NSX Owners, Post pics of your past RICED out cars here!

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I was reading the thread just above this one about FnF movies and ricers and it brings back a lot of memories of myself back when I was a poor h.s. student working at a cell phone shop for extra cash....haha

Took me over 15+ years to wait for the right time to snatch up my NSX but thank god I was not capable of buying the NSX back then. (the other dream cars I wanted back then was a 3000GT VR-4 and Supra)

My point being as a car nut our tastes all evolve and we have to start somewhere. In my case my family is not into cars so my dad never took me to drag racing or any car shows. Thus I was a total newbie and learned what I could reading magazines. (keep in mind back in 1994 around chicagoland, JDM and Import cars were not the craze yet nor did we have car forums, etc)

I know the OP should start with a picture of his own car which in this case is a 1991 Eclipse GSX. I will post a picture when I get home to scan it since back then there were no digital cameras....hehehe

post away,
rick

This is my 2nd Eclipse, also riced out a bit and has a 4x6" exhaust tip!
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S4, well at least you had good taste in wheels, I was considering getting those Technospeed for the NSX.


here is my ex, but I wouldn't call it rice though.


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I'm still a nissan guy at heart and I will gladly wear a "honda sucks" or a "nismo" T-shirt when i'm driving my NSX.
 
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Rick- Sorry no pics, but back in da' day I was ricing out a '97 Eclispe GST Spyder (even had the sidemarkers, roll call stickers down the side, and Greddy exhaust cans). Thought I was the shit back then, but now looking back it was just the early trends of import tuning. Even did some illegal street racing at night while dodging 5-0's. Good times:smile:

PS) Sold the Eclipse the same day "Fast & Furious" came out.
 
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Finally got a chance to use my scanner this weekend.

This is my VERY first car (parents helped me buy it with me paying a portion)

91 GSX Automatic (first pic was with stock rims and me being creative, broke h.s. student)

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and later I saved up some money for OZ rims (lowering cars was still a new concept back then....~1995)

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Riced out straight down to the b18c1. I was a poor ricer in HS so i never got to afford to rice out my car... but i loved this green civichatchback that has some "invader" body kit and s2000 taillights I saw in an Import Tuner magazine.. that turned me onto hatchbacks.. I'm so glad I grew out of that by the time I started making money.


Heck... some might say my NSX is rice. oh well.
 
This was my ride in college. 2000 Mitsubishi Mirage with EVO IV Kit.


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Well, I started out my car modding career with a civic because I cannot afford anything better..Here are some shots of the beginning


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Then I ditched my ricer ways with the civic and focused on the performance aspect....swapped it out with a JDM ITR motor

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Later on I eventually ditched my ITR motor for the almighty K-series

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Here's how my car looked before I sold it
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Then I realized that civic is just a civic no matter how fast it is....plus that
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so I got my NSX....No pics uploaded of the NSX yet...soon to be
 
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I love this thread as it's a really good trip down memory lane. Early 90's and now was really cool becaues anything you did to a car was refreshing and exciting. I remember car shows back then were done with so much excitement! For some reason even though technology is great and we have tons of aftermarket support, people are less thrilled with the been there/done that attitude?

I started modding my blue 91 Eclipse back when people would give you strange looks if they saw a modded "Import". There were few if any Import shops in the chicagoland area and in 1992 and online forums were non-existent! heck there was no digital cameras so car clubs were in full force. (ok I feel very old now talking about all of this....haha)

My first mods on the blue 91 GSX included the custom painted wheel caps and a white racing stripe (modeled after the Pontiac Trans Am 25th edition) of all cars....hahaha Later I added a bunch of stereo work and even had an authentic Knight Rider "swooshing" red light setup since that Michael Knight was my idol :)

For some odd reason I thought blue and green goes well together so I had green fog lights and custom Pep Boys green windshield wipers along with those famous GTS blackouts. My car even took home a 1st place at the first ever import show in Schaumburg, IL. Those were the days..........



rk
 
From looking at the pics above, and the topic of the thread, I don't really see how any of the above cars are "riced out". The red and white Civic hatchbacks above look clean and I don't see anything "rice" about them. They look tastefully modified.

The Eclipse on top looks clean and yes, there is a body kit but if the car is quick then it might as well look quick. I'm thinking it's quick because it looks like there is an intercooler under the front bumper... but I can't really tell.

"Rice" is something that tries to look fast but it actually isn't fast. Big body kits are a matter of taste and from what I've witnessed, most who sport them are posers with slow, automatic cars. But believe me, I've seen Civic's, Supra's and things with body kits that we're also very fast cars. To some guys it's having show AND go.

I had a kit on my Teg, which broke cause it was crap fiberglass, so I took it off and just kept it clean. I threw on a stock 98-01 front/rear fascia and dropped it on a kickass Tanabe suspension. Despite keeping it clean, some still refer to it as rice, simply because it's from Japan. But is it fast? You better believe it is!
 
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Well, I started out my car modding career with a civic because I cannot afford anything better..Here are some shots of the beginning


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Then I ditched my ricer ways with the civic and focused on the performance aspect....swapped it out with a JDM ITR motor

IMG_0246.jpg
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Later on I eventually ditched my ITR motor for the almighty K-series

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IMG_1026.jpg

IMG_1029.jpg


Here's how my car looked before I sold it
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Then I realized that civic is just a civic no matter how fast it is....plus that
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so I got my NSX....No pics uploaded of the NSX yet...soon to be

much better then the civic's i see these days .
Man now they are disgusting,
 
Here's mine.. I don't call it rice as everything I put in there are performance oriented parts except ofcourse for the body kit but I think its not too much. Its the 2nd out of 3 smog-legal supercharged AE86 in the Bay Area. This is my 4th AE86 and I am very attached to it. I learned how to drive in this car, and I learned how to work on cars because of this car.

I still have it, but it will be gone soon. Man, I am so going to miss her.

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niM
 
No rice, but I had the same rims as s4play above.

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Robr: Wow your trunk setup is almost just like mine too - great minds think alike :)


nimdivino: I luv that color - maybe you can explain to me but what is the fascination with this Toyota??? I know a few s2ki guys have this car, one guy even transplanted a blown s2000 motor in that car. I'm not well versed in the JDM world so maybe I just don't understand but his car does not look state of the art...?


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Hmm...

Looks fast...check
Isn't fast...check :tongue:

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Rust and all baby!
 
Robr: Wow your trunk setup is almost just like mine too - great minds think alike :)


nimdivino: I luv that color - maybe you can explain to me but what is the fascination with this Toyota??? I know a few s2ki guys have this car, one guy even transplanted a blown s2000 motor in that car. I'm not well versed in the JDM world so maybe I just don't understand but his car does not look state of the art...?


rk

You mean you've never heard of Initial D? :biggrin: just kidding. Though it is a fact that lots of people got a corolla because of Initial D, and also was the reason why prices have sky-rocketed.

What's the fascination? Its a cheap front-engine, rear-wheel drive with about 50/50 weight distribution, proven bulletproof engine with 7500 RPMS, and about 2000 lbs. Most people will agree that this car is the backbone of drifting. The sport of drifting wouldn't be the way it is now without this car.

I am one of the few who built their corollas for road-racing. When setup-right, the car is very competitive in the road-track and its very common for an ae86 to out-drive a car that has twice the power and sometimes even 3 times its power

Here check this out. This will explain a lot
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42lbD6jilzM&feature=related

That footage is like 3 years old, but it always pumps me up whenever I watch it. I can't drive like the drift king but I know how he feels when driving his car like that.

There are lots of aspects with this car but what I like the most is that it will "punish driving errors but will rewards skillful execution". I've had 4, so I know exactly what this means.. haha.

FYI: Keichii Tsuchiya (the driver of the TRD AE86 shown in the video above) was the driver of ARTA JGTC NSX. He also owns a white NSX.

niM
 
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My friend and I built these in the pre-rice era before it was ever a term. Would you believe 1981? Can't think of rice before that in the US. All three 240Zs, one with a V8. Very fast for their time. 345s, extended windshields and wings unheard of for the day. The white Z currently resides in Florida and just won First Place in the Ultra Modified Class at the Z Car National Convention at Daytona Raceway. The Black Z is in complete disrepair and has been neglected for many years. It is in Half Moon Bay, California. The Red Z has not been seen since 1997 and cannot be located. I'll post pics of my 2 - 300ZXs later. I don't consider them rice but you can be the judge.



 
1999 Honda Ex Sedan

Was originally Silver and Automatic

- bigass full bodykit
- bigass touring wing
- bigass 18" wheels that tore up the inner wheelwell :D

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these are after it was toned down a bit and some performance was added

- B18C1 and manual conversion
- Mercedes Bahama Blue Pearl paint
- Evo front
- mix and match side skirts and rear lip (dont recall names)
- 17" Gramlight Pro's
- Zex Nitrous Kit

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here's a project i did a few years ago. 92 240 with a skyline r33 rb25det engine swap.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iATNgqcijDY

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My friend and I built these in the pre-rice era before it was ever a term. Would you believe 1981? Can't think of rice before that in the US. All three 240Zs, one with a V8. Very fast for their time. 345s, extended windshields and wings unheard of for the day. The white Z currently resides in Florida and just won First Place in the Ultra Modified Class at the Z Car National Convention at Daytona Raceway. The Black Z is in complete disrepair and has been neglected for many years. It is in Half Moon Bay, California. The Red Z has not been seen since 1997 and cannot be located. I'll post pics of my 2 - 300ZXs later. I don't consider them rice but you can be the judge.




Beautiful cars.......you were way ahead of your time....Bob Sharp nissan era?
 
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