Should cars ever be modified?

To increase performance and comfort. Yes.
No one wants to buy a modified car though.

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>>13871114
This.

Visual mods that add nothing to the performance of the vehicle are pointless as hell. Every visual mod has been done to hell and back a thousand times. You think you're unique and the only person with some tacky ass wheels, tinted lights and a de-badge job.

tldr: Stop wasting money on stupid visual mods and put it towards performance, #sleepers4lyfe

>>13871114
>performance

but, it doesn't. save for a few OEM jobs

>>13871237
>mods dont increase performance
what

>>13871237
>install high flow exhaust, gt40 heads and intake on foxbody
>doesn't increase performance according to you

U wot

>>13871237
Nigga you stupid as fuck. Is your reasoning "the engineers at toyota/ford/whatever are smarter than some aftermarket company!". If it is, you are stupid as fuck. Production cars have many many compromises in them for reliability, pricing, fuel efficiency, comfort, etc.

Stiffer roll bars and coilovers than the pillowy stuff they use to appeal to the mass market WILL make a car go faster around a track. An obnoxious exhaust will actually give a real sports car engine that has a restricted muffled exhaust a few horsepower believe it or not, and a basic as fuck ECU tune that makes the car run a bit more rich will increase power at the expense of fuel economy.

>>13871114
what about aftermarket fixes for known issues

>>13871248
>foxbody
>performance
Kek

>>13871244
Just got done flushing my blinker fluid. Gained about 50whp

>>13871237
>LS swapping a Miata doesn't increase performance
Fuck, it even violates this pic >>13871131
in that it almost quadruples power and doesn't really change empeegees.

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>>13871105
Sure, but then they should stop being road-legal.

>>13871105
Always.

>>13872046

Why?

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>>13872338
Because I don't want to be on the same road as some white trash domwit who thinks his stanced miata with a smallblock engine and no muffler is the best thing ever.
Nor do I want to be anywhere near some hick whose diesel truck is lifted a meter higher and has no cat.
And I would especially like to stay away from a basketball American who decided to equip his car with hydraulics capable catapulting the car to the moon and 5 megawatts in sound system.

>>13872432
But you'll share the roadways with vehicles worked on by irreputible shops, falsely passed inspections, and distracted drivers in fully stock shitboxes because they don't offend your senses?

>>13872447
Same thing really.

>>13872432

So it comes down to you being a whiny little shit. Gotcha.

>>13871133
Wheels can affect the performance desu senpai.

>>13871105
Yes. The restrictions that mass production place on a car make it less then ideal for a specific consumer, thus making small-scale modifications makes sense. Add to that all the emissions stuff that's added to cars, severely hampering performance and gas mileage, manufacturers defects, local regulations, insurance regulations, crash regulations, and you end up with something that's subpar, and can be improved in many ways.

>>13871114
>No one wants to buy a modified car though.
You tell me you wouldn't want to buy this:
>http://www.autoscout24.com/offers/audi-rs6-audi-rs6-avant-quattro-abt-tuning-gasoline-black-279246403

The problem is that people who modify their car thinks modifications add value - and then try to sell them accordingly. The only modifications that can increase value are done by professionals, on a small-business scale(10-100 units).

>>13871133
Some people prefer looks over performance, wierd enough. Yes , a sleeper is great, but it deserves to shed the sheepskin eventually, and show itself as the wolf it is - good looking AND fast.

>>13872432
Diesel trucks dont come with catalytic converters

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>>13871133
>reducing the rotating mass and unsprung weight of a car doesn't affect its performance

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>>13872476
u sure showed me :(
>tfw will never be manly enough to try to get my point across solely by insulting the other party

>>13872490
Hm, I wonder what is pic related then

>not chipping your turbo vehicle for free HP/Torque

>>13872432
Meh. I don't think outlawing modified cars would work.

I think that any modified car should have to go for a safety inspection at a certified shop.

This way all the bro trucks and stancefags are off the roads, and those of us who want to properly -and legally- modify our cars are perfectly find.

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>>13872531
>how u want ur fuel map senpai
>just lean my shit out

>>13872540
>pictureforants.jpg

>>13872539
Agreed, outright banning any modifications whatsoever is nonsense. The line would have to be drawn in the right place.

>>13872540
>ants

>>13872539
>Even more safety inspections! What could possibly go wrong?

http://vtdigger.org/2015/08/15/mechanic-charged-with-manslaughter-for-approving-inspection-of-vehicle/

We need robots doing the testing. Humans should be removed from the procedure entirely if such a thing has any hope of succeeding.

>>13872541
>>13872542
>clearly a melted piston even in ant-size
Do you fuckers have 4k screens or what?

>>13872046
Commit suduko

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>>13872549
>incompetent/corrupt mechanic charged for his incompetence/corruption
>this is somehow bad