a lightly modded 270hp atrw SR20DET 180sx (not 240sx)running at 18psi, only monster fmic,bov, boost controller, exhaust and brake upgrade, no engine work. It has beaten most stock or lightly tuned v8 domestics, I have yet to race a viper gts.
rick's rice burner smoked mustangs, i-rocs and vettes
by Nizmo September 12, 2003
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any of various heavily modified import cars i.e. 2002 subaru wrx with the following modifications:
HKS GT turbo upgrade, Blitz front-mount intercooler, Greddy turbo back exhaust, Turbo XS blow off valve, Cusco strut bar, Blitz electronic boost controller, and a whole lot of other shit that costs a lot of money.
My rice burner ripped your domestic "muscle car" a new muffler.
by yellow fever October 13, 2003
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(1) Japanese motorcycle
(2) person born in an oriental country
(1) "His Honda is a rice burner" said the Harley rider.

(2) that slanty-eyed little rice burner is the best Honda tuner in town.
by John R. December 9, 2003
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Person who dislikes/hates Asian people or things Asians and expresses their opinions.
"What's he got against Asians? Dude's a real rice burner!"
by Tigger_tail October 27, 2004
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Usually a import car modifyed to look fast with oversized and excessively loud mufflers, extra large spoilers that serve no purpose but to look like a race car, ugly cheap matte colored body-kits, and possibly logos of tuner performance parts that was not even purhased by owners.
" Hey look at that car, its so loud and ugly."

" Oh, its just a rice burner, you can tell by the sound and look."
by Andrew Chi Nguyen February 6, 2008
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A Rice Burner is a car with a bunch of parts to make it appear
fast, but is actually running on the basic 4 cylinder engine.
Rice Burners,or Rice Rockets usually have these parts.

-Fake Fart Can Exhaust
-Body Kits thats are different color then the car itself
-Fake stickers/flames
-Sponsors such as NOS,but they don't have NOS
-A bright paint job, usually ugly
-Either Tinted or See through Lights
-Purple Window Tint (on windows)
-Loud Rap music coming from car
-Very high shopping cart Spoiler
-Fake vents/scoops
-Carbon Fiber hood
-Expensive Rims,Plastic Spinners,or missing hubcaps

And to complete it, a poor driver and a spilled
milkshake on the passenger seat.
Once I saw this rice burner, and it had purple window tint,
and only 1 spinner, and the rest of the wheels were spray
painted green and purple.
by Alamo11 February 7, 2007
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Esentially, the "FAIL" of street legal cars. Usually driven by teenagers or losers in their early 20's who didn't go to college or didn't find productive jobs. The older the person driving the rice burner, the more times said person has failed.

Cliental: You've spotted a rice burner enthusiast if the suspect.....

1.Wears dime store jewelry
2. Has girlfriend who looks like her vagina is almost as worn down as her boyfriends tires
3. wears a sideways billed hat.
4. has a 13-inch exhaust tip with 2.5 inch piping
5. has noticeably used "carbon fiber" accessories from craigslist.
6. has rear wing that is taller than the average person in the country from which the car originated.
7. Thought tokyo drift was the best F&F movie.
8. Avoids muscle cars like the plague
9. would immediately become a sniveling coward at the site of an engine bigger than 2.6 L
10. cries when engine size is conveyed in cubic-inches
11. frequently talks of "turbo's" but never with any specification of the type
11. has a tank for filling helium balloons that has been converted into "NOS!"
12. Didn't attend school long enough to understand what NOS is.
13. Does not know the 4 parts in the 4-stroke-cycle
14. Originally thought that driving a stick-shift made them gear-heads.
15. Only drives with 1-arm on the top of the wheel and leaned back once he's made eye-contact with you and knows your watching
I finally got my mustang down into the 11's, but when i was leaving the track, some gaywad in his rice burner was hitting on chicks in the parking lot and it made me lose all the excitement i had.

Animal control came knocking on my door because someone had reported hearing a lot of kittens purring near-by, turns out a rice-burner had just tried to burn out past my house.
by AConcernedDriver November 20, 2009
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