What is Rice?

[sdavis11b]

Are Grand Prix's more rice than domestic? What draws the line when it comes to rice over not? What defines a ricekar over a racekar? Im curious, do my 4 inch tips make my GP rice? or muscle...

[ctracer]

well it definitely doesnt make it muscle LOL
id say if it looks well with your car, its not rice.
what i consider rice is showboating something you dont have. if your car runs 9's on pump gas....well then you hvae the right to do anything you damn well please.
some things are inevitable rice though.
like...cardboard wings, 5 inch exhaust, fake blow off valve etc...

[sdavis11b]

But dont you think certain things we do to our cars are more RICE than not?

[matt5112]

Its all rice.

[ctracer]

we? speak for yourself BUB.
some people take it too far. but its like that for any group of enthusiasts.

[sdavis11b]

Wasnt speaking to you in particular CT, you know what i mean here.

[codyAK]

You can rice anything.

You can have a civic that's not rice, and a mustang that is.

Normally it's imports, and not normally domestic. When it is domestic it's typically the slow, small cars, once they're in an affordable price range - cavalier, focus, etc.

Almost anything tacky, gaudy, or overdone is rice-esque: big body kits, coffee cans, giant spoilers, vinyls/stickers, etc.

[WhiteKnight07]

Hot air intakes are rice. Anyone with brains knows cold air is better. Basically mods that net no real gains and look silly as fook would be concidered rice. Stickers for things that are not on your car... Going overboard on painting the inside of your car to match the outside... Bolt on parts that don't go to your car and look out of place... All of these are rice IMO.

[sdavis11b]

Wasnt there a HAI vs CAI intake debate a while back that showed no real gains?

[WhiteKnight07]

Maybe but it wasn't measured against a fenderwell intake witch is proven to be the best setup. The fastest fwd 3800's are running them.

[matt5112]

Maybe but it wasn't measured against a fenderwell intake witch is proven to be the best setup. The fastest fwd 3800's are running them.

Fastest FWD 3800's also run extreme cams and weight reduction.

Does that mean that we should employ those modifications to our daily drivers?

[WhiteKnight07]

Do what ya like :-)

[sdavis11b]

The whole fact of a fast DD is what alot of us modders are attempting to achieve. But in this process, we may be infringing on the borders of rice. I explained to a friend the paining of my Inferno hood with the black stripes then painting just the edge of the SPO spoiler black and he expressed his rice-ness opinion. I look around here in Los Angeles at all the rice boxes that suround my GP and attempt to race and fail. Does the fact that my car is semi-loud w/ tips and has painted calipers tempt the rice boys? Am I really to rice for comfort since im frying the front wheels instead of the back?

[stealthee]

Maybe but it wasn't measured against a fenderwell intake witch is proven to be the best setup. The fastest fwd 3800's are running them.

I have a buddy that ran 8's with his hot air intake. Granted it wasn't a Grand Prix, or a 3800, but HAI is not rice. You're an idiot if you beleive that. An intake is a mod that frees up airflow. Freer air means more power, HAI or not.

As for rice, Grand Prix's can be riced. There is one particular one on here that the member posts regularly. I've seen riced Mustangs, even riced Vettes.

Rice usually is tacky aesthetic mods. Monster park bench wing on a FWD car, loud ass fart cannon on a 18 second Del Sol, ugly body kit on anything.

Not all body kits are rice though. In my eyes anything that looks like it could have come on the car from the factory, or adds to the factory look is the exact opposite of rice.

[KeithGTP03]

Not all body kits are rice though. In my eyes anything that looks like it could have come on the car from the factory, or adds to the factory look is the exact opposite of rice.

QFT

[E IN v Y]

Blue car with wing.

[Neil98gt]

Carbon fiber vinyl is rice imo

[codyAK]

The whole fact of a fast DD is what alot of us modders are attempting to achieve. But in this process, we may be infringing on the borders of rice. I explained to a friend the paining of my Inferno hood with the black stripes then painting just the edge of the SPO spoiler black and he expressed his rice-ness opinion. I look around here in Los Angeles at all the rice boxes that suround my GP and attempt to race and fail. Does the fact that my car is semi-loud w/ tips and has painted calipers tempt the rice boys? Am I really to rice for comfort since im frying the front wheels instead of the back?

Quit worrying what anyone thinks.

[stealthee]

I disagree to an extent. Some people are on the edge of not knowing what good taste is. If someone wants a clean looking car then why not ask advice of what is good and what is pushing rice?

Would you rather have a group of people stare and laugh at some atrocity you have created, or stare in awe at the clean creation you have made out of your car?

[E IN v Y]

I agree carbon fiber vinyl is rice.