to mod or to stick

4wd

what has happened to irelands mod scene?

wheres the true creativity gone ?

shame on all you halford stick on crew

dar83

Indeed...

Denise90

There was never true creativity within the mod scene.
There was a couple of people with new ideas, and then there was the flock. Things are much the same now.

m055y

i know what you mean but thank god people are moving a way from stupidly wide 'Max Power' style bodykits etc... I kind of like a lot of the subtle looks aroung these days.

But when you compare it to the the U.S modified scene we cant get close to it.

Graham_B18C

m055y wrote: »

i know what you mean but thank god people are moving a way from stupidly wide 'Max Power' style bodykits etc...

Amen to that, I saw an awful IS200/Lancer abomination not too long ago, they only appear once in a while though...

focus_mad

Graham_B18C wrote: »

Amen to that, I saw an awful IS200/Lancer abomination not too long ago, they only appear once in a while though...

Damn it.. You got there first :mad:

On a more serious note..

OP define creativity..?
People's ideas are spawned from seeing different ideas/combinations on different cars and wanting to risk it on theirs. For example with my car I'm trying to get a blend of US DUB with little bits of Jap.. Some people don't like it but then it's not them driving it everyday

JimmyCrackCorn

• We got older and stopped sticking bodykits on corsas.
  
• The OEM look became popular as fibreglass is just a disaster as it chips cracks and ages badly in comparison to plastic.
  
• More work got done under the bonnet and less on cosmetics kits to make it look like the batmobile.
  
• Kits also age badly in fashion terms. I spent a fortune removing a mugen kit off a civic. (should have spent my money allot more wisely)
  
• There is still allot of modified cars out there you just have to know where to look.

There is still allot of modified cars in Ireland. Allot of the cars I am interested in are very subtle in appearance.

--Kaiser--

Denise90 wrote: »

There was never true creativity within the mod scene.
There was a couple of people with new ideas, and then there was the flock. Things are much the same now.

Well said

Pdfile

its not even " new " idea's per say but its the plain and simple things that annoyed me, for example:

putting a back box on a 1.3 carb civic = pointless.

putting a B serirse or better lump in instead = car modding.

another finee example that always makes me laugh:
putting 2 grand system into a poorly sound proofed and wired car = stupid

spending half that on a much higher quality system with a car with extra sound proofing, earthing and such = car modding.


Frankly with less money around only those who really enjoy and live for it will keep going... scene kids are a gone it would seem

4wd

yea yea yea i was waitin for that .....haha ....its hand crafted one off design. no 4 door welded shut try find another.
you couldnt pay to have it done but then again sounds like its the last thing you wud do.
each to there own
plus not every one has the inner preception and vision to see a completed product. u probley jus see tape and fillers and muliti colours . but thanks your comments on my little creation.
troll on

focus_mad

"one off" is one way to describe it...

*gets coat and leaves*

As mentioned though, at least the "fast and furious" and Lamborghini doors boys seem to have disappeared

CianRyan

I'm holding my opinion on the Lexubishi until I see the finished project.
It could go either way right now and to be fair, I admire the work that goes into it one way or another. Haha

Mariusz Pudgyanovski

as far as style is concerned, imo german cars with jap styling is wrong, as is jap cars with german styling

Flyer1

Mariusz Pudgyanovski wrote: »

as far as style is concerned, imo german cars with jap styling is wrong, as is jap cars with german styling

Couldn't agree more.

Too many ****** scene queen guys around today.

focus_mad

Flyer1 wrote: »

Couldn't agree more.

Too many ****** scene queen guys around today.

Too many what??

Muckie

Ah being replaced with Audi A4 TDI's with nurburing stickers!



Nice looking car i'll admit, but some rattle out of it, oh he also fitted a

dump valve...oh he wasn't disabled either, but sure when has that stopped anyone form parking in one of the disabled parking spaces!

Diesels for all :pac:

Mariusz Pudgyanovski

^^snap!



kind of says the boy racer is still about - the fakeness, the attempts at masquerading as a performance car (the loud dump valve), the brazen parking where you're not supposed to etc

dar83

Muckie wrote: »

Ah being replaced with Audi A4 TDI's with nurburing stickers!

Nice looking car i'll admit, but some rattle out of it, oh he also fitted a

dump valve...oh he wasn't disabled either, but sure when has that stopped anyone form parking in one of the disabled parking spaces!

Diesels for all :pac:

That's questionable.

ShadowHearth

Mariusz Pudgyanovski wrote: »

^^snap!



kind of says the boy racer is still about - the fakeness, the attempts at masquerading as a performance car (the loud dump valve), the brazen parking where you're not supposed to etc

I don't remember any 1.4 civics or 1.2 puntos with dump valves thought....

On the serious note. There are still modified cars, just a lot of them got mature and got from all the flashy look, to very refined clean look with mods under the hood.

I will be honest, when I was 16-17 I loved all the modified stuff, thought I was not really in to 1.4 civic big kit stuff. Even then my favourite cars were skylines and subarus. Not many of those were scangorised. And from where I came there were not many modified cars at all.
When I became older I was all about high power stuff under the hood. Became a big fan of sleepers. I owned/own performance stuff, but modifying it is not an important thing for me anymore. I even try to find as standart as possible examples and do some minor stylish bits and some performance mods if needed.

It's a shame that scangorised cars are still puted together with modified cars. There were tons of 1.4 type r civics out there, now young fellas switched to tdi audis and tdi passats, because those are way cheaper to insure and more power. Ofc the biggest appeal is turbo on it.
Keep in mind the money is very tight, so no more stupid spending on huge body kits etc.. No more mammies and daddies making huge birthday presents, no more working at dandies or uncles painting company, where you would get thousands for working 2 hours per day and spend the rest of the day watching some polish fella paint it for ya. Appractise electricians, who wouldn't even know wtf is light bulb, even if it would bite them in the arse.

Pdfile

dont also forgot most/some of us didn't have a celtic tiger so the lads who used to have the 1.3 sohc EG civic are getting passed out by me test driving a tasty new motor, or indeed in friends cleanly modded s2000 and such...

but then again... Patience is a virtue...


and i hate to say that they shouldn't of had their 15 minutes of fun reving the guts out of gutless cars but... it scares me that they could protentially get something with actual power under the hood and do some damage to un suspecting people ( not that a 80-90 hp 1.4 civic with 150k on the clock couldn't, but its highly unlikely if you know how to drive... )

still its nice not having to put up with so many polo/punto/corrolla etc with cheap exhausts and even cheaper owners... who " tune " their cars by applying stickers and katana alloys... please pardon the stereotypes but its so true.

Also talking to gaurds they generally dont mind where the tends go, so long as what they have doesn't have the poke required to give them difficultys...