Body Decals and "Rice"

[jbarket]

Depends on the execution.

After all, the difference between a serious custom paint job and vinyl decals is just money. Take a look in any Import Tuner or similar Primedia magazine and half of the cover cars have vinyl done.

I don't think your average cheap-o tribal bs from the black and white ads in the back of the magazine are worth while, but if you look.. or have something custom put together.. and have it put on by professionals, I think it can be nice.

Personally, I'm having the same dillema myself. On one hand I want to represent the parts on my car and flash it up with some decals, and on the other I just want to go like Kings Motorsport's sweet ass EP and just place my company's logo on it and leave it alone.

I think the bottom line is that with a little taste anything can be rice or not rice (excluding all those dumb leds.. those are rice full time :D).. so just do what you want and represent it as clean as you can.

[Tekdemon]

I actually think a seriously well done decal setup isn't too bad if it's your own graphics and such, but what's really rice is putting on decals for products you don't have.

Like those idiots with the "Mugen" stickers and NOS stickers on a car that obviously has no friggin Mugen parts whatsoever.

Sometimes it doesn't even make any sense. I saw a Toyota Corolla with a white Type R sticker in the tinted rear window, some 17" rims, and a big fart exhaust, and all I could think was, OH MY GOD THAT IS SO RICE. =P

So go ahead and do those graphics and show us how it looks =) But if I ever catch you sticking on Spoon, Mugen, NX, NOS, Eibach, and Type R or VTEC stickers all over your car I'll go sand em off too =P

[Civicvtec1ps]

some of decal look good on ep.
just dont get gay ass fast and the furious crap, i will go bite you:D

[TrippZ]

i have a sketch that i drew the day before i posted this, ill try and get you a digitalized copy later. its really not that bad.

i was thinking about doing the sparco headlights, you guys think i should go for that?

[Burgh]

You know what's funny - I bet 99% of the people would make fun of you for stuff like that have "mods" on their cars that are purely for show and have NOTHING to do with performance. Like others have said, do it if you like it.

[beansbear]

again...
who cares what other people think. they wont drive your car. they wont have to look at it every morning. YOU do.
Do what makes you HAPPY!

:)

[02NJHondaep3]

not always true. I cant stand the rice in my town. I see crap every morning.The spoiled kids with their systems and decals, make me angry cause a beautiful car is going to waste and theyre making it look horrid. Its like pissing on a Da Vinci. Thats part of the reason i try to keep mine clean.Thats why people get upset. Jealously too but i'm proud that my sleeper can walk on that bmw with altezzas on 20s. (hypothetically)

[TezGari]

I wana put my TEIN stickers on my front bumber under the turnning signal (bottom sides). I want to but i dont want tooo, some thinks its rice, but then again its TEIN racing Springs and TEIN is kool!

[mental]

fuck that graphics are for SHOWS and guys who like caulk!!!! that and if i was to get vinyl work on my car i sure ass hell would make sure it was actually good looking kinda like the race cars in japan with the company sponsors and how they put ADVAN on the front bumper that actually looks cool!!! But i sure as hell wouldnt put and stripes or any designs on there fuck that!!! and if you get any kinda of ASIAN writtings i dont care what langauge it is, it will make your car look very very very horrible but like i said... IMO soo if you to make your car look like you prefer expensive and not cool, to , expensive cool and fast well then do so!

[TezGari]

At least he wasnt askiing about cardboard ground effects....................(got it from the Own3d thread).

[02TafWhtSi]

I follow this rule for decals:
Small, tasteful, and if there are more than a couple - all placed uniformilly.

[Tekdemon]

oh my god...cardboard ground effects...oh that's just not right...

And I actually think writing random Chinese characters is cool if you put all curses all over the car hahaha...or maybe threats even!

You could probably put "If you touch my car I'll fuck you up good asshole" on your windshield and nobody would know...well except people who can read Chinese of course.

[TrippZ]

Originally posted by Tekdemon
oh my god...cardboard ground effects...oh that's just not right...

And I actually writing random Chinese characters is cool if you put all curses all over the car hahaha...or maybe threats even!

You could probably put "If you touch my car I'll fuck you up good asshole" on your windshield and nobody would know...well except people who can read Chinese of course.

do that lol and then cruise through china town at 5mph with the gangsta lean... yknow.. just to see what happens...

[ATRIOT]

IMO, there's a fine line between doing it tastefully or being rice.
On one hand, EP3's shouldnt be treated as a giant $16000 sticker book, but a couple tastefully placed stickers rep'ing your parts is all good. Trippz, arnt you afraid that the yellow and black combo will make your car look like a Giant Bumble Bee?

[r3p00c]

speaking of rice, i passed an older accord yesterday that had a DIY 'HONDA' winshield banner... the letters were those ones you stick on the side of a mailbox! how ghey!