I just added a cone air intake to my '99 Grand Am GT1. Damn, it sounds like there’s a supercharger under the hood now. Not to mention an appreciable increase in speed…mmmmmmmm, speed…
I also plan on getting a custom exhaust installed with dual 3" pipes and getting my chip reprogrammed by ASE. I figure that for around $800 ($450 for the exhaust, $300 for the chip, $50 for the intake), I’ll have increased my hp, at the wheels, by about 35-40.
Anyone else recently mod their cars?
I put in a new pine tree shaped air freshener:D
Some kind soul in a parking lot aparently decided to give my car a free custom quarter-panel shaping and unique negative-paint striping modification. All without requiring any work or knowledge on my part.
My wife and I put a screaming chicken on the hood of her 99 Trans Am.
My dad’s putting a turbo in his Daytona. Doesn’t count as a mod, of course, because it’s supposed to have a turbo, but…
Oh, and he put a new spoiler on my Z-24.
The Z24 has a 3.1L in it, right? You could slap some bolt-on mods in there pretty cheap, new intake, exhaust, and so on. Easy. 
And wolfman, that reminds me when I “modded” an 18-wheeler. I replaced the back axle with two axles! Also totally free! I suppose at that point I also had modded my car into a piece of modern art. 
We’re gonna take the back seat out of the Aerostar real soon.
Rock 'n Roll.
I just put a full stainless steel exhaust w/ carbon fiber canister from http://www.muzzys.com on my motorcycle. Once I re-jet the carbs it will really F’n scream.
In a recent issue of Sports Compact Car magazine, they had an article about mods for a Ford Focus ZX3. I salivated. I drooled. I came. It’s all bolt-on. I’m planning on purchasing an intercooler and turbocharger to start. I’ll mod the chip and then go with the susupension mods. Now I just need the cash…
I fixed the transmission pan gasket on my 89 Dodge Shadow. I replaced it last week. As it was getting dark out. Yesterday I loosened it up and stuffed in the little section that was hanging out and drenching my parking spot with ATF.
Oh hell yeah, that’s what I’m talking about. There’s a couple different superchargers that are being released for my car, and I definitely get a stiffy thinking about em.
Er, but all bolt-on? Turbos and intercoolers don’t really seems like “bolt-on” parts to me…
<sigh> I remember a time when hotrodding involved getting your hands dirty and actual wrenches, not EEPROMs.
Of course half the people I see on the road think that hot rodding means yellow trim, coffee can exhaust tips and massive F1 style wings on front wheel drive rice rockets. I saw a car in my lot this evening, a Kia sephia with a custom rear wing with yellow (yellow means more H.P. of course) tip fences. Alloy wheels on the rear, stock steel wheels on the front. No cover on the left and a Honda cover on the right. I didn’t get a look inside but he’s got a kitchen stove fire extinguisher attached to the passenger side A-pillar. If it’s there in the AM I’ll get a few pics to post to http://www.beaterz.com/
Heh, I got my hands plenty dirty taking out the stock air box on GAGT. And I used a wrench!
A Sephia? Hmm, not really familiar with them, I suppose you might be able to get some decent speed out of them. My favorite small car for mods is a Neon R/T. Damn, those things will fly with just a little work.
BTW, I have to say that that site is hillarious. Some of those cars are…very interesting…
I’m actually making my car a bit less ostentatious, by doing things like shaving off the badges and such. No yellow trim for me.
Demise - I did much the same thing as you, only it was about a year ago with a 1985 Porsche 944.
Me and my dad got rid of the “944” badge on the rear and painted over the Porsche logo on the back as well. The only badge we left was the flat Porsche logo on the hood. Blackout kits all around for the lights. A couple of little extra things like side body moldings and new rims and low-profile rubber. Next thing you know, everyone at the gas station is asking me “What kind of Porsche is that? I’ve never seen one of those before.”
It looked totally bad ass. I drove it for a year or so and gave it back to my dad when I bought a new Vette a few weeks ago.
I poured the console lid on my Miata full of epoxy to stiffen it. Does that count?
Oh, and I installed a cupholder, too.
Dude, those cupholders are SAH-WEET.