Whats Rice and whats nice?

[RavenLS1]

and this

[RavenLS1]

go the fourbie

[Ryan]

Originally Posted by THE_RAVEN

i think this is rice but other people dont.
what do you guys think?

A VY SS front on a VL isnt rice its unqiue. :

Anything that looks completly stupid to me is rice.

I.e those big *** Holden or Ford stickers across the front window of Commodores and Falcons like hello we know its a Holden and a Ford no need to remind us. _

[gozza]

thats not rice
the only thing that could possible be labled rice would be the engine seeing as tho its jap

[Ryan]

Originally Posted by gozza

thats not rice
the only thing that could possible be labled rice would be the engine seeing as tho its jap

How can you call a jap engine rice?

The RB30s can produce lots of power and can hurtle VLs down the quarter under 9 seconds.

Not bad for a "rice" engine is it mate?

[clontarf_x]

im pretty sure ive gota definition for rice on urbandictionary.com :P

[gozza]

Originally Posted by VY18s

How can you call a jap engine rice?

The RB30s can produce lots of power and can hurtle VLs down the quarter under 9 seconds.

Not bad for a "rice" engine is it mate?

umm because its japanese....
i didn't call it rice
if you read my post properly you would of understood it....being an australian car WITH a japanese engine its the only thing about it that you COULD call rice..
im quite aware of what the engines are capable of


in the same post i said i didn't think it was rice anyway

[montyv8]

i reckon this is rice:

[montyv8]

and this is 'Nice'

http://www.provenceweb.fr/e/alpmarit/nice/nice.htm

[Ryan]

Originally Posted by gozza

umm because its japanese....
i didn't call it rice
if you read my post properly you would of understood it....being an australian car WITH a japanese engine its the only thing about it that you COULD call rice..
im quite aware of what the engines are capable of


in the same post i said i didn't think it was rice anyway

How do you know it doesnt have a V8 though?

But seriously even if it does have the jap 6 you couldnt call the engine rice because its japanese thats like saying new Commodores are Redneck because they have Canadian/American V8s.

[montyv8]

what do i win?

[vegabass]

Rice is like a stock Mitsubishi Mirage with fully sick 200" wheels on it, with those APEXI and HKS stickers on the side with the windscreen wipers with the big reflectors on them.

a good laugh but what ever floats your boat

[RavenLS1]

The red VL/VY is a turbo for your argumentitive information.

[oneredED]

ROFL @ monty's post!

I think rice is just stuff people put on cars to make them look like faster, when in reality the money could be better spent on engine mods to make it actually fast. The acronym Race Inspired Cosmetic Enhancement comes to mind...

I dont think body kits and rims are rice if done so as to flow well into the design of the car. However a one foot high carbon fibre wing, on a lancer with a top speed of <180kmh, is RICE. So is a monster tacho that goes to 11000rpm, fitted to a standard 4L falcon, when the standard I6 falcon motor will only do ~6k rpm anyways... (in my opinion)

[oneredED]

Oh, and as for the commodore, I don't think that is RICE. I can see and appreciate that alot of effort was put into it, and that it wasnt on special at autobahn like alot of ricer add-ons. I don't like it, I don't think it suits the shape of the rest of the car one bit, but I definately wouldnt call it RICE.

[Ryan]

Originally Posted by THE_RAVEN

The red VL/VY is a turbo for your argumentitive information.

Ok cool thats ok than.

I'm not really arguing with gozza just that there is no way any jap engine can be considered rice since most of the jap engines are built for performance.

[boss-290]

Originally Posted by THE_RAVEN

i think this is rice but other people dont.
what do you guys think?

Its a waste of a VY commy I wonder what happened to the other end, it was probably badly damaged.

I'd say its rice. :

[montyv8]

so the XF ute with the BA front is also rice?
i dont think it is. they're both butt ugly, but not rice.

[RavenLS1]

theres no disputing these.

[montyv8]

bingo

[RavenLS1]

1. ricer link send redefine 669 up, 67 down

(Ricer: from the latin word Ricarius meaning to suck at everything you attempt)

A person who makes unecessary modifications to their most often import car (hence the term "rice") to make it (mostly make it look) faster. The most common modifications are (but not limited to):

- Huge exhaust that serves no purpose but to make the car louder
- Large spoiler on the back that looks like something Boeing made for the 747
- Lots of after-market company stickers they don't have parts from, but must be cool
- Expensive rims that usually cost more than the car itself
- Bodykit to make the car appear lower, usually accented with chicken wire
- Clear tail lights and corner signals
- A "performace intake"- a tube that feeds cold air to their engine usually located in areas of excessive heat (behind or on top of the engine)
- Most of these riced cars (a.k.a. rice rockets or rice burners) are imports; Honda Civics, Accords, Integras, CRXs, RSXs, Del Sols Mitsubishi Eclipses, Lancers, Subaru Imprezas, however there are some domestics such as Chevrolet Caviliers, Dodge Neons, Ford Focus; small, slow, economy cars designed specifically to go slow. Please note that some Supras, Skylines, WRX's and other higher performance imports are designed to go fast, and are therfore not always considered rice. It really depends on the severity of the case.

The "ricer" attempts to make their car "performance" by adding the modifications listed above. These ricers are not confined to any one ethnic group or color, however different ethnic groups are known for certain styles.Honda Civics with big spoilers and 4" exhaust tips are considered to be ricers.

[RavenLS1]

2. Ricer link send redefine 202 up, 39 down

Any oriental import car that has been modified for no real performance gain.Ricer: An oriental car with no engine mods, a body kit, and possibly stickers. Made to look fast.
Not a ricer: An oriental car with a fully built engine, drive train, and suspension reguardless of appearance
Source: Cover Yellow, Apr 3, 2003
3. ricer link send redefine 115 up, 32 down

Ricer - Any person who adds tasteless modifications to a perfectly normal automobile.We're not anti-import...
We're anti-idiot......

www.anti-rice.com
Source: Veritas, May 1, 2004
4. ricer link send redefine 83 up, 12 down

any person who spends more money to make their car look like it goes fast than they spend on actually making it go fast.

Usually people who try to get into the import tuning scene after watching the fast and the furious a few too many times. Not necessarily anyone who goes and buys a bodykit, because a few of those actually do decrease drag, increase cooling, etc., like veilside and stuff, just crappy ripoffs that dont do a damn thing except maybe increase downforce, but if you have a FWD car, a spoiler is just gonna make you go slower. Also, if you have any idea how cars work, you'd realize that there really is no point in making a car look fast if it cant go fast, and if you dont understand how cars work, or dont care, you have no business even pretending to be a part of the tuner scene.Billy and Bobby both have 6000 to spend on their car. Billy invests it in suspension and engine work, and Bobby buys a "sick" body kit, and some "tight" rims. So, Billy has a fast car that will surprise anyone wanting to race it, and bobby is hitching a ride back home, because his "sick" body kit blocked all air to the engine.
Can you spot the ricer?
Source: Marc, Jul 26, 2004
5. ricer link send redefine 89 up, 23 down

When a moron (see: retard, dumbass) decides to take a car (foreign or domestic) and tries to make it look fast. The car will not really gain any hp or performance, but it will gain numerous stickers and yellow paint. It can be identified by one of the following:
1. The sound of a loud fart in a coffee can.
2. The yellow blob with a bookshelf on the trunk that is 1/4 mile behind real cars.
3. A Honda that has "performance mods" such as stickers, seat harnesses, and a fire extinguisher in full view (just in case the things catches on fire when it hits 40 mph).
4. A driver who claims his car has 100hp per liter but will not fess up to the fact that his car has a total of 43 ft/lbs of torque.Ricers are fags.
Source: Balls™, Apr 26, 2004
6. Ricer link send redefine 58 up, 11 down

Someone regardless of ethnicity with any vehicle regardless of type that put money into the cosmetics of their vehicle instead of performance and treats it as though it will beat anything it up against.
Source: maximalove1996, Jun 27, 2003
7. ricer link send redefine 50 up, 17 down

The process of taking an import car such as a Honda Civic, putting a fart pipe on it, spoilers and some stickers. Then you drive it around town flooring it out the corners, vainly beleiving people think you're cool and have driving skills.Ricers have tiny dicks.
Source: growupricer, Aug 30, 2004
8. Ricer link send redefine 66 up, 38 down

A small vehicle that's big on ignorance. Usually laden with asinine "mods", like garish plastic ground effects that were never painted to match the rest of the car, a giant whale-tail even though it's front-wheel-drive, and a fart-can whose sound encourages everyone to turn and laugh at the driver.

This phenomenon is sad, really. It may have resulted from the fact that stupid consumers flocked to front-wheel drive, despite the fact that these cars handle like a sled on concrete and AREN'T WORTH MODIFYING.Back in our parents' day, kids would save up to buy an old Chevelle and work on it until it was a V-8 powerhouse.

Today, most of that demographic has been replaced with spoiled brats who think they can buy performance in the form of stickers and a subwoofer. Instead of wasting their money on these laughable ricers, they could have scoped out Auto Trader for a great muscle car and owned a classic.
Source: Information Central, Mar 9, 2004
9. Ricer link send redefine 35 up, 8 down

Any of a number of persons, usually young males, who place numerous cosmetic enhancements to a vehicle in the belief that such enhancements will add performance to their vehicles. These "enhancements" include but are not limited to:

1. Incorrect badging
2. Insanely large exhaust tips (5" in diameter or greater)
3. Spoilers & bodykits; especially those made of cardboard or plastic
4. Offset tape stripes
5. Single wiper conversion
6. Oriental symbols; esp. on American cars
Cars do not neccesarily need to be imports to be considered "rice"- ex. "Cobra" badging and/or body kit on a V6 Mustang.I've seen myself the following examples:

"RalliArt" badging on a Honda
"Evolution" badging and bodykit attempt on 1989 Mirage
"Neuspeed" badging on 1997 Lumina
"Type-R" badge and 5" exhaust tip on 1980s Civic Wagovan
Double spoiler, 18" rims and Type-R badge on Geo Metro
Type-R badge on Ford Probe
Source: Mr_Buick, Jan 15, 2004
10. Ricer link send redefine 34 up, 12 down

Either a Japnease car tuned to sound like a crying baby, or the term used to describe a helpless teen that thinks his or her lawnmower-powered civic or eclipse could own a Vette or Ferrari.That cool civic you see haulin' down the freeway with an airplane wing for a spoiler.
Source: A.R.S. (Anti-Rice-Society), Jun 23, 2004

[GlennBA]

Originally Posted by VY18s

A VY SS front on a VL isnt rice its unqiue. :

it doesn't match the car, looks horrible.. vl front would have at least suited.

[Ryan]

Originally Posted by GlennAUII

it doesn't match the car, looks horrible.. vl front would have at least suited.

Mate whlist you have your own opinion which is cool with me.

Its different and original how many VLs do you see around with VY SS fronts on them?

Also where would the originality be if it still had the normal VL front? it would just be another boring red VL Turbo.

[SSBUB]

i do think the vl conversion was unique, but not how i would spend my $$ if it had to go to the car.

[RavenLS1]

You Might Be A Ricer 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 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 every time 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."
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 and temporary rub-on tattoos!

--------------------------------------------------- The following submissions to the list are from Chris (GreenMitsuE1)------------

You've spent more on graphics and decals than you have in gas, for the whole year

You sound like you're going 90, but you're creeping past 25

You upgraded to the "big bore" 2 inch exhaust

You lose 2 mpg by installing a body kit

Your wing is so large that if you go faster than 65, your bumper drags

You think "displacement" is something that happens to homeless people

Yugo's give you a run for the money

You continuously run red lights because they are invisible thru your red window tint

15's are considered HUGE rims

You can reach back and defrost the rear window by hand

You will race anyone, anytime, and already know that you will lose

You think Moby is one of the greatest composers of our time

You spend all your money pimping it out because spending money to make it faster is a waste

Your little sister is the only one impressed with your car

When you win a race, you don't really win, it's just that the other guy felt soooo sorry for you

You think your mom's Corolla is fast

The cross section of your exhaust tip is bigger than the contact patch of your tires

Your aftermarket tach is bigger than your fist

You bought the big *** tach to try to scare off the fast cars

But all it does is let people know how hard you have to push it to exceed the legal speed limit

You rev on school busses

Hell, you rev on people in electric wheelchairs

You buy and install custom rims a pair at a time

YOU REALIZE THAT ALL OF THE ABOVE IS TRUE AND YOU STILL THINK YOU'RE COOL!!!

You've entered a 12 step program called "How to come to terms with your limitations"

The bill of your hat gets caught when you roll the window up

You really want to kick my *** right now

You cut 2" holes in your rear bumper and don't know what they're for

You cut 2" holes in your rear bumper and DO know what they're for

You go to the auto paint store and pick out the most retina burning color you can find

You buy race gas to drop you from 17.02 to 16.9 in the quarter, and then tell all your friends how fast you went

You add a second battery to power all the neon, and the mini disco ball

You add a wing on TOP of your car, 'cause wagons need down force too

You've ever painted bare, raw fiberglass black and said "Look! It's just like carbon fiber!"

You get pimped out props from the mini truck crowd

You still only get dates from high school girls

You actually own a pair of light up glasses from Checker Auto

When you install your super phat wing, you put the pointy ends up

You purchase and install a body kit, one piece at a time

You saw the "Rice Boy" magazine in the back of Sport Compact, and inquired about a subscription

Your brother is ****ed cause you stole the muffler off his dirt bike (it was a direct fit!)

Your dad is worried cause you bought a car with less displacement than his lawnmower

[Dave_au]

Originally Posted by GT595

RICE not nice = neon lights on underbody
NICE not rice = Shaker on BA GT :Reverend:

Nah, the shaker is rice!

Anyone heard the new term being used in Sydney for the Turramurra B&S utes? WHEAT!

[gozza]

i think its all a bit exessive
i have to move AROUND speedbumps at shopping centres
some quite stupid examples really

[RavenLS1]

cant please everyone.
But still good for a laugh.

[gozza]

how bout picking a non ricer

getting beatin in your I6 by a pulsar and using the saying...off hes a ricer..look at that rice
half of these so called "rice cars" given the work you put into your cars would kick just as much a55 if not more

a stock crx 5spd woulld beat an i6 with minor mods easily
it has 2 less cylinders and 2.4lts less capacity
ohh buts its rice its crap
bwahaha
morons