make it clean, or look like a hoopty?
 

i was wondering what you guys prefer, make ur car nice and clean and turbo'd. or make the bitch ugly and hoopty lookin so when u do smoke them/someone they feel more stupid? if the cars nice they'd be like "i expected that" but if its ugly they'd be like what the ----? what happened...

what do you guys prefer?

Re:make it clean, or look like a hoopty?
 

dude, make it clean.

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make it a good daily drive is all i care.

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hoopty. Here's mine, I get double points for both of my bumpers falling off:

http://www.we-todd-did-racing.com/we...MXk1NDE%3D.jpg
http://www.we-todd-did-racing.com/we...MXk1NDE%3D.jpg
http://www.we-todd-did-racing.com/we...MXk1NDE%3D.jpg
http://www.we-todd-did-racing.com/we...MXk1NDE%3D.jpg

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if some dude in a corvette gets smoked by a rusted dented piece of ---- car, he just says to him self "thats a piece of ----, whatever" but if he gets smoked by a mint looking whatever, he gets pissed cause basicly, he just got smoked by a normal street car.

Re:make it clean, or look like a hoopty?
 

make it clean.

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Yeah I'd prefer not to drive a shitbox.

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well the beating is more severe when youre driving a hoopty and dust some ricer etc off... but nice n clean is my style. Stock look is ok, but clean is the way to go

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unless you have more than one car...make it clean. think about the bitches man :-\

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My girl has a nicer car than I do. :-[

I'd like a nice car, but the idea of a $300/month payment plus full coverage insurance kills that plan. I'd save money to buy a nice car, but I'd ened up blowing it on turbo parts and other ---- for my hoopty rides before I ever got that far. :-\
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Re:make it clean, or look like a hoopty?
 

if your oponent knows anything about cars then he'll hate to lose to a clean car.. if he doesn't know anything about aftermarket he'll hate to lose to a car thats been all tricked out.

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hmmmm... I say make a clean hoopty. :D

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Kinda... If you have a riced out car... rarely does anyone expect you to win a race, it wreaks of suck. Its all an illusion. Its like saying to most people "whoa i have a corvette" and most people think "it must be fast" but the truth is most 70s/80s/early 90s corvettes either arent that fast or are really slow... If you have a riced out car, the rice is an illusion that your car is fast, but most people know better than to say its fast. If you have a stock/clean looking car there are very few things to distinguish it from an average car, making the average driver think its automatically slow by default. If you have a hoopty... nobody cares wether its pretty fast if it looks like complete ass

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dude, i'm not sticking up for them, but have you driven any corvettes?... i went with a friend to a corvette meet, his dad has one, most there weren't stock, and even those who were stock were still pretty damn fast

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well... a 75 corvette will do the 1/4 in 16.1,
an 84 corvette will do it in 15.1,
an 88 will do it in 14.6 (ok getting faster)
and in 94 itd do it in 14.1 (ok not bad).

My point is that old vettes look pretty cool but arent really fast. Say if you had BBKA's SOHC D16 turbo and a 94 Corvette sitting right next to eachother, most people would pick the 94 vette to smoke his civic... which in all likelyhood simply would not be.

Re:make it clean, or look like a hoopty?
 

Keep it clean, fo sho

Re:make it clean, or look like a hoopty?
 

its already pretty clean, a new paint job wouldn't hurt. merdoc saw it. but i was thinkin bout makin it look like a hoopty since i got 2 cars anyway. my denali is for the looks, my integ is jus for goin fast. i think i'll jus leave it and paint the ic black..

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Back last year when I was 17, I was all about looks and speed. I bought an Invader body kit, modified the front bumper and took away the little fog light holes and it looks a lot better, I moulded it on the sides and rear, shaved sidemoulding/antenna/rear wipers

I painted it myself lexus is300 grey, was ------- mint.....

Until it got keyed.....

People get jealous and they ---- ---- up they cant have. So I fixed the key marks, took the $1200 insurance money (windshield smashed as well) I painted the car flat black ($40) and painted my gunmetal slips bronze ($10)

The car still looks sick but I dont have to baby it anymore and I go have fun on dirt roads and fly around in new housing developements without worrying about paint chips and ----

It may still look like a "ricer" with the body kit and Invader hood but JDM hasnt caught on in Canada at all, especially with young kids my age.

Built motor and turbo going to be installed in less than 2 months (after canadas ice age lol) and itll be quick ----

I like it, but hate the attention I got from it when I made it flashy, girls dig it to, even the flat black

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hoopty nigga 11 sec hoopty

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klean jdm stylez

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stock and lowered with some correctly sized rims

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its also important to look clean vs rice, Rice attracts cops and theives like nobodys business

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i say.. if you come across cheap parts get em. But don't go out of you're way. My car is the rustiest pos you will ever see, and i dun care.. well right now i do because its slow. But when its quick i dun care at all what it looks like. you learn to deal with your ride not being pimp when all you know is ford escorts :P

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Hoopty style.

That's what I got....but not by choice :-\

my shits rotted, got in an accident, held together by chicken wire, bondo everywhere and i *tried* painting it but it runs mid 13's in 107mph range on street tires.

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Awesome dude, let's see some pics :D

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hahaha, whip out the old "look whats underneath the carpet.. oh, a huge gaping hole" picture :P

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LOL...here they are.
chicken wire is holding my header panel down, you can barely see it:
http://www.we-todd-did-racing.com/we...MXk1NDE%3D.jpg

haha under my feet(yes I get wet if I go through puddles)
http://www.we-todd-did-racing.com/we...MXk1NDE%3D.jpg

Now behind my seat looking down, you can see the orange bar I welded in to hold up me seat(it fell through the floor a while back)
http://www.we-todd-did-racing.com/we...MXk1NDE%3D.jpg

Camera phone pic of my right rear quarter after some 17 year old kid hit me. I was feeling nice so I told him don't worry about it and let him go. ;)

http://www.we-todd-did-racing.com/we...MXk1NDE%3D.jpg

In it's better days:
http://www.we-todd-did-racing.com/we...MXk1NDE%3D.jpg

I have some old skool pics from where the car was multi colored. I'll make a post later this week for those.

And random my doggie after surgery... :'(
He is so high on morphine now.
http://www.we-todd-did-racing.com/we...MXk1NDE%3D.jpg

I love the sleeper effect. Trust me nobody will every forget your car if you keep it hoopty style.

I want to pick up some old ass car and make a hmt kit for it and see how long it lasts and see people's faces when i cruise around in a turbo station wagon or something. :-*

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lol nice man, good luck finding another CRX btw!

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i always trip out when i see ur car. i dont understand how you can trust that thing. it must be the snow rusting away at ur chassis or some ----. i wouldn't drive that tthing if it was all i had =x let alone turbo the bitch and race it.

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lol...thats blue CRX is scary. should be the HMT flagship though. no floor, no care! :P

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LOL....haha everyone says that. Until you drive it you wouldn't understand ;D Although I know everytime I hop in it I know if i get in a serious accident I'm done.

It came off the road last Friday only because I couldn't afford to keep it on the road with insurance on two cars. I need my daily driver(altima) to get me to and from work than a rusted out crx.

The day before I went to DMV to take it off the road I'm waiting at a light in the crx in mid afternoon traffic on a main highway. I'm sitting there waiting for the light to change when I hear a loud screeching sound, look in the rearview and i see a car doing about 50mph about 100 feet behind me...i'm like oh ---- here we go I'm gonna get rearended, all i could do was pull up as close to the car in front of me as possible. So i pull up and i still hear the screeching sound and i look back and the car is coming at me sideways now. I'm waiting for impact and then nothing! I look back through all the smoke and see a 90 year old lady in an hyaundai excel with her hands all up in the air at me like I did something wrong! LOL...i was laughing but she was about 6 inches off my rear bumper according to the guy in the car next to me. So that was a close one. The car is off now but the drivetrain will be implanted in my new car that I posted up a few weeks back. I picked up an 87 hf already with a d16a1 in it and fully converted to fuel injection. ;D
http://www.we-todd-did-racing.com/we...MXk1NDE%3D.jpg
http://www.we-todd-did-racing.com/we...MXk1NDE%3D.jpg

This car will be full sleeper( no gauges visible, nothing) all you will be able to see is the FMIC and hear the greddy type S BOV.
When I do the swap I'll be sure to take a shitload of pics for all you mofo's.

Alright time to get shitty drunk at the parent's house for our lame ass christmas party.

Be safe all...last night some drunk guy in a saturn vue hit a pole and then another car right in front of my parent's house. He needed jaws of life to get him out. :-\

Re:make it clean, or look like a hoopty?
 

I rather spend my money on mods/upgrades. I spent $8 on primer. Thats enough bling for me. 8)

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Yes I have seen his car and it's sexy, if you ever want it to have babies, I would gladly father her children. I like it the way it is, but if you really wanna paint it, I say repaint where it's white and leave all the lips/skirts black.

Fug it, just wax it and leave it as is.

And you have a denali too! :o HMT tow truck ;D

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I say make it look like stock with normal wear and tear, just like any other car you would see on the road.
Anything nice looking or modded IMO is theftbait. >:(

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Sad thing is, rice also attracts women :-\

hoopty actually wouldn't be bad if you had another car. I found a 91 Civic for $100, and if it'd be a major hoopty flat black turbo d15 if I could buy it.. of course it would be my secondary vehicle ;)