What is Rice?

[Manny_Fresh]

I was wondering what is considered ricey exhaust sound? Would a extremely loud exhaust be considered rice? (example: Skunk 2 70mm) How much different does an FG2/FA5 sound to an R18?

[nycclaye]

not trying to be rude, but search. This question's been asked a lot...

[20civic07]

rice is a grain that asian people typically eat for a meal. i eat it everyday and can't have meat without it, unless it's on a hamburger. or between bread (sandwich)

[pkkid]

If it makes me compulsively turn around and call you a ricer, the exhaust is rice.

[Manny_Fresh]

Originally Posted by 20civic07

rice is a grain that asian people typically eat for a meal. i eat it everyday and can't have meat without it, unless it's on a hamburger. or between bread (sandwich)

Lol. Thats just too funny. I guess i deserved it

[SiAzul]

[nayilsi]

Rice is anything other than stock.....Flame Suit ON

JK......


Rice is when having a LOUD exhaust...so loud...that u cannot hear ur engine anymore.
Rice is having wings.....gonna make u feel like the car is taking off
Rice is dressing up ur car with skirts and minis. (non branded)
Rice is trying to race any car u think ur gonna lose against or any car u think ul win against.
Rice is having an 80s car, with a 00+ engine. Not because the engine is reliable....its because they make em go rocket fast. Hence, the Honda hatches begging you to race them.

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All show and no go = Rice.

[Manny_Fresh]

Or as my good friend Johnny Storm the human torch would say..."FLAME ON!"

[Sirbelch]

Its all situational dependend.

100hp + gaint wing = rice
500hp + gaint wing = race car (assuming your 500hp monster is exercised properly, if not, then its rice)

[Manny_Fresh]

^ Thank you for actually giving me a decent answer.

[7002iSciviC]

all show no go isn't RICE... there's people out there that doesn't want to make their car SUPER FAST. all show no go is all depends owner but for one thing you'll know the difference between all show NON RICE vs all show RICE

[rotor_powerd]

When you have a loud obnoxious fart can hanging out the back of your car.

Your Si with a Skunk2 exhaust would fall under that category.


Hell, my RX7 that ran deep 12's had a generic (read: SSAC) 3" turbo back that consisted of 3" straight through pipes off the turbo to the back of the car, and ended with a HUGE fart can. I would even consider that rice. Sure it was fast as hell, but it was super loud, and looked ridiculous. A tasteful exhaust that has a good tone is not rice.

[tite681]

I believe rice is short for rice rocket. Back in the 80s (maybe even in the 70s), a rice rocket was a modded japanese car. It wasn't necessarily a bad thing. Now, it evolved into something negative.

[nayilsi]

^^
Rice 101

Starring : The history of rice.

[bigdaddy]

Originally Posted by tite681

I believe rice is short for rice rocket. Back in the 80s (maybe even in the 70s), a rice rocket was a modded japanese car. It wasn't necessarily a bad thing. Now, it evolved into something negative.

Very true!!!!

My Definition: A modded car that represents something that it is obvioulsy not!!!!!

Here are some examples:

1) A role call on the door but every aftermarket part on the car is not made by anyone on the role car. Rota Grids on the car but a Volk Racing sticker on the door. An ebay "Race Medallion" style exhaust but Tanabe on the role call. You guys get it. The thing that bugs me about this... is they want respect but want to short cut it. You EARN respect. People respect Volk TE-37's not cause of they way they look. But but because of price and quality. There are other examples of this that doesn't pertain to Japanese cars. Hmmm... Bmw 525i rocking a 540i badge....is that considered rice???

2) A Roll cage, carbon fiber hood, intercooler, and 750 pounds of sound equipment in the trunk. They get coilovers (btw not real ones but sleeves) not because of handling but to even up the gap in the wheel well cause it's ass is dragging along with the four subs, fiber glass, dynamat, and five amps in the trunk. This is yin and yang at it's finest... This is your example of "All show no go!" Not the owner's fault mind you, it's society's... (Sociology Major speaking here). Fast and the Furious, Hot Import Nights made it fashionable to have "go fast" parts and "get loud" parts. You gotta have all of the parts or YOU DONT GET THE POINTS. As a purist, I think I.C.E. is overrated.

3) JDM perverted: I think we can all agree that this get's out of hand sometimes. I RESPECT the CTR front end conversions! I RESPECT the JDM front ends on 94+ Tegs. Love looking at them all day long. I'm guilty of a little rice also. Red Emblems on a US FA5...guilty! So what... call me rice...I am what I eat...but call me a pussy and you'll wake up five minutes later...lol...Getting stuff that is unique that noone has but is cool...JDM folding mirrors Getting Japanese Auto Climate control JDM Recaro Seats from a CTR with the cigarette burn on the Driver(JDM)/Passenger (USDM) seats. (extra thumbs up cause of the cigarette burn...that way you KNOW that shit came from Japan) Cat back exhaust system by a company that only advertises in Option and other JDM bibles

To all you old schoolers... Remember you got more nods when you had a Trust exhaust than a HKS cause it was rarer? I wish Greddy still kept the "Trust" name...getting nostalgic.... ok back to it...

But when these people rock the Broadway mirror so wide that their visors are defunct, have the Napolex vent cell phone holder, vent drink holder, vent airfreshner and every other vent accessories that ventilation means rolling the window down. But they cant roll the rear windows down cause of the suction cup sunshade stuck to it with some weird Japanese-English translation. "Happiness is where home heart dwells." Led washer nozzle (THANK GOT 8th Gens dont have washer nozzles) The little light sticks on the corner of the fenders...they're like curbfeelers for the bumpers...not being able to charge their cell phones cause they five way splitter for the cigarette charger is on back order. And they need to power up their black lights, map lights (cant use the regular map lights cause the change the bulb to a color that when you cant see shit), and any other 12v powered bullshit you can buy at any asian gift shop. HINT: If they sell these accessories at a gift shop next to Hello Kitty think before purchase.

Putting bells on the exhaust cause someone saw it in an options magazine..."What's the point of that?...I dunno...

Rocking a JDM badge on the WRONG CAR... FERIO on Accord.. huh? SIR on one side of the trunk and Type R on the other side of the trunk....huh? x 2

OH THE ONE I LOVE: "Elder driver" Younger driver" badges...why??

HERE IS A NICE ARTICLE (my sentiments exactly) Ignorant Rice: JDM Driving Badges (Soshinoya / Koleshiya) | Import Factor

I was gonna list more but...my hands are getting tired....


Disclaimer: The views expressed by this person are his views. Agree with them great. Don't agree with him. He doesn't care. But he does invite you to prove him wrong.

[Whocares05050]

Start with the actual definaition of what it means, then you can go from there:

R.I.C.E


RACE
INSPIRED
COSMETIC
ENHANCEMENT

Anything deemed to " look " or play the role of a race enhancement, but does nothing for actual performance is considered rice. the word is thrown around way to much now adays and people dont really know the true meaning. now you do.

[rob76]

I saw a few rice cars today. Big fart can, suspension so low you can see it bouncing along over the smallest cracks in the road. Giant non functional wing.

I don't get fart cans personally. I'd rather just have a straight exhaust pipe with no interference. Looks meaner too. Fart cans just look like something a dumb 16 year old would put on their car.

[shutter13]

obviously we all hate ricers... but i remember one day my dad put it into perspective... we saw a really ugly lime green piece of rice... and i made a comment to him about how it was rice

but he said that not everyone can afford a 2007 civic, but some people still want to customize their cars just like us, just that they cant afford a $500 greddy catback

and who knows, if you see someone with a really riced car, they might have bought it used like that after they determined it would be a reliable car for a good deal

not promoting rice... just trying to put another swing on things

[JesseJames]

I found this on a Dodge forum...

"No offense is meant, no one get pissy... it's all in good fun.

Thanks to a friend of mine for showing me this list!

ENJOY!!

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.

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

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 a 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 knowledge of suspension is: "the more negative camber, the better the handling."

You push your through the staging lanes just so 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, 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 to be different.

You install colored bulbs in your 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

Your rear spoiler is taller then you are.

You can fist f**k your exhaust tip.

You have more stereo WATTS than engine TORQUE!

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 GT.

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...

You think a deep farty noise = the sound of high performance.

You think that horsepower is far more important than torque.

You have ever claimed that switching to a cone filter has given you more than 10 HP.

You have ever considered installing more than one set of fog/driving lights.

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.

You spent all night on the Internet trying to find a company that makes a turbocharger system for your Hyundai...

You removed your side view mirrors and put them at the TOP of the door / window frame.

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.

You cannot drive your car in snow as the ground effects create a plow effect.

You have installed driving lights to compensate for headlight blackouts / tape.

You think that 280 horsepower and 185 lb/ft of torque are impressive for a ‘mildly’ modified engine.

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-Tech 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.

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.

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.

You have ever thought Hyundai and "PERFORMANCE" went hand in hand

You've ever gone to a parts shop or speed warehouse and asked for a 1" to 6" exhaust adapter...

You've ever contemplated adding "TYPE-R" stickers to your Sonata…

You've removed more than 1/2 of the coils from your springs by cutting them yourself ...

You have more neon lights on your car then a strip club...

You put Kanji on your Ford ZX2 or Ford Probe...

You own a "TYPE-R" Hyundai or Mazda.

You couldn't afford headlight masking, so you just painted them with flat black Krylon and its peeling.

You claim that polishing your intake gave you 5hp.

You own a V-TECH Hyundai or Mazda
(especially a V-TECH ROTORY 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.

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.

You lower your car and add ground effects but retain the stock 14inch wheels with disc style wheel covers

You equate the sound of performance with the sound of a Weed Eater™

You think bolting a fake muffler to one side to simulate dual exhaust is cool

You think colored head lights work better

Clear tail lights and turn signals. They’re colored for a REASON!

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?"

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 sideway ...

You 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 relatively easy to get into."

You have NOS on your windsheild, but not on your engine

You have an SAFC hooked up to your carbureted Toyota Corolla

You think HP stands for Honda Prelude

You have stick on hood pins

You have a kia with numbers shoe-polished on the windows.

You need a yardstick to measure your spoiler.

You've ever used a blue magic marker to color your headlight bulbs.

You recorded a neighbor's corvette revving, and you play the tape full blast at redlights.

Weedeaters chase you down trying to mate with your car.

You think red and yellow match.

You have japanese stickers on your VW/neon/cavalier,etc.

You think timeslips are what you get when you clock out at mcdonald's.

Neighborhood strays sleep in your exhaust tips.

You have no hood on your car.

You could only afford a half pint of PPG chromallusion flip-flop pearl, so you just had the hood sprayed.

You think mustangs are fast.

You come to the track with a carbon fiber hood, alloy tuner wheels, no bumpers, only a plastic driver's seat, but a 300 pound speaker box in the hatchback.

You have a zigzag antenna.

You think people like your car and they don't.

You think plastic intercoolers on a hyundai fools anyone.

You have $2000 Ground FX and a $200 car.

You spray paint your hood black to make it look like carbon fiber.

Your wheels hang out 6 to 12 inch from your wheel wells.

Those wheels are 6 to 8 inch in diameter w/ gold and chrome plated.

You think economy cars are the shit.

Your car's panel are all different colors from add-ons.

You have Japanese/Korean lettering all over your car.

You put Lamborghini style doors on you CIVIC.

Your windshield banner is so big you can only see just over the steering wheel.

The inside of your car glows so bright at night that you look like your are all green or blue.

You have the word VTEC in bold letters and Highlighted.

You think VTEC is fast.

You have 14" inch rims

You have a spoiler longer than your car's length.

You here farting noises comming from your exhust.

you pump up your speakers to overcome the noise of your exhaust.

You have a disco club inside your car.

You have a boost gauge mounted in your car and no turbo.

Your exhaust pipe is bigger than your house.

Anything extra you put on your car is worth more than the car itself.

Your spoiler is taller than your car when its on the ground.

Your Tach will gauge more than twice as much rpm as your engine will produce

You mount ground effects with woodscrews

You make ground effects with sheet aluminum

Your F1 style spoiler is more adjustable than your seat

You have chrome wheel covers with built in fake cross-drilled rotors

You have Mugen stickers, but no Honda/Acura

You use badging off of a completely different make of car on your car

You have so many flourescent colors on your car it glows in the dark

You colored in your accessories with a magic marker

Your interior is totally yellow or totally red

You have stickers larger than your side window

You have a large sticker of a japanease cartoon character prominantly placed on your car.

You put your automatic car in neutral and roll back at lights to make it look like you have a manual.

When you shop for an exhaust system for you car, you bring a Folgers can with you to compare size.

Your mod list includes stickers for 20 aftermarket companies, but the only "performance" part you have on your car is that 5in Autometer tach.

Your lighted 5in autometetach isn't really hooked up (but the bac is)

You have to wear sunglasses at night (from all the cheap indiglo you can't dim because you didn't install it right)

You put credit cards so they hit the spokes of your 100 spoke wheels so it makes that "cool noise we all made on our bikes as kids"

You install a turbo on your car, with no innards

You have friends "steal" your interior so you can get insurance money for it, and buy aftermarket racing seats and a chrome fire extinguisher... and gas for a couple months.

You put fender flares and wider tires in the rear of your car... when it's FWD.

You can only take your girfriend to mc'ds... since you blew all your money on your 20" tires that you have to keep replacing, since your car cannot be aligned because it's too low to the ground. (heard of that from one of my friends)

You have excessive debt on your credit cards for car mod expenditures... and you can still not get out of the 15 sec range!

You use AOL, AND TYPE IN ALL CAPITAL LETTERS... and don't know any better.

You buy an Acura hood ornament and flip it over so your Honda has a really cool H.

You put an ENORMOUS Honda "H" on your back windshield.

You put an ENORMOUS "V-TECH" sticker across your front windshield.

You install a short-throw shifter on an automatic trans.

You install hydraulics to raise your car in case you encounter a speed bump.

You have more than two different shades of tint on your car.

When shopping a junkyard for parts for your Honda you find a wrecked Supra and yell, "Jackpot!"

You have a "Powered by Acura" sticker on your car.

You put a Type R emblem on a car that it does not belong on.

You have a big shift light on an automatic.

You can only afford the 2 rear aftermarket wheels and keep the factory "slicks" with hubcaps up front.

You paint a fire extinguisher Krylon blue and put a NOS sticker on it.

You get clear tails and put red tape back on so you can have just clear turns.

Your shift light is bigger then your Mag-Lite.

Your rear end looks exactly like your front end.

Dragon Ball Z seems to be your sponser.

You start pulling people over with your lights.

You brag about beating a Mustang V-6, 1979.

You drive around with your racing helmet.

You NEED a fire extinguisher in your car.

You think that every sticker you put on your car adds at least 2 HP.

Whenever a bee flies around your head, you think a vtec honda is coming.

You run 12's... in the 1/8.

You have racing harnesses in a 15 second car.

Your racing harnesses aren't bolted down.

You can't afford the center caps to go with your wheels.

You drive around in 1st gear to make everyone notice your car.

You can't tell when your ultra-low-profile tire is flat.

You have static cling decals that you put on your mom's 4dr civic and remove at the end of the night.

You have glitter tint or mirror tint.

You race with 4 people in your car.

You do a water burnout at the track on street tires.

You have a "calvin peeing on..." sticker.

You think your saturn is fast.

You think any classic car is a slow, heavy boat.

You replaced your windows with plastic wrap.

You have no carpet in your CRX.

You wear a 3lb figaro chain on your neck.

You think your mom's Expedition is "phat, yo" or "the bomb, yo".

You say "yo" after every sentence, yo.

Your car looks like a cartoon.

You hang out at a speed shop, but never buy anything and have a slow car.

You claim every speed shop/tint shop is owned by "my boy".

You wear a visor.

You and your friend can both fit in your pants.

You purposely hit every water puddle so you can spin your tires.

Your dream car is a vtec civic.

You think honda del sol's are exotics.

You make a chirping noise every time you get out of your car, so people think you have an alarm.

Your alarm is the most expensive think in your car.

You set your alarm off on purpose to get attention.

You drive slumped down with your head by the door panel.

Thanks!

~Amanda"

[andy22]

Originally Posted by bigdaddy

Hmmm... Bmw 525i rocking a 540i badge....is that considered rice???

That's Sauerkraut.