At what point is it pointless to modify your car?

At what point is it pointless to modify your car?

When you mod it out of its price bracket.

If you spend 25K on a BRZ, and spend 10K on mods, to make it as fast as a 35K Mustang GT/Camaro V6 1LE (depending on whether you want speed or handling), you should have just bought the faster car in the first place.

When you're not having fun anymore.

It's pointless regardless

Fuck off with your chikins my dude

Fuck off his chickens are fine.

nice cock

When you don't enjoy your car anymore

when its not functional. way back when i was 17 and it was cool to slam your car as low as it could go i remember just scraping everywhere and my car was undriveable in winter, now i just cringe at the thought. i just want a luxury car for summer and 4x4 truck for yearround thats functional

but its what you enjoy, as long as you enjoy it its not pointless i suppose

>implying it was ever cool to slam your car

This.

A faster brz is not the same as a stock mustang.

when you can't handle it at it's max.

95% of people can't even do that on a stock car

can you make a .webm of chicken running after corn and post it?

Tru it's slower

Modifying cars is a hobby, it's as pointless as turning wood

economically speaking its cheaper to buy a fast car in the first place and do simple mods to perfect it. VT SS with an LS1 or an XR6T are fast, cheap and nasty and only really need suspension perfected to have a nice road going car.

But do whatever you like, we all die anyway

i can mod my 5k Civic to be a faster than Shitvette and its still cheaper

can you post the mod list? i think i've seen it before.

Anything before a VE SS is a slow pos, Barra 6's have immense potential though

I'm pretty sure that guy had a 3k civic and used that extra 2k on simple mods

Its pointless when you dont enjoy it anymore. In most cases, for the cost it took to make a car significantly better you could just buy a car that does what you wanted to mod it to do. Its pointless unless you enjoy modding.

- 10 point cage with Parachute
- 3 piece discontinued JoJo frontend
- spec-R full drag suspension
- Fuel cell with -8 lines from tank to motor
- 1 044 bosch pump
- 1200 rc injectors
- golden eagle sleeved block
- cp 10:1 pistons
- Eagle rods
- arp headstuds
- oem h22 headgasket
- Balance shaft delete
- competition clutch twin disc
- Port and polished head
- skunk2 valve springs and retainers
- Str cam gears
- crower stage 1 cams
- aluminium radiator with slim fan
- gsr transmission with itr lsd.
- qsd h2k intake manifold adapter
- k20 rbc manifold
- qsd throttle body spacer
- blox 70mm throttle body
- 4bar omni map sensor
- 6al msd with coil and cap. 3 step launch control
- hks bov
- Garret 102mm turbocharger.
- Custom t4 front facing turbo manifold with 44mm flange
- 44mm tial wastegate
- Custom water to air intercooler set up
- aem eugo wideband w/ gauge
- tuned on chipped p28
- 13 inch volks drag rims
- 2 15 inch volks rear rims
- arp extended wheel studs
- si cluster
- 150 shots of nitrous
im making 348 horsepower to the FRONT WHEELS because thats the only place the power should ever be

When the added enjoyment of said mods starts getting disproportionate to the cost.

400 bucks for a quick dyno tune that gets you 10% more power on a 4K shitbox is proportionate. A 3000 dollar intake that gets you 3 hp on a Toyobaru is not. Same goes for any unquantifiable mods like exterior.

I'm currently designing a set of billet ITB's for a C20XE. Unit cost on those is going to end up near 1200-1300 euros, and they're only going to make 5-10% more power on a standard engine. That's not exactly good value on a stock Astra GSi.

>It's pointless regardless
Modifying a mass-produced car, or any product for that matter, to better suit your needs is almost always useful. Engineers are under design constraints that the end consumer doesn't have to account for.