Yea.... Modding is Ghay...

Bone stock for me

Toque

 

I can see where the guy was trying to come from with all of the Ricers, uh I mean "tuners", just throwing parts they see on sale at PepBoys or someone said was fast in the Fast & Furious without knowing what they are even doing or what the part does and thinking they have a "racecar". The thing this guy failed at was pretty much about the same thing the ricers do when he didn't do his homework and just had runoff of the mouth lumping everyone in one group and nothing to really back up his spouting off. Just throwing all cars in one category and saying mods have no effect and is pointless showed his ignorance on a grand scale.

This guy can not tell me that my non-modded Vette engine can keep up with or out perform some of the other monsters here on this forum!!! I wish it were true but we all know it isn't, lol!

What will be fun now is watching how many ricers and posers all start referring to this joke, oops, I mean "article" in their arguements of how their 1.5 liter (which is less than a Mountain Dew bottle has by the way! ) is quicker than a Z06!

Maybe some of the guys on here should give this guy a pre-mod/post-mod ride and let him see the reality of it all!

 

Modified = Personalized

 

 

BTW, they don't want to be called "ricers" anymore. Instead, they now want to be called

tunas.

 

My experience so far has been that my modifications have surpassed my expectations. 3.42s, headers and a vararam plus tuning took a full second off my 1/4 mile time and the car behaves nicely. I believe it is a matter of research and planning. For the C5 crowd, we have the benefit of a lot of experience to draw from. So I'm not buyin into all the negativity expressed in that article. I also have to say that Edmunds used to have much better info several years ago.

 

 

I agree with the comment about "most the guys on here seem to know there stuff and are older/more experienced"

Because of this I would say: yes we seem to take our time and ask lots of questions before really doing any mod.

As far as modding your vette goes, as long as you understand the basics and what your doing and how that is going to affect your car, then your good. I can remember way way back about 10 yrs ago when I first came on here, how much I didn't know. I asked tons of questions and this forum has really never steered me wrong yet. Sure you might make a bad decision every now and then, but if your smart you can always sell the part and move on. To one persons waste is another persons gold.

I love modding my car, probably just as much as driving it. You get a huge feeling of accomplishment knowing everything you have done. You also can feel the difference each "mod package" that you do. That is the key...a package. You must do things in a package type of arrangement to feel the difference.

All I can say is "yeh that guy is an idiot" so true....I mean duh, common sense...you modify your car to improve on it to do whatever it is that your asking it to do. (corner, go faster, brake quicker) etc etc. For him to say that modifying your car won't do anything...well, that just goes to show you, he obviously don't know how to modify a car correctly.

To each their own for the people that chose to keep their's stock. Just do whatever makes you happy.

 

Xtremevette, you make me feel like a newb

 

lol nah....you been on here since 01....so your right there with me

By the way love ya car.....427 vettes and in your case supercharged....hmmmmm if only more money....hmmmm maybe someday lol

 

Well said

 

I do have kind of a counter argument to the 1.6L comment. I had a mildly modded rx-7 with 318hp at the rear wheels and I do have a dyno sheet some where to prove it, and it's a 1.3L but with spirited driving it got on average around 9-10mpg, with normal driving it had 15-17mpg. Just to say that there are Japanese cars that are not in 'rice' section, at least in my book.

On the other hand, those civics completely stock with HUGE aluminum wings/spoilers or with half a$$ body kits falling off do look rediculous.

 

You have to understand this guy's point of view. He's been in plenty of modified cars.........but most likely, thier modified ricers that are being pushed WAY beyond the limits of what that car's intended design was. I'm not surprised to hear that modifications to make these cars perform leave them basically unusable for street or daily driving activities, or even downright dangerous.

The Corvette is a designed "street" race car, and can handle most mods thrown at it (as long as the mods are well thought out and work in harmony). Bet he'd change his tune (pun intended) if he were to drive a modified vette.

 

The author of that article obviously has a little knowledge of modding cars, and you know what they say about having a little knowledge, that it's a dangerous. I've been driving for 43 years. I've been modding my cars for 40 years. I was just as easy to screw up back 40 years ago as it is today. You couldn't just throw any 4 bbl carb on your car and expect it to perform, you had to put on the right size, to small and no gain, to large and you wasted your money and would get minimal gain and it probably wouldn't run right. The same for intakes. There were single plane, dual plane, ect. you had to put one on that gave you the power in the RPM range you were looking for. Basically you had to do your homework or go to someone that had the knowledge or you were wasting your money. It's no different today, about the only thing different is, it was easier to work on cars back then because things were simpler and there were less things in your way and most of the time it didn't take any special tools.

 

He's a ricer and he should know, it's not the mods. Things randomly break and fall off ricers anyway..