Chicken Girl

I don't know about "ricing out your wheels", but Peeps are a sugary marshmallow candy shaped like chicks and bunnies sold at Easter time. And it's also a slang expression for your friends.

Roland98

My brother loves Peeps. I send him some every Easter. I think they're one of the nastiest confections ever invented. Isn't there some Shaggy song that talks about his "peeps?" (in the "friend" context).

I think "ricing out their wheels" refers to the extreme body modifications that are done to cars. Like when someone buys an old Civic and then adds a wing, and gets a body kit, and lowers it to an inch off the ground, etc. I could well be wrong, though.

Shadowy Man

He's a race car driver.

I once saw him at Elkhart Lake.

Daggah

"Riced-out" Eclipse.

Ricing cars out is basically a way of mimicking Japanese car-tuning trends...of course when I say "mimicking," I mean in a VERY loose fashion:

Aero body kits for example...the tuners use them to provide downforce for the front and diffuse air away from the underbody of the car, preventing lift. The ricers use them purely for looks. Rear spoilers/wings are also for downforce, though the ones that ricers buy usually aren't functional either. Another big area is rims: tuners will buy big light-weight wheels for the weight savings and traction/handing benefits. Ricers will put on wheels that are 3-4" too big and WAY too heavy to be used in any sort of performance application.

And when's the last time you saw a race car shooting around a track with underbody neons?

PopeInTheWoods

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Who's Paul Newman?
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I saw him this year at Watkins Glen. He had a bit of an off-course excursion.

He's also a race car owner.

Defiant Heretic

IBM?

fried beef sandwich

http://www.edealinfo.com listed a deal for a canon personal copier machine for $70, shipped. It was last week though, and it's not your heavy-duty copier though. Don't know if the deal is still valid, but it's worth it to check.

fried beef sandwich

You pretty much got it, but not quite...

"Ricing out their wheels" does refer to extreme body mods that are done to cars, but it usually refers to the way Asian teens/punks/wannabe punks modify their cars. The term "ricer" refers to the aforementioned Asian teens/punks/wannabes.

"Ricing" comes from the term "rice rocket" which refers to any cheap-ass (usually) car (Civic, Integra, Del Sol) that is usually owned by Asian folk. They have been heavily modified, sometimes for performance but mostly for looks, or to compensate for small penis issues.

Most ricers don't know shit about how to modify their car properly. Thus, they do things purely for looks, like changing the muffler, adding racing pedals and a spoiler, cuttin the springs to lower the car... basically everything except, god forbid retuning the engine or changing the computer.

Your archetypical rice rocket usually has one or more of these features: cut springs to lower the car; rear/front wheels with huge negative camber; SALEEN or HK or MOMO stickers on the sides (but often no SALEEN, HK, or MOMO parts) because "stickers make your car go faster"; stock engine ... you get the picture. They tend to scrape up their front bumpers when parking and bottom out frequently on speed bumps.

I forgot to add: a real kickin' sound system with those animated removable CD player control panels so that your date doesn't realize that your civic is giving itself a hernia, cruising @ 60 mph at 6500 RPM.


It's pretty much considered a derogatory term since, after putting $20,000 of mods into your $14,000 car, you should have just put down the money and bought yourself a Honda S2000, an MR2 Spyder, or a Subaru WRX and still come out $7000 ahead. Or, you could have ponied up the extra few thousand to get a Porsche Boxster.

As far as getting pulled over for "ricing out" your car... it's happened to several people I know. A lot of the parts that people like to put on aren't exactly "street legal" ... like those huge-ass mufflers, neon running lights underneath the car frame, that sort of thing. A friend of mine was pulled over by a cop who asked him to demonstrate whether his muffler was street legal or not (it wasn't). Another co-worker was ticketed for having those neon running lights on the bottom of his Nissan 240SX.

You can be both a "ricer" and a legitimate "racer" ... these days you can find ricers at your local "Import Shows" which are often shown on the Speed channel on cable.

Hmmm, that's about it...

- FBS

P.S. - Oh, and FYI - the most seriously messed up thing I have EVER seen on a car... some fool wannabe ricer down at UC Irvine wanted to add a muffler to his yellow S2000 convertible. So he took off the license plate, sawed a rectangular (!) hole into the bumper where the license plate used to be, and then put his new muffler into the hole (he had to add extra length of exhaust pipe and clamp them together to make the new muffler connect with the rest of the exhaust system).

[edit] Ah, looks like Daggah beat me to it. But I have a great link for those of you who want to see real live pictures of ricers and other questionable auto styles: http://www.riceboypage.com/

Daggah

That has more to do (mostly) with your state's dictatorial CARB board than anything else. Because of them, in your state, EVERY aftermarket part has to have a CARB EO number. The whole thing is supposed to be used to reduce emissions and pollution, but they require parts that don't effect emissions to have those numbers too! And the process to go about getting one is long and costly, and many aftermarket vendors can't afford them.

Also, I wouldn't automatically assume that a car with a "huge-ass muffler" is a ricer using a non-functional part. Unless you've actually looked under the car to check, you have no idea whether that muffler is just a universal muffler or a full-blown exhaust.

Somewhat relevant, I subscripe to "Super Street," and in the issue I got yesterday, there's a tech letter complaining that Acura won't repair his car under the warranty when he's done all kinds of mods to it. I wanted to reach into the magazine and strangle him...why should they be obligated to repair his car when he's gone in and changed stuff around?

Gamer4Fire

I remember a time you actually had to go into a bank to get money. I remember a time before ATMs. And I'm not that old! Most of this list is just a lack of history or critical thinking skills.