Badly modified cars thread

Badly modified cars thread

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ManOpener

12,467 posts

168 months

Tuesday 22nd April 2014
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Spotted this beauty yesterday:


D4MJT

1,253 posts

157 months

Tuesday 22nd April 2014
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Have you got a bigger picture?

xRIEx

8,180 posts

147 months

Tuesday 22nd April 2014
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ManOpener said:
Spotted this beauty yesterday:

I assume it's had unprotected sex and caught an STi.

ManOpener

12,467 posts

168 months

Tuesday 22nd April 2014
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xRIEx said:
ManOpener said:
Spotted this beauty yesterday:

I assume it's had unprotected sex and caught an STi.
rofl

TobyLaRohne

5,713 posts

205 months

Tuesday 22nd April 2014
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I asked the owner why...just why!?! and he said it was because if it was the right way up it hits the air brake.


RoverP6B

4,338 posts

127 months

Tuesday 22nd April 2014
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ManOpener said:
Spotted this beauty yesterday:

Hmm, I've seen worse. The ZTs were quick cars, those roof strakes might make a real difference, especially if it's a V8. The rear wing is ostentatious but no more so than on a WRX and, again, might help keep the rear pinned if driving properly quickly.

RoverP6B

4,338 posts

127 months

Tuesday 22nd April 2014
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xRIEx said:
I assume it's had unprotected sex and caught an STi.
Haha, good one!

Daston

6,074 posts

202 months

Tuesday 22nd April 2014
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That rear wing looks a bit like the extream MG wing from a ZS. Might just be the angle though.

anonymous-user

53 months

Tuesday 22nd April 2014
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AstonZagato said:
shep1001 said:
Burberry Metro anybody??



Not as good as the Chavalier:
Off topic...when did Burberry become a chav brand anyway? If you go to the Burberry store on near Sloane Street or any other one in-fact you won't see a chav within a good mile or two. Way too expensive for them and they do sell very nice clothes in there!

ManOpener

12,467 posts

168 months

Tuesday 22nd April 2014
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RoverP6B said:
ManOpener said:
Spotted this beauty yesterday:

Hmm, I've seen worse. The ZTs were quick cars, those roof strakes might make a real difference, especially if it's a V8. The rear wing is ostentatious but no more so than on a WRX and, again, might help keep the rear pinned if driving properly quickly.
It's not a V8. Exhausts are wrong, the V8 has one either side. Looks to be a KV6 based on reg.

The likelihood of the roof strakes making any positive performance difference is effectively nil in my view, as is the likelihood of a positive benefit from that spoiler. I'm sure someone more savy on matters of aerodynamics and vehicle performance will weigh in.

Generally speaking, though, the kinds of people who screw fake chrome exhaust tips on at a jaunty angle, paint standard wheels black and remove the hub-caps to make them look aftermarket, paint lime green stripes on dark green cars and fit Lexus lights and whipped cream side skits to Rover 75 aren't the kind of people who consider the implications of a barn-door-sized wing.

Strawman

6,463 posts

206 months

Tuesday 22nd April 2014
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GravelMachineGun said:
Off topic...when did Burberry become a chav brand anyway? If you go to the Burberry store on near Sloane Street or any other one in-fact you won't see a chav within a good mile or two. Way too expensive for them and they do sell very nice clothes in there!
It never really was, most of the clothes chavs wore that sported the Burberry check were fakes or rip-offs. They relaunched the brand successfully in the mid 90's featuring one of their signature checks more blatantly than before and the Chinese (or wherever) factories saw a market opportunity and stepped in.

RoverP6B

4,338 posts

127 months

Tuesday 22nd April 2014
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ManOpener said:
It's not a V8. Exhausts are wrong, the V8 has one either side. Looks to be a KV6 based on reg.

The likelihood of the roof strakes making any positive performance difference is effectively nil in my view, as is the likelihood of a positive benefit from that spoiler. I'm sure someone more savy on matters of aerodynamics and vehicle performance will weigh in.

Generally speaking, though, the kinds of people who screw fake chrome exhaust tips on at a jaunty angle, paint standard wheels black and remove the hub-caps to make them look aftermarket, paint lime green stripes on dark green cars and fit Lexus lights and whipped cream side skits to Rover 75 aren't the kind of people who consider the implications of a barn-door-sized wing.
I hadn't spotted the stripe! Lexus lights I don't mind. Can't see enough of the wheels to comment, but considering the rest of the car is black, why not. Can't see the hubcaps or lack thereof. Exhaust does look a bit dodgy. Oddly, I quite like the skirts...

Strawman

6,463 posts

206 months

Tuesday 22nd April 2014
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The wing is high enough from the boot lid to give downforce at speed, on a fwd car the benefits of that are moot.

RoverP6B

4,338 posts

127 months

Tuesday 22nd April 2014
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Strawman said:
The wing is high enough from the boot lid to give downforce at speed, on a fwd car the benefits of that are moot.
The torque reaction quick lift into a fast corner could be enough to get the rear swinging round - not what you want at 60+mph. BTCC still fits big wings to FWD cars.

mikey k

13,011 posts

215 months

Tuesday 22nd April 2014
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Strawman said:
GravelMachineGun said:
Off topic...when did Burberry become a chav brand anyway? If you go to the Burberry store on near Sloane Street or any other one in-fact you won't see a chav within a good mile or two. Way too expensive for them and they do sell very nice clothes in there!
It never really was, most of the clothes chavs wore that sported the Burberry check were fakes or rip-offs. They relaunched the brand successfully in the mid 90's featuring one of their signature checks more blatantly than before and the Chinese (or wherever) factories saw a market opportunity and stepped in.
No helped by celebrity customers like these wink




That MP4 owner needs his car reclaiming from him!
He obviously has no idea an upside down wing is going to make the back end go lighter the faster he goes as it tries to take off hehe


Edited by mikey k on Tuesday 22 April 14:04

ZiggyNiva

1,134 posts

185 months

Tuesday 22nd April 2014
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The Crack Fox said:
lindrup119 said:
Taken from another PH thread. eBay ad seems to have finished or I can't find it, but hopefully someone bought it to scrap it.



from the ad:

I KNOW YOUR WONDERING WHY IS THEIR FERRARI BADGES ON A PORSCHE CAR THE THING IS PEOPLE DONT KNOW WHAT CAR IT IS AND FALL FOR IT THINKING IT IS FERRARI ALONG WITH THE NOISE WHICH PUTS THE 458 ITALIA TO SHAME wink..... ALL THE CHROME BADGES AND STICKERS ARE GENUINE FERRARI AND CAN BE REMOVED OF THE CAR EASILY AND PUT BACK TO PORSCHE IF YOU WANTED I HAVE A SET IF YOU DO WANT TO DO THIS......BUT I WOULD LEAVE IT TO BE HONEST...THE CAR HAS HAD FORTUNE SPENT ON IT


As I recall he wanted more for it than an untarnished model of the same year with less miles blah blah. Basically your standard moron if you couldn't already tell.
The poor deluded fool will be heartbroken if he realises his Porsche is a VW in drag in the first place.
here you go

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/331179322293

RoverP6B

4,338 posts

127 months

Tuesday 22nd April 2014
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"mercedes4theladies"... honestly... what a twunt!

TobyLaRohne

5,713 posts

205 months

Tuesday 22nd April 2014
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mikey k said:
That MP4 owner needs his car reclaiming from him!
He obviously has no idea an upside down wing is going to make the back end go lighter the faster he goes as it tries to take off hehe


Edited by mikey k on Tuesday 22 April 14:04
He does know what it'll do because I told him exactly what it will do, he didn't care, why?..because Arab wink it spends all its time driving at 10mph bouncing the engine off of the limiter.


Edited by TobyLaRohne on Tuesday 22 April 14:47

Pebbles167

3,417 posts

151 months

Tuesday 22nd April 2014
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Ferrari badge on the Porsche is facing the wrong way hehe

RoverP6B

4,338 posts

127 months

Tuesday 22nd April 2014
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TobyLaRohne said:
He does know what it'll do because I told him exactly what it will do, he didn't car, why?..because Arab wink it spends all its time driving at 10mph bouncing the engine off of the limiter.
McLaren should reserve the right to repossess such cars and remove all such modifications before returning it to the owner... rolleyes
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