Mods you regretted...
Currently I am regreting installing a ProCharger. I too believe in doing it right the first time but it sure takes a lot longer on the front end. To prepare for FI I have done the heads/cam/intake/plenum/runners/fuel pumps/fuel injectors/water alcohol injection/long tube headers/crane cd ignition/high flow main cat/cat back exhaust/trans shift kit/trans oil cooler/DeWitts radiator/fuel pressure gage/boost gage and surely some other things I can not even remember.
I am getting close to having the head unit installed but I am having no luck in finding someone in the Dallas area to dyno tune it. If I knew then what I know now, I would build me a forged stroker and shoot the juice to it.
90Indy
I am getting close to having the head unit installed but I am having no luck in finding someone in the Dallas area to dyno tune it. If I knew then what I know now, I would build me a forged stroker and shoot the juice to it.
90Indy
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Years ago I had an 86 coupe. I bought some of those black out "dot-decco" coverups for the front driving lights/turn signals and the rear tail lights. I drove her to work the next day and was thinking how cool I looked running down the Interstate!
When I got out of the car at work and did the usual "look back" I noticed that the right front one had blown off as did the outer left rear! I must have looked like a real dork!
When I got out of the car at work and did the usual "look back" I noticed that the right front one had blown off as did the outer left rear! I must have looked like a real dork!

I find cr@p all the time that I have to repair because of the previous owner mods. I just discovered after replacing a blown fuse that my car has an after market alarm I now will have to track down. It is loud!
I'll be in the minority here. I don't regret the airfoil since it cost me $10 and took 15 minutes to install. I sometimes have second thoughts about the Corsas. No complaints, but $1100 installed is a lot of money to pay for minimal HP gains (probably not a true statement if I had an L98), louder WOT and chrome tips.
I wonder if for about the same money I could have gotten decent LT headers and cats and gotten more HP. I suspect it would have cost me a lot more to do that mod right, though. Or, maybe I should have done the 410's. I bet nobody will complain about that mod. Unfortunately, at this point there's a limit on how much $$$$ I want to stick into a 14 y/o car with 102K on it.
I wonder if for about the same money I could have gotten decent LT headers and cats and gotten more HP. I suspect it would have cost me a lot more to do that mod right, though. Or, maybe I should have done the 410's. I bet nobody will complain about that mod. Unfortunately, at this point there's a limit on how much $$$$ I want to stick into a 14 y/o car with 102K on it.
I regret the cheap-a__ rotors from that botched group buy last year.
They didn't fix my vibrating brakes and I wasted a lot of time assuming that since they were new, rotors weren't the source of the problem. As it turns out, they were warped/uneven straight out of the box. Had them resurfaced, and I'll be going back to stock way sooner than planned.
Live & learn...
They didn't fix my vibrating brakes and I wasted a lot of time assuming that since they were new, rotors weren't the source of the problem. As it turns out, they were warped/uneven straight out of the box. Had them resurfaced, and I'll be going back to stock way sooner than planned.
Live & learn...


















