Why do you like to mod your cars?

[RENESIS VIII]

Just thought about this question. Just a general topic/discussion asking members over here about the reason why you guys want to mod your cars and how it all started. Probably this can be an interesting topic.

 

[stupidcar]

I think this has been asked before.
For me, mod for the better and its life.

 

[cvkit17]

Nothing else better to do

 

[peterj]

For better handling, higher power to do safer overtake, better braking and other safety upgrades to cooperate with the extra power and because i am a "boostaholic"

 

[RENESIS VIII]

Lol, all give very short answers. For me, I started reading and finding out about general car stuffs first back in around 2010. Was only reading about simple specs like 0-100 time, top speed, engine cc, top speed, hp... That time I was mostly looking at supercars and also newer JDM performance cars. Was a complete noob at that time. After one year plus, all these started to get bored for me because I've read a lot about these basic specs already in various cars. Somehow, the curiosity inside me made me eager to find out more. Then I started to read a bit about engine stuffs. It was terrible those days, I don't even know about how different engine types looked like such as V engine, rotary, boxer.... Things like camshaft, crank, valve are familiar words at to me at that time but I have no idea where they are located and how they work. After slowly learning about these engine stuffs, I started to get interested in modifications. Well, that's roughly how my story goes...

 

[Izso]

I started out liking ICE. Played with ICE a lot and wasted a lot of money there.

Then my car broke down and my friend said "Hey.. why not rebuild the car ourselves? Weekend project"

So we did and I found out how easy it was to do everything and how a little tweak here and there can do wonders for the cars performance.

Then I caught the bug from there. Besides, modding is cheaper than women and booze.

 

[egb18c]

no money to buy ferrari

 

[DanzEterna]

for me its a hobby...

 

[RENESIS VIII]

I started out liking ICE. Played with ICE a lot and wasted a lot of money there.

Then my car broke down and my friend said "Hey.. why not rebuild the car ourselves? Weekend project"

So we did and I found out how easy it was to do everything and how a little tweak here and there can do wonders for the cars performance.

Then I caught the bug from there. Besides, modding is cheaper than women and booze.

Now what happen to all your ICE? Sold it or still inside your car?

no money to buy ferrari

And now mod to compete with Ferrari's performance?

for me its a hobby...

Still got mod your current new car?

 

[ixeo]

Cause its funny to see the faces of the sporty Satria Neo drivers getting overtaken and left behind by a boat.

Sleeper yo.

 

[stupidcar]

I started out liking ICE. Played with ICE a lot and wasted a lot of money there.

Then my car broke down and my friend said "Hey.. why not rebuild the car ourselves? Weekend project"

So we did and I found out how easy it was to do everything and how a little tweak here and there can do wonders for the cars performance.

Then I caught the bug from there. Besides, modding is cheaper than women and booze.

Meanwhile, U already have 1 woman and 2 child ahahahaha

 

[DanzEterna]

Now what happen to all your ICE? Sold it or still inside your car?



And now mod to compete with Ferrari's performance?



Still got mod your current new car?

no la never mod, just maintaining it is a pain in the wallet....

 

[es2611]

gotta give a big round of applause to Gran Turismo (GT). somewhat the influenced me at tender age on PS1.
and of course not to forget.. Initial D yg "berhantu". hahaa.

 

[RENESIS VIII]

Cause its funny to see the faces of the sporty Satria Neo drivers getting overtaken and left behind by a boat.

Sleeper yo.

Your boat inside got 'snail'. Sure can smoke ordinary Neos. BTW check this out. I spotted this.

no la never mod, just maintaining it is a pain in the wallet....

I thought you still got mod. It was a nice car to mod. So, the old twin turbo is faster then?

 

[vr2turbo]

Depends on what mod? Some power, some looks, some comfort and if ICE, listening pleasure......

 

[DanzEterna]

Your boat inside got 'snail'. Sure can smoke ordinary Neos. BTW check this out. I spotted this.

I thought you still got mod. It was a nice car to mod. So, the old twin turbo is faster then?

yeah my ex-v6tt much more faster can feel the G's....
but now old edi so must drive slow car

 

[Izso]

Meanwhile, U already have 1 woman and 2 child ahahahaha

I meant as a 'hobby' la. Some guys I know have different women in their arms every other week and spend loads on them. Modding is cheaper.

Now what happen to all your ICE? Sold it or still inside your car?

I still have it in my car. But what I used to have is a little more extreme than what I have now. Those amps used to be too large to fit under my seat. 3 large ones bolted down to the back of my rear seat. One for tweeters, one for mid and one for sub. Helix A2 for tweeters, PHD2200 for mids and a Orion HCCA 250G for the sub. Played with a lot of different amps, tweeters, mids and subs. Constantly changing cuz kept getting poisoned by sifus with insane setups. I remember one fella had one Dual-mono amp for one mid, another dual-mono for the other mid, then a dual mono for one tweeter and another for the other tweeter. Each speaker having their own amp, connected to a processor with a dual mono pumping the sub. Freaking setup easily cost close to 60k. Sounded awesome though. Then there's sifu with 2 Brax amps each costing 8k new and the top of the line alpine player and all that good shit.

As a good anti-poison i started to listen to music these sifus don't listen to. Cuz after that my music started to sound bad in their cars.. hahahaha! (Dance/techno doesn't sound good in most SQ cars)

yeah my ex-v6tt much more faster can feel the G's....
but now old edi so must drive slow car

I sooooooooooo wanna dislike this comment. But I'm at the stage where I have to agree with you dammit.

 

[RENESIS VIII]

Depends on what mod? Some power, some looks, some comfort and if ICE, listening pleasure......

Dint hear before about mod for comfort...I thought most mod sure affect comfort level in a negative way unless maybe downsizing rims and increase tyre profile...

yeah my ex-v6tt much more faster can feel the G's....
but now old edi so must drive slow car

But I've heard you mention that V6TT also need a lot of maintenance. Probably your current one is better... Beemer also got turbo engine... Or can bolt supercharger kit...

I meant as a 'hobby' la. Some guys I know have different women in their arms every other week and spend loads on them. Modding is cheaper.



I still have it in my car. But what I used to have is a little more extreme than what I have now. Those amps used to be too large to fit under my seat. 3 large ones bolted down to the back of my rear seat. One for tweeters, one for mid and one for sub. Helix A2 for tweeters, PHD2200 for mids and a Orion HCCA 250G for the sub. Played with a lot of different amps, tweeters, mids and subs. Constantly changing cuz kept getting poisoned by sifus with insane setups. I remember one fella had one Dual-mono amp for one mid, another dual-mono for the other mid, then a dual mono for one tweeter and another for the other tweeter. Each speaker having their own amp, connected to a processor with a dual mono pumping the sub. Freaking setup easily cost close to 60k. Sounded awesome though. Then there's sifu with 2 Brax amps each costing 8k new and the top of the line alpine player and all that good shit.

As a good anti-poison i started to listen to music these sifus don't listen to. Cuz after that my music started to sound bad in their cars.. hahahaha! (Dance/techno doesn't sound good in most SQ cars)



I sooooooooooo wanna dislike this comment. But I'm at the stage where I have to agree with you dammit.

I'm don't know much about ICE but from the sound of what you mentioned, I guess those insane setup cost like over 10k already? Probably can beat those what Mark Levinson, Logic 7, Bose, Bang & Olufsen setup in premium cars?

 

[stupidcar]

Your boat inside got 'snail'. Sure can smoke ordinary Neos. BTW check this out. I spotted this.

I thought you still got mod. It was a nice car to mod. So, the old twin turbo is faster then?

When a BOT Neo smoked it, then see who's better. Wahahahha

 

[vr2turbo]

yeah my ex-v6tt much more faster can feel the G's....
but now old edi so must drive slow car

See who say old?..... Older people drive 5 series not 3 series.....

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Dint hear before about mod for comfort...I thought most mod sure affect comfort level in a negative way unless maybe downsizing rims and increase tyre profile...

Yup, people changing from 45 series 17" to 55 series 16", auto foam and sound proofing is all for comfort....