Why are Rice rockets annoying to YOU?

[darudeboy]

Whats up guys, ive noticed a general consensus among the people on the board here who feel that rice rockets are stupid. I completely agree...theres nothing like driving down the road and seeing a civic with a huge loud exhaust and the driver who thinks just because he put an intake and an exhaust in his car, his car is...dare i say it..."FAST". He tries to race and gets smoked. How are you gonna race against a bimmer FOOLS! Do they not get the idea??? Get OFF THE ROAD U IDIOTS!

Sorry, these "hooked UP"-(haha) cars are getting on my nerves...

so i wanted to ask the board....

Whats your thought on Rice rockets??

 

[Blake2043]

i hate ricers, i wonder why someone would do those things to their car. If your car is shitty, save your money, dont spray paint it and put a body kit on it, save your money and buy a good car.

 

[sidney]

I live in a small community that has an automotive 2 year college. It is one of the best in the country(Wyo-tech) and I see tons of "ricers". In most cases they are just kids that can't afford a better vehicle and enjoy fooling around with what they have. No big deal.

 

[codex57]

I don't mind the additions that much. Sure I think a lot of it is stupid, but I see people do stupid things to Bentleys. What I don't like is the immaturity and attitudes most of these "ricers" have. Mainly they try and act tough, drive like maniacs on the road, and try to race anything and everything.

 

[jnejman]

For me, it is not annoying as long as it is done with taste. Quality parts (ie BBS rims, remus exhaust etc..). the car has to be clean.
I do hate these guys with $500 cars and $1500 body kit on them, and 6 feet toll wings, while his car is "farting" out ugly note out of $25 muffler.

 

[panzershreck]

dont like it when people completely destroy their perfectly good economy cars... nor their mentality... nor that they seem to be everywhere... and they all look exactly the same

the whole "all looks, no substance" also irks me

 

[Jax_E21]

its pretty bad out here in so-cal. im sure that codex will agree that ricers are everywhere. im still in high school and everyone and their grandma has a honda. whats worse is i get to hear about how "fast" they are durring my day. its insane how tasteless some of these guys are. i have no qualms with owning a japanese car, many of my friends have them (who arent tastless ricers mind you) but when you roll up next to me or one of my friends and rev your 1.6l or whatever you have in 5 o'clock traffic trying to be hard, your just a idiot. i start school in a few days maybe ill snap some pics of some of these guys. it would be good for a cheap laugh.

 

[PhatBimmer]

A cheap laugh is still a laugh and I'm in the mood for some. If it wouldn't be so much trouble please snap some pictures, I didn't get to do it when I was in school so I hope you do, I regret not taking pictures of the morons in my school (not all are morons). Thanks

 

[darudeboy]

hahaha, awesssommme idea...cant wait to see pics of these ricers haha

 

[manuel]

why is it that you(any of the folks above) feel YOUR taste in the modfication of a car is better than a dude that buys a car that he can afford and decides to add stuff to it? i could probably argue with every single statement that was said in prevous posts.

not trying to single anyone out but...

jax: the 3rd gen. rx7 has a 1.3L engine.
panzer: every e36 looks the same, every e34 looks the same, etc...

sidney: my brother attends UTI, but he really wanted to attend Wyotech. UTI lacks the custom work Wyotech teaches. He is on his last 3 weeks attending a Toyota specific course.

 

[nadroj]

because they think their cars are fast. LOL

 

[panzershreck]

why is it that you(any of the folks above) feel YOUR taste in the modfication of a car is better than a dude that buys a car that he can afford and decides to add stuff to it? i could probably argue with every single statement that was said in prevous posts.

not trying to single anyone out but...

jax: the 3rd gen. rx7 has a 1.3L engine.
panzer: every e36 looks the same, every e34 looks the same, etc...

sidney: my brother attends UTI, but he really wanted to attend Wyotech. UTI lacks the custom work Wyotech teaches. He is on his last 3 weeks attending a Toyota specific course.

but not all bmw's or european cars look the same... to me its the same as if every european car had a kidney grill, 4 round headlights, exact same taillights, exact same body shape, & etc.... if certain ricer's are not at that point, they usually aim to be

 

[f1racer77]

Dummies that don't understand A THING about aerodynamics. A wing more than one cord length off the ground is a plastic decoration that destroys your gas mileage and actually slows your car down. Most wings generate under 50lbs of downforce at 65-80mph anyway. I do admire the the kid with the beatass Nissan with a junkyard turbo, but people that buy sunfires and put a wing on them just piss me off.

 

[jnejman]

How about the guys that put on these "spinning" hub caps. Boooyyyaaaaa!
NOw that is funny sh*t

 

[darudeboy]

we can forget the car, the add-ons, and everything else someone puts on a car he can afford ( for arguments sake), having all that, when they think they own the road and try and race anything and everything that comes their way because of their huge boeing 747wing on their trunk and an exhaust with the diameter of a basketball is just stupid. If they want to be innovative and go crazy with their car...good for them...but get rid of that "my car is so much better than urs, im such a cool guy to drive this car ego" .

 

[codex57]

why is it that you(any of the folks above) feel YOUR taste in the modfication of a car is better than a dude that buys a car that he can afford and decides to add stuff to it? i could probably argue with every single statement that was said in prevous posts.

Because they think that they have the fastest cars in the world. I grew up during what I consider the pinnacle of the ricer scene. Before the "show" was such a big part of things and it was about "go" at a cheap price. Yes, I had a Honda Civic that was moderately fixed up. But, I stopped and turned it back into an economy car whose goal was fuel mileage when I decided I was unwilling to put the money and work into making it fast.

I did hang out with people who were legitimately into those cars. The guy who I bought my two performance parts from often had his entire engine out in his garage in organized manner cuz he was rebuilding it again after modifying some part. The idea was remove weight, not turn it into some monstrosity. You proved yoru point with time slips from the local drag strip or dyno numbers. Not by listing a catalog of parts on your car.

Yeah, everyone's taste is different. If you wanna put a muffler on that has LED lights on it, fine. If you wanna stick some 50 lb. rear spoiler that's as tall as the car (even though your car is FWD), fine. Your money. But don't brag about how your car is all that and can beat anything and then proceed to try and prove it on the point (while failing miserably). Unfortunately, that's what the majority of these ricers do now. That damned movie Fast & the Furious created an explosion of morons who all want gaudy cars with parts that look fast but do the opposite and all wanna street race on the road.

 

[PhatBimmer]

I was on the I-290 going North at about 11pm when the highway is practically empty I almost got in an accident when these 2 people (don't know if they were kids or not) were racing and making trouble, there was a car ahead of me and these idiots were swerving all over the place and one didn't check his blind spot and almost hit me, only if it wasn't for me honking my horn and moving almost all the way to the left emergency lane I'm pretty sure we would have clashed. They were both driving these insanely Asian cars, with 8ft tall Wings and neons, both in bottom of car and in muffler tip. Ok the wings weren't so tall but I'm guessing they were actually tuned cars but still they looked fugly to me

 

[BMWdude]

"That damned movie Fast & the Furious created an explosion of morons who all want gaudy cars with parts that look fast but do the opposite"

Brilliant! Just brilliant!

 

[Tom]

I had my "rice" phase in high school. Big spoiler, fart can, and I almost bought an Avenger style body kit for my Probe. Looking back at it now, it was fun but sort of a waste of money. I say if they aren't driving reckless then more power to them. They don't bother me one bit as long as they stay out of my way on the highway. [driving2]

 

[Ghost]

To me “rice rockets” refer to motorcycles ‘cause some those MF’s are very fast.

My main conflict with “ricers” is that there is so much “well if he did it, then it must make it fast” attitude. The people that put those senseless, “coffee can” mufflers on their small liter cars have no idea (or don’t care) that it actually makes the car slower on the street. Those mufflers reduce a lot of low-end torque, which is extremely useful from a stop, especially on a small liter engine. I don't know if they want to be unique by putting on those mufflers, but by doing what everyone else is doing doesn't that make you like everyone else. Not to mention that the area that it would help is only at high speeds. Why try to make a fast car for street racing while common sense and physics both cry, “don’t use a front wheel drive car because it is the worst for traction from a stop”. They have yet to figure out that even in F&F the fastest cars were RWD. I just don’t like the fact that THEY FOLLOW WITH NO IDEA AS TO WHY.

What happened to the days that the Mazda rx-2 was the choice of “ricers?” During those days some of those cars would make so much power they would smoke classic muscle cars because they were so small, light and RWD. IMO these were the “ricers” that knew about street racing. I have to admit there are some “ricers” that I have respect for; those that may be on a budget but still want to have as fast of a car that they can afford. The ones that research and use their brain when tuning their car, rather than getting all of their information from F&F.

We all may love our cars for different reasons. It doesn't matter if you want it to look good, to be fast or both, that’s great. I just wish that some people would get it through their head that just because a car may look fast doesn’t mean that it is, no matter how high the wing or how big the muffler. There are bad apples in every bunch but IMO “new school ricers” have the majority of this population by a landslide (no pun intended).