How to modify a car yet street legal?

[Daniel]

That Skyline looks like a mess.

My advice - if you want a high performance track car that you can use on the road buy a kit-car. Most Lotus7 replicas will beat almost anything on the track.

Therein lies the problem. Spent 20 thousand on modifying a 20 grand car to be fast and you could have just bought a Caterham 7 that's faster in the first place.

[Brown, Jon Brow]

Therein lies the problem. Spent 20 thousand on modifying a 20 grand car to be fast and you could have just bought a Caterham 7 that's faster in the first place.

And you can get a kit for less than £15,000

[LotusElise]

There are all sorts of insurance hoops you can jump through with kits too, which make them a much better deal, hp for hp.

[Zico]

Therein lies the problem. Spent 20 thousand on modifying a 20 grand car to be fast and you could have just bought a Caterham 7 that's faster in the first place.

Im just picturing a Caterham with black tinted windows and a huge sound system right now..

[CarlMetro]

The most I've ever done to 'individualise' a car was applying a twin white pinstrip down the side of my blue Cavalier and changing the standard L wheel trims for GLS ones hock: so I'm probably like most on here who will say why waste your money?

Personally I think the Skyine looks nasty, but then I'm not much of a fan of the car before it was modded either.

I worked with a guy who spent thousands of pounds and hundreds of hours on his Mk11 Fiesta. Tri-tone paint, full body kit, 2000watt stereo system, bean can exhaust systems, flashy wheels, balcked out windows, Playstation etc. It still had the standard 1.2l engine in it and would be out-done at a set of lights by a transit minibus full of builders.

He then got a call one day from his girlfriend to say she was pregnant, this meant that he had to sell the car to get something a bit more practical. He stuck ads in all the super dooper mags and eventually sold it for £3.5k, nowhere near what if had cost him.

Each to their own I say, it would be a boring world if we all did the same, and we;d have nothing to laugh and poke fun at if we didn't have all the 'people' with their little blue windscreen washers

[Captain VXR]

That Skyline looks like a mess.

My advice - if you want a high performance track car that you can use on the road buy a kit-car. Most Lotus7 replicas will beat almost anything on the track.

But you cant daily drive it unless you think flies taste nice whereas a tuned car doesn't have to have aircon etc removed

[Daniel]

"Tuned" is there any other word which immediately turns me off a car or makes me "tune" out when someone is talking/posting

You can buy a windscreen for a Caterham 7 no problem at all

[TangoR34]

yeah, bathe in the car when the rain comes...

[Zico]

yeah, bathe in the car when the rain comes...

Whatever turns you on. Personally I'd put the hood up.

[Daniel]

Whatever turns you on. Personally I'd put the hood up.

Strange that. Using a roof to keep the water out and all. Pretty silly idea I think