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View Poll Results: Have you spent more money on appearance mods or performance mods? | |||
More on Appearance | 30 | 23.44% | |
More on Performance | 77 | 60.16% | |
About Equal | 14 | 10.94% | |
Stock as a Rock | 7 | 5.47% | |
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07-25-2012, 04:14 PM | #1 |
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Have you spent more on Appearance Mods than Peformance?
Always trying to research the market here..so thought I would put this up. Have you spent more money on appearance than performance mods? Bout the same? Still stock? Any feedback is great!
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07-25-2012, 04:15 PM | #2 |
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WAY WAY MORE on appearance. I know a ton of people who are putting off performance mods simply due to most requiring a tune and potential loss of warranty. Myself included (It's KILLING me) other than simple stuff that does not give a lot of performance for the buck.
To give perspective on potential revenues. I have spent THOUSANDS on appearance and exactly $1,050 on performance. Used Magnaflow 3" comp catback my buddy sold me for $400. Cai intake for $500 and a $150 vmax TB. just my door panels & engine covers cost well over that price.
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07-25-2012, 04:19 PM | #3 |
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Definitely more on appearance, for the reason in the post above I'm holding off on the tune for a lilbit longer
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07-25-2012, 04:21 PM | #4 |
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$5300 on appearance and $2500 on performance. Another $6-7k going into performance though in the next few months. I was working on appearance because of the warranty but then I just woke up one morning a few weeks ago and said to myself "To hell with the warranty! We don't need no stinkin warranty!"
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07-25-2012, 04:23 PM | #5 |
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All into appearance until the warranty is up. Hopefully by then I'll be almost done with the appearance side.
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07-25-2012, 04:23 PM | #6 |
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All go and no show. Pretty much looks it did the day i bought it except powder coated wheels and calipers . Under the hood is a different story. Fixing to slap a cam in it.
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07-25-2012, 04:31 PM | #7 |
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I was going to say about equal until I did the math. It appears I've spend more on performance mods, even though a few of them don't really enhance performance.
Appearance mods: Tined windows ($50), Convertable Spoiler ($125) = $175 total Performance mods: Skipshift eliminator ($20), X-pipe w/ resonator delete (made myself, $100), Spohn rear swaybar & end links ($237), BMR trailing arms ($149), Dynomax 39494 Axle back ($350), a few different cold air intakes ($1177), 18" Vette GS wheels ($500) = $2533 total Nothing that really voids the warranty, I don't want to tune the car until the warranty is up. |
07-25-2012, 04:34 PM | #8 |
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This is a good thread and I am in about he same boat as most people, except that I bought the extended warranty and the tire and rim warranty. So I have 7 yrs or 100k which ever comes first. But I have done about the same in both show and go mods. I am on vacation in the Dominican Republic until the 2nd of August. The. I head back to Germany and I have some performance mods waiting on me. Vx throttle body, Rx catch can, slotted and drilled rotors. Haw pads and a strut tower brace coming from rivercitycreations soon.
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07-25-2012, 04:36 PM | #9 |
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i would say more people do appearance. there is still a decent amount of people who do more performance. and the ballers who do both.
for me i do more performance, and still have better looks than most camaros. |
07-25-2012, 04:39 PM | #10 |
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Performance. Prob 3:1
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07-25-2012, 04:58 PM | #11 |
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25k performance.
only appearnce mod $300 heritage grill and hmm... if 17" welds count, then about 2.3k on appearance lol. |
07-25-2012, 05:11 PM | #12 |
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Voted to help ya out Brandon....
Although the results say performance, I'd beg to differ. I think that I see way more people not only buying appearance stuff, but also spending more time in the Cosmetics and Appearance than I do the LS3/L99/LLT/LFX Forums. That's what I see at least.... Ivan |
07-25-2012, 05:25 PM | #13 |
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I put my money into things that either add performance, or protection. There isn't another 2012 TF3 anywhere near where I live; I own a factory custom and plan to leave it that way.
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07-25-2012, 05:27 PM | #14 | |
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This is also posted in the engine drivetrain V8 section so who is really looking at this thread more? . Put it this way, i know at least 30 owners locally and i can only think of 6 of those 30 that even have a tune. One supercharger & 3 with cams. At least 25 of those 30 have appearance mods on them. |
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