Originally posted by RKBA
that's all this world needs is another rice rocket where someone can claim that they're making xxx hp with naws. Come on guys obviously your 150 hp WRX, Civic, or whatever imported piece of crap wasn't made to handel 420 hp. Personally I think its annoying to have these econoboxes with the fart can mufflers. I'd rather have harleys with straight pipes or some mid 70's american car with just headers driving down the street infront of my house
To me, "riceburner" is a catch-all term to mean any vehicle that is done up primarily for image rather than performance. So a 420 HP Civic with no other changes is not a riceburner--in fact it is the opposite of a riceburner, it's a sleeper. But a coffeecan exhaust is a riceburner. And a harley is a riceburner too.
Knew someone at work whose husband worked for Lotus, on the engineering side. Apparently Harley Davidson hired Lotus to fix up their engines. Basically the Lotus guys looked at these crap engines and of course it was quite easy to fix them. But when they were done, it was found that the new engines weren't manly enough or whatever, because they didn't misfire and backfire. They sounded like Japanese crotch rockets. So harley scrapped the changes.
