I use it for people who put dummy modifications on their car (like that $160 fart muffler at autozone, doesn't do @!#$ and sounds obnoxious). If you're going for looks, don't make it sound like an angry bee. I also use it to describe the under informed in the ways of performance modifications (those who think their autozone muffler and their anything-but-aerodynamic body kit is making their car fast). Basically, if you only do modifications to the appearance, don't run your mouth about how your car is "SO FAST" around me.

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Weebel wrote:I feel that if your trying to make a slow car look fast... your an idiot, and you don't look cool...... you should just make your car fast and not flawnt it instead.

how do you make a car "look fast"

Joey Baggs (Eazy716) wrote:

Weebel wrote:I feel that if your trying to make a slow car look fast... your an idiot, and you don't look cool...... you should just make your car fast and not flawnt it instead.

how do you make a car "look fast"

He probably means stickers and fake/empty nos bottles.

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Weebel com on now there are a lot of people out there is all they do is cosmetic changes to a car and a lot of them id give my left nut for.

they are trying to show there skills as an artist rather then a mechanic.......

noting wrong with that

i really think people sometimes are just insanely jealous of those that can do the work, i know im jealous of joey baggs car cause i dont have the skill to do the work he has done , but im not goin to put down cosmetic mods.

if any thing i just need to learn more

slick02eco wrote:You are rice! Rims before lowering is a no no! Very ricer in my opinion.

o mo

If thats rice then I must be the god of all things rice.

I have a built turbo motor and still no drop.

I also have rims and neons in and out side of my car.

ive got rice running threw my veins hell yeah.


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I consider rice to be any modification done in a cheap or inferior manner, where a more genuine or functional alternative exists. The intention is typically to attract attention -- negative, positive, or otherwise -- rather than improve the vehicle in any meaningful way. It is the vehicular equivalent of attention-whoring.



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can we end this thread please. its stupid. leave other cars alone. making fun of other cars makes you look like an idiot. im not mechanic, but ive got lots of art awards, i have a nice car, its not fast, but its nice. and i like it that way. if you dont like some1s car just keep it to urself. rice is a food not a name for a car lol.

Brad DeVries wrote:can we end this thread please. its stupid. leave other cars alone. making fun of other cars makes you look like an idiot. im not mechanic, but ive got lots of art awards, i have a nice car, its not fast, but its nice. and i like it that way. if you dont like some1s car just keep it to urself. rice is a food not a name for a car lol.

mabye theres the awnser


"boobs now with Riboflabin"

I pronounce myself the biggest idiot ever, because I'll make fun of cars until I go to my grave. Why? It's just one of life's simple pleasures. Ever notice that easily amused people always seem to be the happiest? With the continuing wussification of America these days, I might as well get my fill before it becomes common practice to sue people for vehicular ridicule. Wait for it -- the day will come.

Some cars deserve it. Sometimes it's the car manufacturers themselves that had it coming. I'll laugh at the back of a Pontiac Aztec just as quickly as I would at seeing a fiberglass wing screw-nailed onto the back of a Civic. Some people would approve of either one of these things. I'm pretty sure my rights still include disagreeing and then laughing at those people.

Does this make me a jerk? Almost definitely. I rest assured that I'm in good company.



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i only laught when its right. example you say?

over the weekend me and my buddy had to go to pep boys to get some wheel studs for his car. well we just happened to park in front of an altima that had eyebrows. whats wrong with that you ask? the simple fact that the eyebrows themselves were simply duct tape. yes thats right duct tape. maybe he could of fooled someone by cutting a shape to the duct tape but no, it was a simple lets say 5" long strip of duct tape ripped off and stuck to the lens.

Law#1-Pronounce N.O.S. as one word (NAWS).
Law#2-When you are outpowered, call people out with your friends car.
Law#3-Have an aftermarket body kit installed (Lips not included).
Law#4-Use of neons or L.E.D.'s to light up your car.
Law#5-Use an aftermarket tachometer...when your car already has a working stock tachometer in it.
Law#6-You must install a non-functional wing/spoiler on the back of your car.
Law#7-Names of performance parts on your car that you dont have.
Law#8-Claim to beat cars that your car is totally uncapable of beating.
Law#9-Magazine race.
Law#10-Install racing seats on a car that runs a 14 second or slower quarter mile.
Law#11-Listing stereo equiptment or any visual mod when listing all your performance mods.
Law#12-Believe that Honda invented VTEC.
Law#13-Putting sub-brand labels on your car...example:Honda emblems on an Acura, Audi on a VW..ect.
Law#14-Install an aftermarket duel-exhaust on a 4-cylinder.
Law#15-Make your exhaust sound like a lawn-mower.
Law#16-Buy a nitrous system just to purge.
Law#17-Using car donughts and calling them "skinnies".
Law#18-Mounting smaller tires to decrease gear ratio.
Law#19-Multi collored body panels.
Law#20-Claiming horse power and quarter mile times with out testing or proof.
Law#21-Talk about how fast your car will be once you buy and install all the parts.
Law#22-performing the ricer flyby
Law#23-fliping your hazard lights,during/after a loss or during a flyby
Law#24-subscribing to super street/sportcompact car
Law#25-boasting about your interior/power windows/sporty looks
Law#26-Say you lost because your car is running on a ****ty tune and needs to be tuned.......... when you're on the stock computer...
Law#27-rev @ every car on the road that will eat you(no matter what direction they are going)
Law#28-if some challenges you 2 a race you have 2 options
a.race and when you lose go to ws and lie your butt off
b.tell em they are a waste of time
Law#29-my clutch is slipping,
Law#30-If lose i missed a gear,
Law#31-or my vtec was set to low,
Law#32-when the vinyl work is worth more than the car,
Law#33-also calling the skinnies here is known as dookies,
Law#34-when someone does a neutral drop in an automatic,
Law#35-bouncing off the revlimiter more than once
Law#36-I started in 2nd intstead of 1st
Law#37-My shift light went off late
Law#38-I didnt catch posi trac on that one
Law#39-My shift nob came off (srt humor)
Law#40-Did you know green meant GO!
Law#41-My vtec juice light was flashing
Law#42-my trunk was weighed down from my 12s
Law#43-my strut bar snapped
Law#44-my neonlight valve stem covers are robbing hp
Law#45-I didnt double clutch like i should have
Law#46-If I didnt blow the welds on the intake i sure poop my pants on that one
Law#47-If the wing is bigger than the blechers at your local high school
Law#48-When the exhaust consist of coat hangers and jb weld
Law#49-Yeah its got about 5000 dollars invested in it ( and it looks like poop)
Law#50-Its a prototype that no one has (built from duct tape and blue glue and pvc piping)
Law#51-driving in and out of traffic with your vtak thinking you have a fast car
Law#52-Getting your #s from a g-tech or some other similar meter.
Law#53-using chicken wire as a mesh grill
Law#54-Remove your hubcaps and paint yer steelies to match the car
Law#55-Account at pepboys
Law#56-own both F+F and have ticket reserved for the third
Law#57-Cutting your factory springs to lower your car
Law#58-Having gauges that do not work
Law#59-When one car in the whole world runs 10s and you think your car is faster.
Law#60-Having a body kit and no plans on painting it
Law#61-When you double side tape parts to the car and expect them to hold up at 100 mph
Law#62-"Yeah its VTEC, but its not hooked up yet"
Law#63-When you consider primer as a color choice
Law#64-When you tell people it has a 9000 rpm redline and can only turn 6700
Law#65-58 if your name is Goki
Law#66-z3 fender flares on an import
Law#67-if you talk about owning a skyline someday and you drive a civic
Law#68-having windshield washer squirters with lights in them
Law#69-Cutting your factory springs to lower your car
Law#70-You refer as everything being JDM
Law#71-someone asks you if you have a turbo and you reply "not YET!"
Law#72-Tell people you are running nitrous,when its really N.O.S. octane booster.
Law#73-when you drive around some highschool parking lot 3 hours after schools out trying to pick up chicks
Law#74-taking your 50whp civic to a dyno when it's stock
Law#75-When you manually shift an automatic
Law#76-Going to the dragstrip with slicks and running a 16.05 in the 1/8
Law#77-When you drive around months at a time with spare tires on the front and custom rims in the back.
Law#78-All you do is brag about how much of a street racer you are
Law#79-Asking about staggared fitment rims on a FWD car.
Law#80-When your car consist of a GTR badge on the car and is not a skyline
Law#81-Its got a rotary motor in it and you drive a mustang
Law#82-you claim your car is fast then get butthurt so you claim your car is an autoX car.
Law#83-you post pics of your parents car and claim it for you own
Law#84-when you compare your $35k car to a $20k car
Law#85-List motor oil as a mod
Law#86-When your car has more torque in the lug nuts than in the motor
Law#87-list winshield wipers as a mod and carbon fiber pedals
Law#88-When your car has more than one squash air freshner in it
Law#89-When you transform your car into something else with a headlight swap and taillight swap
Law#90-When someone ask you if its mandrel bent or crush piping and you have no answer
Law#91-When you stick the rim and tire out further than the fenders and you use curb feelers to keep from messing them up.
Law#92-when your body kit is held on by sheet rock screws and thumb tacks
Law#93-If you "fat arm" out the window with a sideways cap.
Law#94-If you are 5'2 and you drive in the back seat
Law#95-when you have more switches than a hydralic car and have no hydralics
Law#96-If you have to beg your parents to drive the civic
Law#97-when you de-badge your GST ecplise of LX civic because its the suck model
Law#98-windshield sticker saying powered by....(127 @the crank yeah thats power)
Law#99-When one car in the whole world runs 10s and you think your car is fast.
Law#100-when your sn is qwerty
Law#101-You remove every piece of your interior and you still run 15's
Law#102-you have diamond plate floormats
Law#103-you have a racing harness on your stock civic lx seat
Law#104-you make your own intake out of pvc pipe
Law#105-you know what jdm means
Law#106-you have hubcaps that resemble rims
Law#107-you drive any korean car and "mod" it
Law#108-if you have an AEM license plate frame
Law#109-if you put 18, 19, or 20" rims on a sport compact.
Law#110-Japanese writing on a domestic car
Law#111-Put racing gas in ur stock civic lx
Law#112-If you spraypaint your interior
Law#113-if you don't make fun of ricers
Law#114-If you are getting angry while reading this list
Law#115-the local tow truck service is on speed dial
Law#116-the local performance shop is on speed dial
Law#117-someone yells got rice and your mom pulls up in the catering truck
Law#118-your in the performance shop to look @ @!#$ you cant buy untill payday..and it never comes
Law#119-put lambo doors on
Law#120-You join CLUBRSX , not to goof on them, but because you actually think they are fast
Law#121-Calling your flat, bald street tires "Slicks"
Law#123-you drive in 1st gear 90% of the time so you can hear the vtec whine
Law#124-If you buy an srt design
Law#125-you have a bumper sticker that says drive it like you stole it
Law#126-your keychain says aem/tanabe/greddy/typeR/si/mugen/....
Law#127-you play nfsu2 everyday
Law#128-you try to spell as many words linked to honda with your alphabets cereal
Law#129-You treat your nfsu2 car like its a real car
Law#130-Type-R
Law#131-I will own you in the twisties
Law#132-You have a V6 camaro/mustang and spend enough money to buy a V8 just to make people think it's a V8.
Law#133-You've ever swung in behind a car (at 50 mph) in an attempt to draft.
Law#134-When you lose you say "But your car has 4 more cylinders"
Law#135-when you lose you say "Imagine if Honda made an engine as big as yours, because my 4 cylindler has 100 HP/Liter!"
Law#136-You think you stand a chance against all Mustangs and Camaro's because they are heavy
Law#137-You have a Vin Diesel poster
Law#138-You buy a civic, add a cold air intake and cat back exhaust, add 200 lbs of stereo equipment and brag about how much faster it is than when it was stock.
Law#139-You try explaining why vtec is better than a turbo charger
Law#140-You have to let the passengers know when you're flooring it (Thanks, Broken )
Law#141-If you know you can't win, you dump the clutch at 8,000 RPM's and say you couldn't hook up, but at least you looked cool
Law#142-The only 2 exotic cars you can name are Supra and Skyline.
Law#143-You think taking 200 lbs off your car will make up for being 200 HP underpowered in comparison to your opponent.
Law#144-You put slicks on your car and only agree to race in the rain, just so you have an excuse.
Law#145-If you tell the story of how your friend has such a fast car, he put a $10 bill on the dash, floored it, and you couldn't reach it on the dash because you were too pinned in your seat.
Law#146-When you claim to race a stock automatic cobra.
Law#147-When your cardomain site has a 'future mods' list.
Law#148-When you have 12 inch deep dish rims.
Law#149-When you can shoot a grapefruit from your exhaust tip
Law#150-LED exhaust tips.

I found that on another page, some are pretty funny and true, some are pretty dumb. Thought it might give everybody a chuckle.

Law#10-Install racing seats on a car that runs a 14 second or slower quarter mile.
Law#24-subscribing to super street/sportcompact car
Law#105-you know what jdm means
Law#109-if you put 18, 19, or 20" rims on a sport compact.
Law#112-If you spraypaint your interior
Law#126-your keychain says aem/tanabe/greddy/typeR/si/mugen/...., Kicker does that count??
Law#149-When you can shoot a grapefruit from your exhaust tip

I never thought it would happen to me, I am..... rice, nnnnooooooooooooo!!!!!

I'm guilty of pretty much all the same laws, minus the keychain and exhaust. I probably make up for it by noticing that law 69 was repeated from 57.



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I've actually had my shift knob come off before....... but that was because my tranny sucks right now and I couldn't get it in gear

Some of those didn't make sense though..... JDM = japanese Domestic Market...... why would knowing that make you a ricer? .... I have to agree with a lot of them though.....

I think that geeky kinda hit it on the head when he brought up people that half ass everything they do to thier cars.....

And to answer Joey......(making a car look fast)..... to be honest I really don't know no that I think about it....... I basically meant that people shouldn't visually mod a car in an attempt to make other people think thier faster than it is especially if thier going to half ass it..... A lot of kids take crappy cars... and glue all kinds of crap onto them for the sole purpose of trying to make other people on the road think thier driving a "hoped up" car.... or they wan't the stranger sitting next to them at a stop light to think they are a "street racer".... that was really all I meant.....

I've seen some highly modified cars (visually) that actually look really good..... but those people took the time... spent the money... and did it the right way.... and most people I know with cars like that arn't going around trying to race every car they pull up next to at a stop light either...

Basically.... "real" car enthusiast... are not ricers if.....

They realize that visual mods are only visual (won't make the car faster or look faster), and take the time to do it right.... and actually have a general look they are going for.......

they take the time to learn how to hop up a car.... and how performance mods actually work (research and learn all they can)...... and they only do performance mods that they know will make a difference... and how much a a difference it will make.

Everything they do to thier car is soley for themselves and they don't care if someone else doesn't agree with thier tastes or setups

They take advice from people that actually know what they are talking about and learn from them.

They don't talk smack even if thier car really is faster... and they don't say that thier car "has a lot done to it" when it only had an intake and exhaust

They spend most of thier time learning how to do things the right way......

They never say that they "know" something when they are only guessing or going by what they have heard.

They don't make BS excuses.

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Well... thats how I feel about it anyway...... not that any of it matters........ this really is all kinda stupid when you think about it....

LOL! at SilverZ's post. I think i may be guilty of a few of them too haha.

I agree with an earlier comment of "this thread should be closed" (I know, me adding a post doesn't really help but neway!)

In my opinion if it's not your car why does it bother you? They are probably perfectly happy with there large exhaust etc, So just let them be, also they may not be able to afford to get new rims, tires and lowering springs and struts all at the same time.

But anyway thats just my opinion.



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Geeky wrote:I consider rice to be any modification done in a cheap or inferior manner, where a more genuine or functional alternative exists. The intention is typically to attract attention -- negative, positive, or otherwise -- rather than improve the vehicle in any meaningful way. It is the vehicular equivalent of attention-whoring.

All matter of OPINION.

James (ROLN19S) (JuicyJ) wrote:

Geeky wrote:I consider rice to be any modification done in a cheap or inferior manner, where a more genuine or functional alternative exists. The intention is typically to attract attention -- negative, positive, or otherwise -- rather than improve the vehicle in any meaningful way. It is the vehicular equivalent of attention-whoring.

All matter of OPINION.

+1

i can guarantee that my idea of modding in a "meaningful way" is the complete opposite of what you classify as "meaningful"

WHAT IS RICE ..


rice to me is, whats on my plate at the moment.. goes good with lots of things.. try it. lol

Joey Baggs (Eazy716) wrote:

James (ROLN19S) (JuicyJ) wrote:

Geeky wrote:I consider rice to be any modification done in a cheap or inferior manner, where a more genuine or functional alternative exists. The intention is typically to attract attention -- negative, positive, or otherwise -- rather than improve the vehicle in any meaningful way. It is the vehicular equivalent of attention-whoring.

All matter of OPINION.

+1

i can guarantee that my idea of modding in a "meaningful way" is the complete opposite of what you classify as "meaningful"

Is there really so large a gray area? For aesthetic changes, perhaps -- since you could always argue that a something is ugly -- but all my definition stipulates is that it be done in a semi-professional manner. Things like performance and suspension mods are definitely functional, and thus exempt.



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point being, some cars are built strictly for aesthetics....like mine. even if i do throw a turbo/SC on it, it i s purely for looks. obviously it would function like it should, but wouldnt be the purpose of it. i dont ever intend on running my car like that, nor would it even move with all the weight in it, lol.

which goes back to my original post....everyone has a different outlook, and a different goal for their car. why slap a stereotypical word on cars you may not like or agree with? why not just keep it to yourself and move on. only reason i can ever come up with is the fact that deep down those people are truly jealous and envy what they dont have.

*note - this is not directed at you Geeky, but a general statement.

Weebel wrote:I've actually had my shift knob come off before....... but that was because my tranny sucks right now and I couldn't get it in gear

that was funny stuff

Good stuff Silver,geez all this time and I never knew I was a ricer,LMAO



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I've been reading some of the post and would like to say that for some it is all about the look. I read one persons post saying that rims before lower was huge no no or something to that effect. Speaking from my situation i don't have tons of money to dump into the car to make it look fast and be fast. Mom and Dad aren't buying the car for me, if money weren't an issue i wouldn't be driving a cavy. I love my car but that being said i have to do what i think looks good with the money i have. Many people have other responsibilities college tuition ect that limits spending. I fully intend to make my car look mean, but as far as performance a cat back and maybe a cold air as far as i'll probably go.

I actually raced a ricer, though he was mexican...i was on the freeway and he passes me with his coffee can muffler screaming, not in a good way....btw 98 honda civic - gay graphics, stickers across the body, different colored hood (im guessing to look carbon-fiber?) and ya....he follows me off the freeway and tells me (and i quote)..."..That was my first time racing a Saturn.." i tell him, "..its a Pontiac.." he revs his rice-mobile, and when the light is green, he dumps it at least at 6 grand, so his tires were spinning, i dump it at 3 grand....long story short, i shut down in second...he attempts the ricer fly by when im going 45, i see him coming, drop it in 2nd and pull him at the top of third....he rolls up his windows and flips a bi**h....i love ricers.


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Modified Intake
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