A vehicle and driver who has blessed us with bringing back Pro Street.  Show before go, or no go at all.

Often one is deemed a ricer if they have more money tied up in doing modifications that do nothing for performance than modifications that do improve performance.

Ricers are easy to find by their sound. They brag about their Folger's Performance exhaust tip and no other modifications to the exhaust system.  The exhaust system sounds like a swarm of bees or a bullfrog in heat.  If you see Columbians running for cover due to the noise it is definitely a ricer.

The look of a ricer is easily spotted in a packed parking lot.  First is stickers.  They have stickers plastered all over their car that even most Asians don't get or understand.  They have stickers for parts that they don't even have (my personal favorite is a Weiand sticker).  Stripping decals off your car is not meant to be a venerable form of weight shaving.  

A true ricer will have several thousand dollars tied up in body kits.  These infamous body kits are a ricer's dream come true.  They add weight and nothing more.  My personal favorite is a carbon fiber hood that cost nearly a grand but only weighs 4lbs less than stock.

Suspension geometry of a ricer is also interesting.  They can be spotted by having so much negative camber that they can drive on their side.  This is a side-effect of a ghetto-slam which often includes cutting coils and nothing more.  Yes, they have even more negative camber than a slopped-out front end of a first generation Ford Ranger.  You can often spot birds nesting on their "spoilers" because they are taller than the trees.

The interior of a ricer is also easily identified.  They often have a tachometer bigger than their head mounted somewhere in the way, preferably blocking the factory tach.  There will also be a orange-sized shiftlight.  Most of the time the shiftlight can be found in an automatic to which they always let the transmission shift by itself.  They will have a boost gauge for a normally aspirated motor that never draws less than 11" of vacuum.

A ricer owner is easily spotted in the auto parts store.  They can be found heading straight for the decal bin when they walk in the door.  They will often be spotted talking to the counter clerk asking about the latest APC piece of plastic.


When it comes to racing they are even more easy to spot.  They refuse to race because their car is for show only yet zig-zag through traffic to catch up to you and tell you that.   When asked to drag race they say they can't because they're set up for autocrossing and when at autocrossing events they say they can't race because they're set up for drag racing.  No ricer can race uphill.  They can be found doing a 20 second burnout to make the 16 second car look like it has some gonads.  They will only race if you remove enough sparkplugs to equal theirs.  This is especially true of rotary owners.