why do car scene guys lower their cars to just a few mms off the ground?

Gloomendoom

londonTiger wrote: »

What's fun about modding the car? If you want to have fun just get all the money together that you want to spend on mods and sell your current car and get something faster.

My guess is that it's just to show off and fit in by appearing different. If you were the only 20 year old and weren't part of the "car community" you would not attempt these mods. They're purely for looking good amongst peers.

There's nothing fun about spending all your wages on crap after market suspensions and alloys that are too big and heavy for the car that destroys any bit of power it had.

I guess it's no different to people elsewhere in society, like these idiots before the 2008 bubble burst that used to get into £20K+ worth of credit card debt on buying clothes so they can appear fashionable amongst friends.

Just because you can't see the fun in it doesn't mean other people don't get a kick out of it.

Personally, I don't find watching 22 brainless farts kicking a leather bag of wind around a field fun... but millions of others obviously do.
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Limey

londonTiger wrote: »

The lightest wheels you can put on the wheels is the factory steel wheels. It's a huge misconception the alloys make the wheels lighters. The lightest affordable alloys in the market today (the oz superleggera and team dynamics pro race 1.2) are a tad bit heavier than steel wheels.

Just putting your wheels on the scales will tell you which is lighter, but for some idiotic reason modders think alloys are ligher, common sense will tell yoy that a 3mm sheet steel will not be heavier than 14mm thick alloy spokes.

This is why trackday cars generally use steelies (budget car races) and specialist racing wheels that are a couple more mm thicker than steel wheels.

Some trackday cars will use this thin spoke alloys like team dynamics pro race but I've seen plenty of these go on ebay due to cracked spokes - they don't work on powerful cars and break.

Just something I have to respond to, because I recently took off the heavy alloys and put steel wheels back on and noticied a huge improvement in fuel economy and response.

Just handling the wheels as you take them off and replace them should immediately tell you which is heavier and which is lighter.

I know Tiggs, but finding steelies for my car is like hunting for rocking horse poo and buying new is not really cost effective unfortunately. The second hand market for alloys is huge and I managed to find some light(ish)weight Enkeis for just over a ton.

The Celica did come with steel wheels in some of the base spec options but I believe very few were sold and those that were have probably been scrapped and/or replaced with alloy. Would love to get my sticky paws on some for track tyres.

Steelies on the MR2 just wouldn't fit over the brakes. :rotfl:

scheming_gypsy

Loiter around Asda at Clayton Brook (near Preston). There's a woman with a red Gen 6 Celica with steelies on, that goes shopping there.

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What I do find funny about the car modding scene is after they have spend thousands modding it, they won't pay for repairs. I've seen plenty of modded cars with loads spent on up for sale on Gumtree etc because they need £500 spent to pass the MOT.

scheming_gypsy

the funniest part about car modding, is when they end up here --> http://www.barryboys.co.uk/phpBB2/viewforum.php?f=1

goonarmy

scotsbob wrote: »

Remember also that EEC regulations demand that many cars imported into the UK are having the suspensions raised to comply with EU regulations. This throws out the carefully engineered geometry.

Therefore the first thing the driver of a nice car will do is lower it down after they buy it so it is set up the way the manufacturer designed it.

Never let facts get in the way of a good story.

Kite2010

Deleted_User wrote: »

What I do find funny about the car modding scene is after they have spend thousands modding it, they won't pay for repairs. I've seen plenty of modded cars with loads spent on up for sale on Gumtree etc because they need £500 spent to pass the MOT.

And then moan when the thousands spent on modding the cars gives them hardly anything back, and in some cases makes the car value drop :rotfl:

Limey

Kite2010 wrote: »

And then moan when the thousands spent on modding the cars gives them hardly anything back, and in some cases makes the car value drop :rotfl:

Only way you can get anywhere near the amount you spend on modifications back is by removing them and returning the car to stock then selling seperately.

Anyone who thinks otherwise is deluded.

Limey

scheming_gypsy wrote: »

Loiter around Asda at Clayton Brook (near Preston). There's a woman with a red Gen 6 Celica with steelies on, that goes shopping there.

:rotfl:Bit of a hike for me.

Retrogamer

I don't know anyone in the modifying scene personally who thinks you gain more value on a car by modifying it. Most will do as mentioned above, return car to standard and sell it then sell the aftermarket parts separate.

Some more mods for my own car coming soon as well