Since there is a thread going about this right now, I'm curious to what people think of when they hear the term "ricer". One poster's comment made me think we don't all think the same thing. To me it's ANY make car that has the (insert diameter as long as it exceeds 5 inches) inch coffee can exhaust extension, Japanese stickers, and those ridiculously huge aero-foils on the rear.

Ricer......it's not a make........it's a 'tude!!

Ron

 

Pretty much the same as yours, crappy paint jobs/stickers, huge tips, huge spoilers, neons, flashy blinking lights in their tail lights, etc etc

 

Agree with you guys. Any modification that is soo overboard that it will never do any good on that type of car. Carbon Fiber 12" tall wings, Type R stickers, windshield nozzle lights, ohhh, exhaust lights, XM radio antennae(w/o the XM radio), etc etc. All mounted on a rusted out brown 83 Honda Civic with stock wheels and a fart can exhaust, and bubbled tint on like 2.5 windows. Keep it clean and subtle, and I can usually like the car.

 

Like a 300 degree duration cam in a street car? Like having a fuel cell in a street car? Like having a tunnel ram intake in a street car? Exactly like that. Stupid people are everywhere, those that modify imports excessively are Ricers, domestic V8's with rediculous race parts on street cars I just call "tuff guys".

I've never understood the purpose of a street/strip vehicle, it's one or the other. Either drive it to work, or drive it on Saturdays in the NHRA, because there's nothing faster than those guys!

'77 F100, 302 (the aftermarket Prodigy), C4
Cadet Second Lieutenant John F. Daly III
South Carolina Corps of Cadets, The Citadel
The TorqueKing

 

Check this page. It is a bit out of date but the info is pretty accurate and sometimes funny.

http://www.riceboypage.com/

Jim Henderson

 

Also try this page to teel if you might be one...

http://www.goingfaster.com/spo/you_might_be_a_ricer_if.html

 

The reason I ask is I don't think of them as only being imports. We've all seen Fords, GM stuff.....you name it....all "riced" up.
When I talk bad about ricers it's not the fact that it is an import. (I have an 82 280Z that I would never consider to be a ricer, neither is my wife's Mazda 626).

Evidently the formula is:
Base engine with no mods = 180 horses (or so)
Japanese stickers = 15 horses (varies according to quantity and color)
5+ inch exhaust = 50 horses (anything that ugly has to add a lotta ponies)
Assorted neon lighting = 15 horses (lighting that pulses in rhythm with your stereo add 10 more horses,c'mon admit you secretly want em on your F150).
Go fast REAR wing = 30 horses (corresponding down force lightens front end reducing torque steer)
Performance air cleaner = 25 horses (just listen to that thing moan wouldja)
Color coded hoses = 10 horses (who knows for sure?)
Altezza (clear) lenses = 15 horses (lowered drag coefficient ya know).

Total = 340 horses (or more) all delivered to the front drive wheels in a car weighing 2600 lbs. (Back seat, headliner, and spare tire removed to cut weight.





Course I agree with TK bout the street/strip car too........

Ron

 

Jim and Ron, you guys are outstanding citizens of this fine country! I fell out of my chair three times while browsing the links above. I'm not even going to say anything else, besides:

If you own an import, check out both of those links, and ask yourself why.

Also, check this one out, this is easily the dumbest car I've ever seen. Hold on to something before you click, it's really that bad!

http://www.goingfaster.com/spo/ghettostang.html

'77 F100, 302 (the aftermarket Prodigy), C4
Cadet Second Lieutenant John F. Daly III
South Carolina Corps of Cadets, The Citadel
The "cast iron for life" TorqueKing

 

>Like a 300 degree duration cam in a street car? Like having
>a fuel cell in a street car? Like having a tunnel ram
>intake in a street car? Exactly like that. Stupid people
>are everywhere, those that modify imports excessively are
>Ricers, domestic V8's with rediculous race parts on street
>cars I just call "tuff guys".
>
>I've never understood the purpose of a street/strip vehicle,
>it's one or the other. Either drive it to work, or drive it
>on Saturdays in the NHRA, because there's nothing faster
>than those guys!
>
I guess you have never been crusin before there is a big difference between ricers and street cars.







Wiz

An Equal Opportunity Truck Lover!

http://www.clubfte.com/users/thewiz427/index.html

 

anything that sounds like a japanese motorcycle, but isn't.

 

Oh contrere!

I once had a Yamaha 650 maxim, added a fairing, and almost went with side covers before the insanity stopped and I sold it for one dollar to a friend who needed transpo desperately.

Japanese motorcycles come in FOUR destinct forms -

Bikes that have the bare essentials which are referred to as "RICERS".

Bikes that are full dress (Including a reverse gear, for those who bought TOO MUCH BIKE for their wussy selves), and if you ever lay them down will shredd so much excess fiberglass that they are referred to as "Rice Crispies".

Second to last - a cross between the two that is uncomfortable as hell on long rides (cafe style wanna-bee's) that are referred to as "RICE ROCKETS".

And let us not forget a classification (He says, malisciously) that makes me sick to see them, but displays the true copy-cat nature of the source:

Motorcycles from Japan that try SO HARD to look like a retro-JAP version of a Harley Davidson or an Indian from the fifties that it makes me try very hard not to throw up at the very sight of them.
THESE ARE CALLED "HARDLY DAVIDSONS"

Next question please....

 

>Oh contrere!
>
>I once had a Yamaha 650 maxim, added a fairing, and almost
>went with side covers before the insanity stopped and I sold
>it for one dollar to a friend who needed transpo
>desperately.

He musta needed been desperate to pay a whole dollar!!!
*chuckle*

Second to last - a cross between the two that is
>uncomfortable as hell on long rides (cafe style wanna-bee's)
>that are referred to as "RICE ROCKETS".

We call em "Crotch rockets"

>Motorcycles from Japan that try SO HARD to look like a
>retro-JAP version of a Harley Davidson or an Indian from the
>fifties that it makes me try very hard not to throw up at
>the very sight of them.
>THESE ARE CALLED "HARDLY DAVIDSONS"


And I feel outta my chair when I saw that one...
*rollin on the floor.....howlin*

Ron

 

I stand corrected - I took "Ricer" to mean any Japanese auto. Sorry about that.
Dono

 

Not a problem Dono.......that's my reason for asking the question. Like anything else, everybody here has their own interpretation. Personally I have had some great import cars. I'm not down on them. In fact when I "suggested" that my wife might like an Explorer better than her 626 I got an earful. And my daughter drives a Galant (that her boyfriend is tryin his damndest to rice up). They make some great cars and Detroit has been forced to sit up and take notice.

Ron