Pictures of decently Modified cars

[Otter Smacker]

SMKurt said:

Otter Smacker said:

So, I take it that moleamol and Kurt won't be posting a Christmas Card to one another this year?

There wasn't one this year sadly

We fell out before iirc

So this is why it's become bitter between the pair of you.

Better luck next year on the Christmas card schedule

[Otter Smacker]

DunsyEK9 said:

Just a couple i have come across that i liked

PICCIES

I like them (especialy that Porsche ), but I fear you may end up with you pants pulled down as a result of posting cars with stretched tyres.

[RobbieB]

DunsyEK9 said:

Excuse the brutality, but I'd break an orphan's legs and nick his christmas dinner for an hour in that car.

[DunsyEK9]

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

[Davi]

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

kinda ironic that you then post a pic of a car that realistically has no suspension at all and would be like driving a gokart on a cobbled street...

[briSk]

Davi said:

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



kinda ironic that you then post a pic of a car that realistically has no suspension at all and would be like driving a gokart on a cobbled street...

how do you know that? it might have the amazing all things to all men modern air-ride..
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[Poncho pilot]

[Mini1275]

Fastest A series engined mini, pretty impressive since all the power is going through the front wheels. Here's its record run, 11 seconds:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xlmh-OZOUVE

[Poncho pilot]

[Poncho pilot]

Poncho pilot said:

Better?

[Vic Cooper]

Poncho pilot said:

That's a cool stuff.

[briSk]

Poncho pilot said:

Better?

not sure about the headlights (although adds a bit of ovlov 240 chic!) but that's cool. i like that. especially if you told me it had a twink' in it!

[Vic Cooper]

For jap fans

[briSk]

i like the colour of that s2000..was that an OE colour? could you get it in UK?

[OlberJ]

Vic Cooper said:

For jap fans

Considering what that car is famed for, seems a shame to ruin it with undriveable wheel and tyre combo, don't you think?

Or is it right to have this now as an all show and no go car?

[OlberJ]

Just to clarify too, wider wheels are fine.

You just need wider tyres and wider arches to go with them.

Up to the point of no return where it simply looks cartoonish.

[Vic Cooper]

OlberJ said:

Vic Cooper said:

For jap fans

Considering what that car is famed for, seems a shame to ruin it with undriveable wheel and tyre combo, don't you think?

Or is it right to have this now as an all show and no go car?

Well, actually i prefer Watanabe wheels on these cars, they suit perfectly in style IMO, but in this case i don't have a problem 'til i don't have to drive this beauty with those stretched tyres.

[papercup]

Otter Smacker said:

DunsyEK9 said:

Just a couple i have come across that i liked

PICCIES

I like them (especialy that Porsche ), but I fear you may end up with you pants pulled down as a result of posting cars with stretched tyres.

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]

A little bit of modded goodness you can buy:

Toyota Celica V8 £10k

[OlberJ]

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.