ddub

i agree, i really dont see the big deal in putting a turbo hood on an n/a

RarestRX

Yo,


Here ya go:

https://www.rx7club.com/showthread.p...threadid=54955

Advantages: Makes you look like you have a fast car when you don't. All show, no go. Best definition of Rice ever.

Disadvantages: Soils the reputation of hardworking TII's everywhere.

Kevin
1989 GTUs "In before the lock!"

Mr. Gadget

Kevin, could not have said better!

Dan H

I KNEW Kevin was going to bust in here. Haha.

Black13B

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Another golden 7club thread...

rxspeed87

but who says they are doing it to look like a TII?

hell if I was to do it (which in all honesty I prolly would) it's not because I want to look like a TII it is because I like the hood

but then again lets go over some other things that are rice here


as I said putting S5 tails on a S4
that is like making your car out to be a S5 which has a stronger motor, stiffer frame, and so on. least by following what you are saying this is the case being the car isn't a s5 so why put s5 lights on there if you do not have the car


don't put FD rims on a FC either
that would be a ricer mod being your not driving around in a TT 255hp car

and guys get rid of the 3" inch tips when you have 2 inch pipes or the 3 1/2+ inch tips on a 3" exhuast
anything larger then the exhuast piping would be rice to by making it out as though your car had larger pipes (which should mean more power) then you really have

lets not forget the little aero mirrors/pieces on anything but the car they really came stock

just because you put the TII hood on your car doesn't mean you want it to look like a turbo
just maybe that you like the looks of it a little more


it's a little different then V-tech badges on a DX
in that situation it is just like saying hey I have V-tech being it is labled as such


this is just a hood, yes it came on the TII
but that doesn't mean I am tring to look like a TII


also you talk how it is rice to put a TII hood on a N/A
same thing should apply for putting a N/A hood on a TII
your car is not N/A so why would you try to make your car look N/A

but hey if you think it is rice for me to do something to my car that cuts a little weight and imho makes it look a litte better (again not trying to make my car out to be a TII) and say it's rice I'm not the one with the problem

RotaryForce13B

This is really funny! You say if you put a TII hood on a N/A that you are a ricer, have we all forgotten where the hell are cars came from? You guys trip me out with this stuff. I have a TII hood on my 90 GXL for a couple of reasons.

1. Its a lot lighter than my stock steel hood!
2. Puts a little cooler air into my engine bay.
3. I like the way it looks (most important)!

I don’t have the hood on my car to try to fool everybody into thinking I have a TII if that was the case I would have changed my GXL badges to Turbo II badges. I also have a Turbo II 10th AE. When I want to show off a turbo, I get into it. I got some BBS convertible wheels from a car in the junk yard, by doing this does that mean I'm trying to make my GLX into a convertible? I guess NOT! They are on there because they are pretty lightweight and I don’t have allot of cash to be spending on rims.

Sorry guys just had to vent on this one!

Bambam7

I'm surprised that nobody has mentioned this yet, but putting a TII hood on an N/A actually reduces radiator effeciency, by increasing uderhood pressure. Therfore, less air is flowing through the radiator. This is why reverse vented hoods are used in hardcore racing apps to keep underhood temps down- they work to draw air out, reducing underhood pressure, and allowing easier airflow through the radiator.

EDIT- Granted, the poor location of the stock vent means that it's at a very low pressure point on the hood, but it still brings in air nonetheless.

BDoty311

S5 tails on a S4 is not the same as a TII hood on an N/a. S5s are mostly just newer and nicer, their performance isnt noticebly better at all. Sure they have more power, but also more weight.

But nobody has answered my question. If you have an N/a and it is faster than a stock TII, is it considered rice? Because after all the riced out n/a can represent its looks more than the stock TII.

rxspeed87

I wouldn't say it is rice either way be it fast as a TII or not

unless you are claming the car is a TII


but putting a TII hood on a Na is called making a car out to be something it isn't
S5 tails on a S4 are making the car out to be what it is isn't as well

the S4 is not a S5 so by the line of ppls thinking here it should look like a S5

RarestRX

Yo,

The answer: Yes, still rice.

It's easy:

No Turbo, No Scoop for You!

You need to say that like the Soup ****.

Kevin
1989 GTUs "<-Scoop ****."

SevenGirl

Well, I have a scooped hood on my N/A. Call it what you wish, it'll stay there

rxspeed87

too late to edit the last line

the S4 is not a S5 so by the line of ppls thinking here it should'nt look like a S5




but come on guys

they are both from a 7
putting a TII hood on a N/A is nothing different then anything else I brought up
as long as you don't pawn it off to be a TII then it shouldn't be thought of as rice

ibemrzach

RarestRx, just because you have an n/a and a tii hood dosn't mean there is no go, so putting on a tii hood is not rice at all. maybe fabricating a scoop on your 7 hood, but stock 7 material on a 7 you're calling rice? i suppose you would be comfortable with lightweight civic wheels on the 7 just because they're functional, right? you're dead wrong buddy. some supercharger with a scoop is gonna beat your face in, i can feel it... where are you located? Sacramento? watch out for the champagne s5...

Icemark

I agree with Kevin (RarestRX).

A T2 hood on a N/A has no real function, other than to make the owner think that he is cool. It raises the aero drag, and lowers the cars value.

rxspeed87

but icemark how many mods do ppl do here that really do not have any function yet they are not looked upon as rice

just by trying to improve the looks of your makes it rice?
I'm sorry if I so choose to make something I own a little better looking

Icemark

I don't think that anyone really would disagree with the idea that a fake or non functional hood scoop (be it on a Honda, a Toyota, or FC) is rice.

*edit<
But it is your car, if you think it looks cool and it makes you feel good (for what ever reason), go ahead and do it.

But I am gonna laugh at you just the same as I would at the Grand Am I saw the other day with a 3 foot tall painted pink aluminum wing. I am sure he too "choose to make something [he] own[s] a little better looking"

luiml73

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Good point!! Who gives a **** if it's turbo or not. I think the hood scoop makes Fc's looks alot nicer.

JonEQuest

I can't believe I am saying this, but for once I have to DISAGREE with Icemark. The drag difference will matter about as much as how much the weight of the dirt in the wheel wells does, unless you are doing 120 and up. And as for resale value, most people would rather have a cool looking OEM scoop on the car. Many cars came with scoops that never had a turbo even as an option, it just looks kind of cool. To me the label of "rice" is being thrown around too easily these days. Soon if your pinstripe if from the xx year and yours is another year people will scream rice. If that is true everyone should paint their expensive SS mufflers the official factory rusted out and blackened color since being shiney don't make more power, seems kinds ricey to me.....hmmm.... If you put turbo emblems or big APC stickers on your car or fake like you have a turbo, yes that is rice, but just adding a cool looking OEM Mazda factory part from a higher or newer model is just improving the car a bit. I updated the door panels in my car to the 89 style but I am not "frontin' the S5 look yo". I just like the panel design better and the black color. To me rice is a big blower scoop on a hood that is way beyond the needs of the motor, ya know like the camaro guys always have. They were ricers before the term was even invented.

BTW, my NA has what can be called a true ricer add-on a fiberglass FAKE!!!.......OMG he said it.... a fake...TII hood scoop that I molded onto my aluminum hood. Also, I just ordered a Jspec motor, and plan to use a FMIC, but I will never remove my hood scoop, I just like the way it looks, and the way a FMIC works. If other people think I am rice, I will still sleep good tonight.

Just my .02.... got change?

John

JonEQuest

....I just thought of something, I made my fake Border II replica bumper from CorkSport into a fake RE Amemiya type bumper. That would make me like fake to the second power or fake squared.

I am so ashamed, I will have my car crushed in the morning....I can only ask for forgivness one day.


Should we all lighten up a bit?

RarestRX

Yo,

What I'm trying to figure out is what you guys say/feel when you roll for the first time into an RX-7 gathering.

You roll up and people go, "Wow, nice TII."

What do you say to that? What happens when you pop the hood and your fellow RX-7 owners go:



I'm sorry, but I don't understand why you'd want to say, "No, it's not a TII." all the time.

You ever wonder why people ask the question? Because the hood scoop is what defines the TII visually from the other models.

Seriously. There is a reason why it's called the TII hood, or the Turbo hood. It's for a turbo RX-7. If you don't have a turbo, then you haven't earned the right to wear the badge of the turbo.

That makes you a poseur.

Kevin
1989 GTUs "It's French for "Ricer."

Steel

"earned the right".. wtf is this crap? all this stupid elitist bullshit is really starting to get to me. And no, I like the N/A hood better IMO. But still.

rxspeed87

then how many FMIC guys do we have here with the TII hood

that would be rice also since the scoop is not doing anything anymore



at least the TII hood on a N/A is a stock part
it doesn't mean the guy/girl is trying to make his car out to be a TII

it just means he wants something that looks a little better

rxspeed87

isn't a poser someone who tries to act like someone else?
so if I am doing this not to look like a TII but to make my car look better
is that posing?
poser would so hey you have a nice TII
then I reply oh yeah I love it really fast and when the turbo spools.....

none poser
oh nice TII
hey no turbo there just like the hood a little better then the stock flat bastard

but also if you do want to take your line of thinking once again I will say it
N/A hood on a TII just screams poser as well
I mean making yourself out to look like a N/A when your not is posing at least following your line of thinking


also I think the 4 bolt 14' telephone style rims look just a tad different then the 5 bolt 16 inchers

hell the 15 inch GXL rims are a tad different
plus the lack of turbo emblems and such


and how would I explain it?
easy
I like the shape of the hood a little more and it was easier for me to find a alum TII hood then a N/A alum hood



all in all I just want to say this thread is so full of double standards. just too much it's ok for this car or item but not this one


point right here

[quote]Seriously. There is a reason why it's called the TII hood, or the Turbo hood. It's for a turbo RX-7. If you don't have a turbo, then you haven't earned the right to wear the badge of the turbo.
[quote]
there is a reason the S5 tails are called S5 tails. it's for a S5 rx7. if you dont' have a s5 then you haven't earned the right to wear the s5 tails


gee sounds about the same as what you said

Blowtus

bloody hell... how is choosing not to waste money on the appearance of your car by not swapping the t2 hood when you get a fmic rice? It's just not wasting money on looks. What is it with all the posers out there that don't like being called posers? Just get over it and do what you want to your cars, and put up with people with taste giggling at you