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Exterior looks will catch the judges attention. A nice clean paint job.. nice rims.. wing.. body kit if you want.. Interior and engine mods will keep the judges attention. Your defiently gonna have to take your time and spend a good amount of money. Just do everything tastefully and cleanly.
GroundZero74@aol.com
96 Zetec Contour
Custom paint job, shaved door handles, touring wing, 17" white Team Dynamics Monza rims on 225/45 Nitto's, Power Stop cross drilled rotors w/ Axis pads, stainless steel braided brake lines, Eibach/Koni suspension, strut tower brace,Superchip, CTA intake, Nology wires, Nology plugs, Accel coil pack, Optima battery, NOS, high flow cat, stainless cat back w/ weapon r exhaust, Corbeau racing seats,simpson 5 point racing harness, paint highlighted interior, racing pedals, diamond plate floor mats, white face gauges, headlight strobes, under car neon kit, Pilot fog lights, PIAA driving lights,custom side markers, 20% tint all around, Fuba antenna, Kenwood mask headunit, Kenwood PS series amp, 12" Kicker Solo Baric, infinity kappas in the doors, Street Wires wiring.
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I entered Summer Slam last year at E-town NJ in the stock SUV class. Ok i have a purple metallic flake paint job that was JUST Zainoed and a pair of 15" Strokers in the back....rest of teh truck is stock, but stil, #1588 of only 2200.
Who beats me? Mitsubishi Montero, everything stock except 6 10" subs in tha back and 23" rims. Looked llike ****. But sometimes thats what wins.
My opinion?
CUSTOM body kit, make it as radical as possible, 19" rims, banging system, shine up the engine to no end, shopping cart wing, AWESOME paint job (HoK, DuPont ChromaLusion, etc., no graphics just a really well thought out color), jazzed up interior (racing buckets & the like).
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I get plenty of comments on my car, and many say it looks very 'factory'. Perhaps one approach is to make it look like it is all stock. Perhaps a 'what this car could have been like from the factory'.
Dan Parmelee
1999 Acura Integra SiR-G coupe
"I heard Affleck was the bomb in Phantoms"
"Word, bitch! Phantoms like a muhfuka"
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Get the turbo first. Then, all the pretty stuff doesn't get scratched when it get's installed. Get the turbo powdercoated, and the exhaust system JetHot coated.
-Chris
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just get a vynal ceg decal- like 6foot and slap it on and go to the show you will surely win then-
silver frost 98' svt--tint, stereo system, kkm intake, glasspack, optima, carbon fiber, superchip, side markers, adj. koni's, eibach's, coilovers, axis 7evens 19x8, nitto 225-35-19
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I agree w/ chris, go fast then get the looks to back it up.
Ohsigmachi '96 GL MTX Zetec SS (SuperSleeper)
Suffice it to say my mod list has become so long that it is just ridiculous
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i have a show car and all i have done is 17" cam 10 spoke race wheels 2" intrax springs full graphics exhaust and a clean ass engine bay with strobes and neons and interior painted looks really clean and sharp
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Originally posted by TheContourGuy:
I get plenty of comments on my car, and many say it looks very 'factory'. Perhaps one approach is to make it look like it is all stock. Perhaps a 'what this car could have been like from the factory'. Yeah but it's a Contour SE I see about 10 of them a day, if you restore it back to bone stock all your work will probably get passed right over since its not a super rare car.
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I kinda like the T-red so I want to keep a majority of the car T-red but I also want to throw on some Silver Frost and maybe black or white. I know those colors would look good but I can't think of a design to go with. Anyone with photoshop think they are good enough to make up some designs with those colors? I am definately going to drop it 2"s or so on either some 17"s or 18"s. 19"'s are a little much plus they don't like pot holes very well. Besides the stock 15"s looked pretty massive on the car anyway so I'll probably go with 17"s just becuase they are cheaper and there is more of a selection. Interior I was thinking of maybe black leather with red inserts and paint the dash trim red. White face guages, custom shifter knob, shift boot and a nice system with dvd player and everything. What do you guys think of that?
2000 Ford Contour SE 2.0L Zetec ATX
Removed Air Silencer
Added Side MArkers
Removed Door Ding Guards
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2001 Ford Mustang 3.8L EFI AODE
Nothing Yet.........
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1989 Plymouth Sundance 2.5L A/T
A whole slew of aftermarket stuff but mainly engine work. The list is really long so I decided to save us some bandwidth by taking it out!
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1987 Subaru XT GL10 AWD Turbo
Removed half the interior in my never ending quest to find the fuel pump relay so I can fix it!!!!
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By the way I can paint and stitch the interior myself. Maybe I should follow in Chris' footsteps and LED my car to hades while I'm at it.
2000 Ford Contour SE 2.0L Zetec ATX
Removed Air Silencer
Added Side MArkers
Removed Door Ding Guards
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2001 Ford Mustang 3.8L EFI AODE
Nothing Yet.........
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1989 Plymouth Sundance 2.5L A/T
A whole slew of aftermarket stuff but mainly engine work. The list is really long so I decided to save us some bandwidth by taking it out!
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1987 Subaru XT GL10 AWD Turbo
Removed half the interior in my never ending quest to find the fuel pump relay so I can fix it!!!!
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