Come on guys/gals. Be honest. We have all had some ricey ideas sometimes and if it wasnt for the forums we would probably still be that way. I have been to all type of car shows(mustangs) and that is where i see some of the riciest cars ever, but they tend to win trophies and even end up on the cover of MM&FF. So to me ricey means uniqueness with a slight import look.

I have seen long time members remove some so-called ricey items from their cars. No need to put them on the spot but lets not act like we have never been that route. I removed my carbon fibered tailights last year but yet you can buy a Carbon fiber hood and it be ok. You can have smoked headlights but no projectors or angel eyes. WTF. Who determines rice?

I am member on several forums and they have introduced me to a many of what i call solid looking cars. If you went to Dyno Day at MPH and seen a 500hp car with chrome alteezas are you going to say "nice car, but you need to get rid of those tailights". I would say to you, "lets line em up and you can get all the looks you want of my tailights".

Some items are cool, as long as you dont go overboard.

Ok guys i am off the soapbox.

 

Yea I went through the Altezza tail's and thought they looked good for about a month.Now when I look at the old pic's I ask myself "what the hell was I thinking".I've never considered CF rice though,that's why I bought my hood.It's alot better than fiberglass and the spider web's that eventually come with it after a few year's.Vette experience with Fiberglass makes me not trust it.

As far as smoked headlight's and tails,well they were around way before the Ricer's.The stuff I call rice is graphic's,huge wing's and fart can muffler's.

Also I think alot of the body kit's are very Ricey.

 

well.. everyone's definition of rice is different.. it's just an opinion.

my personal opinion is that smoked headlights are not rice, they come from the factory and stock on some mustangs. They also don't turn that nasty yellow color like a lot of clear headlights do. I am not a fan of clear tailights personally, or really any other taillights other than the factory.. and that's just because I think the factory tailights are perfect. As far as carbon fiber hoods good, it could be a function over form issue.. carbon fiber is suppose to be A LOT lighter than our heavy hoods. A guy I know with a tiburon put a CF hood on his car and he was amazed by how much lighter it is.. and I don't think it's ricey at all.. on a mustang or on a tiburon.

 

My definition of ricey is anything that could be found on a car that really does not belong there. For example, HUGE wing, fart muffler, euros, stickers/graphics, ect. If you notice, everything that i consider ricey is usually a really flashy body mod that just screams out that you want attention or something, and thats what i think rice is, overly trying to get people to look at your car. I dont think carbon fiber is ricey in most applications but there are exceptions, as long as you paint the CF hood before you put it on(except for a few that werent painted and still looked good without being overly flashy) you are good to go. Now for the euros and projectors, they are both real busy, almost all euros have so much "design" that they draw your attention away from other things on the car....and that is rice, as for the projectors, they are also to busy also, take out a couple of the plastic bars and crap in there and i would buy myself a pair in 2 minutes.


EDIT: I didnt mean to make it sound like i dont like carbon fiber, cause i actually love the look of it, just needs to be done in a tastefull way.

 

heh I'm sure everyone know's my story...(they're still for sale...)

But as i've mentioned millions of times over...my friend has a WRX...and to most of us thats a rice burner...but I've come to realize the mods he's done, he's stayed away from rice...and almost everything on his car is functional...even the large STi spoiler...same concept goes with me now...everything I've bought is made for a MUSTANG...the rims, spoiler, now the tailights...everything was ment to go on the car...I think of moding my car now, as if it's a classic...as if my car is guna be shown in a show when i'm an old man, and not some ricer convention...

 

You guys can call my car rice or w/e, but i only changed the two body parts for one reason. The rear bumper had about the two biggest exhaust holes in the world. The tailights are still on i just tinted them to make a more black them along with my black projector lights. I recently just purchased lambo doors I have a show car and my purpose is to win them. I have never run around with unpainted parts or with gay graphics. My car flows very nicely and is cleanly done. If i would of listened to all of you guys on this forum i personally would have a stock looking car like the rest of the mustangs...I'm sure glad i didnt do that. I honestly think you should cut other stangers slack that have a very modded exterior as long as they take care of them and respect there cars.

 

Thats exactly what i mean. If its done tasteful, i dont see anything wrong with it.

And i never said carbon fiber was ricey. Its very functional like Christie said. Ok , but isnt a huge wing functional??

Remember this is not directed at anyone.

 

Atleast there is one person on this forum that actually really looks at things the way they should be looked at.

 

95% of the time that would be no. You got to be moving pretty quick for most wings to work.

 

yes and no...

The wing works with the car to do more then just place down pressure on the rear bumper, it creates drag and helps even out pressure on turns... in the straight line distance large spoilers work at 150mph plus...but in corning they work at lower speeds... hence the Cobra R has a low front and high spoiler...

but yea i don't find Projetors or Lambo doors as rice...i think they're cool...makes ur car stand out...I just wish the projectors out now had angel eyes and could be used with HID's...

 

Cobra R front bumper creates noticible downforce at highway speeds like 55 and higher.

 

Are you being sarcastic?

 

Im serious...
My buddy had one on his 03 GT and I sure noticed it.

 

The cobra r front spoiler (air dam) would create downforce at a lower speed, and I am guessing that that was the basis for the mach 1 chin spoiler, downforce. ( if it wasn't flimsy plastic) As for rear spoilers, unless it is a ducktail type I don't see it accomplishing anything unless under high speeds. Neither are rice, but if your spoiler is adjustable and aluminum and came out of a sale bucket at autozone and your car won't do over 75 mph, then your are ricing it. It is all a matter of taste and I hope that most noobs to this forum don't think we bash for being different. Most ask for opinions and you should be able to accept our criticism. Just cuz we don't like your altezza'a doesn't mean you should go out in the garage and take em off, we just state that they are or are not are particular taste. If youu like em, then at the end of the day, that is all that matters. I'm sure there are parts on my car that most are not into (graphics) but I make the payments and I'm the one who has to look at them. I myself do appreciate constructive criticism when I ask about a certain mod.

 

I've never had the mentality of "I don't like your stang because it looks ricey" EVERYONE that I've known on this forum have awesome looking cars, so what if it has altezza's, like someone said, if it FLOWS well it's gonna look fine, if that's your tast. I for instance have had altezza taillights and really liked them, I thought they looked pretty good. I've recently switched them back to stock simply for a change of looks, and after seeing both sets, I like the factory look but I'm tinting them 50%. Why? Not because people say to do it, but because I like the look. I also used to have projectors I like them a lot, but after months of those I decided they took to much of your attention from my grilles and hood to the headlights. This is why I'm going for more of a subtle look with smoked clear corners that are on the way.

Here's something that not many know, but I have the 7 color L.E.D. undercar neons. My car is white, I WANTED to get a white neon, but for the same price I could get the multi-color. I wanted white, but after playing with the neons I keep it on the Tourqoise solid color. With the car being white, and I having Autometer Lunar series cluster gauges along with two lunar series gauges on my a-pilar (Lunar series lights up tourqoise), from the outside of the car I think it looks really good at night. I've NEVER gotten a comment to take off my neons when people see it this color. Even my tuner who specializes in mustangs and others that were they're at the shop when I was getting it tuned said they thought the tourqoise was a nice touch. I don't drive around at night with changing colors, that to me is gay, lol. That's my story

 

It's been so long sice ive driven it. I remember people thinking the car actually wasnt goin 58 when the speedometer read 58. Who knows though.

 

WHat I consider rice is basically 2 things.

1. Coffee can exhaust pipe

2. 10,000 Stickers like NOS, NOPI, etc. and then knowing the car is all stock except for the baby cow in the trunk (that's what I call the sound the fart pipes make)...


As far as the altezzas, I have had them on cars in the past, but I will not put them on my mustang, not because I don't like them, but simply for the fact that I love the "reflection" of the light in the factory tail lights in a stang. Just personal preference.

 

Hell I riced out that blue station wagon of mine, well my mothers... and then I got into a ****load of trouble for ricing out mama's station wagon, so I had to take all the **** off (mainly neons and LEDs) but it was fun... and then I got the Mustang, and the only "rice" that I did to it was the blacklight tubing...

Not neon blue, neon green... neon red..... blacklight-- its a mustang, it deserves something a little bit unique. Do I see the car as riced out? No, not at all.

 

I think (this is my opinion..) That you guys have forgotten that rice really means "imports". That is the base definition. Now some imports are done very nice. The guys that spend the money on making it look good and run good too. You know when you see a nissan all tricked out and looking good, you are
proned to look at it. It catches your eye, Thumbs up to ones who do it nice.

As far as those ricers who have a primered civic with different colored fenders and such, With the big ole fart can on a stock 4 banger and still thinks he's the shizznit.. LOL I will laugh out loud and, A very loud manly laugh. It makes a bunch of noise, is ugly as hell, and it aint going anywhere in a hurry. HAHAHAHA.

As far as altezza lights for mustangs, They aint all that bad. Just glad they didn't put a 4 banger in mustangs. It would look funny with a big ole coffee :loser: can out the back LOL,

 

Hey Grimmz, today was the first time I really looked at your car with the 'tezzas on it. This will probably get me bashed a little, but I honestly think they didn't look too bad. Just my $.02...

 

yeah, I kinda changed my mind seeing the 500-700 hp cars from MPH dyno day, with altezzas

IMO im starting to get sick of everyone getting hung up on looks..what is this? a v6 forum?

 

IMO, rice is: things that arent functional, fart can muffler (which is owner liking..some owners hate the exhausts we all use), park bench wings (which i hate to say it, but the cobra R mustang wing is hideous!!!), etc.

Like cars can be "overdone" without necessarily being rice, its to each owners liking. Now if you see a crappy *** car with a wild *** hood scoop (non-functional), a big *** tachometer (auto trans), etc..that stuff is for show and has no purpose or functionality. I dont necessarily think things that are not of my liking is always rice..just different matter of opinions.... but some thing, no matter how u put it, are just crap. i dont think rice is only related to imports either. i see just as many focuses, cavy's, sunfires, etc with shoddy *** add ons and hideous styling. like when i see car that has rims that cost more than the car itself, or a body kit on a car thats banged up from top to bottom... i dunno if thats rice of messed up priorities..lol

 

i goin to rice my car all out

 

Like this maybe???

 

most times people just slap on a bunch of plastic an call it a day. To me rice is the people that buya bodykit and keep it in primer so they got a grey car with a blue bumper... sweet.... but some bodykits, wings etc can be put on and not ebe rice. someone a couple months back showed a pic of a sweet front fascia, sure it was a body kit but it aint rice. plus vinyls, they **** me off.