Faber

I am sure this is going to embitter some folks, but i gotta say it.

Isn't converting the GT to look like a shelby by all virtues the very definition of rice? I mean unless you are making some serious power you run the risk of running into competition on the street that may very well blow the doors off of a GT, but may not exactly be able to run down a shelby, and if they beat you then you have just marred the badges of every real shelby out on the street. I have seen quite a few cars up here that are worthy of the shelby badge and those cars are exempt from this rice shot....I am however firing a shot accross the bow of the charlatans that have a shelby badge on their GT or god forbid V6 stang.

let the flames begin.

eci

Who gives a ****? Not something I'm into, I like the GT look better than the GT500.... but ***** size isn't dictated by my car's "badge".

kevinb120

I just think it looks good. I dont think putting EX wheels on an HF civic is rice either. Now put the shelby nose on the HF civic and thats a different story. I haven't seen people put the entire exact shelby package on a GT, stripes, emblems, and everything. Personally I only think the facia looks good, the hood and wing look porky.

Faber

where in my post did I mention penises? If you wish to discuss erectile dysfunction please start your own thread.

05fordgt

5150PONY

Its all how you interpret the word "Rice"
I dont think converting the GT, V6 into the Shelby is rice.
Rice is when you are adding extreme parts on your ride, eg (huge spoiler, unfinished body parts, too many vents on your carbon fiber hood, roof scoop, huge fiberglass bumper, euro tail lights, etc)

just my $0.02

kevinb120

lol rice is basically building your car with dozens of mods all costing less then $200 each

FLAstangx3

...all depends on how big and high the wing will be.

Faber

I would define rice as installing parts on your car that make the car look as if it can attain higher speeds that it can actually attain.

for instance The poeple that install a giant top fuel dragster wing on a 4 door toyota. Or someone badging a V6 with a GT badge, and installing dual exhaust, and fogs in order to make it "look" like they have a GT when they actually have a V6. these are examples of rice in my book. Now if you put a billet grille on a V6 stang, and a cs bumper or something, but kept it badged right then fine. then there are the sleepers, like the guy with a supercharger and nitrous on his v6 stang who eats v8 stangs for lunch, that is the anti-rice.

all show no go = Rice
exterior mods that are tasteful = not rice
all go no show = sleeper
Real GT500 = cool
V6 with GT500 badges and body kit = Rice

Oman Stang

If you have the performance to back it up and your car is the spitting image of the GT500 - no problem.

If you've got a GT500 clone with V6 performance figures, problem.

If you've used parts of the Shelby to create your own design - no problem.

Faber

yes.

Luckydog827

Do you consider it rice to put the front facia on your GT and put a GT or a pony badge in the grill? If a V6 or a GT puts the Cobra badges on I think that it's wrong, only a Cobra should have Cobra badges.

AFBLUE

This debate never seems to end no matter how many threads we bash on each other.

I'll bite: I keep seeing this arguement brought up. What's to stop someone from saying they beat a real GT500 even if they didn't? People are known to stretch the truth. Or maybe a real GT 500 owner wasn't giving it his all and let the teenage street racer in the civic "win" in order to not kill some innocent bystander.
OBTW, I just killed a Viper in my wife's Mazda MPV. Prove I didn't.

OdiousBarbarian

see, thats what i feel about that argument as well.
like some kid going on www.stupidricers.com or whatever saying that he beat a GT500 in his ScionXB is going to destroy all street-cred the shelby has.

rice or not rice, whatever. do what you like.

Faber

i see what you are saying, but ultimately the guy with the V6 with cobras all over it sooner or later will be put to the test....and will look like a toolbox when some kid in a civic blows his doors off...and then laughs.

you are right about it being "to each his own" all i am saying is don't think you are fooling anybody when you rice up your ride thats all....sooner or later ve have to unpimp zee auto, and it ain't ever pretty to see a gorgeous GT500 get spanked by some v6 charger or some toothless camaro mullet with a calvin ****ing on mustangs sticker on the back window of his 92 rs camaro....

JonCo

You think anyone with the slightest bit of common sense is going to believe a cardboard box on wheels with 15 monitors and 15" spinner rims beat a full blown GT500? If anyone believes that its going to be that Scion Kids mom(who knows nothing about cars) or his dog(who is incapable of rational thought).

I think you all worry too much about "street cred" Like AFBlue already mentioned, whats gonna stop a group of trashcan muffler kids from saying they beat a GT500/GT or anything for that matter? Heck, hey guys. yesterday I PWNED a street bike. yeah...




Haha +1



Im with him... My 2cents.

RedDragon777

Rice is definde as having alot of stickers of parts you do not have, having emblems that do not even belong on that make of car, huge wing that does nothing but look nasty, crazy and unneeded bodykit, big fart can, and a paint job that just does not belong on a car

AFBLUE

You just reminded me of something. I had a 94 Mazda 929 and I removed the "929" badge and stuck it on my mom's Toyota Corolla as a joke. I guess that makes me a ricer; or maybe my mom was the ricer since it was her car

official_style

i agree 100%. its rice!

n00bstang

it looks nice, but...

yeah i kinda agree, esp. when the jump is from V6 to gt500.
that is kinda rice.

like v6's with stripes, no offense, but it bugs me.