What area do you focus on, when modifying your car?

[Checkered-Member]

and why?

For me it has to be audio; whenever I drive, I have to have music on, can’t drive without music.What area do you focus on, when modifying your car?

[Mr1der]

I'd like to thing suspension is incorporated with performance, why?

Why else, it's the most fun and I wanna be able to park in a parking lot and not cry as much as when some douche hits it with a cart.

edit: my radio currently doesn't work, but I find supercharger whine and tire squall in unison to be a #1 hit.

[UncleBen]

Suspension. Gotta be able to 'handle' all that power, heh.

[Nathan]

Definitely the engine...it's where 98% of the money is right now! I mean that literally too, the car only cost me 200 bucks I dont like music either.

[UncleBen]

Is that a GT-R symbol I see on your Altima?

[89240sx]

lol , I can't vote! I need to work on all that! ... what about maintainance? lol

[Mr1der]

Is that a GT-R symbol I see on your Altima?

uh oh:eek:

[Rockenreno]

comfort

right now thats mostly intereior and sound work and clean up, but soon will lead to suspension

[Checkered-Member]

Yeah suspension will be my number 2 as well, suspension work makes such a big difference and you can kill any car on a corner.Second when doing suspension you are looking at hundreds of dollars, as opposed to performance you are looking at thousands of dollars.

I have two stories.

There is this nice curvy road in my town, it’s a 35 speed limit but no one goes more then 30, well anyway, when my alti was stock, at 55 my tires start squealing and at around 57 start to loose grip (never got passed that one), now I can pull 75 on the road easy with minimal body roll, I’m too scared to go past 85, in a 35 zone can you imagine. Even in my Audi with its Z tires, sport “tuned” suspension and a fancy AWD I can’t push it past 70.

Second story (get the BS flags ready), I’m driving around minding my own business, I come to a left turn where 2 lanes turn into a three lane road, and there is this black Ferrari 360 Spider, cuts in front of me (guy thinks he is the king of the road), what happens next is as unbelievable as Arnold is a governor, I get on the guys tail and get ready to turn, we both turn really hard and sharp, he couldn’t stay in his own lane because he started to loose grip on the rear wheels, with the back end shaking violently he crossed into the third lane over, while I kept in my lane (barely) and at the end on the turn got right beside him, then at the trait away he took off, but for that one moment I gave a 180K dolor car a run for its money.Before everyone calls BS, I believe a professional driver can turn that car better, but when was the last time you encountered a professional driver in a Ferrari?

[Mr1der]

I've never encountered a Ferrari:(

[cnichols]

It's not BS...he just couldn't handle it.

I've pushed a C5 Vette through some twisties. As soon as we hit a straightaway...he was pissed...and needless to say...he left me EASY.

[jacob360]

when doing suspension you are looking at hundreds of dollars, as opposed to performance you are looking at thousands of dollars.

Uhhhhhh, you could easily put thousands of dollars into a suspension set-up. The coilovers I'm planning to get are $1600 (MSRP $1850).

My philosophy on building a car is to create a suitable platform for power by upgrading brakes and suspension first, then working on putting the power down.

Of course I'll probably get impatient and go turbo or SR the first chance I get.

[lessthanjakejohn]

Its all about the exhaust tone.

[TachyonS14]

I voted interior because 95% of the time i'm in the CAR!

[TurboKA37]

as u can see in my sig my first mods are suspy. although i did get a $200 mp3/cd player head unit and new speakers first.

[Checkered-Member]

Uhhhhhh, you could easily put thousands of dollars into a suspension set-up. The coilovers I'm planning to get are $1600 (MSRP $1850).

Hundreds of dollars can be 1000 or more (tens of hundreds)While engine you are looking at spending thousands at a time

[UncleBen]

It's not BS...he just couldn't handle it.

I've pushed a C5 Vette through some twisties. As soon as we hit a straightaway...he was pissed...and needless to say...he left me EASY.

Doin some driftin in an open-diffed, automatic 240 All while keeping up w/ a c5 vette, ahhhh I love it!!

[240_Keyy]

hmmm this is a tough one. let me just add up the raw numbers......

Suspension:$1250 Tein HE's$950 Full BV Links (TC, RUCA, Toe, RFL)$80 STBs$320 Whiteline Sways$120 Hicas Steering Rack$200 Subframe inserts$200 Z brakes$500 LSD$1000 good rims and tiresTotal: $4620

Performance:$3000 BT S13 SR$850 FMIC$300 Cold pipe and BOV$200 6 puck clutch$150 DP$500 Blitz Nur Spec RTotal: $5000

Hmmm, it is a close race, but given the fact that the SR is pretty stock with BPUs, I would have to say that suspension wins out on this one...

And just FYI, I don't have a radio in my car and I never have, nor ever will. When I bought my 240 it didn't have a radio or speakers so I grabbed the radio wiring harness and ripped it out, pulling with it all the speaker wires and stuff. I then took out all of the speaker baskets and threw them away. So if you want to ride in my car, you get to hear exhaust, wind and BOV sounds

[Dano]

suspension and power get my vote equally, with the suspension edging power out, cuz the power is useless unless u can keep the car planted.

-Dan

[Altiman94]

suspension, what is funner than a nice twisty road or an autocross course?

[skydragoness]

suspension, what is funner than a nice twisty road or an autocross course?

:ylsuper

you guys know me... suspension! woo!

[kevy8up]

I have to do engine first...cause mine is dieing.

[themadscientist]

brakes, then suspension, then weight reduction then I open the hood. What good is power if you can't apply or control it. Plus it's fun when people see you have a full cage, racing suspension, GT-R brakes, Ks diff and huge oil cooler on a CA18DE Silvia;)

[Bubba1]

Depends on the car and what you want to do with it. For argument's sake, choose a stock 240sx

If it's a commuter, I'd upgrade the stereo. I'd leave the suspension alone, as it ruins the ride. it's already a terrific handling car.

If you're going to a track that involves turns, and driving your 240 to and from the track: tires and brakes first. No doubt. Then engine. THEN suspension.

If you're going to a drag strip, engine first. stock 240sx's are slowin a straightline.

But the mod with the biggest bang for the buck is improving your your skills. I'm talking hi performance driving schools, more than one.

[Stoneage_Turbo]

I prefer the collin chapman/lotus way , focus on suspsension and lightening , leaving the engine perfectly stock unitll the chaissis is so good that it could accpect more output from the engine

[sr20racer]

Performance, I don't even have 1 exterior mod.

[lessthanjakejohn]

Except that intercooler

[Stoneage_Turbo]

i hate seeing these turbo ser sentras , keeps makeing me think "what happend if my sr20 car didnt get totaled the week before the turbo was to go on "

how much of a diffrence did the turbo make in the seat of the pants dept?

[GirlRacerS14]

Performance, but I consider suspension and handling to be a big part of performance too. Almost all of my money has been put into engine upgrades and suspension upgrades. It has a nice stereo set up but I'd rip that out anyday so i could just listen the tires squealing and the blow off valve.

GR

[sr20racer]

how much of a diffrence did the turbo make in the seat of the pants dept?

A TON. SR20+Avenir T25+cams+fmic+3"exhaust+pullies=:D Guys I race=:eek: