*ahem*
Definition of the term "Rice(y)" as applied to ones Car:
Apperance of extraneous add-ons to one's interior and/or exterior with little or no fuction to emulate the impression of speed and/or power...

Civix DX with a monstertach, a type R sticker, slammed with a bomb kit and chrome rims, WITH altezzas, and 5zigen fireball exhaust would fall in this category.


Things that would some-what allow to slide the definitions might include:
1) if your car has over 100 hp over the listed stock engine power,
2) have either a supercharged and/or turbo and/or NOS,
3) can actually use the added-on aerodynamics or composite body parts,
4) have the power & speed to back up all your stickers, or
5) have the sense of humor to know that its rice, but know you can still kick 90% of those people's asses in a race who say you're rice


thank you for your time, and PLEASE use this term accordingly to one's car,not to ones ethnicity.

--Cheston

 

Hmmm...I propose to make this a 'sticky' thread

 

Did someone get called a riceboy today?

 

 

Hee hee hee.

No.... who?

 

The term "rice" was made popular by Bryan Hong of the RiceBoys Webpage, which pokes fun at all show no go cars.

http://www.riceboypage.com


While it is true that "rice" originated from the Asian trend of modifying Japanese economy coupes, hatchbacks, and sedans (usually be Asian owners), the term has evolved into an entity which precludes race or ethnicity from its definition. To me, "rice" means all show no go. You can put all the stickers, gaudy chrome rims, exhaust tips, and green headlight bulbs...it won't make the car faster or perform better. I would say any modification which does not enhance performance adds to the "rice" factor of a car. However, like Cheston said, if a car is modded to the hilt and it is butt ugly, but can still eat other cars for lunch, it isn't really rice. Perhaps not in great taste, but not rice.

 

Exactly. 'Not good taste' or 'ugly' doesn't necessarily mean 'rice'. And if you don't like how it looks, oh well. Cheston modifies his car according to his own tastes.

Heck if anything the Cusco wing is the least 'ricey' wing on a Max yet. Because it's actually FUNCTIONAL!!

IMO it looks phat, and it's more than just show, so I like

 

 

i usually let'em slide on the tach. they dont have one from the factory.

 

Hmmm...that would be about 2% of all cars with body kits, including GT cup racecars HAHA.

 

The term rice originated from Rice Rockets, which was a term Harley-type dudes used for the influx of Japanese motorcycles.

 

well if someone called Cheston a riceboy i am pretty sure he regretted it after getting his @ss handed to him!

 

Yeah, superficial wing, considering that he only has a super-charged 280 hp motor.

DW

 

CHESTON IS RICE!

Vote Cheston for the ricey-est Maxima on the .orgy
http://forums.maxima.org/showthread.php?threadid=96147

 

yup..

it doesn't matter how much power he has under the hood.. that **** is rice..

 

i didn't feel like reading your post since it was so damn long, but def of rice:


YOUR CAR !!!!!!!!!!!#@)(*$&@)(*#!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

Yo, VQ, lets kick it,


Rice Rice Baby, Rice Rice Baby...
Alright stop - collaborate and listen,
Rice is back with a brand new invention.
With Sprint springs, they hug tha road tightly,
4 inch exhaust tip flows really loud nightly.
Will it ever stop, yo, I don't know,
hit my neon lights, and I'll glow.


To tha extreme my car looks like a candle,
and tha paint job - it was done by a vandal.
Dance, I got a speaker that booms,
this aint a car, it's a mobile sound room.
Deadly, listen to tha dope melody,
if it was louder yo, it'd be a felony.
Love it or leave it you can't gain way,
with my GT-R sticker I'll lose you any day.


If there was a problem yo I'll solve it,
check out my rims while my front drive revolves it,
Rice Rice Baby, Rice Rice Baby...


Now that my suspension is jumpin',
my bumper hits tha ground, but who cares I'm a thumpin.
Quick to tha point, to tha point no fakin',
cookin' mopeds like a pound of bacon.
Burning 'em, cause I'm quick and nimble,
you can't fade me and my GT-R symbol.
In your souped up E-clipse or G-T-O...
I'm on a roll, I always ride solo.
Rollin', in my 3 point 0,
it runs low 15's, yo, that really ain't slow.
Tha girlies on stand by,
don't even want to say "Hi".
Did ya stop? No, I just flew by.
Kept on, pursuing to tha next block,
I bust a left and I'm headin' to tha next stop.
The block was dead, yo, so I continued to A-1-A, Westheimer Avenue!


Tha girls looked hot wearing less than bikinis,
I saw a few chumps drivin' stock Lamborghini's.
Jealous, cause I'm out drivin' mine,
ready to race 'cuz my Tenzas lookin' fine.


If there was a problem, yo I'll solve it,
check out my rims while my front drive revolves it,
Rice Rice Baby, Rice Rice Baby...


Take heed, 'cause I'm a Nissan poet,
Stillen's on tha scene just in case ya didn't know it.
My exhaust tip, created all tha bass sound,
rumbles enough to put holes in tha ground.
'Cause my ride's style is so reeeeeeeeeeeeal,
with an exhaust tone that ya can feeeeeeeel.
4 foot spoiler, it's a helluva concept, my ride is hype, and you wanna step WITH THIS.
In my rearview you'll fade,
slice like a Ginsu,
sounds like a Kitchen- Aid.
So fast, that all tha VR-4's say "DAMN!",
if rice was a drug I'd sell it by tha gram.
Keep my composure when the front tire breaks loose,
magnetized by the kick of 30 horse juice.
If there was a problem, yo I'll solve it,
check out my rims while my front drive revolves it,
Rice Rice Baby, Rice Rice Baby...

Yo, we outta here...

 

Didn't think you were type to listen to Vanilla Ice Kev!

 

Keving, j00 are rice!

 

 

Early 90's and I was in middle school... so yes, I did listen to him.


I'm not rice, Steve. Check out the poll to see who is.

 

heheeh.

nice song keving.

as for sprint, you da man. happy valentines day bro, lemme kiss your car.. cuz once ur outta juice, there's no where to run.

 

err.. who said i was only running juice?

 

Ha. ha. ha. ha. sorry. forgot to add the tornado

 

A friend of mine built an older Datsun 260Z with a 327 Chevy V8, aluminum heads, 4 speed manual, and a Comp rear. The combo is good for low 12's in the quarter mile. That's a "Rice Rocket!"

 

Saw this a while back on a Stealth/3000GT site:

But I agree with Skimax too.

Car that has some parts which don't fit the general image of the car = Ricey
For Example:
-Functional, racing wing with plain paint job.
-Wild paint job or Underbody Neons on stock body/rims.
-Body kit, Paint job on stock rims/tires.
-Large tach with shift light on an auto.
-Wipers painted with a color that doesn't match interior or exterior.
-Stupid graphics.
-LOUD exhaust with fewer than two other mods on engine (plug wires or drop-in filter don't count). note: Exhaust must be loud enough to be heard cruising on Interstate from 10 yards to qualify.

-Justin (I am friends with two known Riceboys)

 

That's a "hybrid," 2nd Generation RX-7's and Porsche's front-engined coupes have been had similar fates.

 

Kev that's pretty funny Is that original?
-hype

 

i remember reading a R&T article awhile back talking about how there were practically no cars that actually could benefit from a wing.

 

Maximas are FWD so a wing putting downforce on the rear wheels is actually pretty pointless isnt it?
Someone should put one of those GT spoilers on their hood...I've seen a couple MR2s with that
Ahh...i gotta find that pic now...

 

right..

maybe i should post pssssttt.. vrooommm.. when i get mods huh?

 

Copied, pasted, and modified a few things.

 

I think I saw that too. They didn't say that cars couldn't benefit from a wing, they were talking about how most of the spoilers on cars produced (written in the late-90's) were non-functional and served little or no purpose. They did a comparison on a mustang GT's, a Porsche 911 with it's flip-up electric spoiler, I think an IROC Camaro with Louvers over the rear window and maybe one or two others. Their testing showed that basically, 90% of the time spoilers/louvers don't do anything, however, lip-spoilers (like Jag's XKR), wings (Hennesey Venom cars) and front air dams increase high-speed stability and traction at the expense of drag.
Another thing, wings actually create negative lift, or downforce. A spoiler disrupts airflow at the back of the car preventing it from turning down to fill in the vacuum directly behind the car which generally lifts the tail at high speeds. Non-functional wings are usually called spoilers.

 

hahahah
i seen couple of MR2's rockin the hood wing.
but wait the are RWD!!! how stupid is that.

 

There we go, now if this isnt rice, then I dont know what is.

[IMG]ftp://ftp.mr2.com/pub/geoff/mr2/FukuiSPL_Mk2_1.jpg[/IMG]

 

Keving is the RICE GOD

 

Let's not talk about you and your Ground Controls on stock struts. You want the riceboy drop, but didn't have the dough to buy better struts. How long were you bouncing up and down riding on those again?

 

Haha. That's sooo not rice unless he put Type R stickers on it.

 

I love listening to everyone justify their mods.

Love the wing Cheston.

 

Exacly. A winged or spoilered Maxima SE has a 0.01 worse drag co-efficient than the non-spoilered Maxima GLE and GXEs. I'll happily sacrifice that little drag for high speed stability any day.

DW