A definition of Rice

[Jermonsta]

With all the people calling one another riceboys around here i figured it was time to develop a definition of rice, a guideline of sorts.

For example, do all cars with body kits get considered rice?

What about cars with fake intercoolers ?

So post here if you see abhorent rice

And if you want to add definitions to the list go ahead, we can make a Rice Constitution

somebody had a rice citation, i'll see if i can find it and post it

[FDTT]

Large quantities of stickers on the vehicle that are in no way associated with a sponsor, large vinal graphics (air brush is ok cause that is just cool), fake intercooler, fake BOV, colour matching the interior to the exterior with a spray can, altezza taillights, strobe lights, underbody neons, interior neons, large exhaust cans that only emit noise and have no hp gain, large wings that have absolutly no function, plastic light covers.

^all of these are not "rice", it is rather the attitude of the driver that makes the car a "rice" ride. But for the record, i hate most everything i stated above.

[B1SiR6A]

I remember when I was a ricer....Well...on my way to being one...Good thing I didnt have the money to destroy the ROLLA with bodykits, a fart can and spray paint.

[projectsilvia97]

FDTT, your my hero man. i could not have stated any of those thinks better.

how do you post pictures on here? cuz i have that rice citation thing.... thanks.

[Jermonsta]

i think most of those things ARE rice actually, what about body kits tho? front bumpers? are specific types rice?

[projectsilvia97]

it depends on the body kit. i don't really like those big wavy things and what not. Like big front "extreme" bumpers that make you look like you going 20 mph, but you really stopped at a stop light. Nothing to big or flashy. I like OEM style kits, if that. i also hate when people but type r stickers on they car. one time i saw a nissan maxima, had a gt-r emblem, civic type r emblem, integra type r emblem, mustang gt emblem, and an s2000 emblem. i sat there in that parking lot and pondered at how you could have all those cars in one car. amazing things can be done with the high-tech shit coming out these days.

[FDTT]

Pretending to be something you are not is "rice".

ie. pretending a GSR is a ITR
ie. Maxima is a Skyline
ie. Civic SE is a Type R or SiR
ie. Mustang 4 cylinder is a GT

All of these are rice. It is quite difficult do describe this because there are so many different thing that could be called rice.

[kidrocket]

any mod that doesnt affect the overall performance of the car. there are exceptions to the rule, i.e. carbon fiber trim, a nice paint job etc.

[Jermonsta]

i would say there is a difference between making the car look nice, and making it rice, if you have an ugly front bumper, or need more flow for an intercooler/radiator that would be a legit reason to get a front bumper. what about side skirts?? do any body panels make a car more aerodynamic? or are they all just for show? carbon fiber hood is exempt, right?

[Spectre927]

I've noticed rice can be a big time attitude factor. In here I've noticed we pretty much can tell what is rice, with the only person disagreeing being the one who's getting called rice and maybe one of his 'friends' with the same IP address. It is basically making your car look fast when its not... but theres so much more to it, because Ive seen quick cars with euros and wings... so it can come down to personal opinions.
ps, i dont think this is the right category for this. we need our own bs forum or something in the honda/acura section... an opinions/rating forum would be cool too...

[mycivic]

You Might Be A Ricer Boy If…


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You have more exhaust decibels than your engine has horsepower.
You have aftermarket FRONT wheels for racing but stock rear wheels.
Your engine makes twice as much horsepower as torque.
17" rims up front, 13" out back on your FWD.
You ever painted your wheels to match the same color of your car.
You put your automatic car in neutral at every stoplight in order to roll it back and try to fool other people into thinking you have a manual transmission
DuPont gave up trying to figure out the shade you were asking for.
Your mod list includes stereo equipment, shifter handle, MOMO steering wheel, PIA driving lights, exhaust tip, but no REAL engine parts.
A chameleon lizard undergoes fewer shade changes than your custom paint scheme.
Your rims and tires are so large, that you have to install the tire / wheel from underneath the car because it simply won't fit in the wheel well going in from the side.
The dealer laughs when you bring your car back in for service under warranty, and you've only had it 6 months...
Your tires / rims stick out from the lip of your car by more than 1".
Your paint job is from the WRONG end of the color spectrum.
You installed spacers on your STOCK wheels and tires to get them to stick out past the fender.
You see cars like yours in a Shriner's Parade for Children and clowns are driving them.
You bring an empty Maxwell House coffee can with you to compare size when you shop for an aftermarket exhaust system.
Your Eclipse GS-T hardtop has a "SPYDER" emblem on the rear...
Your sum knowledge of suspension is: "the more negative camber, the better the handling."
You push your car through the staging lanes. That way, maybe you can break into the 16s by keeping the motor cool between runs.
You add a super tall rear wing, and a hundred pounds of aftermarket ground effects, neon and stereo yet you gut the interior and yank out the rear seat for weight savings.
Your rear wing AND your rear window have a third mount brake light...
The back lighting in the gauges in your A-pillar gauge pod work long before the actual gauges are hooked up.
You cut 4 coil springs and scrape the chassis on the ground. Sparks are cool when you corner at normal traffic speeds!
You have to find a way to drive AROUND speed bumps in a parking lot.
You install clear corner and brake lights.
You install colored bulbs in your aftermarket clear lenses.
You ever put neon on the bottom of your car, and then busted it on the first speed bump you went over.
You painted the UNDERBODY of your car to match
If your rear spoiler is taller then you are.
if you can fit fist fuck your exhaust tip
You have more stereo WATTS than engine TORQUE!
If your tailpipe extension is the most expensive mod you’ve done to your engine yet.
Your tailpipe extension fell off during a quarter mile race and you went three tenths of a second faster due to weight savings.
EVERY car in your class has a turbo pushing double digits worth of boost.
You spent $5,000 on the engine and you can not out run a stock Camaro, Firebird, or Mustang
You want the 'wastegate' sound, but don't want to install a turbocharger system.
You think Nitrous Oxide on your Hyundai Sonata puts you in the same performance league as the Chevy Corvette.
The automatic version of your car runs 2 seconds slower in the 1/4mile.
If the 1970 Plymouth Daytona Superbird has a smaller spoiler than your car does.
You think the Del Sol is a sports car...
A torque converter does NOTHING for your car.
You think a deep farty noise = the sound of high performance
If you think that horsepower is far more important than torque
If you have ever claimed that switching to a cone filter has given you more than 5 HP.
If you have ever considered installing more than one set of fog / driving lights.
If you claim that the aftermarket cold air intake system you just installed doubled your horsepower or took 2 or more seconds off of your E/T.
Your baseball cap is always on backwards when you drive (the first sign of mental retardation, wearing your clothes backwards... BE).
You spent all night on the Internet trying to find a company that makes a turbocharger system for your Hyundai...
If you removed your side view mirrors and put them at the TOP of the door / window frame.
If you think the Fugees are 'speed' music.
MOMO is 'absolutely required' to go fast.
Your four cylinder has a dual exhaust system installed.
Your four cylinder has four exhaust pipes ("Hey, one for each cylinder!")
The color of your interior upholstery hurts the cones and rods in other people's eyes.
If you cannot drive your car in snow as the ground effects create a plow effect.
If you have installed driving lights to compensate for headlight blackouts / tape.
If you think that 180 horsepower and 185 lb/ft of torque are impressive for a ‘mildly’ modified engine.
If you have stickers on your car for parts that you could not point out if asked where those parts are installed.
You think pushrods are a bad thing…
Your car has more decals than you do the quarter in seconds.
Every Honda you EVER owned, all the way back to your 1978 Accord was either a V-Tec or a TYPE-R.
You took your rear seat out and gutted your interior for weight savings but you installed 400 pounds of electronics, neon, DVD, Sony, etc.
If you gutted the interior to save weight on a car that you will never take to the track…
You lean your seat so far back when you are driving, that everytime you hit a bump, its your back and not your butt that hurts.
You have hydraulics and sixteen switches on a car you claim runs low 10s on the street and corners better than a Porsche.
If you can estimate that your car makes more than 250 HP without ever running it at the track or getting a dyno reading.
You claim that you can get a titanium block for your engine.
If you have ever thought Hyundai and "performance" went hand in hand
If you've ever gone to a parts shop or speed warehouse and asked for a 1" to 6" exhaust adapter...
If you've ever contemplated adding "TYPE-R" stickers to your Sonata…
If you've removed more than 1/2 of the coils from your springs by cutting them yourself ...
If you have more neon lights on your car than a strip club...
You put Kanji on your Ford ZX2, Ford Probe, or Mercury Cougar ...
You own a "TYPE-R" Hyundai or Mazda.
You couldn't afford headlight masking, so you just painted them with flat black Krylon and it's peeling. Badly.
You claim that polishing your intake gave you 5hp.
You own a V-TEC Hyundai or Mazda (especially a V-TEC rotary engined Mazda RX-7)
You have neon INSIDE your car or in your ENGINE compartment
You ever claimed that high gas mileage made your car superior in performance to V8s.
If it takes you 8000rpm to reach 30mph from a dead stop at WOT.
You think yellow plastic interior trim makes your car cool
You spend $500 for a giant hand welded tube for a muffler with the weld marks extremely visible
If you paint your drum brakes to simulate Hi-po calipers
If you install fake hi-po caliper / disc simulators
You have a front wing.
If you lower your car and add ground effects but retain the stock 14inch wheels with disc style wheel covers
If you equate the sound of performance with the sound of a Weed Eater™
If you think bolting a fake muffler to one side to simulate dual exhaust is cool
If you think colored head lights work better
Clear tail lights and turn signals. They’re colored for a REASON!
If you take mom's 4 door Honda accord and do any kind of mod to it
You drive a Ford Escort station wagon with Kanji, wide tires, and Limp Bizkit stickers on the rear hatch
You claim you lost the race because you had a passenger in the car.
You claim how if you went from a roll you would have beat him.
You claim you lost because you missed a shift... and your car is an automatic.
You claim you lost because he must have been on the juice..
Flying past the person who is 10 car lengths in front of you after they have put on their brakes.. and claim a victory.
after losing you flip your opponent off... rev your motor and fail to break the wheels loose even around a corner.
Tell everyone about how you lost the cop because of your "driving skills".
you are a white kid driving an import.. wear baggy pants/hat turned around, walk with a fake limp and end every sentence with "yew know wha I'm sayin? Relate."
Your idea of aiming a handgun is raising your arm over your head, pointing the gun away from you, and then just letting your wrist fall to the side to where the gun is almost sideways ...
drive around in a $20,000 import with $10,000 in mods.. and still live with your parents.
You can relate to every line of the song "Pretty Fly For A White Guy" by the Offspring
you take offense when I say.. "your sister is like your car.. small, tight and hard to get into."


… And the Number One reason you might be a ricer if... (drum roll)....you are a skinny, backwards hat wearing, dog chain wallet, 2 ft wide pants leg, Limp Bizkit looking white boy fag with a badly applied peroxide hair color treatment !

http://www.goingfaster.com/spo/you_m..._ricer_if.html

[Spectre927]

These either need to be removed or reworded. . As for the white guy comment... any race looks stupid doing that sh*t... BTW, I know that it wasnt written by anybody in here...

You have more stereo WATTS than engine TORQUE! (My one 10 has more than a cobra, just about any A/M system will)
You think pushrods are a bad thing… (DOHC?)
If you think that horsepower is far more important than torque(depends on the use, usually go hand in hand)
If you think that 180 horsepower and 185 lb/ft of torque are impressive for a ‘mildly’ modified engine.(any 4 banger with under 2 liters and 'mildly' modified putting out that to the wheels is pretty decent)
If you gutted the interior to save weight on a car that you will never take to the track…(not everyone races at the track)
If it takes you 8000rpm to reach 30mph from a dead stop at WOT. (rephrase that please)
You claim how if you went from a roll you would have beat him. (its pretty much a torque/weight factor... I wonder who made this list... hmmm... .. I honestly have never said that though, but a lot of people do race from a roll)
you are a white kid driving an import.. wear baggy pants/hat turned around, walk with a fake limp and end every sentence with "yew know wha I'm sayin? Relate." (why do you have to add the white part in?)

You are a skinny, backwards hat wearing, dog chain wallet, 2 ft wide pants leg, Limp Bizkit looking white boy fag with a badly applied peroxide hair color treatment (does the number one reaon really need to be a repeat? doesnt make sense. and WTF is up with this racist sh*t? white boy fag? I could go off on ANY race... but whats the point ? Should we add anybody who isn't white driving a domestic?)

This just proves there IS NO definition of rice, it just sort of is, and you should know it when you see it... here, try and define air.

[MexSiR]

Damn. Did you write that man? or did you take it from the internet?.
Pretty funny things.

Well. Im a ricer.
I have neon underglow (you cant see the bars and its bright) I have police illegal strobes.

That makes me have so much fun though im glad i have those things. Even if im a ricer, i have fun. Im not a hater. I dont care. Its my ride.

Peace.

[pikkagtr]

so if i have a modification on my car which some else thinks is "rice' does that make me a "ricer'
vice versa....if said person has something modified on HIS car which I think is "rice" so he is a "ricer" as well......who are we to judge wut's "rice" or not...isn't fixing up cars a passion and a way of self expression....???
i think "ricer" or not has to do with more attitude
like when someone comes up to me and asks about my Lude and then turns around and asks " say does my corolla have VTEC too????"

[T!mmy]

Yea here is my one way to define rice...

Rice is anything done to a car which doesn't fit everything else.

for example: Body kit with stock wheels and stock exhaust
Type R stickers if you don't have a type r

I know some people will call a car with a kit rice but as long as it's been done right and COMPLETE then I will give props. it's kind of like havin a stock interior, standard box for the subs. Cleary not a show car but since he added body kit and what not he thinks he has a show car. Usually people are called rice because of having show qualities and IMO when it comes to show if you want to be legit everything has to be done or you will only be put down for it. But like others have said to each his own and if you like it that's all that matters...but don't expect others to like it as well.

Well this is just my small

Brian