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[LarryOS650]

For me, it's perfect as it is. Great balance between performance, everyday driving, and long road-trip comfort.

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[DevilDog]

As soon as I got my car I knew exactly what appearance mods I had to do. Front Splitter, rear and side louvers, black out panel, and a better spoiler.…and strut tower brace. My wife thought I was crazy until I got it all on…now she can’t picture the car without them.

Other than little stuff like cargo mat, cargo net, GT floormats, random doo-dads, etc. I’m set.

Performance mods? Hell, it’s got nearly 200 more hp than my 06 GT, so I’m good.

My 06 GT had Flowmasters, JLT CIA and SCT tune. it gave me a little bump in hp, better throttle response and zero problems in 17 years of driving it. This new GT has so many bells and whistles, and gobs more hp, I’m set for quite a while.

Gorgeous car. Love the silver.

 

[civicex2g]

I'm keeping the engine mostly stock, just focusing heavily on suspension and misc mods such as oil/air separator from Ford Performance and h pipe but keeping the overall reliability of the car. It's plenty fast and fun for me and Miami traffic.

I've been down the heavy mod route and it just causes too many headaches, I'd rather heavily modify an older weekend car than my daily.

 

[connerd2002]

With supercharging and now tuning, was wondering how many of you are satisfied with leaving the car "as is" with no modifications ? As for me, I am happy with the performance, comfort, and fun it offers.

We are not doing any performance mods. I did add fog lamps and a styling bar, but for an old person such as myself, not doing any track days 480 hp is good enough for me.

 

[POPPOP]

With supercharging and now tuning, was wondering how many of you are satisfied with leaving the car "as is" with no modifications ? As for me, I am happy with the performance, comfort, and fun it offers.

Same for me!

 

[Frogdog1]

If I want to mod a car it will be an older muscle car with rebuilt engine from the ground up my way, same with suspension, wheels, tires and everything. When I get through, it will be a beast. It likely won't happen because it will only be a money dump to get near what I already have so what's the point unless I race it which I've already done and been there?

The days of SS396's, and GTO's, etc. are over and "car collectors" have ruined them price-wise in order to garage queen them. They were fun back in the day but today's cars will spank them right out of the showroom. It's a new day for cars now. Just how much hp does one need for street driving?.

 

[DarkkMatter]

Car is enough for me as it is, and don't see a need for a supercharger as it's mainly a daily driver not a track/race car for me.
Decided to put the extra $$ into a great soundsystem instead.

 

[Mastermind46]

I told myself that I would not mod this car. I have started a small company to help mod this car.

My last project car was a 2010 Mazdaspeed3. I went all out with bolt-ons but stopped shy of a built block. Big turbo, fuel, custom intercooler, manifolds, race mounts, ect. Over 400hp/trq at the wheels. It was a lot faster than the mustang from a roll and made a lot more power at elevation. It was a blast to drive but nearly impossible to have a conversation inside of it (so much NVH from the mounts). This car started as a daily that I told myself I would not modify because it had enough power...

This go around, I am trying to be more mindful of how mods will effect how friendly the car is for daily duty. As some have pointed out, mods can have tradeoffs.

 

[Cz_Ziemniak]

The days of SS396's, and GTO's, etc. are over and "car collectors" have ruined them price-wise in order to garage queen them. They were fun back in the day but today's cars will spank them right out of the showroom. It's a new day for cars now. Just how much hp does one need for street driving?.

You say this, but recently the prices have leveled off and are actually slowly coming down.

Most people who wanted to own whatever it is now already do, and the latest generation is fawning over 80's and 90's cars. People aren't willing to pay exorbitant amounts for 'em anymore. I think the market thats been hit the hardest is 60's-70's british cars, i've noticed. MG and Triumph prices spiked a few years ago but have since tanked. Absolute minters are selling for 5K nowadays on certain models.

The market for classics, as of now, seems to have peaked. Give it 5 years and we'll start seeing them creep down lower and lower.

 

[bountifulgoose]

I debated on supercharging my dark horse, getting some sve forged wheels, headers, etc but its gets super pricey and truth be told im going to drive it the same way I do now lol. I added the ford catch cans, corsa HH pipe, removed the carbon traps, added think auto air filters, 20 % tint, swapped the tires to michillin pilot sport all season 4’s, removed the hood decals and swapped to a body colored gt pp spoiler ( imho for a cleaner look), and added a viofo dash cam. Ive estimated that to do all the other mods I debated on will run me around $20k however, I think I would rather put that towards getting a gen 1 raptor, or an evo X.

 

[bountifulgoose]

I told myself that I would not mod this car. I have started a small company to help mod this car.

My last project car was a 2010 Mazdaspeed3. I went all out with bolt-ons but stopped shy of a built block. Big turbo, fuel, custom intercooler, manifolds, race mounts, ect. Over 400hp/trq at the wheels. It was a lot faster than the mustang from a roll and made a lot more power at elevation. It was a blast to drive but nearly impossible to have a conversation inside of it (so much NVH from the mounts). This car started as a daily that I told myself I would not modify because it had enough power...

This go around, I am trying to be more mindful of how mods will effect how friendly the car is for daily duty. As some have pointed out, mods can have tradeoffs.

I get it I had a 21 Sti that was making 530 whp 450ish tq. After swapping damn near everything on the car I had put like 30-35k into the car, and at that point it wasn't the easiest car to live with. I never want to deal with that headache again lol.

 

[Katzenjammer]

I have allways been a leave it alone type. Biggest mod I ever did was adding a moonroof (to a Lincoln Mark VIII? can't recall now. I think it wasn't offered as factory because it compromised roll-over strength).

Current '24 GT premium has only inconsequential add-ons the dealer did before it went on sale - tint, pinstripe, etc. If I had had a chance to choose, would probably have done only the tint. I don't need any more horsepower to accelerate faster from the red light than I do, get out of unsafe freeway situations caused by idiots who don't know how to merge, pace you in a blind spot, or what have you.

Regarding radar detectors, they just make me nervous. I'd rather just stay within reasonable relation to the speed limit and/or traffic speed around me. To me, wisdom is being the second fastest car going past the radar.

 

[Starship Enterprise]

Gorgeous car. Love the silver.

Thanks! I had no plans to get silver. I wanted the Vapor Blue. But then saw this silver on the lot right off the trailer with 4 miles on it. It had every option I would want, including Premium package, 20” wheels and 3.55 gears. I kept going back to it, and realized at that moment, I didn’t want any other color but silver.

It really needed the black louvers, rear panel and spoiler to break it up though.

 

[canzaecho]

Undecided. Part of me want to go the supercharger route but afraid of reducing reliability. Also, the additional cost of parts and etc.. Coyote would probably hold up okay, I'm more concerned about the trans and other components.

If I keep it N/A, I'm planning H pipe, Corsa Sport Exhaust and 325s in the back. Plus various visual modifications.

 

[Zach@Granger]

As soon as I got my car I knew exactly what appearance mods I had to do. Front Splitter, rear and side louvers, black out panel, and a better spoiler.…and strut tower brace. My wife thought I was crazy until I got it all on…now she can’t picture the car without them.

Other than little stuff like cargo mat, cargo net, GT floormats, random doo-dads, etc. I’m set.

Performance mods? Hell, it’s got nearly 200 more hp than my 06 GT, so I’m good.

My 06 GT had Flowmasters, JLT CIA and SCT tune. it gave me a little bump in hp, better throttle response and zero problems in 17 years of driving it. This new GT has so many bells and whistles, and gobs more hp, I’m set for quite a while.

Very sharp ride! Must grab multiple stares!

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