Rice is hella good.. OUCH there goes my grammar **** 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!

 

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?

 

sexy sexy... I love the Ti tips

 

ah, I rest my case.

AP exhaust is not ricey, just sexy

 

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 **** would get laughed at today"..

...BUT, that car isn't rice. Rice = **** 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

 

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.

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

 

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

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....