rx8 a ricer?
 

I was told today that because i got the agency power exhaust that comes with the 4in tips that i am considered a ricer now.............how can this be? what makes a ricer? to me it wasen't putting on a high quality exhaust. comments please! the best part is the guy that told me this drives a daddy's 2009 honda accord.

you aren't a ricer...the AP exhaust is sexy.

relax.....I'll admit tho, I'm a ricer.

ouch....I think he may have been a bit jealous.

I wouldve riced up his grill with that comment lol...

Rice is flare without gain. So 4" tips are rice. But so are a lot of other things. It goes downhill when you install a gillette razor rear spoiler.

I think ricers are the people the buy $3000 coilovers, drive around on race tires, but have never been on a track.

being a poseur is not the same as ricing out a car. But there's nothing wrong with wanting better suspension and not tracking it.

Haha, one time in the parking garage at school one of my friend points out, "Dude, this is like, the definition of rice!" to another friend, gesturing at a vehicle.

It was none other than a brand new evo X. Some people just don't know.

Hardparkers are quite different than ricers!

I'm talking about peoples reasons, always the suspension is so much better, never I wanna be low.

I'm buying blah cause its so much better, even tho the person doesn't know what the stock suspension can do.

But your right that is a poser, I saw a cavilier today with 4 wings on top of one other, thats rice.

ricing a car is just when you look at a car,

and shit on it just dont make sense.

yeah, if your mods have a use then it isn't riced out. If you were slappining injen, dohc, Nos, orion, and all that other crap on your car without actually having a mod with that brand on then its riced. If you got a bottle of Nos nitrous in there and you got NOS on the car as a decal that really isnt rice, let them laugh and say nos then push the boost and laugh back.

^^ What he said,

People say my agency power is riced too.

I laugh because they drive econoboxes like accords/neons/focuses/cavaliers living paycheck to paycheck.

thanks guys i do appreciate the input............i do run the pss9 bilstein's so far but have to wait until spring to run it. I will post inpressions then. It just sucks to have someone tell you your 30000 dollar car is ricer i guess. I WORKED HARD FOR THIS CAR AND I LOVE IT. So beep them right? Not to brag at at all but let me give you a funny fact. I have leased a few cars prior to this.........lol.......i'm not rich.......first was a 1994 riviera supercharged which i loved to death, please don't ask why.............next i had 1998 camaro v6 which sucked.......then a 1992 camaro rs TBI which i loved again........please keep reading for the point........then i actually went back to a 1998 riviera which if i am ever rich i will own one again.............i then got a 1998 camaro z28 ls1 which in my opion is the best engine i have ever had......wow.....wow....and more wow..............Some girl who can't drive ran a red light and totalled it.................now i wanted suspension and looks so i grabbed the 2004 RX8. I cannot praise it enough. I love this car but for different reasons. I have never had so many comments on its looks, power, and overall whatever................RX8 is the perfect blend of power and performance.

+1.. It's not a 'single' thing that constitutes you as being a ricer. For example, ricers have cars with a lot of 'flair' but that's not the end of it.. ricers:
1. tailgate everyone and everything on the road
2. wants to race everywhere, including school districts, parking lots, etc,
3. have no idea that they are ricers and are being laughed at

Take THAT punctuation and proper grammar! God my eyes.

^Good stuff. The Bilstein PSS9's are good coilovers. Peppy has them and he track's his car. He gave them a good review so you will enjoy them at the track.

^lol grammar nazi

It's ,"God, my eyes!'.

What's wrong with you?

oh wait, maybe tubing is the grammar nazi :)

I think rice has a few definition...

- Ricer = Import car with loud 'can' exhausts on 4 bangers and slammed to the ground where you can't even drive it around town.

- 'Brown' Rice = Is when you drive a Neon or Cavalier with a huge wing and stickers and or under body neons

- Minute Rice = Is anyone that 'pimps' their car out with stuff you buy from Fred Meyer's or Shucks Auto that can be applied/stuck on within minutes.

You can make a car look nice with performance add-ons and upgrades without becoming a ricer. I still don't understand what people see in making your car a ricer... :icon_no2:

hey i realize i am not an expert but why everytime if i am not expert am i made to feel bad............its like everytime i don't spend 24 hours researching something i must suck....i apoligize for purchasing this car then............all hail the owners.

To be honest, other than the obvious riced car, ricer to me is also an attitude that ricers have.

Make sense?

I'm actually gonna go get some rice now, I hungry.

wat.

Rice is hella good.. OUCH there goes my grammar nazi title :(

Don't take it that way man. There are a lot of people on here that love to flame and hate on people. I wouldn't worry about it. Thats why I dont have that many posts because nearly all of the treads are that way. Use it as a resource and take all the info you can from it. Your right in asking questions and best of all you posted in the right section. Besides not all 8 owners are that way.

a ricer is someone that puts a bark bench wing on the back of a FWD car....had neons under it....carbon fiber bla bla bla....decals, on a 1976 Honda Civic that is primer colored/rust colored!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojB7KkaR03I

this is the definition of a RICER!

^^^hahahahahahahahaha omg!!! hahahaahahhaaha!

I love discussing the topic of ricers cause it's more or less the black sheep of the automotive community but what a "ricer" is, is often misunderstood. Clearly, I would never consider an Evo X a "ricer" car unless it was packed with mismatched body panels, spray painted, had a park bench wing on the roof and was rolling on 20 inch chrome wheels.

A very simple defination of "rice" is having stickers on your car for upgrades you don't actually have. Kinda like the pics of the Mustang with "honda power" or VTEC stickers on it.

I think a "ricer" comes in two fashions. First is your attitude as a driver/person about your car and around other car people. Second, a "ricer" is defined by the work done to their car.

The attitude concept is easy. Ricers are normally people who feel like they have to race anything with wheels. These people will stage at a stoplight whether it's next to a Z06 Vette or your mothers mini-van packed with kids. They talk constantly about "walking" cars they never raced. Hell, most of the honda guys think "a chase is a race" in some parts. Ricers never pass up a chance to do a burnout, blare their loud music, or otherwise call attention to themselves. They act in every way possible like they are living their own version of The Fast and the Furious.

The car aspect is more complex because it comes down to personal style.

Frankly, I consider anything super flashy to be rice. Last car show I was at, I was looking at this carbon fiber body/wrapped Nissan 350z. It had Falken 615's, a very low coilover setup, gauges everywhere, racing seats, roll cage, nitrous, turbo...the works. WAY overdone IMO. Nice car, clean work...rice in my opinion.

Some of the easy stuff are cars which are spray painted, have body kits that don't fit or are installed badly, poor fabrication, HUGE wheels, cut springs, 5 inch exhaust tips, and wings which double as a park bench. The wing situation is even worse on a FWD car.

One of my favorite was a civic hatchback with an intercooler installed and a filter in place of turbo piping.

Simply put, ricers most often are people who want to have all the elements of a nice, fast or show quality car but either can't afford it or are simply too lazy to make it happen. Too often people on internet sites cry cause they don't have enough money to build their car so therefore people shouldn't "judge" their car.

I've been heavily influenced by the popular style of the Arizona Mazda Club which is simple, clean, and not calling attention to yourself. Still, much of it is personal opinion.

Can an RX8 be rice? Sure it can...any car can IMO if you trash it enough. Still, real drivers don't brag about racing, don't talk all the time about how fast they are, they just waste you on the track and let that speak for itself.

Sorry for the long run, ricers just make me laugh soooo much.

Yes I have seen Intercoolers that just have a filter on one end and the otehr going straight to the throttle body and they say oh that thing is turbo look at the intercooler...after I say of pop the hood...when the claim oh i don't pop my hood for anyone....

AAHAHAHAH f**ken mustangs!!

lol nice find rx8man

Some person at a gas station once told me (this was back when my 8 was completely stock) that my car was ricey. I asked "How so?" He replied, "It's a Mazda, so its rice." wtf?

i figured you all would get a nice laugh out of that video!!!

Don't worry bro...I am a rude, elitist, stuck up, condescending, better than everybody else, jackass bimmer owner! :lol:

That's probably why he works @ a gas station.

I personaly think 4" tips are tacky. They could be rice, or not, depending on the rest of your car.

This thread is worthless without pics

are these tips tacky?

http://i246.photobucket.com/albums/g...DSC01220-1.jpg

sexy sexy... I love the Ti tips

ah, I rest my case.

AP exhaust is not ricey, just sexy :D:

i think people who's cars are covered in knockoff parts are ricers. Just because something is not your style, does not make it rice.

I was reading a column on a blog that I frequent on the Xanthic Design Prelude and thought, "wow, this shit would get laughed at today"..

...BUT, that car isn't rice. Rice = shit quality, faking-the-funk, , or just plain doing it wrong. Just because you don't track your car, does not make you a ricer for having $3,000 coilovers. It's called paying for quality.

someone add a spell check on here.........lol. I agree with all of your comments, to me it seems to be a basic stupidity with things. the guy that told me i am rice was making the argument that his body was adding to downforce and the fact that he went from 16in rims to 18 got him faster quarter mile times.

Your "Brown Rice" is what I call "Uncle Ben's," but it applies to any riced out American car. I've seen a Ford Festiva with spinny rims and a whale tail for a spoiler

:lol2:

I consider any corporate name or logo on a car as rice. This would include wither you have their equipment on your car or not. An exception would be if you actually get paid to have that logo on your car.

http://laughatrice.com/phpBB3/gallery2.php

I'm actually thinking about doing that for people in my area, with comment boxes available so if they come by and see their car...they will see the comments and hopefully realize how utterly retarded it is.

Eh, they look ok from the side, but they look about as sexy as goatse man's butthole from straight behind the car. Shiny blue titanium tip on the outside, brown carboned up grossness inside them. :icon_no2:

But if you like them. Rock em. God knows I'm guilty of questionable taste too. :dubs:

people call me ricer.. but only true enthusiasts can see when you spend quality time and money tob uild something nice. i went to a muscle car meet.. gto's camaros, corvettes.. i figured i would get bood because of it ( i love muscle cars)
but they seemed to accept me very well.. what caught there attention was my cars exhaust didnt drone.. they liked my body kit and said not rice at all ( mazdaspeed kit)

on the other side was this guys muystang GT with a bunch of look mods ( blacked tail lights) neons and painted rims etc etc

this guy was like yeaah man i got flowmaster exhaust, super chip etc etc.. then turns around and says man i sure do love the sounD OF MY MAGNA FLOW

MY DEFINITION of ricer is a person who talks about how many mods thier cars have and they dont know a damn thing about it. all show and no go.

So I got this from a MASSIVE white banner covering >30% of the windshield of an unrecognizable 4 wheeled hunk of plastic and metal sitting at a tire shop last year. There was a real wing on the trunk, real in that it does what wings do for airplanes: cause lift (since it was installed backwards). The body kit was mostly painted, and only had a few dozen points where the black paint had flaked off, though it's zip-tie mounting was a bit poorly done, since all 4 sides of the kit were still swinging in the slight breeze.

The name says it all.

http://www.streetkiaz.com/

lol - great read so far guys

personally - i come from a family w/muscle car fanatic's so basically....anything i do to my car is 'RICE' to them - people either loss what the meaning originally meant or just never really understood how to use it...sorta like chivalry :rolleyes:

all n' all - it should be ignored if what you're doing to your car makes you happy - after all, you're not modding it for them....