Originally posted by jerseycat10:
Why are you getting so defensive? Does this hit home for you? I am not going to claim that my car has resale value, I know that. That is why I bought it used! It could have been worse, I could have bought an SVT! And what good is unnecessary preventative maintenance when many of those mods will void the factory warrantee anyway? It's not like he added high performance products that he wants to make sure are lubricated at all times, it it just the typical ricer mods, exhaust and intake, and whatever else you can see when you open the engine bay (i.e. strut tower bar). I am sorry if this hits home for you! And finally, we have 6.7 seconds. There is NO way that car does 0-60 in 6.7 seconds. And even if it did, he should be ashamed of himself. $12,000 in mods to get to 6.7 seconds? All show, no go. The car is only 2 years old. You are telling me he was capable of using $12,000 on the car in 2 years, but couldn't save up the 4000 for a turbo or supercharger? He must be your friend or something the way you defend him.



was that an attempt at trying to hurt my feelings? make it personal? got me there......

why would the guy begin to be ashamed of himself? he has a nice damn clean car....i fail to see the shame in that....I keep missing in my ricer guide handbook where it says being an enthusiast means it doesnt matter what your car looks like, just as long as it reaches 70 mph quicker than anyone else.....last time i checked when my car was goin 70 and your car was goin 70....i dont care how much psi you have on your 6 thousand dollars worth of forged parts.....no one is goin faster than the other person......

everyone has opinions and that is great....but there is a huge difference in opinions and bashing....and this is straight bashing.....

you ram snide remarks down someone's throat because he wanted to have a show car, that you dont necessarily like, all because his idea of enthusiast means show and yours means go.....

do we call baseball enthusiasts ricers because they only watch baseball and dont play?

--Chris-- 1999 Silver Frost SVT #1671 of #2760