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Old 04-06-2012, 08:38 PM   #8 (permalink)
some_other_dave
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Originally Posted by mcrews View Post
a recent 'hater' said that we waste $$$ on modding for eco.
so I want to start a thread where we post the cost and the gain.
You realize you can't win, right? If you do lots of home-brew stuff that doesn't cost much money, you "make your car look like ****", and if you invest the $$ and time and effort it takes to make a really slick-looking mod "you waste money".

I think that all of Basjoos' mods have run him a total of something like $650? That's including the engine swap. But the "h8rs" call it "ugly" because he didn't spend $15,000 on a carbon-fiber body kit that doesn't actually do anything beneficial for the car...

My mods? So far, the only one that has cost any money is the ScanGauge. I get my coroplast for free (from local campaign HQ!) and compressed air is free at the gas station.

-soD
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