Before you bought this car, did you hesitate and realize you're buying the new Civic?

[s2d4]

Originally Posted by husker741

RICE

[s2d4]

Originally Posted by husker741

Alright so again, crappy iPhone pics and videos. The glare kinda ruins how nicely lit all the LEDs look, and the HIDs do not look that blue at all in person. Mostly white with a small bit of blue. I really like how everything turned out. The pics just suck with the glare to really see how nicely lit everything looks.

LED dome light.




LED switchback turn signal/parking lights.



Just a quick video to show the switchback with the flashers.



LED license plate lights.



LED reverse lights.



LED rear turn signals.



HIDs that look much bluer than they are.





HIDs, parking lights, and high beams.



LED trunk light.




Shark fin antenna.



Really crappy picture of the mirror overlay. These help a ton with the blind spot.

RICE

[s2d4]

Originally Posted by husker741

Taillights came in! Took a little longer than I would've liked because I had to move my sub from my OEM Audio+ system, but they look great! Here's some crappy iphone pics.

RICE.

[s2d4]

Anyways, point made I guess.

You are actually coming off as some college kid trying to be "it" without much knowledge.

I like your humour sometimes, however, you seem to go on emotionally driven rants quite a bit. Perhaps your hormones are still all out of whack.

[Yoniyama]

Many people have severe hearing loss and think the Toybaru is not loud enough. We should have sympathy for those acoustically challenged owners, and not to be-little them.

Some owners must have really substantial bottoms and think the ride of the Toybaru is not hard enough. I am envious of the shock absorption property of their body parts.

Some people suffer from poor eye sight and cannot find their cars in the parking lot. Making their Toybaru an eye sore serves a functional purpose to allow easy identification at parking lots. It is not just their bad taste in aesthetics.

The Toybaru is so badly designed and assembled that there is countless and ceaseless rattling of all sorts. The annoyance of all the rattling can only be covered up by playing really loud sound at all time.

Last, but not least, sometimes monster wheels and tyres serve as a modern phallic symbol, especially to those who are less well-endowed physically. No one should take away their fig leaf for the last bit of self-esteem.

There is usually a good reason for everything, let's not pass judgement hastily.

[blackhawkdown]

Altezza Lights - Aftermarket = RICE



Stock Altezza lights = Not RICE ???

[Davey]

I knew exactly what I was getting. All performance cars share this phenomenon, some just sooner than others. When you're starting with Scion/Subaru and close to $25K it's going to happen sooner. It's happened to Miatas, Z's, S2000's... Pretty much any sporty car worth having has this same thing happen. They're affordable to a generation that is concerned about personalizing the look of the car, with questionable influence on the functionality. That's about as politically correct as I can put it.

As far a how I feel about it, first, I could not care less what someone does with the same (or similar) car that I own. Mod it how you want. I don't have to like it, and I don't really care what you do. If I think it's stupid, I'll quietly chuckle to myself. If you lower the car 4" and get stuck on a speed bump, I'll chuckle a little less quietly.

Second, insurance on these kinds of cars isn't as cheap as on a Camry. If you didn't know this, you are in for a surprise when you need tires - they don't cost $79 apiece like Camry tires, either - and while I'm at it, welcome to your first sports car.

Third, I don't mind when people ruin them because that just makes mine more valuable.

[paulca]

What I love are the people who put 19" alloys on cars and to get them to fit under the arches they put on about 15* camber. I wonder if they even know what camber does.

One such car locally is an Audi S4 Estate (Stationwagon). He claims to have 540bhp. Yet he is running about 15* camber front and rear in a 4WD car. There is no way in hell he will EVER get 540bhp down on the road when only about 5% of the tyres are actually in contact in a straight line and .... if there is that much body roll in a corner to justify 15* camber, then a better choice would have been suspension and anti-roll bars before the silly wheels.

[sklimo]

I hope my car is rice lol

[extrashaky]

I'm not concerned. The Civic is basically an economy car that people mod to make it appear sportier than it really is. The twins are a purpose-built sports car designed from the ground up for performance. At no point in time will a Civic ever be comparable to this car, regardless of how much people rice out either one, because at the end of the day a riced out Civic is nothing more than a riced out economy car.

[blackhawkdown]

Twins:
$24k-$27k
H-4 2.0L
7.5K redlline
200hp
150 ft-lbs of torque
RWD

Civic SI:
$22k-$24k
I-4 2.4L
7K redline
205hp
174 ft-lbs of torque
FWD

Rice territory?

[J_kennington]

So, from what I've gathered. OPs car has an exhaust and intake tube. Then super bright LEDs in every light, HIDs in stock headlights, lowered, shark fin, hella horns that he painted white so you can see them through the grill, and valenti tails. And currently looking for wheels and tires.

You realize most people would consider your car rice right? Pretty sure by your own definition it would be considered rice...

So, how about we move past this pointless word and just live with the car we purchased. If someone wants to put a full exhaust on a quiet car, who cares? If someone has a body kit...what's it matter?

Didn't the designers of the 86's flat out say, "we left a lot of the car for the owners to personalize"? That's what people, including all of us, are doing. And is exactly what the car was MEANT for...

[Katapaltes]

Originally Posted by husker741

The more I go through Facebook groups and see what people are doing to their cars, it just annoys the shit out of me. Sorry if you think I shouldn't get annoyed by it, but the more and more people do that shit, the more that these cars get lumped into the "rice" group.

In my mind, this kinda' has the same feel as "Those two guys shouldn't get married because it reduces the value of my marriage."

I'm sure I'd prefer your car (or a completely stock one) over a riced one, but someone else ricing out their own ride doesn't impact me, so I don't care.

[stevesnj]

Old but hilarious site. laugh at rice

http://laughatrice.blogspot.com/2007...ner-crapz.html