hannamand

So what is the best mod you ever did, and what do you like about it? I didn't put this in any of the sub categories because I'm interested in everything... radio mods, suspension and tire, performance.

With just owning the car a couple weeks now my favorite mod (to date) is getting rid of the nag screen. I mean seriously, I get that we've become a sue happy society that feels the need to interrupt the process of natural selection (where stupid people remove themselves from the gene pool naturally), but doesn't having me take my eyes off the road to click OK kind of defeat the purpose?

I'm sure next week will have a newer, more exciting mod, as new tires, shocks/springs, brakes, and wheel bearings are in the mail.

Yvuru

Best: XLR8 catback exhaust (double edged sword)
Worst: Innovative 60a Motor Mounts (too extreme for the TL)

truonghthe

Best mod: leave it at stock
Worst mod: leave it as stock

csmeance

Better Brakes and rear sway bar are my favorites

hannamand

Too extreme? You ended up with too much vibration transfer?

TacoBello

Best mod: bought a faster car.

hannamand

MODERATOR!!!! Taco is putting down the car that the forum is about!!!

GOOSEej

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All my mods are the best Ive done.. But aint nobody know cause they are my secret! sshhhh

TacoBello

I bought an NSX

hannamand

Yeah, I thought about picking one of them up, but decided I had to have a back seat.

94eg!

Best Mod: Aluminum pedal covers
Worst Mod: Lowering (sport springs, sport shocks & rear camber arms)

These are the only mods I've done. So far the lowering has been a little problematic so I put it in second place. It's made the caster slightly uneven and now the car pulls to one side a little. I'm gonna have to try shifting the front subframe to even it out. Hopefully Sears will warranty the alignment cause I also want to dial back some rear camber too (this messes up toe) to reduce flat-spotting on the new dunlops.

I've had stainless brake hoses sitting in a drawer for a couple years. If that reduces the pedal mush without any drawbacks, It would definitely move up to the #1 postion. I really love the rock hard pedal feels on my Civic & CRX. With 4 kids (one baby) there isn't much time for anything car related.

usdmJON

Work VS-MX

Always loved them in my days driving an integra but could never find a set for sale.

I had saved up a good chunk of change waiting for a nice set of Meisters or maybe some VS-KF. A bit off topic but my father had just passed and I was pretty down about that then I found my favorite wheels like the day later. Now literally just because of the timing thoughts of my dad drift to my favorite wheels and my favorite wheels remind me of my dad.

And I only spent $1000 so it was a big win in my book. I gave the seller his asking price without trying to haggle lower. He said it was literally the first wheel sale someone didnt try to haggle him down so he threw in the tool to loosen and tighten the big center cap. Still friends with him. Cool guy.



Worst mod was in my days driving an integra. First week I had it I spray painted all the emblems black, the exhaust (I know WTF) and took out the rear seats for "weight reductions." Now I think very carefully before pulling the trigger on a mod idea. hahaha

GOOSEej

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best upgrade ever

thoiboi

Valentine One hard-wired

Yvuru

yes. i'm an optimist however. now i dont have to buy any more motor mounts =)

P1zzaman

iTrader: (1)

Best: Neuspeed springs and koni shocks
Worst: Comptech supercharger (never installed it, and sold it for a cheaper price. Probably wouldn't have been good on my auto trans anyway)

Bimmitup

Best: Plasti-dip Emblems / Stage 3
Worst: Plasti-dip Emblems.

I'm pretty bad at Plasti-dip. Mods are coming in tho

thisaznboi88

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best mod: put a turbo on
worst mod: getting that turbo on the car.

usdmJON

Need this in my life. Did you get it professionally installed in a head unit/elsewhere or do it yourself with a mirror tap or some other technique?

thoiboi

Add-a circuit in driver's side kick panel up the A-pillar, along the headliner to the left of the mirror. Considered a blend mount with mirror tap but this will do for now

hannamand

Hopefully next week this will be my favorite:

hannamand

BTW (looking at the picture reminds me), does anyone have any tricks for matching the white pearl paint? Obviously the previous owner liked to drive by braille... there's a little paint scraped off of every one of the ground effect panels.

vietxquangstah

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Back when i owned a 08 base model i would say

Best mod - progress rear sway bar

Worst mods - precat deletes, j pipe, quad cat-back exhaust & hondata flashpro.

Car was still slow as shit

sockr1

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ive tried blend mount a few times and some other versions but all mirror mounted radars in our car bounce very bad! It was horrible. And it's very hard to get the mount secured to our weird mirror stem.

I have my radar hard wired like you and tapped the empty slot next to the vsa for the mute. The actual radar is next to my rear view mirror and I epoxied it to the windshield. It's always up but I can remove it if needed. My add a fuse is tapped into my window lock button so when I window lock the Windows my radar turns off (like when in traffic)

LeVeL

Best - tint. If that counts as a mod.

Godspeed06

Best- Clearing out headlights and adding LEDs
Worst- Plastidip

sockr1

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Best: Edfc active, xlr8 exhaust, flashpro
Worst: xlr8 motor mounts (too many vibrations but I need the beefy aftermarket mounts so I don't really have a choice)

hannamand

Where did you get the LEDs?

hannamand

Nice!

There are two rocker switches on my driver kick panel... can't see them from the outside or sitting in a seat, hard to reach even then... and I have no idea what they go to. Haven't had time to pull the panel yet...

Boosejars

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Best Mod: Modifying my own headlights - blacked out, purple painted turn signal strip, and light rings, clear smoked diffuser, zkw-r lens upgrade, upgraded DRL and Turnsignal switchbacks to LEDs

Worst Mod: wrapping my fenders - the wrapping part wasn't bad, and neither was having it on for the most part - taking it off was a PIA and took some paint with it but it was a good learning experience

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Line-in adapter.




















#thuglife

llllBULLSEYE

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Led drl

thoiboi

awesome car

hannamand

Do you have any part numbers/sources for the parts you used for that still? I have one headlight with a broken reflector... there's a lot to fix on this car, and instead of just fixing I've been doing the bionic thing... "Make it better, stronger, faster"

thoiboi

If it's the driver's side: there's one on sale here: https://acurazine.com/forums/car-par...4-06-a-944954/


he's a cool dude

Boosejars

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Thanks Homie!

Sadly, you cannot buy headlight components, you either have to buy the whole headlight, or find someone parting out headlight pieces (someone who mods them and has ample supplies). The only piece that you can buy separately is the turn signal diffuser *reflector" as you mentioned above. There are a few sources you can buy the diffuser from - EndlessRPM, Heeltoe, and Klearz. I utilized Klearz for mine. He is based in Canada, and his parts are made to order, but they are a perfect fit, no additional modification necessary, i would get with Bruce/EndlessRPM secondly. If you are looking to outsource your headlights - you can reach out to Bruce/EndlessRPM, and another guy Ross Beckner - at AroraCustoms.com and they can both mod your lights if you're not wanting to do it on your own.

Good luck

jimmyfu

Worst mod: 5% window tint for rear windows, resulting in me not being able to see outside at night in poorly lit areas.
Best mod: tvnav2go to play videos while i'm driving, but more importantly, the ability to add a reverse camera so i can see at night in poorly lit areas

maharajamd

iTrader: (1)

1. aspec kit
2. drop
3. rsb

94eg!

Now all you needs is Autopilot...



Probably best to avoid Tesla brand tho (and Harry Potter movies).

Steven Bell

iTrader: (2)

Best Mod: Lowering the car and spacers

Worst Mod: None....I like everything I've done to the car.