do's and don'ts
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Originally posted by meilers
DON'T sit there in your 100% Japanese-made and engineered cars and think that you can sneer at others for driving "ricers" (which share many of the same parts, manufacturers and designs as your Subaru.)
DON'T sit there in your 100% Japanese-made and engineered cars and think that you can sneer at others for driving "ricers" (which share many of the same parts, manufacturers and designs as your Subaru.)
there can be american rice, there can even be subi rice.
rice used to mean from asia but now it's anything "fake fast" on a car. just like "gay" is used often to mean things other than homosexual.
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just remembered
DONT try driving your car without the gauge cluster in, even just a few feet.
I was changing the color of the dash and had to move my car over a space gave me a check engine light when I hooked it back up (I'm assuming it thought I was trying to cheat the odometer) you have to reset the ECU to clear it up.
DONT try driving your car without the gauge cluster in, even just a few feet.
I was changing the color of the dash and had to move my car over a space gave me a check engine light when I hooked it back up (I'm assuming it thought I was trying to cheat the odometer) you have to reset the ECU to clear it up.
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Car Info: Subaru Impreza WRX 2002
Originally posted by twistedsymphony
rice used to mean from asia but now it's anything "fake fast" on a car. just like "gay" is used often to mean things other than homosexual.
rice used to mean from asia but now it's anything "fake fast" on a car. just like "gay" is used often to mean things other than homosexual.
Even odder, I'd say about 80% of the "ricer" drivers in CA and AZ are Hispanic/Mexican, which makes the term even LESS appropriate. Where I am from (Ohio) we used to call the beat-up El Caminos and Camaros that Mexican immigrants drove "beaners," which is just as derogatory and ignorant.
I just object to the term "ricers" because of its total inaccuracy -- if it doesn't mean "hopped up cars from Japan" but instead means (as you suggest) "any car that LOOKS fast but isn't, and has ugly mods" then it has just lost all traces of its origins.
I've seen quite a few "ricer" cars (Civics, CRX, Integras, Mitsubishi Eclipses) up close, and some of them have amazing work and detail, regardless of the fact that they don't break 170 HP. Maybe to qualify as a "ricer" you also have to drive like a complete fool as well?
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yeah I'm pretty sure rice originiate from rice rocket... from crotch rocket.. etc.
even if cars are "rice" as per the new slang definition I think there is a fine line between a NICE car and a RICE car. if it doesn't perform that line is directly based on taste...
a "rice boy" is the owner of a "rice" car (I think it's implied that though women can do silly things at times the vast majority have enough sence not to "rice" out their car)
http://www.riceboypage.com
as far as I know it's the for most athority
even if cars are "rice" as per the new slang definition I think there is a fine line between a NICE car and a RICE car. if it doesn't perform that line is directly based on taste...
a "rice boy" is the owner of a "rice" car (I think it's implied that though women can do silly things at times the vast majority have enough sence not to "rice" out their car)
http://www.riceboypage.com
as far as I know it's the for most athority
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Do add sway bars. They are the biggest bang for the buck.
Do e-brake occasionally. It won't have any negative effect on the rear differential, if you clutch and thus isolate the transmission from the engine.
Do go with a FMIC. It's intimidating for others, and good for you and your car overall.
Do increase the rim size by 1" from stock. The 17" are the absolutely right size. Anything beyond that is for show cars, or with drivers without kidneys.
Don't e-brake and press the throttle like a front-wheel drive. It will ruin the differentials.
Don't try to make doughnuts with the car being factory, unless you are on ice. You will only burn it out for no reason.
Don't change internals. Go with a 2.2 or 2.5 liter engine from Australia. It will cost less in the end of the day.
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Do e-brake occasionally. It won't have any negative effect on the rear differential, if you clutch and thus isolate the transmission from the engine.
Do go with a FMIC. It's intimidating for others, and good for you and your car overall.
Do increase the rim size by 1" from stock. The 17" are the absolutely right size. Anything beyond that is for show cars, or with drivers without kidneys.
Don't e-brake and press the throttle like a front-wheel drive. It will ruin the differentials.
Don't try to make doughnuts with the car being factory, unless you are on ice. You will only burn it out for no reason.
Don't change internals. Go with a 2.2 or 2.5 liter engine from Australia. It will cost less in the end of the day.
jgrams
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Originally posted by meilers
DON'T use "cleaner wax" on a car less than 3 years old -- wake up people, the "cleaner" part of cleaner wax is ABRASIVES.
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DON'T use "cleaner wax" on a car less than 3 years old -- wake up people, the "cleaner" part of cleaner wax is ABRASIVES.
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Originally posted by jriggs
DO laugh really REALLY hard when some kid in a fiberglass covered, coffee can exhausted, eurotail lighted, prime colored POS rolls up next to you and revs his engine so loud mother theresa rolls over in her grave!!!!!
DO laugh really REALLY hard when some kid in a fiberglass covered, coffee can exhausted, eurotail lighted, prime colored POS rolls up next to you and revs his engine so loud mother theresa rolls over in her grave!!!!!
Do have fun making fun of ricers
don't buy a civic
Do not accidently drill a hole through your air compressor
Do not install neons under your car even if your buddy paid you 150 bucks to do it for his student film. They won't last but a week or so at least they barley lasted that long for me lol hehe
I guess I am just not meant to be a ricer
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Car Info: 2002 Sooby WRX (not runing right)
LOL after watching fast and the furious it was raining out that night and I pulled up the the stop light coming out of the Movie Theatre parking lot, and some dumbass in a Mustang GT pulls up next to me and starts reving his engine at me.... he rolls his window down and all 4 people in the car start yelling "SUBARUS SUCK!" so I looks over, roll my window down, and smile as I Rev my car to 7000 RPM 3 times fast as my BOV hisses as I come off the Throtle, and I wink at them and roll the window up... then they stop reving the engine, shut up and roll the window up..... well ovcorse wanting to show off I sling my RPM to 6000 and drop the clutch and my tires are all spining on the wet road threw 3 gears, I look back and I see the mustang waaaaaay back there... to bad they dont make them in AWD *giggles*
DO laugh at the civics with altezas, fiberglass primered bodykits flaping in the wind, with a giant pep boys aluminum spoiler
DO drive your WRX up a windy small dirt road for fun
DONT drive your WRX in the sand (I tried that when I got mine... the dealer said it should have no problem... well a 4X4 and a chain later im wishing I never did that.
DO get rid of your ****ty *** Bridgestone tires and get Dunlop Sport 9000's
DONT Race a Ferrari Denzo (Ouchie)
DO use your lug wrench to beat the hell out of someone after they kick your car
DONT use your lug wrench to beat the hell out of someone after they kicked your car if they have a Gun...
DO the DEW
DONT drink Coolant
DO laugh at the 16 yearolds who crash their WRX in a week because they have no self control
DO wince when you see a wrecked WRX
DO laugh at the civics with altezas, fiberglass primered bodykits flaping in the wind, with a giant pep boys aluminum spoiler
DO drive your WRX up a windy small dirt road for fun
DONT drive your WRX in the sand (I tried that when I got mine... the dealer said it should have no problem... well a 4X4 and a chain later im wishing I never did that.
DO get rid of your ****ty *** Bridgestone tires and get Dunlop Sport 9000's
DONT Race a Ferrari Denzo (Ouchie)
DO use your lug wrench to beat the hell out of someone after they kick your car
DONT use your lug wrench to beat the hell out of someone after they kicked your car if they have a Gun...
DO the DEW
DONT drink Coolant
DO laugh at the 16 yearolds who crash their WRX in a week because they have no self control
DO wince when you see a wrecked WRX
Last edited by aloose; Jul 3, 2003 at 07:56 PM.
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DO NOT: get angry when one of your bros buys an EVO8 and spanks you and your mostly stock WRX up and down the freeway... and stop light to stop light... =(
DO: get your **** in gear and go buy VISHNU's Stage 2 and get the car dyno tuned to crush your bros EVO into little itty bitty pieces (not literally)... =)
DO: get your **** in gear and go buy VISHNU's Stage 2 and get the car dyno tuned to crush your bros EVO into little itty bitty pieces (not literally)... =)
DON'T get drunk and then get into your car and start shifting into 3rd gear instead of 1st and wondering why the F##K the car keeps on stalling and get sooooo embarrased in front of all the really fine chicks...
haha...I just lost 20 coolness percentage points
haha...I just lost 20 coolness percentage points