you only think that until you get here.

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Trying to find a non-modded Z 'round here is like trying to find a virgin in a maternity ward.

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oh yeah left out 15% tint but i don't really see that as a "mod"

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Yeah, modding is lame.

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+1 rep

My Z was stock until I replaced OEM oil filter with K&N and OEM air filters. I also bought an akebono brake kit with red calipers. I also just had a Stillen CBE installed yesterday (and I love it!!). My unmodded Z days are over. Next: Stillen Gen 3s, new wheels, alpine HU with touch screen for ipod controls and some JL amps a small sub. I'll do suspension after I settle on what new wheels and tires I want. :)

bahaha

don't laugh, stop smiling.

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Aw. You hurt his feelings!

I bet the OP is really happy with the way this thread turned out...

Just read my sig

lol yeah and your avatar!

That's BS, too! Haha

bought it like this :bowrofl: limited 40th and a half edition:tup:
TODAYS my 40th's 1 Year Birthday =) #935/1000

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I guess I'm in this club. Although I have a head unit. Does that still count for stock?

ˆSTOCK BABY!!! Congrats!

no mods here. Aftermarket wheels actually screw up all the hard work and development the manufacturer puts into the car and wreck the handling and suspension.....and this is the most common mod people do next to fart cans. I can understand the reason for an exhaust that adds 20hp, but I rarely run the car to 7k RPM anyway, and with other priorities it doesn't make sense for me to keep throwing money at a car - I'd rather keep it in the money market/ru2k fund/favorite investment and earn 10% on my money to buy the next car, or trip to drive around Europe, or whatever.

.....WTF? :ugh2:

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I would feel the same if 1) this is a rental car or 2) this is a company car. If either of the two I would keep it stock and beat the every living hell out of it!!! I could only imagine!

the car is beautiful as is, that's why i bought it! trying to make something more beautiful usually ruins it =\

Well it would seem that we all have love for the Z in common. I'd guess that most of us are "car guys" (or girls), and really appreciate performance, design and innovation of all kinds of cars. That group could be divided mainly into purists and modifiers (those who don't fit into either category and bought the car for some other reason won't modify it or care about the work that went into design and performance). The purists focus on the design and engineering that went into the car and seek to preserve it. The modifiers see the stock model as a starting place for changes and seek to make it their own, squeeze more HP out of it, make it handle better for their use (e.g., tracking the car).

For those of us who are modifiers, we often believe that the manufacturer knows that the car will be changed, and leaves the door open for unlocking performance and HP. I think Nissan left us with fewer performance opportunities, especially with the VVEL being locked down.

So maybe this thead is more about purists vs. modifiers?

I agree. Factory cars are VERY well balanced and to improve upon them EVERYTHING must be improved upon. Since 2005, I have only driven OEM cars except for tint, a wrap, and non OEM oil and air filters and tires (not DR"s, just non OEM rubber).

I will always modify my cars. I have since I was 16....9 years later, my modifications just get bigger, better, and more expensive. Haha

I'm only interested in go-fast parts. :D

My led lights are lighter then the OEM bulbs...that's my excuse I use to think they are "go-fast" parts. Haha

If you're talking about taillights, well, thats a safety mod! :D Nothing wrong with that.

Some things bear repeating.....
 

Apparently you like your 'condiments' in your bank account, rather than to be viscerally experienced behind the wheel of a fine car.

So I say again, Mr. Plain Hamburger....

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When I first got my Z I planned on staying stock for the first summer then doing some stuff come this spring/summer. Wellllllll that didnt happen lol. I had all the stuff in my sig within 4 months of getting her.

Initially, I too had no intention of modifying my car. I bought the sports package knowing that forged wheels won't be upgraded for my needs. So I was done right? Not so fast: Then the cars oil kept getting too hot so just an oil cooler (an oversight from Nissan) that doesn't show. Then the drone of the exhaust. I can fix that. Then sways to correct the under steer. Well if I'm doing all this why not get coil overs to address a couple other issues such as getting on the gas earlier without losing the rear end coming out of a turn. CAI's were free as a bonus with the above items from Stillen. Next week I hope to have those installed. The rear camera is so low on my priority list I keep not doing it.

I think I'll have it all after this, so a tune is in my future. I would like to say I am nearing completion, but once you lose your mind who is to say what you'll do next.

I think that its ridiculous to say that the way the designers built the car is the way the car "should" be. Car designers build their cars the way they do for many reasons, mainly marketing. That is why there are different levels of trim.

Also to say that the way the car designed visually is "ideal" is nonsense who its to say that the way I like my car to look is "ruining" it? It is all a matter of taste and opinion, which is what this forum is mostly about.

my Z last less than 24hrs without a mod

Mine came with some mods

mine was built modded

Just got in touch with my tuner guy and set up an install on a Tanabe cat back. Took this long only because of all the snow we had here in central Jersey.
No virgins here in this maternety ward either.