Originally Posted by RodC

Why are there so many cars like this in P.R.? It seems like they have a different kind of rice - cheap, tacky, chrome everywhere, and completely overdone.

Originally Posted by LordOth

oh yeah baby look at that dual hood scoops!

Originally Posted by xdorkx

Not sure, mexicans in so cal do it the same way, mexi-rice=chrome galore

get a 92 chevy astro van, cover it in chrome, voila!

maybe it's a hispanic thing? *shrug*

Originally Posted by Winter

that honda i posted up a bit ago, someone tried stealing it the other night. they cut a bunch of ignition wires and ruined the ignition harness and then started trying to clutch pop it.

the funny thing... if they just loosened a single bolt at the top of the steering column and pulled the relay right off and just tapped the relay posts, they thing would start up just fine... but no, they had to ruin the whole ignition harness...

so now, not only is it a death threatening ricer, but now we've pulled the new ignition harness and put some extra pin connectors so that the whole ignition harness can just be taking out rather then have someone cut it up again. so now my buddy's got the harness safely in his home with him and the car will not start period without it even if someone tries to clutch start it, it wont turn.

the one and only smart thing he's done and it's only cause i got him to do it. figured i'd start helping him out so that it may turn back into something that might be a bit safer to drive as much as he wants to.

Originally Posted by xdorkx

Post a pic, and tell us why he thinks it's cool again?

Originally Posted by Winter

here's my offering...

what you are seeing below is my xB and my friend's civic...

the things that are wrong with this ricer:

ONE, the front end is 4 inches short then what it's supose to be, all replacement stock hoods wont fit this car anymore because it was in a wreck and the front end was replaced and cut WAY too short.
TWO, you... should see... the wiring mess... on the inside... oh my god... and before i say this, i don't mean to be offencive in anyway... but... it's a spik's wiring job... there isn't a single wire in there that isn't split, cut or taped in one way or another and there is a BUNCH of random adapter parts all over the place. the wiring is SO bad, that the head lights are connected to a pilot switch rather then the perfectly working headlight switch on the steering column...
THREE, this thing has a B16c in it... screams like hell and burns more oil then an old submarine because SOMEONE thought they could do a 300shot on it and be fine... *looks at his buddy...*.
FOUR, look at the fenders... they are home made... and don't align right.
FIVE, not one panel of the interior is a matching shade of black. some are painted, some are paint pen'ed painted, others are colored with a perm. marker.
SIX, the notorious short ebay muffler can can be found on this that makes that "BLAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!" noise instead of being nice and low tone...
SEVEN, the Enkie rims look like someone has taken a metal grinder to EVERY wheel.
EIGHT, i sat and watched my freind try flat blacking it... without taping off the windows... or keeping a direct spray so there is over spray here and there and not enough point on other spots with TONS of over spray on the windows.
Finaly... his exact words "i'm going to just sit in my car and paint the headliner instead of taking it, gona do the same for teh panels too, i don't feel like ripping everything out of it to paint it all."

how do i deal with living next to it? i just smile and nod

Originally Posted by xSTANDxSTRONGx

yeah, winter, that was me, from SoCali. I was trying to get the guy his Ins. money. help him out so he wouldn't have to burn it.