everyone of us (except for a select few) arent made of money.......so lets talk about the best part of our cars, the ability to do a ton of free mods performance or apperance!!! this can give some of us other ideas of what to do next as well (like me!).

ill start, mine consist of a free ram air setup (alumnium duct tubing and cutting my air box), a custom box for my subs that just needed some time, and spray paint to touch up the black on our cars.......looks new!

 

- Gut the cat... improves power a little and sound alot
- Strip emitions... 20 year old plasic and rubber almost always has cracks and stuff... plus it looks like *** and weighs a ton.

 

This one's free if you have some old rubbing compound around; An abrasive compound does wonders on the front turn signal lenses - turned my old ones from nappy foggy crap to at least discolored clear turn signals; a good temp solution until I got new ones. The same goes for the tail-lights, there's a number of methods to clean those up and that's a good start.

A good $5 mod is painting calipers if done WELL. I mean caliper CLEAN and either thoroughly masked off or ideally removed from car. I REALLY spruced up my shabby calipers on all four with some metallic silver wheel paint (considering going to metallic graphite). They look aluminum actually Hopefully something bigger someday

 

yea i forgot about that..........my cat is no longer working however it is still connected incase some1 gets a little too nosey under my car!!!

how about a little more info on how to remove some of those emissions parts......ive always wonderd how to do that and now i finally can!

 

3rd brake light mod idea i got from this site. it's kinda hard to tell in the pic, but it says "firebird"

 

Polishing your tail light lenses. JoshP has an article on this I think, and it looks SWEET.

 

um...i just read this is a book i just bought but on the MAF sensor it has 2 screens on them you can take them out to improve ur airflow...lol prolly like .5 hp if even

 

home made grille.

had some rack laying around like would be used in a propane grille to cook on cleaned it up painted it trimmed it and put her in looks great!!!!.

got pics on my site.


http://www.cardomain.com/memberpage/509905

 

what is the differenece between speed density and mass air flow MAF?

 

They both do the same thing, just different ways. They measure the amount of air going into the engine.

 

The manual shift **** on my 88 GTA had a leather cover on it, which was tear'd, so i ripped it right off, shift **** looks plain, but it looks new ps: dont do the same to the steering wheel.. doesnt work out

 

yea that reminded me of a couple i done other then my grille.

i had leather boot all torn up on my shifter and i ripped it off and made a hurst 3 speed truck shifter boot work on it.

also had a 3 spoke sterring whel kinda deep dish type given to me that was on a ford thunderbird and spokes had rusted i slapped on some chrome paint didnt like it so i done it in red n all i cost me was bout 15 bucks for an adapter kit to fit my car right because the one came w/ it wouldn't.
and paint cost me nothin it was the body shop mixed spray can to match dads s10.