What do they mean when they say Rice Burner???

 

Well technically ***** burners are imports. However, recently the term has become more to describe cars like Hondas for example that guys throw on a fart pipe, wing, gfx, some wheels and slap on a bunch of stickers and think they can actually be fast. Now honestly some cars get labeled rice burners or rice that shouldn't be like the TT Supra and the such cars that would actually kick out butt. Also cars like a Chevy Z24 or Neon that have similar rice burner mods will be call rice.

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"Putting any amount of money into a RICE BURNER is like wiping your a$$ with a turd. "
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T-TOPS, TINTED WINDOWS, BRAKE LIGHT BLACKOUTS
GM GOODWRENCH 350
EDELBROCK TES HEADERS
3" Hooker CatBack w/Aero Chamber muffler
EDELBROCK 600CFM CARB.
KN AIRFILTER
ACCEL HEI DISTRIBUTOR
160* Stat, just switched to 180* b/c of winter coming and going to college in the mts.
3:73 Posi
Rebuilt 700R4
B&M Megashifter, 5" Autometer Tach w/shift lite

 

Riceburners:

Basically what he said.. just wanted to
add a little of my own..
Imagine if your firebird or camaro had an axle the size of a toothpick, and a gearbox with gears equal to that of a rolex watch.
an engine, that tries to push the wonderful pushrod engine out the window by presenting us with these lawnmower engines, with, mind you.. precision computer engineering, and pretty half way descent aluminum components.
but don't think that is cool! it's not!
these engines, stand alone, have no low end torque, could not win a race against a 350 camaro or bird ever!, until they continue to install, install and install superchargers, nitrous, and everything they can think of to try to push that mower to the limit.
and thats giving them too much credit! because 90% of your ricers out there, don't have the money to actually make these rice cars fast at all, so instead.. they go for the cheaper side of it.. they get piece by piece.. ground effects crap, and other add ons to make it appear to be fast, when in reality it sucks! but even the ones that make them fast.. well.. how long can that toothpick axle, or rolex gear handle any kind of torque?
exactly.. they talk talk talk, and brrag about there cars, ,but I don't see them down at the track racing against my friends, SS chevelles, GTO's, BIrds, and camaros!
thats what rice is..

 

One point to add, the signature quote says it all.

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"Putting any amount of money into a RICE BURNER is like wiping your a$$ with a turd. "
'86 IROC
T-TOPS, TINTED WINDOWS, BRAKE LIGHT BLACKOUTS
GM GOODWRENCH 350
EDELBROCK TES HEADERS
3" Hooker CatBack w/Aero Chamber muffler
EDELBROCK 600CFM CARB.
KN AIRFILTER
ACCEL HEI DISTRIBUTOR
160* Stat, just switched to 180* b/c of winter coming and going to college in the mts.
3:73 Posi
Rebuilt 700R4
B&M Megashifter, 5" Autometer Tach w/shift lite

 

Rice = gofast mods that don't do a DAMN thing other than get nookie. Fart pipe, neon, +25 hp stickers.

NO NOT look down on the imports though. There are some of us that will wipe you *** with a turd 4 banger. Take a stock motor, normal I/H/E bolt-ons, and a 65 shot of the go-go juice. Add slicks to even think about moving on a 7k rpm launch.

My Honda is quicker than my TA for now. That will change.

BTW 13.5 @ 100 mph and 1.875 60 fts with about $700 in upgrades.

Don't flame me, I was messing with Bufords 25 years ago. It has a 4 cycle motor. It all come down to one thing, weight vs. HP.

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86 T/A 5.0 A4 & 2.77 gear
15.62 @ 86 mph
93 Civic 1.6L
13.5 @ 100 mph

 

13.5 @ 100mph? how many times can you
do that in that car with those toothpick
axles, tiny tires, etc.. etc??

not saying the cars arent fast.. maybe..
but I have a friend who has a 8.5 second
camaro that pulls wheelies at the drag
strip.. weight doesnt matter, his engine
probably weighs more than yiour civic..
but it will pick the engine up, the car, the person in the car, and shred down the
track in 8.5 seconds at 162 mph..
beat that with a import

 

A rice burner is a pot that is on the oven, which is on high, with no water in it, and has rice the food in it.

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- David
88' GTA 5.7L TPI MODS---> air foil, K&N, Shift Kit, 180* therm, TB bypass, Gutted CAT, Flowmaster 80 Series Muffler added to Unkown CatBack, Ported Intake

http://www.geocities.com/david_angel_16

 

Hot Rod did a thingy on a Honda that put out like 400 horse. It was using the stock drivetrain. In the same issue, they did a thing on a neon that went 10's, and it also used the stick neon drivetrain.


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No guts, no glory.

 

stickers with japaneese letters that nobody has a clue what they say. they could say ***** boy for all they know. waaaa waaaaaa damn all they had to do is buy a dirt bike for that kind of noise. or a sewing machine.

 

i saw this civic that was supposivly running like 30LB of boost that got him around 900 HP i think they said. NOTHING stock except the block itself, and even then who knows how much they boared it out etc. . but i still think i missheard the 900HP

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- David
88' GTA 5.7L TPI MODS---> air foil, K&N, Shift Kit, 180* therm, TB bypass, Gutted CAT, Flowmaster 80 Series Muffler added to Unkown CatBack, Ported Intake

http://www.geocities.com/david_angel_16

 

*****=Poser.

Trying to fool everyone into believing they are/have something they aren't/don't.

Steve

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Steve's Trans Am Temple

 

on most "ricers" their torque numbers are verry low (compared to the hp numbers) well on a....say 350 firebird the max hp is less than the max lb/ft of torque, giving it better performance...
i forgot who but they told me that torque is the actual force that moves you foreward and that the hp will just keep you at speed...
you may have a 900hp civic funny car but lets see how it adds up to a 900hp domestic funny car... the imports from japan are soo small,wich means less weight... the domestic cars are sometimes heavier.
japan cars are made for small japan people, american cars are made for many size people... capiche? dont get me wrong there are hella lot of import cars that are verry fast... i have an import magazine and it features an article of a "1300hp, japanies tuner's JUN Supra" if you read the article... it goes into detail on the best run times. the japanies have their batles amongst themselves with there fastest street cars of japan, and the JUN performance people decides to try to make a beter reputation by seising a top speed record over the domestic cars at the boneville salt flats. (in the 260ci displacement limit class). a day later a turbocharged small block chevy powered F-body took the record at 251mph. the supra did a best run of 249mph

[This message has been edited by c-5invalid (edited November 21, 2001).]

 

RS91, to try to answer your original question:

I don't know if it's true, but I heard that once upon a time, owners of Japanese motorcycles would actually let some rice into a running engine, through the carburetor, because it would "clean things up" inside somehow.

From there, those Japanese motorcycles became known as "rice burners." Or, possibly, it's because those motorcycles are Asian, and many Asians consume a lot of rice. Probably nobody knows which one it is for sure.

From there, any Asian vehicle, whether it be car or motorcycle, became known as a "rice-burner."

Nowadays, a "rice" car would be considered any vehicle that has fast-looking cosmetics, such as yellow stickers, rear wings that make the vehicle look like an oversize shopping cart, et cetera... but other than a faulty muffler, the car doesn't have any other performance-enhancing modifications.

For the most part, the "rice" phenomenon seems to apply mostly to compact cars, but any type of car can fall victim to such "improvements."

 

Like it has been said There are some kick *** imports. However it's the homos that throw on a Coffee can tip, ground effects and stickers that give them a bad name. I like to limit rice burners to the guys that couldn't get puss with a Ferrari so they get there ***** and try to look big.

Like the famous joke says: What do Imports and Tampons have in common? Every puss got one.

 

Rice rockets are basically weak econobox commuters that have stickers, coffee-can mufflers, and 3 foot high spoilers slapped on them i.e. all show and no go. I bought my daily driver firebird for less than these ricers pay for their cheesy gfx kits, and even with 145K on it i can still walk all over 85% of the ricers out there. This is not to say all japanese imports are garbage. Some are actually fast. Believe me i'd love to have a 300zx twin turbo or an nsx.

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My newest Ride:

'85 Silver L98 Corvette w/4+3 manual tranny. not bad for $3500.

 

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