Why you call it rice?

[DELUCCA21]

Well let see. A lot of people here call anything rice. Like if you have a Nitrous kit in your car, if you have decals, or if you have a body kit. Personally I like decals in cars, as long as you have the part in your engine, or interior is fine. As far as a body kit I can't wait to get one in my car, and since I don't have $4,000 to buy a turbo engine I'm in the process to buy a Venom nitrous kit for my car so I really don't know why a lot of people really is hattin on this sh*t. If you can't afford to buy sh*t for your ride don't hate congratulate. To me a ricer is somebody that have a bunch of decals but really don't have sh*t under the hood, or make his car pretty but not fast. Anyways that's what I think.

[FrEaK]

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LOL

The thing is that there isn't a way to tell if a car is rice or not unless it's blantantly obvious...

People who have lots of stickers of parts they dont have, really flashy paints, huge (uneedily huge) body kits, and huge chrome dubs, that act like they are fast, or race thinking they are fast, are what we call rice because they think their car is fast because it looks fast...

Most people are rice because they are more worried about being cool because its the in thing... most people on these forums supe up their car to go faster...

For example, i went with my friend to this really sh!tty accessory shop (the place is a joke, they have no idea what they are doing) because he wanted to pick up a replacement bulb for him interio lights... So this kid comes in and starts talking to the guy who apparently just sold him a Front STB (a really ****ty one that will prolly warp in a week)... The kid says "The car feels better when i go fast... even around turns" the owner says "It works even better when you faster" I'm trying to hold back my laughter and the urge to kill them both, so i leave... Anyways i see the kids car... its a huge POS civic with ghetto exhaust, stickers, rust, altezzas, and steel wheels.... I just shook my head and laughed at him as i left...

He was the embodiment of rice... :rolleyes

[PalmerWMD]

How about this:

One the way to BG the KY/IN/OH NICO crew saw a red Pontiac Grand Prix with a Vtec Sticker on it?

Hmm tough question..If it'sa domestic can it be rice?

Fred...:pface

[Zebrahead]

Being a ricer is following trends set by companies like APC that make products that have no practical use. I.E. windshield washer jet lights, uniwipers, etc. Many people brag that their car is fast and try to make other people believe it with stickers of products they only wish they could own. This is rice, or "all show, no go."

Many people think "all show, no go" means body kits, nice paint, spoilers, etc. I dont' think so. If your goal is a show car, why is it rice?

When you say your car is fast, pretend its fast, and make others believe its fast (with stickers) when in fact it is stock (or in close form), then you are ricey.

Nick.

my .02

[Tino]

I hate people who simply put money into their car with no intentions of boosting it up. Thats ridiculous having a sweet (fast) looking slowmobile.

[FrEaK]

hey tino i thought you had died or something... guess we aren't so luckey...

[Tino]

nice to see you around these stale boards too

[MaineExport]

Nice to see you Tino! I missed your simple one line posts. Where have you been? And hey... I think it should be your new job and sole purpose here at NICO to organize a New England meet!! This would give you SOME kind of redeeming value and purpose.... you could be a local legend!!!

[FrEaK]

or a local failure... depending on his sucess...

[MaineExport]

or a local failure... depending on his sucess...

You and I both know where the smart money is on that bet!

[wingzero]

Dude, I thinkwhat people define as rice is more of a state of mind than anything.

Rice: Anyone who gets a car and works on it just because it supposedly makes him look cool, this is the kind of person who will just buy any p.o.s mod, usually wants to put the least amount of money possible into their car. Thinks of their car as status symbols, completely devoid of any taste, thinks its nice only because they don't know any better, and don't care to know any better. always follow trends, no matter how stupid, as long as they see it in a magazine or car show, more often than not use companies that rip off other companies for cheaper price and usually cheaper quality. Rice sucks.

Anyone who really gives a damn about their cars would know better than to rice it out. When you take 2 jobs while being a full time studet, one to support yourself and another to support your car, just so you could get those $900 coilovers when you could've just cut the stock springs for like twenty bucks, damn, now THAT'S love.

[Nebraska240sx]

rice an be very domestic, like a 1993 cougar here in tow, with apc sticker plaster like a fuking billboad. mmmmmmm does apc make parts for a cougar with a v6, I don't think so, an anyways I'd rather look stock and haul *** than look like a pimp and get beat by a geo metro!!!!!

[ninjak84]

Aaaaah! No arguments on rice! No good can come from discussing this topic... NO GOOD!

[blink0r]

Aaaaah! No arguments on rice! No good can come from discussing this topic... NO GOOD!

True, very true. The canadian speaks words of wisdom.

Rice is just another controversial word, like "love", "religion", or "race". No one will ever have an accepted or politically correct term, so let's just give it up.

[Two-Forty]

I've seen a Dodge Stealth with a Type R sticker on it's fender one day when I was putting an alarm in it, I really wanted to say something to him, but my manager said the customer's always right....so he probably still lookin mighty cool with those stickers. And I agree it's all about taste and love for the owner's car, everyone has their plan or goal on what their car should be. Some like Audio, some like Aere Dynamics parts, and MOST like going fast, it's all in good taste until you cross the line. Those guys should get shot at. But it's nothing wrong if a person likes to have a show car and run like 17's because of all the weight he brought himself. Like I said not everyone likes going fast. But for us speed racer, that's rice. It's really all in the eye of the beholder, one man's trash is another man's treasure.

[Two-Forty]

that's "Aero" excuse my typo. (K_Car)

[FrEaK]

Rice is a food...

[red240ne]

DUDE THAT COUGAR GOES TO MY SCHOOL!! i can't believe he drives all the way to kearney. that kid is always out every night racing his friend with a white ford ranger and blue neon lights. i hate people with 4 cylinder trucks that think they're fast.

[fryrice]

Rice=

All show and no go...what do I mean? 6 inch tailpipes, 3 ft tall spoilers (on a front wheel drive car) that serve no purpose, body kit, altezzas, tasteless stickers, etc......

Any combination of the above may be considered rice. To me, if the car looks fast, but is slow as ****, thats rice. If it has more stickers than horsepower, that is rice. If it has a non-functional 3 ft wing on a fwd car, thats rice. LED lights anywhere in the car, whether on the hood or in the tailpipes, thats rice. Chrome fire extinguisher? Rice. If it buzzes louder than 1000 bumble bees but needs at least 17 seconds to cross the 1/4 mile, thats rice.

I think that sums it up. :ylsuper

[FrEaK]

I kinda like those chrome fire extinguishers

[240dreams]

if u have a slow car but claim its for drifting is that rice?

[Daunttless]

Only if you have a 56 inch aluminum GT style wing that you think is a "drift style wing."

[wingzero]

hold on, I had a list of things I thought were ricey I posted not to long ago.......

Things I deem ricey (just my opinion, hope no one takes any offense):

- Decals of brands you don't have, who don't make products for you car, or which don't belong on your car (nismo on a honda, Type R Badges on anything except an Integra Type R).- Big wings: unless its from like C-west, Veilside, JUN, etc.(something nice), APR sucks, ditto for anything from APC. And only if you don't go around saying you need the downforce, we all know its 90% for looks, unless your pushing like 500hp or compete in top-speed races. - Triple-Deck wings, no excuses.- ANYTHING from APC. - ANYTHING from Matrix (Chrome wings? WTF, like the regular ones aren't bad enough)- ANYTHING from OBX, TenzoR, or any of those other cheap-*** companies who copy other company's ideas, these companies are the lifeblood of riceboys.- Anything that lights up when it shouldn't have from the factory,(shift knobs, illumni-gauges, emblems, windshield squirters, valve stem covers, anything under your car, the list goes on and on.)- Replacement headlights or tailights that don't come from the factory (Altezzas/projector headlights).- Headlight/tailight conversions. Period. Your car's fine the way it came from the factory.- Any body kit with the word "style" or "type" in its name (Blitz "style" body kit, "Type" C-west body kit).- 70-80% of body kits. They're all either cheap quality, ugly as hell, ripoffs, or all three. - Any custom body work, such as any scoops or vents, shaved moldings, with the exception of fender flares from JUN, URAS,etc. those are sweet. - Racing stripes, unless they're on a viper, or those sweet Signal Auto stripes.- Chrome. Of any kind. You know what I'm talking about. It doesn't belong on any part of your car.- Exhaust Tips, or coffee can exhausts. Anything that sounds remotley like an electric toothbrush gone haywire.- Cut Springs.- Springs that lower your car 4.5 inches.- Blown Shocks.- Discount tire rims.- Custom interiors.- Car accessories you buy from Pep boys, O'Reily's.- Performance Parts you buy Pep boys, O'Reily's.- Working on worthless cars like Kias, Daewoos, rice right from the start.- Cavaliers, Neons, Focuses, Cougars, unless your like John Lingenfelter, the only thing you CAN do to these cars is rice them out. If your going to work on an american car, then don't do it half-assed and get a V-8.- Working on family cars, Altimas, Accords, Camrys, etc. They're called family cars for a reason. You never see 240sx station wagons.- Having 3 20" subs, I want to listen to my music, not have it beaten into my head.- Having a t.v or video game system in your car, I don't know about you but I have a hard time playing Tekken 4 and driving at the same time.- This one isn't ricey, just stupid: Getting parts from the Japanese counterpart of your car which your car already has, like getting the japanese civic a/c vent just because its a different design. - Show Cars.- Saying something is "Tight" (Every riceboy I know says that).- Living in a van down by the river. You don't know Jack Squat!

Eh, I'll think up some more later......

[boMex]

[quote=" wingzero - Decals of brands you don't have, who don't make products for you car, or which don't belong on your car (Type R Badges on anything except an Integra Type R).[/quote]What about B18c5 swaps? Since they are 'R' powered they should be able to use the name....and just there are a bunch running around here in Toronto.Quote »- Headlight/tailight conversions. Period. Your car's fine the way it came from the factory.[/quote]What about a silvia conversion??? Just because your too cheap to drop for JDM parts doesn't mean the rest of us areQuote »- Any custom body work, such as any scoops or vents, shaved moldings.[/quote]so if I have a S13 sil conversion with an SR swap and like 20 grand under the hood as well as a scoop on the hood for better ventalation, thats ricey??? wha????Quote »- Working on worthless cars like Kias, Daewoos, rice right from the start.[/quote]...yeah dumbass until one whoops your ***......I learned this lesson when a turbo Hyundai Sonata whiped my *** so hard it still hurts.Quote »- Cavaliers, Neons, Focuses, Cougars, unless your like John Lingenfelter, the only thing you CAN do to these cars is rice them out. If your going to work on an american car, then don't do it half-assed and get a V-8.[/quote]...ummm are you really as stupid as you sound?? Neon ACR's are lethal at the track, Focus SVT's will school a 240sx any day and a cougar with a vortec supercharger will rip on most rides.Quote »- Working on family cars, Altimas, Accords, Camrys, etc. They're called family cars for a reason. You never see 240sx station wagons.[/quote]Now granted they will never be a sports car but they can still be made to go way faster then you. In fact they probably start out faster than you.Quote »- Having a t.v or video game system in your car, I don't know about you but I have a hard time playing Tekken 4 and driving at the same time.[/quote]...it's for the passengers dumbass.... You don't know Jack Squat!

[FrEaK]

im going to agree with bomex... alot of what you say is ludicrous...

[SpeeDDrifT]

ditto........i'm not going to go into details, i think bomex covered that well enough.

as ninja and blink said....the definition of what is rice is to broad and most times very opinionated to define.

[FrEaK]

That kid on his tricycle are definently not rice... its all drift..

[lucky]

I think rice has alot to do with bad taste. The neon lights, giant spoilers (unless needed for downforce), altezza lights, etc are all tacky.

[Dori Dori]

The original poster says that he can't buy a turbo engine b/c he doesn't have $4000..but he's gonna buy a body kit and nitrous...hmm. After the kit and paint plus the nitrous; I'd say you aren't too far away for that $4k. Unless you leace the kit unpainted in which case you will be even ricier.

[FrEaK]

I think rice has alot to do with bad taste. The neon lights, giant spoilers (unless needed for downforce), altezza lights, etc are all tacky.

It still comes down to a opinion of bad taste...