What is "YOUR" definition of a Ricer?

[CivicFan]

Originally Posted By: SERonBLAST
Originally Posted By: CivicFan
To me, ricing a car is to add tacky modifications to the car.

Usually we see it on old Japanese cars but it is not uncommon to see riced up German cars, too. There is a community of people who take Audi-s and rice them by lowering the suspension, painting the calipers or painting the inside of the headlights.


I dont see how lowering, blacking out the headlghts, and painting calipers defines ricing!

Ricing is big dumb tach gauges and fake non working boost pods and lets see, maybe putting on the cheezy turbo sounding fans on the intake or exhaust. Loud and beer [censored] sounding cherry bomb mufflers. oh and last of all the stupid fire extinguisher mounted to the interior. I know its a good idea but put it in the trunk.


I find all these (lowering, painted calipers, big gauges, beer-can mufflers, etc.) tacky.

 

[IndyIan]

I was picking up some brake pads at a local car performance store, and a guy came in with what looked like a decent condition Monte Carlo SS. It had narrow tires on the front and big tires on the back. Sounded like he had a blower on it, but what he had was a set of gears that run off the accessory belt designed to sound like a blower... He was complaining to the shop owner that the whine wasn't loud enough...
So it was a normal monte carlo with a 305, with huge rear tires it doesn't need, sounding like its supercharged but much slower than a 1999 Civic si...

 

[ddrumman2004]

Anyone that drives a Harley considers us folks that drive a Japanese made motorcycle a "ricer".

On another note, my neighbor, a 20 something year old "kid", had a late model Ford Ranger that someone had lowered, installed a rear air suspension system and modified the driver's side door so it would open from the "hood" end.

Not to mention the lower body panels.

Funny thing is that the air would leak out of the back after approx 30 minutes and the rear bumper would sit flat on the driveway. More than once he drove out of the driveway like that. Crazy!

Never a dull moment with my neighbors!

 

[ryan2022]

Basically anything done in poor taste.

If someone looks like theyve picked up ALL of their accesories from the Canadian tire parts department....ricer.

If someone modifys a economy car with nothing but a loud muffler, and some other useless parts...ricer.

Even if someone has a higher end car and puts a terrible body kit on it......ricer.

It all depends. thats my take.

 

[saberz]

Anything that is overly excessive is Ricer. [censored] Cannons used to be the ricer norm, but now its ok so long as its done tastefully. Don't go throwing a far cannon on a toyota camry. And don't go big.

 

[Nick R]

Ridiculous aftermarket spoiler, stupid body kits, stickers, carbon fiber hood, absoultely hideous "sporty" paint jobs, [censored] can muffler, rims that leave about half an inch of tire, mismatched rims (can't afford them all so doing them in like an installment thing), PINK RIMS, going on and on about VTEC and "VTEC KICKING IN YO" stupid [censored]. I love the kids that talk like they know stuff. I had one idiot once tell me that his POS honda hatch has a B-20 "Rota" engine from a Mazda that made 1200RWHP with VTEC, and his fin and boy kits gave him about 300HP extra. Oh and he thought his stereo was awesome. I was driving the expedition at the time. He tried to street race me. I destroyed him in a 4.6L Expedition. Pathetic. Then he tried to tell me that I "must have NAWZZZZ" in this thing.

 

[paulo57509]

This site hasn't been updated in years, but you get the idea.

http://www.riceboypage.com/

 

[mva]

The list of definitions is pretty funny but a picture is worth a thousand words so here's a few photos:

http://zilvia.net/f/off-topic-chat/321517-carlisle-2010-pictures-what-you-missed.html

 

[river_rat]

Originally Posted By: Scotty1981
* 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

 

[KrisZ]

Anybody that says they need the spoiler because it provides downforce on a street driven FWD car.

Anybody that bought a louder blow off valve for their turbo.

Anybody that thinks [censored] cans give extra 10whp

Anybody that thinks CAI give 10+ whp on a 130 hp 4 cyl Civic.

Anybody that thinks that their 130hp Civic is 150 HP after installing a [censored] can and CAI without ever putting their car on a dyno.

 

[PandaBear]

Rice is any cars that put up fake performance parts to a car. It is a close cousin to dub, low riders, and domestic rice.

 

[wirelessF]

To me it's useless mods. Lowered full size pickups/SUVS. Rear spoilers on FWD cars. Too many stick on chrome doohickeys on the body. ebay [censored] cannons on 4cyl cars.

And don't get me started on donks.

 

[Deltona_Dave]

Originally Posted By: wirelessF
And don't get me started on donks.


Ah, come to Sanford, FL. Donk's everywhere, Ever see a Tercel with 26"? Come to Sanford....

Dave

 

[Gary Allan]

Originally Posted By: Johnny
I wonder what they called us back in the 50's?


I don't know about the 50's ..but I learned what it was called in the 70's. I can't repeat it here and don't care to anyway.

When in auto-skewl, I posted a "suggested" car for sale on the hallway board. It listed every doo-dad that one could possibly add to a car. One that struck one instructor's funny bone was "ample amounts of orange reflector tape on rear bumper near tail lights". Another favorite was a racing stripe that used the print of a 60's series tire painted white and rolled up the center of the hood.



But, I don't define that type of thing as "ricer". I tend to call that "blinging in poor taste". I find most "bling" to be in poor taste. I've had that disposition challenged in the past few years with my (would be - at some future date) SIL. He doesn't go into it with the idea that it actually looks good or functional or whatever. All it has to do is make its statement, whatever that may be. He has no delusions of it being functional/whatever. Sorta like someone who buys the biggest Bowie knife that they can find even if it's as useful as udders on a bull. It wasn't bought for cutting. It was bought for BIG.

 

[PandaBear]

Originally Posted By: Gary Allan
Originally Posted By: Johnny
I wonder what they called us back in the 50's?

But, I don't define that type of thing as "ricer". I tend to call that "blinging in poor taste".


I remember people our generation call these the bling whor*

 

[dailydriver]

To Scotty1981's list I would add;

You 'shallow stage' out into the middle of an intersection at a red light (for you) in order to gain ANY advantage you can, because you know you are going to lose BAD!

You wax poetic about the superiority of "horsepower per liter", or "volumetric efficiency" while driving something that would struggle to get into the 16s in the quarter mile.

You claim, "yeah, but I would KILL you in the 'twisties'" after EVERY bad loss to a quicker (especially domestic) car, even though said domestic could probably also lap you around ANY road course!

There are more, I'll post them as I remember them.

 

[sciphi]

If you don't have a purpose behind it. Then it's rice. Or if the purpose is looks. I have no problem with modding a car as long as there's a purpose.

 

[eljefino]

Originally Posted By: wirelessF

And don't get me started on donks.


Funny, my sister just snapped this with her cell phone camera:

 

[OVERKILL]

Originally Posted By: IndyIan
I was picking up some brake pads at a local car performance store, and a guy came in with what looked like a decent condition Monte Carlo SS. It had narrow tires on the front and big tires on the back. Sounded like he had a blower on it, but what he had was a set of gears that run off the accessory belt designed to sound like a blower... He was complaining to the shop owner that the whine wasn't loud enough...
So it was a normal monte carlo with a 305, with huge rear tires it doesn't need, sounding like its supercharged but much slower than a 1999 Civic si...


Which store was this at?

 

[OVERKILL]

Ricing is the illusion of speed.

It applies to any car or truck on the road, though the trend started with Asian cars, hence the term.

-Fake "ram air"
-[censored] Cannons
-Unnecessary, and massive wings. Often installed incorrectly. And installed on FWD cars. Some look to be made from Mechano
-Gaudy body kits
-"exhaust spinners" to make it sound like you have a turbo
-Massive blow-off Valve on your stock Turbo car to make it sound super modified
-Poorly placed "CAI" that makes the car slower
-Massive wheels. Revealing tiny stock brakes with brightly painted callipers.
-Performance stickers for parts you don't have, or pretend you have. Like the NOS fuel system cleaner or Octane Booster sticker on your car, to make it look like you have Nitrous.
-Quad or dual exhaust on a 4-cylinder car, normally with MASSIVE tips and a sound that resembles a weed whacker.
...etc.


Ricing does not have to be tacky. And tacky mods are not necessarily ricing.

This is the "classic" definition anyways. As defined in the riceboy page.