Do any of your mates drive modified cars?

Krupa · Post by **Krupa** » Fri Feb 25, 2005 1:24 am

Or are you alone in your interest?

Mine's in the company of a reasonable sized crowd of modded cars.

We have:

Rhys, Focus - this has had several 4 digit installs in it, and is in the latest issue of Fast Car pictured at a cruise with its' boot open, showing off the install ready to accept 24 subs (previously owned- noisy Fiesta with lots of smoothed stuff, RS1600i with LSD, knackered Orion with 4" flame blowing exhaust):

Chris, Calibra - very shiny it is too (previously owned- leprous Fiesta, sort of Euro look 106):

Loz, MG ZR - to be replaced with a Hyundai Coupe shortly, hence the wheels being on the Calibra above now (previously owned- go-kart Clio, I loved that car!):

Grant, Corsa - also very shiny:

Ian, Calibra 16v - On the end because it's not actually that modded, it may smoke, but it goes like stink and seems to be absolutely indistructible. Better, lower profile tyres and an induction kit are the only mods here (previously owned- two doomed Sierras, both are now dead).

Fjo · Post by **Fjo** » Fri Feb 25, 2005 4:36 am

most of my friends drive modded cars, a lot of them are into Jap cars with only a few into vw, in Ireland a very high percentage of young males have some mods done to their cars, even if its only exhaust and decent rims, its becoming rare to see a young buck in a standard car.

13twelve · Post by **13twelve** » Fri Feb 25, 2005 2:25 pm

mine seem to drive peugeots (106 gti, 306 gti-6, 306 hdi)

theres an integra

but, i do have a mate with a mod'd golf and mate with a bora on s3 rims (which hes selling)

trying to preach the german gospel to them

in all cases, if they could afford new audi a3, they would..

robz · Post by **robz** » Fri Feb 25, 2005 5:15 pm

yeh most of ma mates drive mod'd cars, from the likes of Genesis Gt & MK4 Scotland on here to Honda Civics with custom exhaust, 18s & a full install. Infact i no 3 guys who have vey mod'd Civics. All my mates have such a wide range of cars tho, 1 has a brand new Audi A3 wif 20"s on it, then theres a white low Focus on 17"s or a slamed punto wif 15"s, body kit & graphics

carmadaaron · Post by **carmadaaron** » Fri Feb 25, 2005 8:00 pm

robz wrote:yeh most of ma mates drive mod'd cars, from the likes of Genesis Gt & MK4 Scotland on here to Honda Civics with custom exhaust, 18s & a full install. Infact i no 3 guys who have vey mod'd Civics. All my mates have such a wide range of cars tho, 1 has a brand new Audi A3 wif 20"s on it, then theres a white low Focus on 17"s or a slamed punto wif 15"s, body kit & graphics

seen a silver lupo gti with blue grahics robz? down hamilton?

SteB · Post by **SteB** » Fri Feb 25, 2005 10:48 pm

Yeh, my mates have modified cars, and its their fault im into this whole malarchy in the first place!!

we have Dubwhizz - Oettinger Golf G60, Bugwhizz - Golf Rallye, John & Reno - mk1 jetta (in mars red), me - mk1 polo (in mars red), and then theres a few mates ive made through forums. great fun!

toXXin · Post by **toXXin** » Fri Feb 25, 2005 11:42 pm

My bestest mate Ben has a MK3 Golf GTI on 8&9x16" Schmidt Modernlines. Am trying to find out why Fotopic is down as the pic of it is on there.

My other bestest mate Matt has a standard 306 D Turbo, got by me from work. He wants to send it to Allard and get lots of work done to it

He previously had a stripped out rally slag look Nova and a Memory Red (MK4 Polo colour) Corsa SRi Van, as well as an Indian Red MK3 and a SEAT Ibiza.

Everyone at work has modified cars, these include a 200bhp Civic VTi 4 door, a Prelude VTEC on 18s, a Clio 16v on 17" BBS RK2s, and a 350bhp Impreza P1

GroovyCarrot · Post by **GroovyCarrot** » Sat Feb 26, 2005 12:49 am

I'm pretty much alone

Did have one friend with a mildly modded mk2 golf 1.8 gl, but he stacked it taking a bridge too fast and ended up with a tree in the middle of the engine bay.. he now drives a 1.2 16v punto, which, it has to be said, is a cracking little car, but he doesn't have any plans for it other than a set of alloys and a half decent set of speakers... other than that all my friends either drive knackered old metros and fiestas, or brand new corsa's and clios that their parents bought them that they'll never really show any interest in..

cyhliu · Post by **cyhliu** » Sat Feb 26, 2005 4:59 am

Likewise with GroovyCarrot, none of my friends drive modded cars...but then most of them are girls, one drives a Peugeot 307 and the other has a battered Micra...then I have Josh who is solely responsible for my interest in modding but my father to blame for my interest in dubs...and then I have all of you guys who all drive quality cars!

Si_GTi · Post by **Si_GTi** » Sat Feb 26, 2005 9:45 am

Well, my mate Mark has a 306 DTurbo which I am trying to persuade him will look better with a subtle drop, some clear indicators and GTI-6 alloys! Before that he had a 205 DTurbo with GTi 1.9 alloys that rubbed like crazy on the back arches when anyone or anything was in the back

Couple of guys at work have mildly tweaked rides, one has a Saxo in factory blue with the bump strips and mouldings that go round the car sprayed in silver, bit of ICE, induction kit and the standard wheel trims until he gets some suitable alloys (last set were too wide). The other chap has a black 106 GTi with a Mania front bumper, morettes and a couple of engine mods inc. de-cat pipe and bean-can zorst... thats about it really. On the plus side I found out that a modded black Polo I've seen about town parks near work so I'm off to flyer it on Monday morning

robz · Post by **robz** » Sat Feb 26, 2005 11:39 am

seen a silver lupo gti with blue grahics robz? down hamilton?

yeh that guy is from/around Hamilton, i dnt no him but ive seenit a good few times. Sure his car was in a@ ma mates work getting valeted not so long ago

James0121 · Post by **James0121** » Sat Feb 26, 2005 10:09 pm

well most of my mates have gone jap but my mate steve has got a golf g60. Adam has a mr2 turbo and a pulsur jason a skyline r32 glen a civic neil honda prelude my other mate adam has a honda integra type r. also i have a few mates with fiesta zetec-s, ford escorts, pug 106's puntos etc My g/fs boss has a nissan skyline r34 nur spec 2 and a scooby p1. But i suppose i am nearly the youngest at 19

Post by **mole** » Sun Feb 27, 2005 5:47 pm

There's a small bunch of us with "modded cars"...

I've got this:
Pretty much standard (bar Carbon front lip and minus the cat!) 350bhp FQ-340

My best mate Mark has this:
Civic Type-R, few carbon bits but engine standard.

His brother has this:
EVO VI with Stage 1 Mods - 330BHP

My mate Neil (Nelson on here) has this on order:
SEAT Ibiza Cupra PD TDi 160

My other mate Si has this:
C200K Sports Coupe

And His brother Nick, this:

And another mate, this:
Corolla T-Sport

My mate Seb has a BMW 325 IS (a south african import - as is he!)
No pics of that though, just a video of him monkeying around HERE.

Oh and Mark's old man has this: CLK 55 AMG

Redline · Post by **Redline** » Sun Feb 27, 2005 6:52 pm

Know a few people back home with modified cars, but no one at uni.

One of my mates as a 306 D Turbo dropped on 17s, with a couple of subs in the boot. Bit of an unlucky car as he had two crashes within the first month of getting it

Know another guy with a Civic Jordan dropped and with a Spoon Sports exahust, sounds great when the VTEC comes on.

And someone with a Renault Megane Cabriolet dropped on 17s.

Then my Dad used to have an Impreza STi with a Prodrive back box, until he got rid of it and got a new A6

Prash · Post by **Prash** » Mon Feb 28, 2005 12:16 am

mole wrote:There's a small bunch of us with "modded cars"...

I've got this:
Pretty much standard (bar Carbon front lip and minus the cat!) 350bhp FQ-340

lovely...is that the front lip from the FQ-400 ? wondered why the fq400 looked more 'chunky' at the front, definately makes the front of your 340 looks much more complete IMO, nice

Edit: just read on your web sites its a do-luck item, looks perfect!