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View Poll Results: Would rather make your car look better, or increase power?
Better Looks 5 10.64%
Better Power 35 74.47%
Whenever I get money, I get what I can. Doesn't matter. 7 14.89%
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Old 10-17-2003, 01:17 PM
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Power vs Looks

What would you rather do with your car?

Make it look better? (I tried to include some examples.) Spoilers/Wings, Hoods, Ground Effects, Lowering suspension, wheels & tires, Interior Mods.

Or...

Increase performance (Higher hp, torque, gas mileage, higher air intake and exhaust, anything under the hood, that deals with the engine).

Basically, what would you sink your (or someone elses) money into?

Eye Candy or Raw Power?
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Old 10-17-2003, 04:04 PM
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I've done a little of each, but any big bucks that I spend is going towards power/performance....
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Old 10-17-2003, 09:51 PM
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Definitely Performance! My car is already a head turner and currently it is still all stock. I've gotten countless compliments since I've owned her. I don't see anything wrong with sinking SOME $$$ into looks, but I'd say mainly keep the cash flow for the Performance upgrades.
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Performance, if it is from 64-72 and has a wing it better be a Superbird My car gets a lot of attention stock as it sites because it is different then almost everything else out there, I don't need to add exterior items. Power, thats where true fun is anyway.
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Old 10-19-2003, 07:38 PM
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mostly power but ya gotta have some eye candy just don't over do it
gotta love a sleeper.
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Old 11-07-2003, 03:20 PM
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Im with BlkCamaroSS, I have spent money on both power and looks. I dont want it to look like crap I mean its a TA its gotta have good looks. But I will put more money into power and handeling than looks any day.
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Old 11-19-2003, 03:08 PM
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ive invested alot into both and granted you get the ladies with the apperience...but ide rather it go into performance...if your talking about just f-body's i would deffinatly go with performance because they are already cool...or you can go with performance that looks cool...like lowering springs or an exaust that sounds cool but also gives HP...just my 2 cents...
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well power adn sound is always the sweetest espically when the ladies hear it but looks are deff important your ride needs to be hto if u want ppl to notice it and talk about it
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Re: Power vs Looks

im in love with sleepers + stock blow-the-doors-off the hyped up all show no go all bling no zing ricer peice of crap.
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Old 11-23-2003, 07:47 AM
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mey, i'm sending you some beers!
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Re: Power vs Looks

if its fast and loud it dosent need to look to good cuze no one can see you when you blur bye them at 110+ mph (just a black blur) in my case
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Raw Power!! gotta love a sleeper, although i'm looking into getting a big gold bird for the hood of the 98 TA pretty soon... hell if i had money id get a cam, heads, pistons, rods, springs, you name it, but id also like to have a blue paint job, ever seen the blue on the new 350Z... yeah...
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Re: Power vs Looks

if you have a car that looks really good stock, like a superbird, then you dont need exterior mods.

performance mods are the way to go, would you rather look fast or be fast?

and sleepers rule anyway...
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Re: Power vs Looks

power to me is much more important, i love to the see the look on some rich guy in his 5 series beemer when i smoke my tires in his then blow past him
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Re: Power vs Looks

I think most people start off buying a leasure car (not a daily commuter car) because they like the way it looks already. Any improvements made to exterior are usually lite in nature but I can't think of anyone with the performance bug that say's oh my car has enough power I'm done, There is always a way to make it faster.
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