Tasteful Modifications Thread

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The argument above was fun to read. Anyway, I had the exhaust changed on my car to a stainless steel replacement. The company that custom made the new system offered me a choice of tips, including twin tips, massive cannon exits and even a heart shaped one! Sorry if the photos are massive file size. Here is before:
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I'm not exactly known for wanting to do tasteful things to my car, but what do you guys think?
 
lbpomg95
The argument above was fun to read. Anyway, I had the exhaust changed on my car to a stainless steel replacement. The company that custom made the new system offered me a choice of tips, including twin tips, massive cannon exits and even a heart shaped one! Sorry if the photos are massive file size. Here is before:
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I'm not exactly known for wanting to do tasteful things to my car, but what do you guys think?
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Looks nice. What kind of performance gain did you get (if any)?
 
Dagger311
Looks nice. What kind of performance gain did you get (if any)?
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Well, the old system was hanging off in 3 different places and the flex had a massive hole in it. So my performance gain was that the car can go up hills (sort of) again, since the cat isn't murdering itself. My Mum named the old system "floppy willy". I asked for them to keep the bore size the same, mainly for economy. So for performance gains, I wouldn't count on it. The car only had 58BHP standard and that was 12 years ago.
 
ZedMan1996
What I'm, saying is that is has the original chassis and subrframe just like a racing car, sure its pretty much previous life was a road car, but when you cut the car down to bare chassis (like some racing cars) thats how alot of racing cars are made, sure GT3 and Super-GT come with just the chassis as officially standard, but I'm not only talking about them am I? I'm talking about racing cars as a whole, ALOT of the, are modified road cars, such as alot of hillclimb, time attack, drift & Super-Taiku cars.

ALOT of racing cars are modified, and even with base model racing cars set to be prepared by private teams, the teams are still modifying them differently to some other teams.

Afterall, it all comes down to what you call a modification, how do you define what a modification is to you, because it seems everyone has a different view of it, and thats how it should be.

An example would be what Lamborghini would send as a base model for private teams to further modify to suit for different typresd of racing.

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A shame it's not fit for this thread, then, because it looks bloody awful.
 
lbpomg95
Well, the old system was hanging off in 3 different places and the flex had a massive hole in it. So my performance gain was that the car can go up hills (sort of) again, since the cat isn't murdering itself. My Mum named the old system "floppy willy". I asked for them to keep the bore size the same, mainly for economy. So for performance gains, I wouldn't count on it. The car only had 58BHP standard and that was 12 years ago.
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Going up hills is good enough! :P

And 58? Wow. I thought the Rogue was kinda low at 170! :lol:

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Dear god this escalated quickly :lol:

Look dude, I wasn't talking about race cars not being modified cars, yet you from the start assumed so:

ZedMan1996
racecars are still modified cars nonetheless, and I find it shameful that you guys cannot accept it.
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And started an argument destined to fail, because that was not the point.

I was talking about how not a single one of the race cars you have posted so far -up to when I last viewed this thread, and more so now after a whole night of trolling it seems- is tasteful :lol: all of them look generic at best, most of them downright horrendous. There are tasteful race cars, but none of the ones you have posted work. Thus, they don't belong in the thread.
 
Dagger311
Going up hills is good enough! :P

And 58? Wow. I thought the Rogue was kinda low at 170! :lol:

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It's my first car. Had it for a year. Good little motor, despite Vauxhall's 1.0 litre engine being known for being... well, quite crap. It's as powerful as 3 harnessed kittens, but I love it. Does 65 miles per gallon, which isn't bad at all for short journeys with lots of hills! The performance gains I'm looking to achieve are through weight reduction though. For my car to weigh 913kg standard makes me think Vauxhall packed it with lead.

It's more about what you can do legally for me. There's no point adding power only to be able to do 70mph, so my aim is to be able to chuck my car around the backroads for a bit of a laugh, hence weight reduction. It's so bumpy though, it's already quite fun... in a tragic kind of way :dopey:
 
lbpomg95
It's my first car. Had it for a year. Good little motor, despite Vauxhall's 1.0 litre engine being known for being... well, quite crap. It's as powerful as 3 harnessed kittens, but I love it. Does 65 miles per gallon, which isn't bad at all for short journeys with lots of hills! The performance gains I'm looking to achieve are through weight reduction though. For my car to weigh 913kg standard makes me think Vauxhall packed it with lead.

It's more about what you can do legally for me. There's no point adding power only to be able to do 70mph, so my aim is to be able to chuck my car around the backroads for a bit of a laugh, hence weight reduction. It's so bumpy though, it's already quite fun... in a tragic kind of way :dopey:
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Weight reduction would be a good start. :lol: Not only will it get you what you want, but it'll make it even more economic.

As for the engine itself, I'm lost on anything that isn't from America, but I haven't heard good things about Vauxhall engines, aside from fuel economy (which I suppose is their purpose).

Are bikes cool for here?

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Dagger311
Weight reduction would be a good start. :lol: Not only will it get you what you want, but it'll make it even more economic.

As for the engine itself, I'm lost on anything that isn't from America, but I haven't heard good things about Vauxhall engines, aside from fuel economy (which I suppose is their purpose).

Are bikes cool for here?

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Vauxhall VXR engines are great. The old 3 cylinder less so.

And that joke is most definitely welcome here
 
Dagger311
Joke?

And cool. Like I said, I don't know much about anything foreign. :dunce:

I'd post another car, but I have to go.
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No joke. I'm not a bike guy* but that one just works.

*Save for anything from Daniel Simon

And that's fair enough, Vauxhalls aren't huge in America. They rebrand new Vauxhalls as Buicks I believe.
 
legacyMACHINE
No joke. I'm not a bike guy* but that one just works.

*Save for anything from Daniel Simon

And that's fair enough, Vauxhalls aren't huge in America. They rebrand new Vauxhalls as Buicks I believe.
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No, you said "That joke is welcome here", confused me. :lol:

Legro
To be fair Nissan Rogue is quite heavy car.
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Pretty light for its body style though.

And I'm back, time to hunt for a car.
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This is the exact same crap we went through with @Slash in the dysagt thread. He posted 5,000,000 mustangs a day.

This thread has turned into a bunch of ********. There arent rules, you're right, but there is atleast a general consensus that race cars do not belong in this thread. If you want to post modified imports(that arent even remotely close to tasteful) then the imports thread is for you. Everyone up until you is willing to cooperate with that, why are you making it so hard to just post in the most appropriate thread?
 
I recall another 240Z built up much in the style of that one -no headlamps, hyper-wide body, etc- but with a massive Donovan V8 underhood. Or can it be the same car? That one posted above has turbo power, right?
 
Cano
I recall another 240Z built up much in the style of that one -no headlamps, hyper-wide body, etc- but with a massive Donovan V8 underhood. Or can it be the same car? That one posted above has turbo power, right?
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I think I remember the one your talking about, and if its not that one above it looks ridiculously similar.
 
Cano
I recall another 240Z built up much in the style of that one -no headlamps, hyper-wide body, etc- but with a massive Donovan V8 underhood. Or can it be the same car? That one posted above has turbo power, right?
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Pretty sure that one is V8 and turbo. Having trouble getting information.
 

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