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I don't think so. I've seen rice mustangs, rice CAMAROs, and rice KOREAN cars. What about rice lexus? They are out there.

 

This is just beggin to get locked.
But before it does, my 2 cents: Rice is anything foreign that has a big exhaust tip, stickers, and sounds like, ah, well you know what they sound like, makes me sick. I suppose it doesn't have to be foreign though. I consider neons with racing stripes and coffee can exhaust tip to be *****.

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91 Z28
Come see The Vicious...

 

rice = stupid gaudy crap done to any car to make them look fast while 90% of the time they are slow economodels.

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-Tas
'89 Formula WS-6

305, TBI, 700R4, P.A.W. 14x3 open element with K&N, Milodon 160* thermo, functional Formula hood, cross-flow Flowmaster, '99z28 rear pipes and tips, Hooker 1-5/8" 50 state legal headers, Dynomax 3" I pipe (PN 44063 and 43248)
Super GRK_Taz World
F-Body Dual Exaust
EFI & Intake Options

 

rice is a food

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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

 

Rice is anything that looks like it's faster than it is.

I have all the respect in the world for people who build up their cars to make them better than they were before. What they start out with isn't an issue to me.

What rice is.. Are all the stickers and gigantic wings and extreme negative cambers people do to their cars that don't really do anything. And every car has fallen victem to this, I've even seen Lamborghini's with some incredibly retarted stickers on it.

If a person can make it go fast, good for them. If a person can put stickers on it and think he's got a better car than me... well, I'll try not to get too much smoke off my tires so he can see how badly I'm beating him.

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89 iroc-z 305 tbi
k&n filtercharger, open element air filter. nuffin' else

 

Let's stay on topic, here. Keep in mind that his statement wasn't about rice, it was about Osama Bin "Ladin".
While what he did was inexcusable, this is a website for third generation Camaros and Firebirds. Not a venting board for people who are hyper-patriotic.

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No guts, no glory.

 

I disagree. Look at all the mid-seventies to mid-eighties sports cars--firebirds, camaros, mustangs (especially), even corvettes. Sure, the technology wasn't there to give them any performance and still meet emissions, but they all look faster than they are (although the mustangs don't look all that fast to me).

Even though it may have less than 200hp, you wouldn't call an f-body from that era rice, would you.

Also, what about all of the f-body V-6's except TTA, of course). How about all of the stock TBI cars out there, for that matter. They look practically the same as the quicker versions (tires being the most easily noticable difference), but they are much slower. Are they rice?

 

Okay, Rice implies Japanese, plain and simple...that's how it started out anyways...not sure what you guys use for a definition now.

Rice burners, rice rockets= Japanese sport bikes.

We Americans (most likely) get all Asians confused with each other, or it could be that in many (if not all) Asian countries, rice is part of the everyday meal.

Using rice is derogatory, plain and simple, regardless of what you *think* the term means now.

How about stepping back in time 40-50 years...recall the start of "Jerry-rigged"? Implied poor workmanship, well that was a term to slam on the German population. yes, over the years it's become kind of a normal thing to say, but the original intent was not Politically Correct. Neither is the term "Rice" or "*****", regardless of it's common usage today.

Okay, that's about my limit on non-tech for the year.

 

He hit the nail on the head about rice.. thats where it came from. Yes it used to be quite derogitory.

Patrick DeGrosse Jr.

 

That's not the issue here. He was put down because his sigline had a political message in it. The point being why not put everybody down for all non-PC views in their siglines? Why just one who referenced OBL?

 

Cort, Mike and Patrick:

I'm glad some people like yourselves are aware of where the root of the descriptive term 'ricers' comes from. I made one simple statement about how the majority of Americans feel about the ones who killed a lot of our family and friends on September 11th. That statement was mixed in with a tech question. While there are other posts (that I mentioned) out there saying MUCH more than I did, I was chosen to be told to keep it to myself. How right is that? No one said anything to Vader or Glen when they posted their non-tech statements about September 11th and what they thought should happen to the ones that perpetrated it. Point made. All I have to say about it.

 

Well, first of all, it wasn't in his sigline, it was something he had written at the end of the post.
This has NOTHING to do with political correctness. This fight on the drivetrain board didn't start because somebody thought Bin Laden should live/supported him. This fight started because somebody posted political opinions on a third generation Camaro and Firebird website, and a moderator reminded him of the rules.
This "rice" business is unrelated to speedlvr's statement for 2 reasons.
1- Disliking rice is something that relates to this site. It has to do with your automobile likes and dislikes. While it belongs on the Theor. board, the rest of the site tolerates it too.
2- The severity of mentioning a type of car, and the modifications done to it, pales in comparison to over 6000 people dieing. Let's get some perspective here.
The reason that Glen and Vader weren't reminded of the rules was because the posts followed the events by no more than a week. Being stoic and following the rules would have been a little gauche, as the country was still reeling from the attacks.
Bringing it up over 2 months later is excessive/over patriotic. Besides, bad things happen when a country believes it has the right to kill. Remember the *****?
Enough political talk. I'm breaking the rules I just outlined.



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No guts, no glory.

 

Words can change definition over time, or even have a different connotation. In the past couple of years the term Rice has referred to imports, but I see more lately that some people including me, see a distinction between rice and imports. There are some bad imports like the Supra TT that would woop most of us, then there is rice. Cars that put that crap on, like the other day when I got home for college, there was this Honda that on the bumper said Badder,Louder, Faster.. I thought than what a Metro. Then there was this 4th gen. Firebird with a huge aluminum wing on it. That is rice to me. Sure in the past rice may have been seen a derogotory remark, so did nigge*, but now you hear people saying it all the time and it's not negative, although spelled differently. Just don't take words out of context. Different words have different meanings, in different places.

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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

 

I gotta know...
How do u measure how fast something looks??

why cant we just forget about rice and get on with our lives, i know i have, this board is for thirdgens, not discussions about rice, and besides everybodys definition is gonna differ somewhat, go to NEthirdgen.org if u wanna talk about crap like this,.


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87 IROC-z 305 TPI
Borg Warner T-5 fresh rebuild
10-bolt 3.73 Richmond gears rebuilt GM posi,
formerly BW 9-bolt w/3.45 gears(broke it)
Ported Plenum and Runners Homemade AFPR
ACCEL 8.8 wires, High output coil,and cap & rotor
Bosch platinum + 4 plugs
Ram Air w/ K&N filters,
MAF sensor screens removed, TB coolant bypass
Polyurethane tranny and torque arm mounts
No Cat, Dynomax Headers & catback w/custom tips
K&N oil filter,Mobil 1 synth,Factory Oil Cooler, Futura GLS Super Sport tires 265/50/15 rear and 235/60/15 front mounted on 86 monte carlo SS rims.

406 siamesed TPI in progress

 

I always try to be objective about it and use the Snap-On Rice-ometer. Not many people have heard of it, but it's a great tool. Also, since they came out with the collapsible version, it is small enough to put in your trunk. You set it up on the vehicle in question (rice? or not) by putting the two posts on either side of the vehicle, preferably right behind the front tires. With the included, easy-to-follow instructions, the Rice-ometer makes it simple to get an accurate reading.

I don't know

 

Rice is any car that follows the import tuner styling cues, I don't care if it's fast or not, if it looks like an elephant humped it from behind while holding onto the park bench riveted to the trunk lid, sitting on cut springs with oversized wheels and rubberband tires and any stickers/decals on the car, it's rice.

 

well..... the question is rice=??? and then there is fast rice... (is that a contradiction in terms???) these cars are out there... and we do look for them and wonder.... (does he just have a big fart pipe and a wing or did he get his **** together and build something that can eat pavement)... 99 times out of 100 (or more) its just dress up... but the following for these things is getting big... the ingenuity and parts are out there to make these things run surprisingly well... the challenge is for us to keep on top and not let the rice get under our skin...

zroc

 

well speed it sure looks like you're slow to learn. you were told this is a tech only site and posting and bitching solves nothing. if you have a problem with anyone here write them, the moderator ,or the admins.

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