WTF is up with low-riding rice burners with loud exhaust systems?

[HopeHoops]

1) They are fucking ugly to begin with
2) They can't even go over a speed bump
3) You can't make crap fast by making it sound fast
4) The 45 lb subwoofer in the trunk is taking out every metric bolt in the go-cart
5) There's always a dumbfuck behind the wheel

[Blue_Tires]

1. you been cryogenically frozen since about 1998?

there are acutally a lot less of them on the road than there used to be...the rice crowd grew up and graduated to Benzes, Bimmers, and if they were lucky, Porsches....

[HopeHoops]

2. I'm in S. Central PA - it is still mostly rice burners.

The Beemers aren't as loud and they can't get the smelly-ass Mercedes things low enough to the ground. Porches are mostly stock around here.

[AlCzervik]

3. that's what the kids do here, mostly with civics, older ones, what really bothers me

is the after market xenon headlights that are aimed wrong so they blind other drivers at night. The other mods i don't give a rip about but those headlights, i'm all for bring back the guillotine to deal with the owners that install them.

[flvegan]

4. A Folgers coffee can muffler is good for 200 horsepower easy.

:rofl:

[Kali]

5. goddam folgers comes in a plastic bucket now

and the freaking lid does NOT seal.

[CreekDog]

6. "Rice Burners"

:wtf: :eyes: :thumbsdown:

[LynneSin]

7. Yeah, I know I was thinking the same thing

:eyes:

[HopeHoops]

8. Sorry, but yes - rice burners. Silly ass go carts from Japan.

It is an old term - circa 1975.

[CreekDog]

11. Dude, stop digging

I'm familiar with the term. But really!

:rofl:

[LanternWaste]

18. There are many, many old, racist terms.

There are many, many old, racist terms. Most of the time, we see them for what they are and the ignorance they are founded on. Other times, not so much... :shrug:

[Mopar151]

19. Saw it on a race car

" Ya wanna burn rubba, ya gotta burn rice."
On Mel Kenyon's midget, fitted with a SESCO V-8 - 2 Suzuki motorcycle top ends (GSXR 1100, IIRC) married on a SESCO crankcase and a common crankshaft. Worked so good it was outlawed.... And man, what a sound!

[mix]

20. it's an "old" racist term, to be exact n/t

[Jamastiene]

9. Yup.

I was thinking the same thing too.

[rcrush]

10. I thought it was a term for a japanese crotch rocket.

But I guess it could be applied to that suped up shitty honda that buzzes down the street.

[malta blue]

13. +1

:wtf:

[LanternWaste]

12. About the same thing that's with...

About the same thing that's with "Lame-Ass Mississippi-Made Rust Bucket..."

#1-#5. Six of one, half a dozen of the other, you see.

And add a #6-- Weird, Glowing Hub Caps.

[MineralMan]

14. It's today's hot rod...that's all.

When I was a kid in the 50s and 60s, it was Glaspak mufflers or open pipes that the adults all whined about. Young lads need to make noise...it distracts them from not making it all that well with the girls.

If you have a neighbor kid with a rice-burner, go chat with him some nice day when he's out waxing it and looking under the hood. He's the same kid who did the same with an old Ford back in the day.

Boys and cars...the louder the better.

We don't really need to turn into the mean old guy down the street. The cars drive on by and the noise goes away.

[DS1]

15. Someone said "Rice Burners"

It's giving me the vapors!

[CreekDog]

17. Mother Angelica scares me more than guys with loud cars

:rofl:

[Mopar151]

16. My dad had a supercharged VW Bug

in 1958! And I'm a ' 57, so fast small cars have always been a part - but I gotta say:
"Dood, your ride sounds like a beer fart!"
The little ricers can look cool, when done up right - but the extreme styles look hella-lame with droopy fenders, crappy fiberglass body kits, and shoulda used a brush paint jobs! And there is a lot to lowering cars, and revamping suspensions, and a lot of the droopy-drawers crew don't get it.
#3 - If it ai'nt fast, it don't sound fast to me! (Loud, sloppy, and discordant is not how fast sounds)
The bad noises in the trunk is just the speaker banging on the trunk floor. Gotta be - you don't hear music, do ya?
#5 Yes - and his brudda has a multi-colored "Fo-by" Chevy on 38's, with bumpers that weigh more than the frame.