I agree to its hot.... anything is hot depends how you put it all together. what I wouldn't do is add stick on vents. nikka wheels ewwwww... flame decals, I love decals but depends how it looks. altezza lights are cool just depends how you look at them. body kits are cool to just match them right and lower the car. its a risk to have them on and drive low. I love carbon fiber but not crazy like I gotta have it! trunk and hood, lip is enough nothing more. unless your going full race on the track then its an exception. anyways your money do whatever you like to your car don't listen to me are other nut sacks out there. as long your happy that's all that counts.

^ I agree
CF looks good on certain parts.
I have always been a fan of Lambo doors..sorry guys...it's not like I want to drive 25 mph with the doors up on the boardwalk:ugh2:
Have your car tastefully done..well, it's up to the individual. But I do understand that we're on a forum and many have their own opinions. I respect that..but don't bash someone for parts you don't agree with..we're still part of the Z family ;)..except for the 350z dude with the blower:roflpuke2:

My definition of "Rice" is as follows:

Any modification done to a car that dominates the asthetics of the car and does not contribute to the overall beauty of the car as a whole. If you notice the wheels/wing or other modification before you recognize the type of car, it's riced.

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First off i like fried rice..like one guy said theses cars are made in japan so i'm just saying............ anyway it's your money and your car do what you want... why put 4 grand into a 2 seater for a sound system that can be heard two states over.... i've learned from the past i'll keep this one as stock as the day i bought it.any money put into it for mods will never see a return..
im not against that but when you go to sell or trade it in they know you've
kicked the crap out of it....

it seems like these cars are jacked with in all kinds of ways....
didn't mean to ramble final point these cars are great just the way they are.

When I think of ricer I think of someone that picks looks over power. Buying rims when you could buy preformance parts or fake emblems. But if you build a 600hp TT 370z in my book you can put what ever extras you want. Like rims, carbonfiber, dvd monitor and whatever you feel your can needs. But just remember its a sports car. Put up some numbers on the dyno before dropping cash on the "bling". If you do that I dont think anyone can call you a ricer.

And everyone is hating on Carbonfiber. If it looks good I say its okay. Just like I want a carbonfiber hood, side mirrors, and b-pillars but thats it. I just think it will look good on my PG nismo. But I also plan to have Z1 put a GTM Stage 4 TT system in it..... so ricer for having a few carbonfiber parts I dont think so.

I hope you are not talking about Tony...:bowrofl: :roflpuke2: :bowrofl:

Few people now where the term "rice" came from and they called everything they don't like rice nowdays. The term "rice" refering to cars started back in the 70s in California, when Asians hook up and fix the cars real nice like Toyotas, Datsuns and Hondas and with a couple of mods beat the crap of the domestic cars too.

The white folks start calling them "rice" because in Asian countries like in any Latin country we eat a lot of rice. There is were the term came from! But we have a lot of ignorant people in this country and now everyone use the term without knowing the true background of the word. :shakes head:

If you’re into what you’re into, like really into it and you show that passion, then you shouldn’t have to worry about anyone.-Hiroshi Fujiwara

People will still do it though.

These days, ricer has such a negative tone with it that I don't use it on people who pimp their sports cars out (of course, it better look good too..otherwise you are a ricer). I like to apply it to cars that are not fast that are pimped out.

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LMFAO!! well....we all know how he feels about it.

anyone see the movie tokyo drift........:driving:

Tow hook. Is that rice because I'm thinking about doing it?

Kinds pointless, but easy to do ;)

As far as it being rice................................:icon14: maybe to some!

no for automatic antenna :) or 5 ft antenna. I saw an old dude driving a 350Z in bay area, CA last month with this gizmo. :roflpuke2:

Where you got that from Wilkipedia? :rolleyes:

using different color wheels on one side than the other maybe?

that's just wrong on every level....... and his girlfriend says "he's getting it dirty". i hate to label people but for this one i will REDNECK

this
http://www.the370z.com/forced-induct...nce-chips.html

If it makes you happy then do it.....but be smart about it.

Things I would never do:

-Any body kit.
-Stickers - if it isn't a race car, they don't belong on there
-Z3 fenders
-Those Autozone vented fender stick on things
-For that matter, anything you can buy at Autozone in the "performance" section
-Have an unmatching set of rims, excluding a spare tire
-Half assing work
-Unpainted body kits (if I put one on)
-COMPROMISING SAFETY FOR ANYTHING (This just had me scratching my head in wonder. My old EP3, people would put carbon fiber doors on them.....which took out any structural reinforcement. Get t-boned? Guess what, YOU'RE SCREWED!)
-Neon

Oh man those videos are funny. :rofl2: That comedian was funny. I hate people who think because they have a coffee can exhaust that some how makes their car super fast. If you wanna have it on your car so be it. But don't pull up to me in your civic and try to race me. I still get people trying to run me in their eco box with the fart cans. Race someone with the same set up. They tried when I had my mustang, my corvette, my challenger and now my nismo. They're not just crusing by reving their engines they like to follow for quite a while to make you run them. Dumbazzes. The blue 350z def ghetto pimped. The g30 something is not ricer, it's stock with nothing on it. The dude is just a bull sheeter. The term ricer the way it's used I don't think it's racist when used on say that red mustang with the gtr sticker but when used to refer to japanese products def racist. Man I hope people don't think my Z is pimped w a fart can cuz I just did a muffler delete and to the trained ear sounds nice but to a joe schmoe what if they think it's riced out :eekdance:

If the car is yours u should feel free to do whatever it is u want to do to it. If u like spinners, add spinners if it'll make u happy. Others might laugh at you, but if it's ur thing then do ur thing. Too many haters out there that try to put others down.

Suggestion though: The more OEM ur car looks, the cleaner and nicer it'll be. Don't just "mod" something on ur car because it's available. If ur going to "mod" something it's because u really want ur car to look that way and/or perform that way for you.

A footprint gas pedal and chain link steering wheel. Joe Dirt inspiration
Seriously though i have an $800 beater truck i am gonna do that too. Why, cause it is a 91 toyota with 300k miles on it that i take trash to the dump in and i want to laugh at myself when i drive it once a week.

Seriously i guess do what you want, but to me anything that noticably detracts from the factory looks of the car like extreme body kits that dont fit the lines, chrome anything, all show and no function parts added together even a bunch of little things.

I heard that the "Supercharged" 350z is actually used by police to arrest people who try and illegally street race. It was designed to look over the top to instigate races.

If that is true, I'm not sure... but it would answer ALOT of questions.

i think you can do whatever you want to your car but this is america and people have the right to force there opinion on you whether you wanted it or not. i think almost anything CAN be done but it matters how well it is done, a professional set of neons on a car you plan to show not only draws atention to it but also gains points during judging at most import class events. Rockin a cheap set of neons from advance slapped up with cable ties and driving through town with them on is F'n terrible. Our cars could stand to have the tails tinted a little bit, not terribly dark, but they are seriously f'n bright. tinted z tails are still twice as bright as 90's grand am tails.

There is a guy who comes through the bank I work at who we call "Crome Boy"

He pretty much called some catalog for Pontiac Grand Ams and said

"what do you have in crome for a pontiac Grand Am? On second thought just send me one of everything"

it looks soooo dumb. Maybe I will try and snap a picture next time. Its so terrible looking.

This would seem to be borderline entrapment....

here is something i shouldnt do and did

#1 park the car too close to my other car. i live on a steep hill, one day the car in front slipped into the prius
#2 did the same thing with a riding mower
#3 park it near my wife
#4 have a small garage so the car is exposed to the person that walks by, my rr took many hits from the grocery bags
#5 keep a shedding dog in there

I'm asian and I'm not offended by the term "ricers."

However, I think I might get that label put on me if I put the Amuse wing on my stock 370z. LOL

My opinions on this are always wildly unpopular. I think that most of the aesthetic trends I've seen in the past few years have been absolutely horrible and exist not because they look good, but because someone felt the burning desire to be different (and then someone saw that and wanted to be "different" too, etc). Eventually this leads to a bunch of people with really poor taste deciding that some trend is hot and looks good. Here are some of my least favorites that I've seen done to this car:

- Painting your car flat/matte black. It's not "murdered out" now, it just looks like it's in primer. Congrats.
- Black wheels. Look at a picture of your car. At a glance it looks like someone jacked your wheels, or you have all spare tires on. Wheels are made of metal, why not have them look that way?
- "Landing strip" in the headlights. Just because it works on an Audi doesn't mean you should try and apply it to your car. This is like the new Altezza-style lights.
- Any HID except the factory 4300K. That purple you see on high end cars is just a narrow band at the edge of the light. Now your car just had purple headlights. Groovy baby!
- Overuse of carbon fiber, especially front lips and rear spoilers. Look at your car from the side. Do you see how the bottom of the car follows a nice line from the front to the back? When you put that CF front lip on there, it totally screws that up. CF works as an accent, not an entire piece of bodywork.
- Adding extra vents all over the place, like vented front fenders and non-functional vents in the rear bumper. Because extra vents = extra good, right? I feel like this is the kind of stuff I used to doodle in class when I was 10. Hey, why stop there?!? Why not take my other awesome ideas like rockets, machine guns and missile launchers?

The 350Z and 370Z have the problem in my mind of already looking about as good as they can look. They only need very subtle changed, like being lowered, possibly wheels, maybe a subtle lip, etc. Changing them drastically almost always makes them look worse. Unfortunately, if people didn't totally alter their cars, how would they be "unique"?

Don't do anything I've done.

Whoever said having a double din dash is rice must be smoking crack. I love my avec-z120bt. One of the best purchase for my car, all its function is beyond what the stock cd player of a nismo.

I hate to burst everybodies bubble but 98% of americans consider our cars rice, modified or stock. Especially in my case with a nismo. I dunno how many times I've heard comments like this yelled at me... 2 fast 2 furious, body kits are gay, or nice fart cans. Point is most people don't know **** about cars and don't consider my car any different than the civic that just drove by with a $69 pepboys muffler on it. We all have different definitions of rice and I have mine but wont mention them bc some guys here choose to do so and that makes em happy. However I just believe that if im gonna put something on my car its gonna enhance performance in some way, except for my red gtr stop button.

I don't care what someone else chooses to do to their own car, but on my personal 370Z...

#1. I'll never do carbon fiber sticky parts. I think it's cheap and tacky to buy thin CF with sticky tape and slap it on your OEM parts. It doesn't make them more rigid, or lighter weight. I'd love carbon b-pillars, but so far all I've seen is cheap "overlay". It ain't right. It's like fake Louis Vuitton or a fake Rolex. Yeah it looks almost like the real thing, but it's a joke to anyone who knows the difference.

#2. Carbon fiber hatch/hood/etc. Weight savings are useless on a road car. Looks awful unless painted. When painted, it's not only useless, but fit/finish is never as good as stock.

#3. Slamming the car. Waste of a good sports car. Well thought out and properly adjusted coilovers/sways are fine (useless on a road car, but whatever), but just a set of cheap springs to drop the car is better left for Civics and other junk.

#4. Fairlady Z badges. Why? It's a 370Z. Keeping the factory badges is bad enough, they don't help the lines of the car at all. Removing them and paying money for new badges for a car you don't own? Ridiculous. It doesn't look good at all. Oh, yeah, JDM. Sorry, this is not J, this is A, and you have a 370Z. It's not cool. At all. Ever.

#5. Aluminum shift knobs. I've done this before and I'll never do it again. Stupid, stupid, stupid move. Even with a nice sun shade and window tint, they get far too hot in the summer. I learned my lesson, and kept mine stock on this car. I don't see this as a "ricer" mod, just something that sounds like a good idea but is actually a dumb move. Again, I've done it myself.

I wouldn't tear apart the OEM headlights to paint them/add LED lights and then glue them back together either, but I admit it often looks nice.

I wouldn't spend the money for carbon fiber rad support/battery cover/etc under the hood, but it does look nice and at least they are actually new parts and not just sticky tape crap.

By your name alone, Im assuming you are a former Ford convert. From that notion, your post doesnt surprise me in the least on your viewpoints. And unsurprisingly enough, I agree with all of them completely.

Well, maybe except for the shift knobs - I liked my old aluminum knob lol. Even though it got hot.

Screen name is just something I've used for over a decade. I did have a '99 SVT Contour, but that was a very long time ago. Last car was a BMW, which was fairly heavily modified, including an aluminum shift knob :)