a garage monster on the road.
It's another matter when in the same garages cars are disfigured, under the pretext of creating their own cramps. It is clear that there is no certain ideal or any clear guidelines for uprooting, everyone does all this exclusively to their own taste. But, unfortunately, there are those cases when taste and understanding are completely absent, and something “collective farm” and ugly turns out from the most ordinary car.
