Is it rice to make your own parts or does it depends on what you use to make them.

 

I think its all in the execution of things. Your car/money. Do what you want with it.

 

I want to make a intake, one that faces away from the rear of the engine bay.

 

Making your own parts is called fabrication, and like most any project, the skill and craftsmanship you put into it will determine whether it's "rice" or "nice."

Make it nice enough, and you might have a business opportunity.

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if u make ur own garden trim under spoilers and fugly interior bits, u arent really ricing it... just homdepot'ed. lol

 

If fabricating your own parts is "rice" -- then there's lots of rice on my 6.2L powered 242.

 

Necessity is the mother of invention

 

Having lived through the 90's being one of the crazy people who modified the Isuzu Impulse RS and a Geo Storm because I liked being different... I can say this is so, so true... Nobody made parts for Isuzu's, back then it was Honda civics or Mitsubishi eclipses.

 

An Isuzu Impulse! And here I thought I was the only one who ever bought one of those. Loved that mouse fur grey interior.

 

....and especially the "Handling by Lotus" package....

 

Depends on the quality of the fabricated product. This is my fabricated gauge pod for my boost gauge on my WRX. Basically, I fabricated it as a way to put the Speedhut shift light as far as I could in my field of vision. Maybe it looks ricer, if so I really don't care?

 

If it works for you - that's all that matters.

 

That needs it's own thread with more details and pictures!

 

Sent you a pm...

 

You're not alone. I had 3

1989 red Impulse bought in 2007
1987 white Impulse bought in 2009
1984 grey bought in 1988 (not pictured)