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My worst mods: Top 3 countdown: 4) Not my hood...even though most people don't like it. lol 3) Putting the sub in my trunk that my friend told me a was a "really good" sub he didn't use any more... 2) Ebay Intake... 1) Kelly Tires...  Never listen to an idoit at a tire place. Talked me out of getting Traction T/As to replace my tires because these "are just as good, but 35 dollars less a tire..." 
1998 SE Duratec V6 ATX
Ebay intake with K&N Filter
Trubendz Exhaust
Custom Hood
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Derek
Scion xB 5-spd
Previous: 2000 Silver Frost SVT
Please share the road with cyclists.
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Originally posted by Derk-xB:
Pro-M MAF
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2nd worse mod.. MAF calibrator, to try and correct the Pro-M MAF.  Needless to say, I went back to my stock SVT MAF and sent back the junk.
Mark
2000 Black CSVT
3.0L Hybrid - 206fwhp & 195fwtq
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The scary thing is how many of these "worst mods" were on my list of to-dos, but I never had time or money for them.
Function before fashion.
'96 Contour SE
"Toss the Contour into a corner, and it's as easy to catch as a softball thrown by a preschooler." -Edmunds, 1998
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"Absolut Rara."
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Worst mod, definately Kim . . . ooh wait, for the car, not the site . . . lol  I've actually been very selective about what I've done to my CSVT so far, keeping things very minimal (again, up to this point) but probably the worst was the pedal covers back when I first got the car. They were either OBX or KKM, I don't remember, but the attachment was so poor, and they were downright dangerous from a pedal geometry standpoint . . . they were only on the car for a couple weeks at most. I'm just hoping I'm not making any regrettable mods right now while my car undergoes a pretty thourough overhaul, lol.
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Gutting my precats on the car. All down hill from there. Inital mod was good, but since then the car has gotten progressively worse and finally terminated this past weekend with a thrown rod or shattered piston.
E0 SVT
Kids, yeah, I have kids. How many do you want?
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Originally posted by Bike2112:
Gutting my precats on the car. All down hill from there. Inital mod was good, but since then the car has gotten progressively worse and finally terminated this past weekend with a thrown rod or shattered piston.
And how exactly are you tracing the blown engine to gutting the precats? Have you verified that the honeycomb material was sucked back into the motor? I'm guessing now, since you don't know if it's a thrown rod or shattered piston. 
Mark
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3.0L Hybrid - 206fwhp & 195fwtq
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Does it really matter? Car ran fine before the mod and shortly thereafter it started to burn oil. Then steadily more. It could have been from precat dust or something else.
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Originally posted by Bike2112:
Does it really matter?
To me, it doesn't really matter. I'm not trying to call you out. I was just curious as to how you came to the conclusion that it was the precat gutting that caused the engine to go.
Originally posted by Bike2112:
It could have been from precat dust or something else.
You don't know 100% what the reason was for the motor going. I'm just questioning, because I'd hate to see a bunch of people avoid mods because someone assumed it was the cause of failure. Honestly, these motors can go, just like that. Mine went at 52k miles, with no warning signs. No oil light, no sweeping right turns, it just started knocking out of nowhere.
Mark
2000 Black CSVT
3.0L Hybrid - 206fwhp & 195fwtq
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Agreed. Didn't mean to come off curt. The car just started to go down from that time. Still is a good mod.
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