Rice+steet racing=Hated at GTP?

[askia47]

maybe its me but alot of people hate street racing and tuned japanese cars at GTP. also people dislike a lot of supercars. While i don't expect you to love them I want to know your problem with them. i also bet that it is hated mostly because of safety, but try to make other points.

 

[MazKid]

Rice is not tuned, it's modding a car for no reason. Tuned implies that it's faster than it is stock. Also tuned does not mean that the person added speakers, a big spoiler on a FWD car, stickers, big chrome wheels, clear brake lights, lights under the car, and all of that. That's rice.

Tuned is for speed. Atleast it was till people started bending it around.

Supercars, for me, means nothing. I'd rather refer to them as expensive cars. You also have to define "supercar". Most people assume that makes like Ferrari and Lamborgini and supercars. Yet if you lived in a land where Ferraris were like Fords in the US, you probably wouldn't consider them so super...

 

[Josh]

I don't like "riced" out cars. Hell, I don't even like the term "rice", or even using it. I don't like seeing people taking perfectly good cars with a ton of potential, and bastardizing them the way they do.

Streetracing. That's a big nono. It's just not worth it, and you'll learn that after you do it for a while.

I don't like "supercars." Sure, Ferrari's and whatnot are good looking cars, but I see them too damn often for them to be "super." There's probably 3 or 4 360 Modena's in my neighborhood alone. Sure, they're nice cars, but I don't get all googly eyed over them like most people would. I get more excited when I see an NSX than I do a Ferrari because I very rarely ever see an NSX. I've probably seen more Murcielago's than I've seen MKIV Supras.

 

[Duke]

Agreed with Mazkid about rice. Also, yes, I don't really like it because usually it is way overdone - I prefer the cleaner look myself. In addition, most times it is the owners think looking fast is as good as being fast. But even on a car that has GO as well as show, the looks mods tend to be worse than the original design.

I also like a lot of different types of cars, and that crowd tends to be very very closed-minded in what they absolutely love and what they think utterly sucks.

And street racing I find to be totally unacceptable and I never fell for the romance of "outlaw" culture. Quit being a damn cowboy, go to the track, and learn how to do it the right way. If you're as good as you act like you are, you should be able to make it in real racing, not the illegals.

...but not you personally. That whole movement/culture, I mean.

 

[Pupik]

Although I don't use the term "rice", in these parts, tarting up your car to look like a spaceship designed on peyote dosen't exactly appeal to me. I can't imagine a 17-year-old suddenly has all the design talent in the world to make a Prelude look like a better car. 99% of the body mods on cars I see make the car look worse, in my opinion.

Some times a little wing here, a boddy-colored bumper there doesn't look bad to me. But making you car's front fascia look like it's wincing in pain by installing some silly rally-inspired airdam and huge radiator intake isn't appealing to me. And in most cases, it doesn't do anything to the car's performance or looks.

I don't understand, unless a company is paying you to use the sticker on your car...why the heck would you want to put a butt-ugly logo on your dream ride?!?

Street racing should only be performed by professionals on a closed track. Driving fast is one thing. Driving to uphold your honor should be done in the Sahara Desert.

 

[askia47]

Originally posted by MazKid
Rice is not tuned, it's modding a car for no reason. Tuned implies that it's faster than it is stock. Also tuned does not mean that the person added speakers, a big spoiler on a FWD car, stickers, big chrome wheels, clear brake lights, lights under the car, and all of that. That's rice.

Tuned is for speed. Atleast it was till people started bending it around.

Supercars, for me, means nothing. I'd rather refer to them as expensive cars. You also have to define "supercar". Most people assume that makes like Ferrari and Lamborgini and supercars. Yet if you lived in a land where Ferraris were like Fords in the US, you probably wouldn't consider them so super...

Got ya. Whats odd is that I thought Rice= Tuned japanese cars.(rice is a common food in asia) so that was what i thought but thanks for clearing it up mazkid.

When i get a car i plan to lightly tune it. For example tune the engine about 30-40hp, and do an interior change. I dont plan to street race, yet many of my friends plan to. to make it look nice and get a boost in performance.

Also i wouldn't mind owning a Ferrari 575M, i think supercars are somewhat overpriced yet their enjoying to drive and a thrill to experience.

 

[askia47]

i would only put minor enhance ments like on this car.

this has nos in it which is a little far...

 

[advanR]

haha, nos

 

[TsLeng]

Too much nos will blow the engine up.

 

[TsLeng]

Plus, the yellow one is ugly.

 

[MazKid]

Well there's also a difference between full on street racing(like a group of people on a "deserted" road with very high speeds in "riced" out cars) than racing someone on the street(like at a stop light, light turns green, you both floor it and speeds go just a little over the limit and nothing radical).

I think racing on the street can be fun if you know how to drive. Sure, it's illegal at times, but the danger level is decreased by a lot. My bro use to and still does race people at lights or people trying to cut him off. Never got into an accident or a ticket from it. My dad even goes 110, sometimes up to 125, on the highway in the fast lane racing people that think that getting ahead will cut a lot of time. My dad just does it for the hell of it, and it's fun and funny(watching Civics far behind a stock Probe GT or 2nd gen RX-7 base is really hilarious), and he's never caused an accident in his life. He hasn't gotten a ticket at those speeds either, and his last ticket was like 7 yrs ago, and he's a very skilled driver. I see nothing wrong with that.

I do, however, see a lot wrong with teens in cars with thier buddies hill jumping and going 120 on a 2 lane residential road and ending up through a telephone pole. In STL, there's so many stupid teen drivers that drive around at like 2 AM racing and crap that they changed the license so that at 16 you get a license that prohibits you from driving between 12 AM and 4 AM(I think) till you're 18.

Will I race people on the street and on the highway? Sure, but I know when to slowdown, which a lot of kids don't know. And I won't go driving around drunk with drunk/drugged people in my car. I always wear my seat belt, even in parking lots. You never know when you will get slammed into.

That's just how I view it.

 

[Pupik]

What's funny is that you never see ricers on "open road" in the middle of nowhere; where you might get a chance to actually use some driving skills and not endanger anyone.

And I've got nothing against supercars; obviously, someone who owns a new Porsche and lives in a run-down apartment complex needs thier head examined.

 

[KosmikFool]

RICE 101

There is "good" rice and there is "bad" rice. The cars in The Fast and the Furious are "bad" rice. The cars you were shown previously by askia are "good" rice. Putting a muffler meant for a twin turbo car onto a Dodge Neon or Nissan Altima are considered "bad" rice.

The cars that we 'shop in the multimedia forums with spoilers, etc. Are "good" rice. If you have questions, stay after class.

Class dismissed.

 

[advanR]

I hate the term rice. Different peoplle interpret it differently. It is opinion, not fact. I consider that yellow supra as rice, maybe you dont.

To me rice is the type of body modifications I feel are tasteless. If the car has 150hp or 400hp, it doesnt matter to me. A big ass ugly wing is a big ass ugly wing. If you have the power to back it up, all it means is you have a fast nasty ride.

BTW I was luaghing at the word he used to point out the car had nitrous. nos is a company that makes nitrous kits. Its like calling any soda a coke, except this trend was started by F&f.

 

[Gran Turismo7058]

All I gotta say is,
RICE ROCKS

 

[Joey D]

Well I know I had a rice rocket and for that I feel bad

But Street Racing is fun and I'll admit that I still do it even in the Blazer. Its fun to have some kid in a Honda pulls up next to you at a light and you just smoke him. And hey street racing is sorta harmless fun when done in the right place.Most cars can handle 70-80mph on a surface street and most drivers can do it to. My outlook on it is if you think street racing is wrong then just don't do it.

 

[Cobraboy]

Well all I have to say is that NOS stands for Nitrous Oxide Systems, a company. If a car has nitrous made by NitrousWorks, is does not have NOS.

Unfortunatly, these 'ricers' think that NOS is short for Nitrous, which it is infact not. But whos going to convince them otherwise?

 

[Joey D]

I hate that when people say that. I alway say nitrous.

 

[Cobraboy]

I say Nitrous Oxide, it makes me sound intelligent. .

I had a discussion with some friends the other day and it went something like this:

Friend 1: "Do you think an engine would be able to run with 4 big NOS bottles"
Friend 2: "No I don't think it can, the dragsters can't even run with 4 big NOS bottles"
Me: "Dragsters run on NitroMethane not Nitrous Oxide idiot, tsk "

They just sat there staring at me.

 

[Joey D]

Hahaha I love to hear people talk about stuff they don't know about. I'm guilty of it to though.

 

[MazKid]

Same here Street, though it really pisses me off. I hear people saying stuff about Mazda like they are me or something, but they are totally wrong and I'm not one to get beat up so I don't usually say anything. Ohh well, let them stay ignorant...

 

[Joey D]

ya stupid people can stay stupid

 

[advanR]

I agree with what streetracer (ironic) said, except for when kids are endangering others lives. I dont agree with murdering people, so i just wont do it. hmmm, that makes no sense. I will of course hassle these dumbasses to quit doing it themselves.

 

[askia47]

do any of you like Nos?

 

[Joey D]

I don't like nitrous I would rather win without the bottle.

and this is a shock people agree with me

 

[Josh]

Originally posted by askia47
do any of you like Nos?

I'm addicted to the pnos.

I mean, uhh...I like nitrous. When the T/A's done it might be sporting a larger shot. Probably in the 200-250 range, but only if we build the motor to handle it. I might just rebuild it back to stock specifications, and leave the 150 on, who knows?

There was a small block Nova drag car down at my friend Robert's house about 5 weeks ago. It was there to be painted black instead of its current yellow. Robert's a dumbass, and doesn't mind risking getting his ass beat by his dad, or sued by the car's owners, and he drove it around his house when his dad wasn't home. He drives all of the customer's cars like that. It has a sticker on the driver's side rear window that reads, "10.83 n/a." God only knows what it runs when the 3 stage 600 shot is used. Unfortunately, the bottle wasn't in the car so we couldn't run it. If I would have remembered I would have ran out back where my car was sitting, and grabbed mine.

 

[Cano]

rice. ugh.
I tought that rice was the damned mdified Japanese cars, all of them. of course, I havent seen in my entire life the cars built at japan, or even the FINE cras that are built at the USA. All i had seen was mexican and USA crap. you know, the works. split splat paint with 20 phases of color changing and 2kg of stickers on each door, so many stickers in the windshield you wont see nuthin, these chromed 24 inche (niche) "hubs" and stupidly low suspensions, the body kit that adds 200 pounds to the car's weight, and that stupid plastic wing that looks like a metal one. wow. I hated it. but, wouldnt you say? this forum has teached me a lot. just go to the imports page on videos and photos and thats all you need. It really taught me to tell a good, great car from a piece of rolling trash (some times not even rolling...), so I hate the ****ing rice too but I now like very much the Japanese cars, when they are tuned for speed, even in their looks...

As for street racing... well, I'll admit its funny. I used to do it, but it was just off a stoplight... I did it a couple of times trough fastlanes, but I almost crashed once and that was good enough for me. I planned on returning, then I met Aura (love of my life ) and now I dont want to risk my life anymore, nor the life of other people. Seen from that point of view, street racing is way bad, because you never know what might be ahead. there mght be a cool open road or some van with a family inside... its just not fair. Iread in the Newspaper about a kid with a viper that smashed into a department store about a week ago or so. go figure.

Cano

street racing may look cool, but then I think it would be WAY cooler to race in a damned track!!! I'm still waiting for that
of course, I have to get a car first -_-

 

[Cobraboy]

Originally posted by Cano
As for street racing... well, I'll admit its funny. I used to do it, then I met Aura (love of my life ) and now I dont want to risk my life anymore, nor the life of other people.

👍 Good Man. 👍

 

[TsLeng]

Street racing is no good. Cause you'll meet god earlier.

 

[Cano]

Originally posted by Cobraboy
👍 Good Man. 👍

YEAH