1991TransAm

Never owned a import rice. But i do own american rice 1984 2.3 turbo mustang. But have a 1991 GTA and a 1500 chevy truck thats my DD.

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Paragus77

I don't know if I'd consider an SVO rice. I mean, its a four cylinder and all, but they actually look pretty cool, and it was making more horsepower than the V8 when it came out. I've actually heard some with exhaust that doesn't sound half bad, and i hear that they handle ALOT better than the 5.0s. Driving one of those would be quite the guilty pleasure for me.

Granny

Is this "current rice" or "ex-rice"?

ls six

A first gen seven is NEVER rice


Have you kept the Mazda rear end or done a swap?

Stephen

Is a Miata rice?
Beagle Racing Miata

Scroll down the page for pics.

Granny

It has a narrowed 8.5 10 bolt and re-drilled front hubs.
Torque Arm suspension too... http://grannys.tripod.com/GSSshopmule.html

ls six

Interesting stuff Especialy the Caddy diff swap!

I always thought the Miata would have made a great Cobra style conversion candidate, I wondered why Shelby didnt jump on it (especialy after working on Omni's all through the 80's) but I guess he was gearing up the Shelby series project.

I've seen Ford DOHC cobra and intec swaps done and many many 5 oh's so it just seemed natural.

Heres another one I love... it has one of my favorite motors in it,

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=toughTZ9PIw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ocQ_R5MO7Vc&feature=fvw

Did you use the stock LCA brackets or fab new ones?

Very nice car BTW even though I would have kept the weird spinning triangles

Granny

The rear control arm brackets came from a stock RX-7 rear, just cut off and welded to the 10 bolt.

If you are into spinning triangles, you might like this car i built...



It's a Dirt Late Model w/ a 13b based 4 rotor for power.

Here's a link to more info... http://grannys.tripod.com/4rotor.html

ls six

I had no idea there was a dirt oval class that allowed Wankels!

I actualy meant the chassis side brackets but you answered that question none the less, I assumed with a 10 bolt and a torque arm you used a 3rd/4th gen axle, ant that you would have modified the car to keep the geometry like a third gens.

Granny

It's a torque arm setup that i usually build for installing Ford 8.8 into the RX-7, but with the design modified slightly for the 10 bolt. Not enough room in the narrow RX-7 tunnel for a Camaro TA, so i build this style that goes around the driveshaft w/ a shackle style arrangement...



Here's a look at the parts I make for a 2nd gen RX-7 solid axle / 8.8 torque arm conversion...

ls six

Ah! I figured the car was too short for a stock F body arm but I had no idea you put so much work into it. Thats beautiful fabrication.


I have thought about a similar solution to putting a 12 bolt or similar rear into my TA if I ever need to but My plan pretty much apes the GNX suspension but with the rear cover in easy to work steel.

I could also mount the arm where I wanted it instead of where GM put it.

candle

not that one, at least I don't think. rice I beleive is defined as an odd body kit that serves no extra aerodynamic performance, a large and very loud muffler that serves no extra engine performance, and a multitude of the little things you find in common parts stores such as the shift knobs, the fake pedal covers, goofy lisence plate covers and fender vents that the car didn't originaly come with. now that being established, that miata can't be rice because it doesn't have an obnoxiously large wing, or an annoyingly odd body kit that doesnt match, neither does it have those little ''upgrade'' parts we find at WalMart

Stephen

I meant it in a sarcastic tone. ;P Dan's Miata (Beagle Racing) is in NO WAY rice!

candle

I beleive some people are taking this ''rice'' thing a little too far and including all imports, some imports are respectable, but there's many such as honda civics, that get used as little play toys for teenagers or even younger adults that they put large ''fart cannon'' mufflers and huge wings that don't serve an extra aerodynamic performance or three different body kits put together into one to make an ugly looking car. such as

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Shadow Z

Does this count as rice? It was my sleeper YZ250. 13:1 compression, forged, jetted carb. Came stock with a whole 52 horsepower, had over 60 at the wheel when it left my posession, it was one wild ride. 0-60 in well under 4 seconds, I was only limited to how fast I could shift, it'd wind out the gear as soon as I dropped the clutch.







Oh yeah, and it has stickers....



Do these little critters count as "rice"? They were both bought in New Jersey, before I moved to Delaware, but they're Italian. Technically an import!



I hope to buy myself another Jap bike in a few years, this time an actual street bike, probably a nice lil' 'Busa.

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candle

HA, I'm sure it can't be. not at all, that thing's pretty sick =P

a7x

Started with a chevy, still have a chevy =)

gofastbird

I did have a 2005 subaru STI protuned stage 2 dont know if that would be conciderd rice

candle

oh jeez. people are not understanding the concept of this. just because you have an import does not make it automatically rice. rice is defined as,
1. mis-matched body kit that is extremely useless to the aerodynamics of the car
2. a spoiler the size of a daytona charger's but much uglier and also serving no extra aerdynamic advantage to the car.
3. a large, extremely obnoxious exhaust tip that sounds like a fart or something of that sort, cleverly named ''fart cannons''
4. interior modifications, such as a woman's play toy for a shifter, colored ac vents, neon lights on the console
5. neon light kit underneath the bumpers or side-skirts
6. finally, last but not least very FEW engine modifications done

now I'm sure i'm forgetting some items but that's the jist of it. like that honda i posted on here, THAT is rice. this bike, is SICK. i don't think you should have sold it, it's nice

Granny

I must be a bit older than you...rice used to mean made in Japan.

Shadow Z

I was really just joking about it being rice. I mentioned this:

"0-60 in well under 4 seconds, I was only limited to how fast I could shift, it'd wind out the gear as soon as I dropped the clutch."

Which is completely true, and no r!cer could ever hope of doing that, even on a bike. Well... Unless someone riced out a GSXR.

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