20" rims are rice!!!!!
08-18-2007, 11:33 PM
#52
3rd Gear Member
Join Date: Apr 2006
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RE: 20" rims are rice!!!!!
I love my 20's and don't really care what someone else thinks, its what i wanted to do with the looks of my car. That is why no one's are the same on here. If i didn't like superchargers and turbo's i'm sure as hell not going to bash someone for wanting/getting one because i think only "ricers" have them is just plain stupid. There are better things to argue about than the size of someone's wheels they want to put on "their" car.
08-18-2007, 11:42 PM
#53
5th Gear Member
Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: Alabama
Posts: 2,935
RE: 20" rims are rice!!!!!
20" Chrome Foose Nitrous FTW!!! I think the best looking wheels for S197's.
I love 20"s, I've always been a fan of big rims, not theghetto 24"s on lime green caprices, but expensive looking ones that arent so big it makes the car higher. I also love how you can have really low-profile, high performance tires on... I dunno its just something i've always liked.
I love 20"s, I've always been a fan of big rims, not theghetto 24"s on lime green caprices, but expensive looking ones that arent so big it makes the car higher. I also love how you can have really low-profile, high performance tires on... I dunno its just something i've always liked.
08-19-2007, 12:00 AM
#55
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Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: ATL
Posts: 2,955
RE: 20" rims are rice!!!!!
[quote]ORIGINAL: armour845
Sorry for the long post here, but I found this on the net. This ought to clarify some of the confusion here! LOL!
How To Tell Rice
[font="verdana"][size="1"]- You have more exhaust decibels than your engine has horsepower.
- You have aftermarket FRONT wheels for racing but stock rear wheels.
- Your engine makes twice as much horsepower as torque.
- You ever painted your wheels to match the same color of your car.
- You put your automatic car in neutral at every stoplight in order to roll it back and try to fool other people into thinking you have a manual
- DuPont gave up trying to figure out the shade you were asking for.
- Your mod list includes stereo equipment, shifter handle, MOMO steering wheel, PIA driving lights, exhaust tip, but no REAL engine parts.
- A chameleon lizard undergoes fewer shade changes than your custom paint scheme.
- Your rims and tires are so large, that you have to install the tire/wheel from underneath the car because it simply won't fit in the wheel well going in from the side.
- The dealer laughs when you bring your car back in for service under warranty, and you've only had it 6 months...
- Your tires / rims stick out from the lip of your car by more than 1".
- Your paint job is from the WRONG end of the color spectrum.
- You installed spacers on your STOCK wheels and tires to get them to stick out past the fender.
- You see cars like yours in a Shriner's Parade for Children and clowns are driving them.
- You bring a empty Maxwell House coffee can with you to compare size when you shop for an aftermarket exhaust system.
- Your Eclipse GS-T hardtop has a "SPYDER" emblem on the rear...
- Your knowledge of suspension is: "the more negative camber, the better the handling."
- You push your through the staging lanes. That way, maybe you can break into the 16s by keeping the motor cool between runs.
- You add a super tall rear wing, and a hundred pounds of aftermarket ground effects, yet you gut the interior and yank out the rear seat for weight savings.
- Your rear wing AND your rear window have a third mount brake light...
- The back lighting in the gauges in your A-pillar gauge pod work long before the actual gauges are hooked up.
- You cut 4 coil springs and scrape the chassis on the ground. Sparks are cool when you corner at normal traffic speeds!
- You have to find a way to drive AROUND speed bumps in a parking lot.
- You install clear corner and brake lights to be different.
- You install colored bulbs in your clear lenses.
- You ever put neon on the bottom of your car, and then busted it on the first speed bump you went over.
- You painted the UNDERBODY of your car to match
- If your rear spoiler is taller then you are.
- if you can fit fist f**k your exhaust tip
- You have more stereo WATTS than engine TORQUE!
- If your tailpipe extension is the most expensive mod you’ve done to your engine yet.
- Your tailpipe extension fell off during a quarter mile race and you went three tenths of a second faster due to weight savings.
- EVERY car in your class has a turbo pushing double digits worth of boost.
- You spent $5,000 on the engine and you can not out run a stock Camaro, Firebird, or Mustang GT
- You want the 'wastegate' sound, but don't want to install a turbocharger system.
- You think Nitrous Oxide on your Hyundai Sonata puts you in the same performance league as the Chevy Corvette.
- The automatic version of your car runs 2 seconds slower in the 1/4mile.
- If the 1970 Plymouth Daytona Superbird has a smaller spoiler than your car does.
- You think the Del Sol is a sports car...
- A torque converter does NOTHING for your car.
- You think a deep farty noise = the sound of high performance
- If you think that horsepower is far more important than torque
- If you have ever claimed that switching to a cone filter has given you more than 10 HP.
- If you have ever considered installing more than one set of fog/driving lights.
- If you claim that the aftermarket cold air intake system you just installed doubled your horsepower or took 2 or more seconds off of your E/T.
- Your baseball cap is always on backwards when you drive.
- You spent all night on the Internet trying to find a company that makes a turbocharger system for your Hyundai...
- If you removed your side view mirrors and put them at the TOP of the door / window frame.
- If you think the Fugees are 'speed' music.
- MOMO is 'absolutely required' to go fast.
- Your four cylinder has a dual exhaust system installed.
- Your four cylinder has four exhaust pipes ("Hey, one for each cylinder!")
- The color of your interior upholstery hurts the cones and rods in other people's eyes.
- If you cannot drive your car in snow as the ground effects create a plow effect.
- If you have installed driving lights to compensate for headlight blackouts / tape.
- If you think that 280 horsepower and 185 lb/ft of torque are impressive for a ‘mildly’ modified engine.
- If you have stickers on your car for parts that you could not point out if asked where those parts are installed.
- You think pushrods are a bad thing…
- Your car has more decals than you do the quarter in seconds.
- Every Honda you EVER owned, all the way back to your 1978 Accord was either a V-Tech or a TYPE-R.
- You took your rear seat out and gutted your interior for weight savings but you installed 400 pounds of electronics, neon, DVD, Sony, etc.
- If you gutted the interior to save weight on a car that you will never take to the track…
- You lean your seat so far back when you are driving, that everytime you hit a bump, its your back and not your butt that hurts.
- You have hydraulics and sixteen switches on a car you claim runs low 10s on the street and corners better than a Porsche.
- If you can estimate that your car makes more than 250 HP without ever running it at the track or getting a dyno reading.
- You claim that you can get a titanium block for your engine.
- If you have ever thought Hyundai and "PERFORMANCE" went hand in hand
- If you've ever gone to a parts shop or speed warehouse and asked for a 1" to 6" exhaust adapter...
- If you've ever contemplated adding "TYPE-R" stickers to your Sonata…
- If you've removed more than 1/2 of the coils from your springs by cutting them yourself ...
- If you have more neon lights on your car then a strip club...
- You put Kanji on your Ford ZX2 or Ford Probe...
- You own a "TYPE-R" Hyundai or Mazda.
- You couldn't afford headlight masking, so you just painted them with flat black Krylon and its peeling.
- You claim that polishing your intake gave you 5hp.
- You own a V-TECH Hyundai or Mazda (especially a V-TECH ROTORY Mazda RX-7)
- You have neon INSIDE your car or in your ENGINE compartment
- You ever claimed that high gas mileage made your car superior in performance to V8s.
- If it takes you 8000rpm to reach 30mph from a dead stop at WOT.
- You think yellow plastic interior trim makes your car cool
- You spend $500 for a giant hand welded tube for a muffler with the weld marks extremely visible
- If you paint your drum brakes to simulate Hi-po calipers
- If you install fake hi-po caliper / disc simulators
- You have a FRONT wing.
- If you lower your car and add ground effects but retain the st
Sorry for the long post here, but I found this on the net. This ought to clarify some of the confusion here! LOL!
How To Tell Rice
[font="verdana"][size="1"]- You have more exhaust decibels than your engine has horsepower.
- You have aftermarket FRONT wheels for racing but stock rear wheels.
- Your engine makes twice as much horsepower as torque.
- You ever painted your wheels to match the same color of your car.
- You put your automatic car in neutral at every stoplight in order to roll it back and try to fool other people into thinking you have a manual
- DuPont gave up trying to figure out the shade you were asking for.
- Your mod list includes stereo equipment, shifter handle, MOMO steering wheel, PIA driving lights, exhaust tip, but no REAL engine parts.
- A chameleon lizard undergoes fewer shade changes than your custom paint scheme.
- Your rims and tires are so large, that you have to install the tire/wheel from underneath the car because it simply won't fit in the wheel well going in from the side.
- The dealer laughs when you bring your car back in for service under warranty, and you've only had it 6 months...
- Your tires / rims stick out from the lip of your car by more than 1".
- Your paint job is from the WRONG end of the color spectrum.
- You installed spacers on your STOCK wheels and tires to get them to stick out past the fender.
- You see cars like yours in a Shriner's Parade for Children and clowns are driving them.
- You bring a empty Maxwell House coffee can with you to compare size when you shop for an aftermarket exhaust system.
- Your Eclipse GS-T hardtop has a "SPYDER" emblem on the rear...
- Your knowledge of suspension is: "the more negative camber, the better the handling."
- You push your through the staging lanes. That way, maybe you can break into the 16s by keeping the motor cool between runs.
- You add a super tall rear wing, and a hundred pounds of aftermarket ground effects, yet you gut the interior and yank out the rear seat for weight savings.
- Your rear wing AND your rear window have a third mount brake light...
- The back lighting in the gauges in your A-pillar gauge pod work long before the actual gauges are hooked up.
- You cut 4 coil springs and scrape the chassis on the ground. Sparks are cool when you corner at normal traffic speeds!
- You have to find a way to drive AROUND speed bumps in a parking lot.
- You install clear corner and brake lights to be different.
- You install colored bulbs in your clear lenses.
- You ever put neon on the bottom of your car, and then busted it on the first speed bump you went over.
- You painted the UNDERBODY of your car to match
- If your rear spoiler is taller then you are.
- if you can fit fist f**k your exhaust tip
- You have more stereo WATTS than engine TORQUE!
- If your tailpipe extension is the most expensive mod you’ve done to your engine yet.
- Your tailpipe extension fell off during a quarter mile race and you went three tenths of a second faster due to weight savings.
- EVERY car in your class has a turbo pushing double digits worth of boost.
- You spent $5,000 on the engine and you can not out run a stock Camaro, Firebird, or Mustang GT
- You want the 'wastegate' sound, but don't want to install a turbocharger system.
- You think Nitrous Oxide on your Hyundai Sonata puts you in the same performance league as the Chevy Corvette.
- The automatic version of your car runs 2 seconds slower in the 1/4mile.
- If the 1970 Plymouth Daytona Superbird has a smaller spoiler than your car does.
- You think the Del Sol is a sports car...
- A torque converter does NOTHING for your car.
- You think a deep farty noise = the sound of high performance
- If you think that horsepower is far more important than torque
- If you have ever claimed that switching to a cone filter has given you more than 10 HP.
- If you have ever considered installing more than one set of fog/driving lights.
- If you claim that the aftermarket cold air intake system you just installed doubled your horsepower or took 2 or more seconds off of your E/T.
- Your baseball cap is always on backwards when you drive.
- You spent all night on the Internet trying to find a company that makes a turbocharger system for your Hyundai...
- If you removed your side view mirrors and put them at the TOP of the door / window frame.
- If you think the Fugees are 'speed' music.
- MOMO is 'absolutely required' to go fast.
- Your four cylinder has a dual exhaust system installed.
- Your four cylinder has four exhaust pipes ("Hey, one for each cylinder!")
- The color of your interior upholstery hurts the cones and rods in other people's eyes.
- If you cannot drive your car in snow as the ground effects create a plow effect.
- If you have installed driving lights to compensate for headlight blackouts / tape.
- If you think that 280 horsepower and 185 lb/ft of torque are impressive for a ‘mildly’ modified engine.
- If you have stickers on your car for parts that you could not point out if asked where those parts are installed.
- You think pushrods are a bad thing…
- Your car has more decals than you do the quarter in seconds.
- Every Honda you EVER owned, all the way back to your 1978 Accord was either a V-Tech or a TYPE-R.
- You took your rear seat out and gutted your interior for weight savings but you installed 400 pounds of electronics, neon, DVD, Sony, etc.
- If you gutted the interior to save weight on a car that you will never take to the track…
- You lean your seat so far back when you are driving, that everytime you hit a bump, its your back and not your butt that hurts.
- You have hydraulics and sixteen switches on a car you claim runs low 10s on the street and corners better than a Porsche.
- If you can estimate that your car makes more than 250 HP without ever running it at the track or getting a dyno reading.
- You claim that you can get a titanium block for your engine.
- If you have ever thought Hyundai and "PERFORMANCE" went hand in hand
- If you've ever gone to a parts shop or speed warehouse and asked for a 1" to 6" exhaust adapter...
- If you've ever contemplated adding "TYPE-R" stickers to your Sonata…
- If you've removed more than 1/2 of the coils from your springs by cutting them yourself ...
- If you have more neon lights on your car then a strip club...
- You put Kanji on your Ford ZX2 or Ford Probe...
- You own a "TYPE-R" Hyundai or Mazda.
- You couldn't afford headlight masking, so you just painted them with flat black Krylon and its peeling.
- You claim that polishing your intake gave you 5hp.
- You own a V-TECH Hyundai or Mazda (especially a V-TECH ROTORY Mazda RX-7)
- You have neon INSIDE your car or in your ENGINE compartment
- You ever claimed that high gas mileage made your car superior in performance to V8s.
- If it takes you 8000rpm to reach 30mph from a dead stop at WOT.
- You think yellow plastic interior trim makes your car cool
- You spend $500 for a giant hand welded tube for a muffler with the weld marks extremely visible
- If you paint your drum brakes to simulate Hi-po calipers
- If you install fake hi-po caliper / disc simulators
- You have a FRONT wing.
- If you lower your car and add ground effects but retain the st
08-19-2007, 12:13 AM
#56
5th Gear Member
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: ATL
Posts: 2,955
RE: 20" rims are rice!!!!!
ORIGINAL: 157db
And just how did 20s change a thing? Thats rim size not tire diameter.
Just how did 20s improve your ride? Its a looks thing only and not a performance
item. 20s make your ride go faster? 20s increase your gas milage? Or just
drain your wallet. Ever hear of More $$ than Brains? The stereo compensates
for my lack of hearing and enjoyment of winning contests for something I
did myself with no outside help. Try and get 157 decibles out of a car stereo
and see just how hard it is. Did you cast and machine those 20s yourself or
just buy them like a lamo?
ORIGINAL: schapman
What!!!! it's a performance mod. my car handle so much better with the 20's than the 17's .
If I was trying to make up for something smaller somewhere
else, I would have bought the V8.
No one has said they like my 20" wheels...they've said they like my wheels and asked who makes them and where they can get them.
Not one peroson has asked what size they are?
LOL
"They need the constant reassurance that comes from being
noticed and not mainstream. "I like your 20" wheels" is like mom
saying "I am proud of you and what you have become". They like
this form of reassurance that they are better. Psyc 101. Chapter 1."
I guess you did all your stereo stuff (157db) just for your personal enjoyment...not compensating for anything are you?
What!!!! it's a performance mod. my car handle so much better with the 20's than the 17's .
If I was trying to make up for something smaller somewhere
else, I would have bought the V8.
No one has said they like my 20" wheels...they've said they like my wheels and asked who makes them and where they can get them.
Not one peroson has asked what size they are?
LOL
"They need the constant reassurance that comes from being
noticed and not mainstream. "I like your 20" wheels" is like mom
saying "I am proud of you and what you have become". They like
this form of reassurance that they are better. Psyc 101. Chapter 1."
I guess you did all your stereo stuff (157db) just for your personal enjoyment...not compensating for anything are you?
Just how did 20s improve your ride? Its a looks thing only and not a performance
item. 20s make your ride go faster? 20s increase your gas milage? Or just
drain your wallet. Ever hear of More $$ than Brains? The stereo compensates
for my lack of hearing and enjoyment of winning contests for something I
did myself with no outside help. Try and get 157 decibles out of a car stereo
and see just how hard it is. Did you cast and machine those 20s yourself or
just buy them like a lamo?
08-19-2007, 03:12 AM
#58
3rd Gear Member
Join Date: May 2006
Location: Palmer, Alaska
Posts: 954
RE: 20" rims are rice!!!!!
Wow they make 20"'s to fit oour cars? .....
Since when? Where can I get a set or two or three? .....
Oh wait I guess I'm already rice... 540 'grain' rice that is by way of Saleen S/C and JDM stage 2!!
Rice this:
Now please tel me WHO'S is more rice mine or my wifes vert with 20s?
Since when? Where can I get a set or two or three? .....
Oh wait I guess I'm already rice... 540 'grain' rice that is by way of Saleen S/C and JDM stage 2!!
Rice this:
Now please tel me WHO'S is more rice mine or my wifes vert with 20s?
08-21-2007, 09:42 PM
#59
1st Gear Member
Join Date: Jun 2007
Posts: 71
RE: 20" rims are rice!!!!!
Here's my overdone ricer with 20's, I'm just waiting for my F-40 wing and Daytona hood to show up in the mail.
Think I could get 24's under it if I lift it a little??????
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Think I could get 24's under it if I lift it a little??????
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