My car is now 10% harder to damage...

[AtomicLabMonkey]

Originally Posted by khail19

Scott, why isn't your wing painted? Sounds just as ricey to me as an unpainted hood.

He has a point there.

[MikeSTI]

JC - The hood looks dope

f*** Scott , you can't please all the school girls

[sperry]

Originally Posted by khail19

Scott, why isn't your wing painted? Sounds just as ricey to me as an unpainted hood. Actually, painting the hood would be more rice than leaving it, since JC would be spending money on something that has no performance value (paint). Which is pretty much the definition of rice, as I understand it.

The wing's not painted because it's not supposed to be painted. It comes from Subaru, on the Spec-C, unpainted. Find me one car that comes w/ an unpainted C/F hood from the factory.

And I never said that painting the hood *has* to be done, I understand that the C/F hood thing is a "look" that some people like.

In fact I don't even think it looks all that bad, it's just a ricey. However, leaving the stock white vents/scoop looks like "I can't afford to buy the whole hood, so I'll just re-use my old parts." Which looks exactly the same as those retards w/ the intentionally or financially unpainted body kits. At the least, flat black those vents!

Stock Aluminum Hood > Painted C/F Hood > Stock Steel Hood > Unpainted C/F Hood > Unpainted C/F Hood w/ Stock vents.

So, feel free to like the hood, I'm not trying to change your opinions, but you should recognize that you're all ricers.

PS: JC, you need hood pins on that thing, or one windy day driving across Washoe, you'll end up w/ no hood, and no stock vents.

[doubleurx]

Ithink JC should get a carbon fiber trunk and leave the wing white.

I actually like the contrast as well.

[MikeK]

Originally Posted by doubleurx

Ithink JC should get a carbon fiber trunk and leave the wing white.

I actually like the contrast as well.

No, carbon fibre everywhere except the doors, so it looks like a police car

[left footed whooten]

JC, it looks darn good. Panda....sexual harassment panda....

[ScottyS]

Nice. I would get the hood painted, unless you're gonna match it with a CF wing, lips, and skirts though. Too many Hondas running around with the same look. Not that I can comment on teh bling with my amber corners and all...

+1 on the pins --- I've seen that happen, and I think it's funny as long as it doesn't happen to anybody I know.

Aluminum stock hood? What models got that?

[Nick Koan]

Originally Posted by ScottyS

Aluminum stock hood? What models got that?

The fast ones. WRX, STi, Legacy GT (05+ only I think).

[sperry]

Originally Posted by ScottyS

Nice. I would get the hood painted, unless you're gonna match it with a CF wing, lips, and skirts though. Too many Hondas running around with the same look. Not that I can comment on teh bling with my amber corners and all...

+1 on the pins --- I've seen that happen, and I think it's funny as long as it doesn't happen to anybody I know.

Aluminum stock hood? What models got that?

WRX & STi have aluminum hoods. Replacing those w/ C/F usually saves no weight.

[JC]

I have hood pins (CF ones ), they just aren't on yet. There is more carbon fiber in my car's future...

[Kostamojen]

Originally Posted by JC

I have hood pins (CF ones ), they just aren't on yet. There is more carbon fiber in my car's future...

Uh oh... Now im scared

[JC]

Originally Posted by sperry

As far as my rice-mobile... I think my wing might count as "rice", even if though it's wind tunnel tested to reduce lift.

Oh and I'd like to point out that rice is really adding non-functional stuff and thinking its functional. Maybe a real STi wing was wind tunnel tested, but I hardly think your fell off a truck Taiwanese replica was.

You should be scared Steve.

[sperry]

Originally Posted by JC

Oh and I'd like to point out that rice is really adding non-functional stuff and thinking its functional. Maybe a real STi wing was wind tunnel tested, but I hardly think your fell off a truck Taiwanese replica was.

You should be scared Steve.

Aren't you the areo engineer? Tell me how a replica wing in the same location and same shape as the STi wing is somehow tremendously less functional than the original? I've seen the replica next to the original, and they're damn near identicle aside from the tremendously higher quality of the $3000 STi part.

...not that I think the Spec-C wing does all that much, it was put on my car for asthetic reasons right before the NORPAC car corral so my car wouldn't look like "just another blue WRX in the show", and it seemed to help since I picked up ESX as a sponsor shortly after that... remember that was the era of the "I heard there was a WRX around Reno w/ $45,000 into it"... you could say that my car was the most famous WRX in Reno at that time.

If you want to talk aero, I bet the '05 STi wings are much more useful. But on a windy day out at Stead, on the scales w/ the nose into the wind, the gusts were causing the rear weight to fluctuate a few pounds heavier. So, it does do something, even if it's not much, or useful at autocross speeds.

Plus, I thought I agreed that my wing was the riceiest thing on my car! Sometimes you've gotta do shit like that to project an image that sponsors believe will help sell their brand... is that "being a ricer" or "selling out"? Perhaps, but it does help pay the bills. Tell me, who's paying you to leave those stock white bits in your C/F hood?

Anyway... I know I just got baited into a long-winded post as usual by JC. So I'll just wrap up w/ this: If you like ricey parts on a car, good for you... have fun w/ that. To me there's a really fine line. A *complete* C/F hood, or my wing (while pushing the boundries) are on the acceptable side of the line... but when you intentionally go for the "unfinished" look (or altezzas... god I hate altezzas), well, then I think you're over the line, and I'm gonna tell you that your car looks retarded. If you like it anyway, just keep telling yourself that "that's just Scott's opinion and he's a hypocrite" if that makes you feel better. I won't mind.

[JC]

Originally Posted by sperry

Anyway... I know I just got baited into a long-winded post as usual by JC.

You just make it so easy.

Originally Posted by sperry

So I'll just wrap up w/ this: If you like ricey parts on a car, good for you... have fun w/ that. To me there's a really fine line. A *complete* C/F hood, or my wing (while pushing the boundries) are on the acceptable side of the line... but when you intentionally go for the "unfinished" look (or altezzas... god I hate altezzas), well, then I think you're over the line, and I'm gonna tell you that your car looks retarded.

Its not unfinished Scott my vents and scoop are *painted*, its obviously finished. I don't have unpainted parts on my car *cough sideskirts*.

Originally Posted by sperry

If you like it anyway, just keep telling yourself that "that's just Scott's opinion and he's a hypocrite" if that makes you feel better. I won't mind.

lmao, like I'm worried about what someone with a BUGEYE thinks looks good. hahaha, man you crack me up Scott.

JC

[sperry]

Originally Posted by JC

You just make it so easy.



Its not unfinished Scott my vents and scoop are *painted*, its obviously finished. I don't have unpainted parts on my car *cough sideskirts*.



lmao, like I'm worried about what someone with a BUGEYE thinks looks good. hahaha, man you crack me up Scott.

JC

I'm pretty sure I said your car "looks unfinished", not "has unfinished parts on it". And, sure... the *stock* side skirts are a perfect example of riceing out a car. You better include all the other unpainted plastic parts on the car too... fuckin ricers and their unpainted tires!

The "you" in my last statement wasn't directly intended to you, it was a plural you directed at *all* the ricers on this board. I *know* you don't significantly care about my opinion, which is why I'm not bothering to pull any punches in telling you that I think the mis-matched vent/scoop looks bad.

[MattR]

You both suck.


I hope someone can bash on me for having new paint on my car...oooohhh rice!!!!


Losers.

[doubleurx]

Originally Posted by MattR

You both suck.


I hope someone can bash on me for having new paint on my car...oooohhh rice!!!!


Losers.

Nah, we'll wait for you to install the clear bra and stickers you ricer!

[JC]

Originally Posted by MattR

You both suck.


I hope someone can bash on me for having new paint on my car...oooohhh rice!!!!


Losers.

I dunno man I'm moving in two months, think your car will be done by then?

[ScottyS]

uhhhh.......huuh...huuh.......you said identicle.......huuh...huuh.....

[tysonK]

this thread is 110% harder to read since the word rice has entered the picture.

[MikeSTI]

Originally Posted by tysonK

this thread is 110% harder to read since the word rice has entered the picture.

now I'm hungry.................

[Duckie]

I think it looks great and it is a very unique look to my knowledge. Anywho I guess i should come out and say my car is Ricey too since I have an unpainted 97 grill on since my waterfall cracked.

[AtomicLabMonkey]

This thread is going down faster than an airliner running Windows.

[Duckie]

HAHAHA that has just made my day =)