Questionable modifications: pictures inside!
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VIPERGTSR01It's a 180sx type X so it would have a blacktop SR20DET, but that doesn't change your point.
Now I would love to see a engine shot.
How the heck can you tell its an 180sx type x??
Ill search for engine pictures..
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Ok, no engine pictures that I can find.
Btw, Im serious about the 180sx..for educations sake.
I need to get up on my knowledge of the sx's.
Btw, Im serious about the 180sx..for educations sake.
I need to get up on my knowledge of the sx's.
ROAD_DOGG33J
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Looks like something straight out of Fast and the Furious, except...worse.
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Fairlady240zg
Standard Type X's have 180sx printed all over the seats aswell as the cloth trim on the doors, They also have a different front bumper, wheels, rear wing and the main difference is the tail lights have circular lenses and a different garnish in between the lights (tinted dark in that red 180sx above). They also got bigger brakes from memory.
but these things can be fitted directly into regular 180sx's (except the tail lights require some work as they are not the same size). Most of the later type X's have airbags, thats part of the reason why I said,
"Oh and don't tell me they done that to a real Type X"
because copy's are becoming popular over here and I cant see many other details to confirm, so the orignal posted confirmed it.
Note front bumper and wing
Note tail lights
I am aware that 180sx Type S look the same except have a SR20DE engine, so it could have even been that.
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- GTPr01 (GT); TheGTAFather (GTA)
Fairlady240zgThis is an eclipse I saw the other day on club3g.org..uuuugh.
If anybody actually knew what it takes to make something like that, you'd have a slightly different opinion.
The airbrushing is great, the interior too and the boot is very innovative. 👍
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spotted this too
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Holdenhsvgtsr
This isn't questionable - this is how all Corsa's look like now - unoriginal bastards.
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well it did have forward facing lights on the spoiler
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VIPERGTSR01
I must admit, I didn't see the LCD screens there but atleast it sets itself apart from any other car out there.
When it comes down to it, countless show cars look questionable if you know the total amount of money and time that went into them. But that's what it's all about; experimenting and blowing large amounts of money that could end up anything in the long run. It's just what it turns out to be is what you start to look down upon. Ie. those LCD screens, unconventional yet the driver experimented with them on the front bumper.
Sure, to you and many it might not be pretty but I guess it was simply a misinterpretation and misjudgement that led to it.
To be honest, not all these cars are ugly, nor questionable , they're simply misjudged.
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GT Pro
No it doesn't - it looks just like every other 'modded' show car - stuffed full of pointless tat. They all do exactly the same moddifications, only in different places.
GT Pro
That's where the 'questionable' part of the thread title comes from
GT Pro
That's why they end up in threads like this.
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Money has nothing to do with this. Taste is what is being looked at here, and it is something that will always differ.
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True. It does take great effort and time to do up these extravagantly detailed vehicles. However, I do think there is a point at which it goes from 'customized' to 'obsessivized' (new-fangled english
) and that's what I'd file that 2G Eclipse under. It's no longer a useable car, and I think that's when a modded car becomes questionable.Speaking of which, here's one of my all-time favorite questionable mods:
Does he plan on 4-wheelin' this thing?
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Holdenhsvgtsr
Oh dear god, we have loads in this area like that, you could bet big money on the fact that 2 of those exhaust tips are just shoved in to look "good"
You can clearly see that they are wonky at one side and im almost positive nothing is connected.
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GT4_Rule
That's not the point though. It's not questionable to the owner or his "krew" either.
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ozyranTrue. It does take great effort and time to do up these extravagantly detailed vehicles. However, I do think there is a point at which it goes from 'customized' to 'obsessivized' (new-fangled english
A 'show' car is not actually modified to be street legal, that's why they call it 'show', not street.
Although that Eclipse is perhaps partly both.
ozyranSpeaking of exhaust, I was searching around at random and found...
...this!
Woohoo! I was waiting for someone to bring this up.
Yep, I saw these a few days ago in my monthly Auto Salon Magazine, and well... for the time being they are unfortuneatly here to stay.
What's worse is that they also have love hearts and other scary designs.
Prepare for many a controversy on these 'dishonourable modifications'
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GTRacer4
You forgot to add "For girls aged 6-9" at the end of that.
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Toronado
Yep a hand grenade can sort out problems like that quite effectively
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GT Pro
But doesn't it defeat the purpose of having a CAR if you aren't able to drive it?
By all means, install all the audio-visual gear you can fit, paint it the most garish colour you can think of, but on the ugliest rims you can find. It is your car after all. Just don't expect everyone else to like it. "But I spent xxx dollars over xx years" does not justify a car percieved by others as questionable, or, in the case of most cars here, such as the eclipse, a load of pointless rubbish.
As a sort of experiment
OR
Which has had more money spent on it? Which has more labour invested in it?
Which one would most people here rather own?
