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What appearance mods would you do with $1000??

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Old 4/10/10 | 01:31 PM
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Personally I think the biggest visual improvement you can make on a car are wheels.
Old 4/10/10 | 01:34 PM
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Old 4/10/10 | 02:13 PM
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I always thought hood pins were required if you had a fiberglass hood to keep the thing from flying off.

I would spend 1000.00 on a nice hood and have it painted.
Old 4/10/10 | 02:33 PM
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I'm planning to do tint, Steeda springs, and maybe the pedestal spoiler or the GT500 valence.
Old 4/10/10 | 04:02 PM
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1. SHR flush mount quarter window louvers
2. California Special airdam, but not grill
3. Paint the rear valence and grill surround body color

$1000 won't do all three, but you can probably do any two of them.
Old 4/10/10 | 05:24 PM
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The car looks pretty good stock and does not seem to take well to all the do dads the 05-09 did. I like the GT500 rear spoiler and valance. A nice chin spoiler and then look into some nice wheels. Thats all i would do. The louvers and scoops just do not fit the body style very well.
Old 4/10/10 | 05:34 PM
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Originally Posted by Freshmeat
Please no hoodpins.
Originally Posted by Adam2004
/veto hood pins
Originally Posted by stangfoeva
no hood pins IMO. They just do not look right with this new body style...
Originally Posted by Frizzle
And especially ridiculous FAKE STICK-ON ones...
Old 4/10/10 | 10:21 PM
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Originally Posted by dmhines
Everyone has different tastes .... Personally I think the factory Side Scoops and 1/4 Windows louvers are ugly has hell ... but lots of folks like them ...
Ok, enough of the hood pins, please. I get it, everyone has their opinion. Like I said, I originally bought them for a Boss tribute type deal. If they don't fit the look that I end up with, I'm not going to put them on, but if I do or anyone does for that matter, don't bash it. Like dmhines said, everyone has different tastes.

Back to the regularly scheduled topic of if you had a $1000 to spend on mods, heh. I am leaning mostly towards graphics of some sort, a spoiler, possibly some wheels and springs, or maybe a nice front fascia... So many options...
Old 4/11/10 | 07:57 AM
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Light bar and maybe a different grille.
Old 4/11/10 | 08:15 AM
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I would def. look at getting the GT500 spoiler.
It is sooo nice.
Anyone know how much those are going for these days?

Also, I know its more than $1000, but painted on stripes would be nice.
Old 4/11/10 | 08:22 AM
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I would def. look at getting the GT500 spoiler.
It is sooo nice.
Anyone know how much those are going for these days?

Also, I know its more than $1000, but painted on stripes would be nice.
I think I saw one primed for around $300 with the Gurney Flap.
Old 4/11/10 | 04:39 PM
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Tint and lower.
Old 4/11/10 | 06:11 PM
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For appearance I'd go with the Cal Special front, pedestal spoiler and some type of blackout treatment between the tail lamps.
Old 4/11/10 | 06:58 PM
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My take on hoodpins is simple: unless you're building a car that you can pull the hood off of frequently and easily, they're useless. Most of the general public know that on a modern street car, hood pins are an appearance part. They know the hood latch is sturdy enough to hold the hood in place for daily driving, so why put some tack on junk on the car? While you're at it, go to Pep Boys and pick up some stick on fender vents or stick on exhaust cutouts on the rear quarters. Same mentality...

Now, if you pulled up with a huge cam and a 4" cowl hood on street slicks, then it might be a different story.
From my experience with my 05 GT the car needed hood pins. The stock hood setup properly would still flutter at triple digits. When I moved to a after market hood they were required because there was a lot of flex in the front corners.
Old 4/11/10 | 07:28 PM
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Old 4/11/10 | 07:30 PM
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SHR louvres, MRT '68 hood. With the heat extractor vents you can skip the hood pins.



Edit: Ooops.... didn't catch this was a ten thread. Never mind.

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Old 4/11/10 | 10:14 PM
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Originally Posted by bpmurr
From my experience with my 05 GT the car needed hood pins. The stock hood setup properly would still flutter at triple digits. When I moved to a after market hood they were required because there was a lot of flex in the front corners.
I've heard that the hood shake was a bad thing with the 05's and up. I'm glad that they've fixed that. It shouldn't take hood pins to fix a factory issue.
Old 8/3/10 | 11:07 AM
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Had the car 9 days, it's been tinted and my cdc chin spoiler, billet upper and lower grill are sitting in the garage. My SHR flush mounted louvers are on order, hopefully a week or two. Should be just a bit over a grand. Should also look good.

Still figuring out what to do with paint/stripes????
Old 8/3/10 | 01:06 PM
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#1 is tint for sure
#2 springs and panhard bar
#3 decklid blackout (either a plastic, double sided tape-on, or better yet a custom cut of vinyl from your tint shop)

3 simple steps, less than 1K and one sweeeeet lookin ride
Old 8/3/10 | 01:36 PM
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Grille that removes fogs (if you like that). Agree with decklid blackout!


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