Are you a ricer???

[fastivaca]

Found this list today... (edited a bit to make it family friendly and fit in one post)

You Might Be A Ricer If…

-You have more exhaust decibels than your engine has horsepower.
-You have aftermarket FRONT wheels for racing but stock rear wheels.
-Your engine makes twice as much horsepower as torque.
-17" rims up front, 13" out back on your FWD.
-You ever painted your wheels to match the same color of your car.
-You put your automatic car in neutral at every stoplight in order to roll it back and try to fool other people into thinking you have a manual transmission
-DuPont gave up trying to figure out the shade you were asking for.
-Your mod list includes stereo equipment, shifter handle, MOMO steering wheel, PIA driving lights, exhaust tip, but no REAL engine parts.
-Your rims and tires are so large, that you have to install the tire / wheel from underneath the car because it simply won't fit in the wheel well going in from the side.
-The dealer laughs when you bring your car back in for service under warranty, and you've only had it 6 months...
-Your tires / rims stick out from the lip of your car by more than 1."
-You installed spacers on your STOCK wheels and tires to get them to stick out past the fender.
-You see cars like yours in a Shriner's Parade for Children and clowns are driving them.
-Your Eclipse GS-T hardtop has a "SPYDER" emblem on the rear...
-Your sum knowledge of suspension is: "the more negative camber, the better the handling."
-You push your car through the staging lanes.* That way, maybe you can break into the 16s by keeping the motor cool between runs.
-You add a super tall rear wing, and a hundred pounds of aftermarket ground effects, neon and stereo yet you gut the interior and yank out the rear seat for weight savings.
-Your rear wing AND your rear window have a third mount brake light...
-The back lighting in the gauges in your A-pillar gauge pod work long before the actual gauges are hooked up.
-You cut 4 coil springs and scrape the chassis on the ground. Sparks are cool when you corner at normal traffic speeds!
-You have to find a way to drive AROUND speed bumps in a parking lot.
-You install clear corner and brake lights.
-You install colored bulbs in your aftermarket clear lenses.
-You ever put neon on the bottom of your car, and then busted it on the first speed bump you went over.
Y-ou painted the UNDERBODY of your car to match
-If your rear spoiler is taller then you are.
-You have more stereo WATTS than engine TORQUE!
If your tailpipe extension is the most expensive mod you’ve done to your engine yet.
-Your tailpipe extension fell off during a quarter mile race and you went three tenths of a second faster due to weight savings.
-EVERY car in your class has a turbo pushing double digits worth of boost.
Y-ou spent $5,000 on the engine and you still can't out run a stock Camaro, Firebird, or Mustang
-You want the 'wastegate' sound, but don't want to install a turbocharger system.
-You think Nitrous Oxide on your Hyundai Sonata puts you in the same performance league as the Chevy Corvette.
-The automatic version of your car runs 2 seconds slower in the 1/4mile.
-If the 1970 Plymouth Daytona Superbird has a smaller spoiler than your car does.
-You think the Del Sol is a sports car...
-A torque converter does NOTHING for your car.
-You think a deep farty noise = the sound of high performance
-If you think that horsepower is far more important than torque
-If you have ever claimed that switching to a cone filter has given you more than 5 HP.
-If you have ever considered installing more than one set of fog / driving lights.
-If you claim that the aftermarket cold air intake system you just installed doubled your horsepower or took 2 or more seconds off of your E/T.
-Your baseball cap is always on backwards when you drive
-You spent all night on the Internet trying to find a company that makes a turbocharger system for your Hyundai...
-If you removed your side view mirrors and put them at the TOP of the door / window frame.
-If you think the Fugees are 'speed' music.
-MOMO is 'absolutely required' to go fast.
-Your four cylinder has a dual exhaust system installed.
-Your four cylinder has four exhaust pipes ("Hey, one for each cylinder!")
-The color of your interior upholstery hurts the cones and rods in other people's eyes.
-If you cannot drive your car in snow as the ground effects create a plow effect.
-If you have installed driving lights to compensate for headlight blackouts / tape.
-If you think that 180 horsepower and 185 lb/ft of torque are impressive for a ‘mildly’ modified engine.
-If you have stickers on your car for parts that you could not point out if asked where those parts are installed.
-You think pushrods are a bad thing…
-Your car has more decals than you do the quarter in seconds.
-Every Honda you EVER owned, all the way back to your 1978 Accord was either a V-Tec or a TYPE-R.
-You took your rear seat out and gutted your interior for weight savings but you installed 400 pounds of electronics, neon, DVD, Sony, etc.
-If you gutted the interior to save weight on a car that you will never take to the track…
-You lean your seat so far back when you are driving, that every time you hit a bump, its your back and not your butt that hurts.
-You have hydraulics and sixteen switches on a car you claim runs low 10s on the street and corners better than a Porsche.
-If you can estimate that your car makes more than 250 HP without ever running it at the track or getting a dyno reading.
-You claim that you can get a titanium block for your engine.
-If you have ever thought Hyundai and "performance" went hand in hand
-If you've ever gone to a parts shop or speed warehouse and asked for a 1" to 6" exhaust adapter...
-If you've ever contemplated adding "TYPE-R" stickers to your Sonata…
-If you've removed more than 1/2 of the coils from your springs by cutting them yourself ...
-You put Kanji on your Ford ZX2, Ford Probe, or Mercury Cougar ...
-You own a "TYPE-R" Hyundai or Mazda.
-You couldn't afford headlight masking, so you just painted them with flat black Krylon and it's peeling.* Badly.
-You claim that polishing your intake gave you 5hp.
-You own a V-TEC Hyundai or Mazda (especially a V-TEC rotary engined Mazda RX-7)
-You have neon INSIDE your car or in your ENGINE compartment
-You ever claimed that high gas mileage made your car superior in performance to V8s.
-If it takes you 8000rpm to reach 30mph from a dead stop at WOT.
-You think yellow plastic interior trim makes your car cool
-You spend $500 for a giant hand welded tube for a muffler with the weld marks extremely visible
-If you paint your drum brakes to simulate Hi-po calipers
-If you install fake hi-po caliper / disc simulators
-You have a front wing.
-If you lower your car and add ground effects but retain the stock 14inch wheels with disc style wheel covers
-If you equate the sound of performance with the sound of a Weed Eater™
-If you think bolting a fake muffler to one side to simulate dual exhaust is cool
-If you think colored head lights work better
-Clear tail lights and turn signals. They’re colored for a REASON!
-If you take mom's 4 door Honda accord and do any kind of mod to it
-You drive a Ford Escort station wagon with Kanji, wide tires, and Limp Bizkit stickers on the rear hatch
-You claim you lost the race because you had a passenger in the car.
-You claim how if you went from a roll you would have beat him.
-You claim you lost because you missed a shift... and your car is an automatic.
-You claim you lost because he must have been on the juice..
-Flying past the person who is 10 car lengths in front of you after they have put on their brakes.. and claim a victory.
-after losing you flip your opponent off... rev your motor and fail to break the wheels loose even around a corner.
-Tell everyone about how you lost the cop because of your "driving skills."
-You sound like you're going 90, but you're creeping past 25
-You upgraded to the "big bore" 2 inch exhaust
-You lose 2 mpg by installing a body kit
-Your wing is so large that if you go faster than 65, your bumper drags
-Yugo's give you a run for the money
-You continuously run red lights because they are invisible thru your red window tint
-15's are considered HUGE rims (OK... for a Festiva they are)
-You can reach back and defrost the rear window by hand
-You will race anyone, anytime, and already know that you will lose
-You spend all your money pimping it out because spending money to make it faster is a waste
-Your little sister is the only one impressed with your car
-When you win a race, you don't really win, it's just that the other guy felt soooo sorry for you
-You think your mom's Corolla is fast
-The cross section of your exhaust tip is bigger than the contact patch of your tires
-Your aftermarket tach is bigger than your fist
-You buy and install custom rims a pair at a time
-You cut 2" holes in your rear bumper and don't know what they're for
-You cut 2" holes in your rear bumper and DO know what they're for
-You add a second battery to power all the neon, and the mini disco ball
-You add a wing on TOP of your car, 'cause wagons need down force too
-You've ever painted bare, raw fiberglass black and said "Look! It's just like carbon fiber!"
-You purchase and install a body kit, one piece at a time
-Your brother is mad cause you stole the muffler off his dirt bike (it was a direct fit!)
-Your dad is worried cause you bought a car with less displacement than his lawnmower

No offense meant to those of us who have done any of the above

[Gary Busey]

whats a ricer?

[fastivaca]

Wikipedia is your friend...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rice_burner

[Evan80]

-You add a super tall rear wing, and a hundred pounds of aftermarket ground effects, neon and stereo yet you gut the interior and yank out the rear seat for weight savings.
-You took your rear seat out and gutted your interior for weight savings but you installed 400 pounds of electronics, neon, DVD, Sony, etc.


You seem to have same thing 2x. But hella funny.... I can own up to a couple of those muhself.

[Gary Busey]

IM banned from wikipedia. I thought we talked about this.

[neanderpaul]

How old are you "Gary"?

[fastivaca]

... thought this fit right into the conversation

[silver04rs]

IM banned from wikipedia. I thought we talked about this.

ricer...

[nonamekid]

That mustang looks like it has some serious chassis twist going on.

[silver04rs]

That mustang looks like it has some serious chassis twist going on.

ya... that's cause it's cool

[mechanicaldj]

Rice burner is used chiefly as a noun. Variations of this usage include ricer (both vehicle and driver), rice car, rice cooker, rice boy (used for the driver, a reference to the usual age demographic in question), rice mobile, rice rocket (for motorcycles), etc.
As an adjective, rice alone is primarily used and can apply to both vehicle and driver. Alternates include riced, riced out, riced up, and ricey. Ricing, a term usually not used by the modifier himself, is the present progressive of modifying a car in the described manner.
Because of their light weight and the increasing availability of low-cost tuning equipment, economy cars and compact cars exhibit high performance at a relatively low cost in comparison to dedicated sports cars. Factory sport compacts generally come with distinctive trim to indicate their special nature, along with aerodynamic bodywork such as spoilers to increase downforce at high speeds. On owner modified cars, tuners also often install such visual cues along with the performance modifications (an exception is referred to as a sleeper.) However, it is possible to install these sorts of outwardly visible and audible signs without installing the performance and handling upgrades involved in an actual sports package, achieving the "look" of a performance car without the actual performance. Drivers with little or no automotive, mechanical, or racing experience would modify their vehicles to emulate the more impressive versions of racing vehicles with mixed results. A few detailed examples are below, but the most pointed out instances are aerodynamic attachments to a car, or loud exhaust systems. It is difficult for an observer to distinguish between an actually performance tuned car and a "riced" chameleon, with the result that many (especially aficionados of muscle cars) view all aesthetically aggressive compact cars as posers.
The most immediate criticism of such modifications is usually aesthetic on the part of the person using the term rice. However, because of pop culture references to movies and the influence of video games, as well as the perceived demographic of "ricers", the criticism is often leveled at the driver.
The usage is frequently disputed. Some view any car with the external appearance of a performance compact, particularly with aggressive aftermarket modifications as "riced," while others use the term only for cars with the external appearance of performance modifications but lacking the internal modifications to give the real performance (perhaps using "tuner" for cars with actual performance modifications). The latter usage is more derogatory. The following is a generalized term referring to how it is commonly used by many people today.
Synonyms include: Tuner or Boy Racer, referring to the car as well as the driver. Antonyms include: "Sleeper" or "Stealth", referring to the car more than the driver, a "sleeper" being a car with performance modifications but no aesthetic modifications.








how can anyone be banned from wikipedia?????
does tard mean anything to you, gary?

[wf_festiva]

180 hp and 185ft/lbs is alot for a festiva u just tripled your stock horsepower and torque

[bhazard]

Sounds like it was written by mustang/camaro fanboys. 185hp/tq *is* impressive when coming from a sub-100hp engine, with half the cyls and *will* rip when in a sub-2000lb car.

[wf_festiva]

Sounds like it was written by mustang/camaro fanboys. 185hp/tq *is* impressive when coming from a sub-100hp engine, with half the cyls and *will* rip when in a sub-2000lb car.

not so much i saw a civic si get smoked by a stock camaro... not even the ss only the z28... i bet a v6 could beat a civic with 180 hp

[getnpsi]

I like the UK term boy racer better. It's ricer plus even more attitude.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boy_racer_(subculture)