Pictures of decently Modified cars

Pictures of decently Modified cars

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papercup

2,490 posts

220 months

Friday 20th August 2010
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Otter Smacker said:
DunsyEK9 said:
Just a couple i have come across that i liked

PICCIES
I like them (especialy that Porsche lick), but I fear you may end up with you pants pulled down as a result of posting cars with stretched tyres. hehe
Its not a mild stretch that makes them look funny, but the fact that all three are just a tiny bit too low. I don't think I am old-fashioned because lowering cars generally make them look better, but people lower too far these days. All three of those have no gap from the top of the tyre to the arch. That would look OK if that gap was taken all round the wheel. To explain further; look at the gap from the tyre to the front and rear of the arch. Carry that gap on all the way around and I think a car looks in proportion.

I've also heard it said that if you take the profile of the tyre, the height of the tyre from the wheel, and make the gap at the top to the arch the same amount, a car will look best. I think thats true.

There are plenty of examples on this thread. There is also the fact that when you lower a car as much as that porsche, it generally handles like crap as there's no travel left!

Justayellowbadge

37,057 posts

243 months

Friday 20th August 2010
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A little bit of modded goodness you can buy:

Toyota Celica V8 £10k




OlberJ

14,101 posts

234 months

Friday 20th August 2010
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That's not the point though, and am not having a go here.

Modifying a car in this way makes it a bad modification as it would ruin what it is/does.

Fine saying, oh i'd change the wheels but then you're removing the bad modifications.

Needs clarifying in your original post "Cracking car, shame about the wheels needing changed" then you'd probably find a lot more agreement in this thread rather than bickering.

As with the white golf, posting it in standard trim and then someone saying "Well it's a bit sad because that's the same golf!" Yes, that is the same golf with the bad mods removed.

If you post a car in this thread with no explanation then it's deemed you think the whole thing is well modified.


Tyres stretched like that is not, and cannot be a good modification to make, unless you're saying i like the way this car is modified into something which cannot be driven properly. Which surely destroys the point of it being a car, unless you just want something to pose in and be seen in the scene with.

I'll stop ranting now but a little clarification might help things along and stop the apparant rot of what started as a pretty damn good thread.

Original Poster

5,429 posts

177 months

Friday 20th August 2010
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DunsyEK9 said:
yep i know, im not a fan of the whole "stance" fad with the stretch tyres and the undriveable ride heights etc, was just one that took my fancy.

This is more what im into

Beautiful!

Poncho pilot

2,093 posts

189 months

Friday 20th August 2010
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Vic Cooper

230 posts

170 months

Friday 20th August 2010
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OlberJ said:
That's not the point though, and am not having a go here.

Modifying a car in this way makes it a bad modification as it would ruin what it is/does.

Fine saying, oh i'd change the wheels but then you're removing the bad modifications.

Needs clarifying in your original post "Cracking car, shame about the wheels needing changed" then you'd probably find a lot more agreement in this thread rather than bickering.

As with the white golf, posting it in standard trim and then someone saying "Well it's a bit sad because that's the same golf!" Yes, that is the same golf with the bad mods removed.

If you post a car in this thread with no explanation then it's deemed you think the whole thing is well modified.


Tyres stretched like that is not, and cannot be a good modification to make, unless you're saying i like the way this car is modified into something which cannot be driven properly. Which surely destroys the point of it being a car, unless you just want something to pose in and be seen in the scene with.

I'll stop ranting now but a little clarification might help things along and stop the apparant rot of what started as a pretty damn good thread.
Got it, Mister.

briSk

14,291 posts

227 months

Friday 20th August 2010
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Justayellowbadge said:
A little bit of modded goodness you can buy:

Toyota Celica V8 £10k

on the one hand brilliant (supercharged TVR v8) on the other hand it says this bunch of balls in the title of the ad which is just arse:
"V8 TOYOTA CELICA Custom Car Hot Rod M3 Cobra Ford RS"

also - it would have been really nice if it'd been a 'charged ls400 v8...

braddo

10,630 posts

189 months

Friday 20th August 2010
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papercup said:

I've also heard it said that if you take the profile of the tyre, the height of the tyre from the wheel, and make the gap at the top to the arch the same amount, a car will look best. I think thats true.
If I understand what you're saying correctly, that will only apply to very low profile tyres though.

stephen300o

15,464 posts

229 months

Friday 20th August 2010
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Knackered chic on this Ami8. smile

papercup

2,490 posts

220 months

Friday 20th August 2010
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braddo said:
papercup said:

I've also heard it said that if you take the profile of the tyre, the height of the tyre from the wheel, and make the gap at the top to the arch the same amount, a car will look best. I think thats true.
If I understand what you're saying correctly, that will only apply to very low profile tyres though.
Yes, I guess you are right. I don't know, I certainly like to see some air betwixt tyre and arch.....that 911 (not the one on track) looked like the suspension had collapsed!

WreckedGecko

1,191 posts

202 months

Friday 20th August 2010
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Poncho pilot said:


Ok revealing my ignorance, what is that?!

Apart from stunning...

Hugo a Gogo

23,378 posts

234 months

Friday 20th August 2010
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Opel GT

WreckedGecko

1,191 posts

202 months

Friday 20th August 2010
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Hugo a Gogo said:
Opel GT
Oh, well that was easy.

briSk

14,291 posts

227 months

Friday 20th August 2010
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Opel GT.

normally seem to be in orange!

i don;t like what's been done to this one the wheels look to big to me. but i love opel GTs. the idea of one with a 20xe redtop is a good one!

braddo

10,630 posts

189 months

Friday 20th August 2010
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papercup said:
braddo said:
papercup said:

I've also heard it said that if you take the profile of the tyre, the height of the tyre from the wheel, and make the gap at the top to the arch the same amount, a car will look best. I think thats true.
If I understand what you're saying correctly, that will only apply to very low profile tyres though.
Yes, I guess you are right. I don't know, I certainly like to see some air betwixt tyre and arch.....that 911 (not the one on track) looked like the suspension had collapsed!
I was just thinking about 60-70 profile tyres - the wheelarch gap would be a bit big then!

snowen250

1,090 posts

184 months

Friday 20th August 2010
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That Red Skyline is amazing, except for those tyres! What the hell!

Simon

TommyBuoy

1,269 posts

168 months

Friday 20th August 2010
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Vic Cooper said:




For jap fans smile
Probably just me, but I like Jap / tuner wheels on Jap / tuner cars - the Impreza looks fine to me although wheels seem slightly over sized, but the S2000 looks wrong (except the colour!) on the 'rims'. They should be on a german barge for my liking...

RetroCosworth

7,211 posts

205 months

Friday 20th August 2010
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Poncho pilot said:


cloud9

SR06

749 posts

187 months

Friday 20th August 2010
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SEFTON1275GT said:
fathomfive said:
This is lovely

"wide boy chav"!
You say chav...I say Berg Cup.

Egbert Nobacon

2,835 posts

244 months

Friday 20th August 2010
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Paul 8v said:
stephen300o said:
I'm sure the purists will hate that but I think it looks pretty mad
I agree.

Here's a link to more details - apparently it was parked up for 22 years prior to the rebuild.

http://www.hotrod.com/featuredvehicles/hrdp_1002_1...





Edited by Egbert Nobacon on Friday 20th August 16:59

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