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Ohhhh you want those types of mods. In that case, kill yourself. You'll look cooler hanging from a rope than you do now.

not sure where in my post I said I wanted to vrrooom vrooooom gotta go fast!!

I just want to make my car look cooler man, I think it looks pretty cool to begin with

Yeah you can’t make these fast.

Maybe you can use the old TRD supercharger, but those are low boost for the money you spend. Just work on the suspension and tires. Do high end summer tires on forged lightweight wheels like TE37, and put snow tires on your stock wheels (assuming you get a winter). Unsparing weight (meaning wheels) is more than the sum of the pounds removed. Do some poly bushings, and see how it is from there. Maybe the TRD shift kit. Just make it a more enjoyable ride. Any serious mods will never get you far before breaking shit or your wallet. And if you ever managed to get one of these to make serious HP reliably, you’d probably just end up with a car that is miserable to drive.

So this is why you should had just bought a used Lexus IS350 to start with you stupid faggot.

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should I not have used the word mod?
sorry for not knowing the right word/s

aesthetic modifications? I was under the impression that the car scene was half and half with performance and aesthetics

The """""""""""car scene"""""""""""" is all spics wanting to look cool so they plasti-dip their shitty scions and hondas. The car scene is about actually having fun driving and making your shitbox slightly faster than someone else's shitbox. You're the former, so drive your shitty econobox off a fucking cliff, faggot.

Some people get pissy using the word mod as it usually implies making performance modifications.

There are no aesthetic mods you can do beyond wheels. The aftermarket support isn't there yet.

I'm I think modifying a car to make it more fun to drive is good. Modifying it for looks is stupid.

Again. If it has the CVT transmission, don't bother. There isn't anything you can do to make that nightmare more fun. The CVT ruins it.

Here is the deal. Visual mods age like milk in most cases. Look at body mods from even a decade bac, or body kits from the 2000’s. Terrible.

Your best bets are OEM items. They are low key but look sharp, sometimes you can get body parts only seen on overseas versions of your car. (Don’t put foreign market model badges on your car like Vw fags do though).

Good tints always look good. Go ceramic and not dark enough to look like a nigger. Serious lightweight wheels look like te37’s make it look like you take your shit seriously. Upgraded brake rotors and calipers are good if you don’t overdo it as well. Slight lowering to fit your final wheel/tire choice looks good. But don’t slam the car or stance it. You’ll look like a retard. LED bulb replacements are ok but be careful to not get cheap shit or else you’ll look retarded.


Basically go slow and don’t overdo it. TRD has a catalog of parts at every dealer. The prices are intimidating compared to ricemart catalogs and eBay, but they keep you from looking like a fag with in a few years.

I don’t care what word you used. I understand your goal.


I don’t know about the objectives and ratios you have in mind. At the end of the day it’s your money and car. You asked for input, and got it. It’s worth exactly what it cost you. Aesthetics are important to me, but I appreciate subtlety even on quirky econoboxes like the iM, in the same way that an old focus SVt, old maxdaspeed protoge, E46 M3, R36 Golf,or even a JCW cooper looks “right” even years and years later.

>I want to take pride in it and (insert phrase here, mod?) it

No, not mod. You mean you want to do your own maintenance. Buy a Haynes manual and start doing your own oil changes among other things. Besides, its more fun then sticking lights under your car and running wires and shit.

I figured since this is a fucking anime website at least half of you would be into aesthetics but you all just gotta go fast