Questionable modifications: pictures inside!

[EA11R]

HAWT 300C, there. My favourite, just ahead of the SRT-8s. I love it.

 

[homeforsummer]

My experience.

People's experiences are influenced by their preconceptions. If you assumed it to be a pile of crap before you drove it then you're more likely to find it's a pile of crap. I'd not given them much thought at all before I drove one, and I thought it was fine. As a holiday rental car there was nothing wrong with it - it was practical, comfortable, had loads of space, didn't drink too much fuel and handled well enough to have some fun and scare an Audi S4 on Route 1. My only major complaint was that it was pretty damn slow.

Anyway, as mentioned, I've been over all this before.

 

[Rotary Junkie]

I disagree completely about the comfortable bit. The seats don't seem to be too awful, but the dashboard seems to be designed purely for aesthetics as the bottom "corner" of it winds up hitting my lower leg at pretty much all times.

Then again I have the same issue in the Neo... Oh wait. Different interiors but both have that annoying corner on the dash.

 

[homeforsummer]

I dunno about you but I'm not that tall, 5'9" ish and I fit fine. I think that it was an auto helped too. It doesn't really matter what you do with your left leg.

 

[Jim Prower]

'50s hubcaps don't work in 18"

And will you lot quit arguing about the PT? Personally would get a GT (240HP turbo If I recall) if it were available, but, homeforsummer's quite right, this has been discussed before, now quit spamming this thread with useless talk.

 

[orimarc]

Carbage:

 

[Jim Prower]

^THAT'S more like it.

All we can hope is that no REAL Clio V6 had to give up it's bodyparts for that piece of...um...human Waste.

 

[Danny]

Aww. He can dream.

 

[TheCracker]

You'd have thought they'd have used a Clio as the basis rather than a Peugeot 205

 

[Rykon Zero]

Well, place the engine in the back, turbo it to 200 HP, tear off that stupid mesh, and paint it metallic blue and...

... Actually, it'll still be a stupid poser car, but at least a well done one. I'd drive it, if the interior got the same dark blue treatment.

 

[Glanza-V]

^ It'd still look stupid even with the metallic blue. It's a 205 with punto headlamps and a clio v6 bodykit which suits the lines of the body perfect haha.

 

[McLaren]

Shame this car has come to this thread.

 

[Rykon Zero]

Where are the tires?

 

[Leonidae]

he couldn't afford them after the lowering kit and huge rims.

 

[Revheadnz]

Shame this car has come to this thread.

Pity indeed. Those wheels are stupidly oversize. They look like 19s or maybe even 20s. What is the point in making lightweight, racing wheels in such large sizes?

 

[mafia_boy]

20's would be conservative. Looks like 22"+ to me!

As for the tyres, can't you see he sprayed them on with Matt Black paint!!

 

[orimarc]

Shame this car has come to this thread.

It looks like it's pissed.

"I'm used worldwide as a drifting machine. Why do I have these stupid rims? I can't move!

 

[Jim Prower]

It's a Virginia car, too. I can rescue? :3

 

[Leonidae]

Do iiit!

 

[PAPAOSA]

Where are the tires?

he couldn't afford them after the lowering kit and huge rims.

........lol

And this was just discovered posted in the Imports thread, when clearly it should have been posted here!

 

[Rykon Zero]

I'd drive it. And show it to people. It's not much of an improvement, but it's fine by me.

 

[Joey D]

V8 Subby? That's awesome!

 

[McLaren]

It's a Virginia car, too. I can rescue? :3

Offer the owner a good chunk of change & maybe.

I loved the rims he had previously.

 

[Leonidae]

all those huge rims and he couldn't afford to get decent amount of rubber wrapped around them? definitely questionable.

V8 Subby? That's awesome!

no it is not. that rubbish engine has higher CoG than the original boxer engine, thus it ruins the driveability. and yes, I'm using same argument against pushrod V8 that pushrod V8 lovers use against OHC designs. oh, burn..

 

[Joey D]

Ya in your opinion, in my opinion I think it's pretty damn cool. Get over yourself.

 

[Leonidae]

If I would, you wouldn't have anyone to have an argument with anymore. Would that be fun?

 

[Joey D]

If I would, you wouldn't have anyone to have an argument with anymore. Would that be fun?

Actually it would be great fun.

I see nothing questionable about putting a V8 in a WRX at all. You do. End of story. Can we have the next picture now?

 

[Jim Prower]

Yeah. It should be a HEMI.

I mean, geez? What's wrong with SBC conversions? No-one complained when some guy stuffed a Ford 289 in an AC Ace....

Oh, wait...it was a Ford.

Not a Chevy.

I think I figured out the problem. Fords and Chryslers are okay, but GM sucks. :3 (IJOKE)

((Also, ironically, that car was built when GM had a stake in Subaru...))

 

[Tornado]

no it is not. that rubbish engine has higher CoG than the original boxer engine,

Actually, it probably doesn't.

thus it ruins the driveability.

Even on the off chance that it does effect handling in a minor way, you would have to do a lot worse engine-wise to ruin the dirvability of a WRX. You know, considering it comes from the factory equipped with gobs of turbo lag and a narrow powerband. If anything, its probably more driveable than it was before.

Is it questionable? Yup. Is it automatically worse? Nope.

 

[Duke]

no it is not. that rubbish engine has higher CoG than the original boxer engine, thus it ruins the driveability. and yes, I'm using same argument against pushrod V8 that pushrod V8 lovers use against OHC designs. oh, burn..

If it's an all-aluminum LSX, then the center of gravity isn't going up all that far. I'd rock that thing hard. I wonder if it's still AWD?