Craziest "mod" you have ever seen

[big_tiger15]

Well The worst thing I have seen is on my car. My car's aftermarket stereo (1997 Pioneer) had the Ground hooked up to a positive. Umm None of the bolts on the motor are the same. Valve cover bolts 2-3 different styles. upper intake bolts, header bolts, and Tranny housing to the tranny bolts.
I did not do this I am not that Ghetto!!! well i might be ghetto but I try and keep the same freakin bolts!
Still beat a 260RWHP GTI, lol, but u know at work they still talk $h!!

 

[GT89Mustang]

Missing interior screws everywhere! They musta been going for a weight reduction mod on this car! Damn rednecks.

Same thing on my car.

Also my raido wireing was crazy, whoever installed it just cut the old wiring an inch back, run the power and ground to the head unit, then ran two speaker wires (like the kind for indoor steros) to two 6x9s in the back. The wiring was run over the carpet.

 

[crazypete]

When I first got my car, it was awful. It was riced out. Some ricer fool had painted all the vents and knobs and any removable interior plastic canary yellow. The car had apparently been purple and yellow 2 tone and the next owner had blasted silver over the yellow with little to no prep. So it was peeling silver and purple with yellow hanging out. But the car's original original color was midnight blue as visible from the enginebay and trunk. I also undercoated it with black so there was one point on the car where you could see 5 different colors.

GHETTO

I had to replace all the plastic and strip the car to a tub and paint it inside and out black.

But I did rescue a ricer car and saved it

 

[91ghp5.0]

^^^ good for you!

 

[Black1987Stang]

The previous owner of my car did the most hillbilly job I've ever seen trying to fix the floorboard at the left front mount... they cut a 1.5"x3" hole in the foor so they could get a piece of flat bar in there, put a bolt through the bar and didn't bother to weld anything together.

I would want to say we got the same stang cuz thats the exact same thing i have . I didnt do it, and now cuz the guy used aluminum the threads are stripped so now the seat likes to Lean Back

 

[Hissing Cobra]

What's wrong with connecting the amp directly to the battery using a crimp connector?? I just re-did my wiring with a crimp connector, soldered it, and heat shrunk tubing around it to protect it... What do you do thats better than this??

You can run it directly to the solenoid to hide it a little better. Follow the Red + wire from the battery to the solenoid and hook your amp up to it right there. It hides it better. If you're creative, you can even run it inside the corrugated plastic tubing.

 

[D347643]

the most retarded thing i have ever seen was actually last weekend at our local jy. There was some 4cyl fox that had been lowered.....but instead of lowering springs some mexican used hose clamps to compress the spring. hahah prob like 20 per spring. totally retarded!

Drew

 

[Foxed]

the most retarded thing i have ever seen was actually last weekend at our local jy. There was some 4cyl fox that had been lowered.....but instead of lowering springs some mexican used hose clamps to compress the spring. hahah prob like 20 per spring. totally retarded!

Drew

HAHA! LOL ...There was a 94 6cly stang in the autotrader that had side exhuast that came straight from the header and ran along side the car like you'd see on a shelby cobra, soooo ridiculous. Plus it had 20" honda lookin rims and he wanted 7gs for it

 

[93RedGT]

i have a friend with a 91 SC who used pvc pipeing to make air intake for it.
he did gain 1lb of boost.

 

[Aftrbrnr]

Previous Owner took out his aftermarket stereo in the car I bought and re-wired back the old stereo. Problem is that the job was super hack, when a balance to the left, it balances to the right dash speaker, and vice versa. The head-unit he used was also from a Tempo, I think. Lots of interior screws missing from re-installing the old stereo, and probably from installing the command start.

 

[The Fox]

My dad tells me this story all the time. His fuel pump died in his bronco. He rigged up the fuel line to the windshield washer fluid resevoir. So he would just keep pumping the washer fluid to feed gas to the carb. It had a McDonalds cup and some other stuff to finish the rig. Aparrently it got him a few miles to get the job done.

As far as my own ghetto rigs... Doing bodywork on my car and I took aluminum heat tape to press up against the underside of the bolt holes to my former LX wing and threw some JB weld on top of the holes and the heat tape kept it from falling through. And my fuel pump runs on a switch. Interior is also missing screws but it was my fault. Painted all of it black of course. Awesome prep work, came out great.

Anthony

 

[crazypete]

So whats wrong with missing interior screws? I'm running on 1/3 the original number of fasteners since I have to take interior pieces out so often and the 1/3 holds the light plastic in place just as well as the full complement.

Plus...it's weight reduction to drop some sheet metal screws!!

 

[bullitstang1313]

Loosing the interior screws should be on the cheapest mod list. I think just about everybody has that one done. I think it beats out the K&N air filter by a mile. LOL