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Just interested in what's more important 2 u guys. Good looks and fancy body kits or go fast parts? Personally looks are at the bottom of my list. The 370z

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Old 07-17-2009, 02:06 AM   #1 (permalink)
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Just interested in what's more important 2 u guys. Good looks and fancy body kits or go fast parts? Personally looks are at the bottom of my list. The 370z is already sexy hell I'm trying 2 make it fast as hell. I'm perfectly fine with the car looking stock with 600hp.
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Old 07-17-2009, 03:36 AM   #2 (permalink)
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Performance.... however where are you going to use more than 332HP? Are you tracking your car? 600HP on the street is a waste - that's a bigger peni$ extension that a Firebird with the golden eagle on the hood....
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Old 07-17-2009, 03:38 AM   #3 (permalink)
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Can I do both? Wheels and overlays for looks and some bolt-ons with best cost-to-performance ratio(hfc, cai, etc)
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I'll go with "go" because like you said, the 370 is sexy from the start. It's just as sexy as a FD3S. FD's looked good w/ or w/o spoiler, base or R1 model regardless. 370 is likewise. And this is all stock. The 370 could benefit from a slight lowering job, but what car wouldn't?

I'd like to be 500hp sleeper with a GTM TT-kit, but I'd paint the intercooler flat black so that no one knows it's turbo...well, until I blow their doors off.
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I'm definitely all go, but I will never knock someone for having a nice set of off-the-track wheels that look nice.
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normally I'd go for "go" before "show".
but since it's gunna be a 1st hand car I'm getting.
I'm gunna go with "show" 1st this time. why?
I wanna get used to the car's original performances 1st.
Even tho the car is already sexy as is, I want it extra sexier
than I'll go with bolt-ons, wait and see what the market's got on TT's than Show&GO!
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Old 07-17-2009, 02:19 PM   #7 (permalink)
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you can go fast some of the time but you can look good all the time.

but honestly, I want both. last thing I want is a ugly fast car or a beautiful slow car.

never been a fan of body kits though.
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The only things I'm doing (in order)

Window Tint - because sunlight is bright, and it'll keep the interior "better"
Exhaust because it'll have a sound to match the performance
Intake just because of doing the exhaust - might as well help the front end too...

Snow plow - just to get the WTF look out of people.
Trailer hitch - so I can pull a bass boat
Roof Rack - so I have a place to put my camping gear


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I will say for me, its show before go....BUT exhaust mods I consider show because I like the sound more than actually caring about the performance increase since I don't track the car. With that said though, I still try to add things that sound good that give the best performance increase so its "go" and well as "show"

Now I'm confused lol.
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Functional has always been my main concern...I'm not a big bodykit fan...but if its actually functional I am open to the idea for my car. You just have to set your goals for the car and do what YOU want and whats important to YOU!
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GO! I think Nissan did a really good job with the styling so any "show" mods I do will be very subtle.
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yeah...i'd like to see that snow plow
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I'm for "go"! Maybe once I'm finished installing a S/C for it I'll start on the looks.
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Don't phuc with a good thing. Nissan spent mega money on this car. Stock look with lots' of go is the plan.
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