Nice or Rice: Burnt Titanium Tips
 

Just wanted to do a quick poll, I saw somewhere I'm not entirely sure if it was this site but I saw a comment about the Blue/ Burnt Titanium tips being "Rice" and I can see where they're coming from. I mean it's mostly cosmetic and doesn't play an actualy role besides looks. It's a newish fad that I'm seeing on more and more cars nowadays.

What do you think?
Nice?
or Rice?

My understanding of "Rice" meanings;
Race Inspired Cosmetic Enhancements.
Radically Inmature Car Enthusiast.

i personally like the burnt exhaus tips

but IMO i dont think it should add value to the part, why pay an extra 200-300 dollars for it?

It's all a matter of taste. I've had 2 exhausts with titanium tips, one was actually a full Ti exhaust, so in my opinion, it can't be rice if it's truly Ti. One exhaust with blue/gold tips, which looked awesome. And now, my tips are SS.

Honestly, I prefer the clean look of the SS, but it does look a bit plain compared to burnt tips. It's all a matter of opinion and if you like it, who cares if someone says it's rice.

I couldn't agree with it more. Paying 200-300 more for it sounds outrageous.

Nice.
I've seen some spray painted exhaust tips. I would call that rice but a TI tip with burn end looks nice

I have burnt tips and I'm so glad I chose to pay the extra money. It definitely gives it that extra look. Would not go back to getting normal tips lol

Right up there with mudflaps, one of the stupidest mods ever.

However, if we are talking a full titanium system, which has discolored due to temps, then I am on board....along with a rally car, having mudflaps. Otherwise, it is just horrid looking, especially on our cars, one of the slower vehicles on the road.

Polished or even coated black is classy and makes sense.

Im a fan of burnt tips...

http://www.modbargains.com/images/FR...gains-17x9.jpg

I love my "burnt tip" on my Tomei 60S - between the blue, purple, and golden hues I think it's gorgeous, but my exhaust is also full titanium which is what I always understood the purpose of that being - to show that the exhaust is titanium.

I don't (personally) think it's tasteful to dye a non-titanium exhaust tip to try to mimic real titanium, or even put titanium exhaust covers on - especially if it's adding to the price for an exhaust that isn't real titanium.

I view it the same as replica wheels - I'm not going to bash on someone if they like the style and are trying to save money, but (to me) it'll always leave something to be desired about the quality, and tastefulness of the build, and the assumption that the owner is a "quantity over quality" type of person.

That being said, I think that (cosmetically) a burnt tip still can look good on certain cars (Ultramarine, and Firestorm look great with some blue in the exhaust), so when it is done well, and if it's an awesome exhaust system (but not necessarily titanium), I think it can be pulled off - after all it still helps draw attention to the exhaust being modified, or aftermarket. To each their own :cheers:

How so? Some of us do drive our cars on dirt roads or roads that get flooded and have mud from time to time.


Yeah I'm not paying 3 grand for wheels that don't come in the size I want in order to be authentic. Rota SS10s come in Slate Blue and 18x8.5.

It depends on the color of the car but i personally like the burnt tips. It complements the blue hue on my silver ignition frs.

IMO if you have a full TI system and with the heat it turns blue then sureits okay. However if you buy it just for the look then it is rice, or if theyburn the tip for the look, I think its rice. Want some soy sauce to go with allthat rice?

It seems pretty close so far.
Rice- 14
Nice- 19

Was going to touch on that, however, didn't find it worthwhile.

I've been very on the fence about what wheels to get for next summer. Looked at Rays, Volk, Work, Advan, etc; and for the price, you do get very nice wheels, BUT, I couldn't find them in the size and offset I wanted. But guess who offers very similar styles with the size and offset I want? Companies such as XXR, Rota etc. I don't give a shit about having replica wheels, I won't try and pass them off as the real deal, and I also have an issue with paying 3-5K USD, then getting raped by shipping, customs and currency conversion for a set of custom wheels that are 1/5th the price of the car. I'll buy a set of reps for around 1k, and have more money for fun stuff that makes me go faster.

I think it's a bit rice, but not the worst thing in the world. Some people like red or neon green wheels, others like titanium blue exhaust tips. Just colors on otherwise functional pieces.

i love my mudflaps, only use them in the Winter months tho,
deff helps with keeping debris off the car

I had mudflaps back when I lived a half mile up a dirt road. People were really weird about them. Once I was driving and someone on the sidewalk yelled "you don't need mudflaps". It's because nowadays 'car culture' is all about appeasing the masses to get the most instagram likes, so everyone thinks their opinion is important.


Back on topic: Aren't a lot of "ti-tips" on steel exhausts actually just steel tips with some sort of color treatment added?

I think it was clear that my statement was a personal opinion, and not a fact that needed to be disputed, or an ultracrepidarian statement. I'm not sure where the statement about being authentic came from, as I too would never base a purchase on ego, but rather the quality, and reputation of the company - which you can find in companies that make replicas as well. There are also companies like ROTA that "base" a wheel design off of another, yet are a reputable company, and in that regard I wouldn't consider them as the sort of replica product I was referring to - in that regard the RPF1, etc would likely be considered a replica wheel design.

You don't need to justify the rationale behind your purchase decisions; if you're making a conscious, informed, and weighed decision than I think you're doing it right, and clearly not the type of person I was referring to.

I also agree about the mudflap statement - where I live it rains a lot, and they shower the roads with gravel in the winter. Those were my first purchase after getting the car to protect it from all of that spray, and road debris; I also don't see how anyone could justifiably bash them - if nothing else, they're preventing debris from being tossed up at the car(s) behind you.

You don't eat rice with soy sauce. You can use it to make fried rice, but just using it in just rice is plain disgusting.

I have burnt tips & I didn't pay extra for it? Win?

MY brother loves eating rice with soy sauce, my mom used to say :" God! it's easy to feed your brother.":D

I was like fuk no way... maybe with mayo...& furikage

Why buy a Lexus instead of a Toyota?
Why buy Banana Republic instead of Old Navy?
Why buy a name brand detergent instead of generic?

They all do the same thing... you just pay more for looks, the name, or both.

As the saying goes... to each their own. Everyone in North America spends too much time nitpicking over these small things.

-alex

You could spend a lifetime re-iterating that statement to forum-dwellers... and they will still continue to get offended every time they see something they don't like

@chas3wba0 that is exactly why I normally just stay in off topic and classified sections on forums. I buy what I need and read random stuff to kill time at work!

I have been saying this since 1997 on forums/mailing lists.

The key is that this issue is a mentality shared by Americans, the need to have approval of peers... No one gives a shit about this in Japan, hence the outrageous car culture and the imitators here in the US.

-alex

LOL I must be too white, I don't even like rice

Love it when I see a picture of some absolutely insane build from Japanland. Mostly Boso vans come to mind. Everyone loses their collective mind and is so quick to hate on it.

This is like asking if rice or nice on fwd vs rwd vs awd.

I got the ARK grip burnt-tip. As long it doesn't sound like rice cannon I could careless about what it looked like. Typically, a nice looking muffler will most likely sound good.

Unless car is slammed, meaning it is like 1/2 inch from ground like those touge Silvia's, I don't like titanium tips. Don't now why.

Am I the only guy here that never ate a bite of rice until I was 19 years old?


Real thing is not rice.
Fake on a fart can is.

Thank you!! :respekt:

Too busy spending time with German broads and eating schnitzel?

Just raised on pork and potatoes in good old Irish style.

It's fake.

Fake stuff to appear like it's performance oriented is basically the definition of rice.

But it doesn't offend me, I understand aesthetic choices.

Rice if you purchased them already burnt for you.

Not rice if they became burnt from actual use.

Using the argument that it's aesthetically pleasing (in your opinion) is just as valid as someone saying underglow is aesthetically pleasing (in their opinion), and i'm pretty sure that underglow is generally accepted as rice on this forum.

Would you call it rice if a titanium system were professionally colored in some way without using heat? what about some stainless steel system? is it acceptable on the titanium only because it can actually happen to titanium, even though your car had no impact on the resulting burnt look anyway?

Trust me, with Mayo on it. you will lick it. :lol:

:lol:

When I was living on my own, I had to go a week eating just plain rice and soy sauce because I ran out of cash and payday hadn't come yet. It's not too bad, but all that sodium made me feel like crap.

Had some suspicious looking ham that I could've added but... no.

That just sounds terrible. I'd probably end up just eating toast and jam or something. As @chaoskaze stated, Furikake would've been a better alternative on the rice, but the sodium effects would still have been there. :D