EVO owners define rice, Seems diff here
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RICE = Cars that have this load exhaust and are going no where. THat gets me mad.
RICE = WHen you put money into a car, and you put no performance parts except a load *** exhaust and a intake, and it goes no where, But you put 5k into a 9k car and its all show mods and you enter no show contest.
RICE = ALl these kids that try to race ion their civic like they are going to prove anything.
RICE = One of my friends that brakes with the hand brake cuz he said its a better brake system for his civic. HAHHA
RICE = Equal cars that blow the f*** out their blow off valve to get attention.
RICE = SOmeone that thinks 16s 1/4 is good.
RICE = To some it up RICE, is (Ricers, Intake Cat-back Exhaust), CuZ if thats all you got on your car and are not going to do anything else to it you are RICE
RICE = WHen you put money into a car, and you put no performance parts except a load *** exhaust and a intake, and it goes no where, But you put 5k into a 9k car and its all show mods and you enter no show contest.
RICE = ALl these kids that try to race ion their civic like they are going to prove anything.
RICE = One of my friends that brakes with the hand brake cuz he said its a better brake system for his civic. HAHHA
RICE = Equal cars that blow the f*** out their blow off valve to get attention.
RICE = SOmeone that thinks 16s 1/4 is good.
RICE = To some it up RICE, is (Ricers, Intake Cat-back Exhaust), CuZ if thats all you got on your car and are not going to do anything else to it you are RICE
Originally Posted by smokedmustang
Maybe I am too old to understand the word "Rice", but an EVO is anti-rice, it is totally functional on the track, NOT in the grocery store parking lot!!
Originally Posted by x838nwy
Now, it's not rice if your car's exhaust is loud if it's also fast. But if it has already screamed through 3 gears and it's still not gone very far, it's certainly rice.
Originally Posted by Dayton_EVO
Actually rice is a term created by domestic auto workers against Japanese imports many years ago. How the word "rice" evolved from that is beyond most. The term is offensive to some and deragatory in meaning. Actually people need to stop using the term as we had a thread that very extensively discussed this last year. Bad taste and ghetto fabulous customizing is not rice, it's just bad. People need to get off the "Rice Train" and just leave it alone. Not every part put on a vehicle for customizing purposes has to have any real form or function at all, get used to it. Look at most Lowriders and show cars that are driven on the street. Although, when customizing a vehicle you should have good taste or have help putting something tasteful together. I agree there is much bad taste on the street when it comes to customizing, but just leave it at that.
Originally Posted by Thegame
This is all just my opinion and I may be stereotyping so this is not always the case, but... What it all comes down to are age demographics and income. If you have an evo, chances are you're older than the kid with the moded civic. Chances are you also have more money than the guy with the moded civic. Evo's really never look rice becaue most owners don't want to put junk on their $30,000+ car. Civic owners, who don't have a whole lot of money will put anything on their cars just to attempt to make it look better and sound cooler. Why do you think there are hardly any generic parts for evos? Because there's no demand for them. There are plenty for civics. Just my .02
Originally Posted by Swift_OwL
RICE = Cars that have this load exhaust and are going no where. THat gets me mad.
Originally Posted by Swift_OwL
RICE = WHen you put money into a car, and you put no performance parts except a load *** exhaust and a intake, and it goes no where, But you put 5k into a 9k car and its all show mods and you enter no show contest.
RICE = ALl these kids that try to race ion their civic like they are going to prove anything.
RICE = One of my friends that brakes with the hand brake cuz he said its a better brake system for his civic. HAHHA
RICE = Equal cars that blow the f*** out their blow off valve to get attention.
RICE = SOmeone that thinks 16s 1/4 is good.
RICE = To some it up RICE, is (Ricers, Intake Cat-back Exhaust), CuZ if thats all you got on your car and are not going to do anything else to it you are RICE
Originally Posted by mchuang
Haha that is definetly not true. I have not yet seen one that looks like stock.. I may be wrong please show me.
everyone has their own opinion on the word Rice, i remember back in my rsx days, people would crack on another guy if he had a wide body kit, some wild color wheels, or anything with neons or of that nature. i have also noticed the crowd of people on here are more of a mature nature. remember alot honda guys arent really guys but more like teenage kids. to them non painted aftermarket kits on their cars are cool and so are huge monster tachs that change color. everyone has their one idea basically
And what purpose does a "vortex generator" serve other than looks?
I'm sorry, but there is no way that little thing generates ANY downforce.
I'm sorry, but there is no way that little thing generates ANY downforce.
Originally Posted by vesendak
Simple is better unless it serves a purpose like the Vortex generator.
The first usage of the term "rice" I am familiar with was in grade school in the early 80s referring to Japaneses motorcycles as rice rockets.
The first usage of the term "rice" I am familiar with was in grade school in the early 80s referring to Japaneses motorcycles as rice rockets.
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Originally Posted by Arithmetic
I bolded the ones that are stupid logic on your part. This coming form a GT-S owner which popular bolt on are intake, exhaust and PFC.
You need to lay back on judgeing, before you know the facts, im just saying.
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Originally Posted by 4G63>OOOO
And what purpose does a "vortex generator" serve other than looks?
I'm sorry, but there is no way that little thing generates ANY downforce.
I'm sorry, but there is no way that little thing generates ANY downforce.
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I think rice is basically any mod that has no performance merit whatsoever or can be bought at Pepboys, has APC on it anywhere, would win "style" points in a car show and, would generally be considered in bad taste by a group of people that have a reasonable amount of common sense. If you have to ask what a reasonable amount of common sense is you're not in that group.
Last edited by hotrod2448; Mar 4, 2006 at 02:58 PM.
Actually the Term "Rice" stems from "Rice Burner". From what I remember back in the early 90's muscle car guys called Jap cars Rice Burners because they were typically four cylinder engines that well, ran on rice....so they said. Back them I owned a Conquest TSI, a four cylinder-turbo charged rice buner. And in its day, it performed similar to how the Evo does today. Also just like the Evo, people were always suprised how potent the 4's could be.
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Originally Posted by 4G63>OOOO
And what purpose does a "vortex generator" serve other than looks?
I'm sorry, but there is no way that little thing generates ANY downforce.
I'm sorry, but there is no way that little thing generates ANY downforce.
http://www.avweb.com/news/reviews/182564-1.html
And this technology is now being transferred to automobiles. A Vortex Generator tunes and directs air onto the rear spoiler's new wickerbill to generate maximum downforce at speed. Mitsubishi released thermal photos before, for the evos with and without the vortex generators and it appears that they do work at higher speeds. I will post it as soon as i find it.
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I think for most people it has evolved from that to a negative conotation.
If you want to get technical it probably started with the japenese bikes being called Rice Rockets and transfered to cars from there.
If you want to get technical it probably started with the japenese bikes being called Rice Rockets and transfered to cars from there.
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Originally Posted by KEVO8
Actually the Term "Rice" stems from "Rice Burner". From what I remember back in the early 90's muscle car guys called Jap cars Rice Burners because they were typically four cylinder engines that well, ran on rice....so they said. Back them I owned a Conquest TSI, a four cylinder-turbo charged rice buner. And in its day, it performed similar to how the Evo does today. Also just like the Evo, people were always suprised how potent the 4's could be.
You are partially correct , the "Rice, Rice burner, Rice rocket for bikes later on in the 80's" term originated with the domestic auto workers way before the 90's and then stemmed out into the domestic hot rod and muscle car communities as well as street bikes. None the less, you are still right. No doubt it comes from a deragatory root like some other names we will not talk about that were popularized.
With my family as well as myself being at one point or another an American auto worker, I know this all too well unfortunately.
Last edited by Dayton_EVO; Mar 4, 2006 at 03:29 PM.
