[Sleepy240]

Originally Posted by BoostedCoupe

I fill the same way. Yeah i havent been in the 240 game long. I bought my first 240 when i was 15 which was like 4 years ago. So im by far no OG but i hate seeing people buy nothing but knock off parts and make/treat the car like shit. Like in the dope vert thread where everyone was jocking that black vert that looked like trash. I mean broken aero all over. Trunk not even on the car, the car was all rattle canned. I mean i know some people cant afford the best parts but that dosent mean you have to just thorw a car together.

What I don't get is why people complain about OTHER peoples cars. Its not yours who cares what the hell person A buys. All you can control is what YOU buy. Its not like your gonna talk this guy into making his vert into what you WANT it to be. IMO I think it looks stupid but its not my call, hes the one who has to drive it.

Yes i would be one to buy a 500 knock off body kit.[...] I wouldnt cheap out. I dont think you should ever cheap out on parts that matter.

This is what I mean by hypocritical, you bash the guy with a rattle canned vert with a bad fitting body kit and you'll go and buy the same damn bad fitting kit. "Oh well my car is getting tracked and the kit will probably get broken". Guess what? Manifolds crack, things break it doesn't matter whether they cost $50 or $500.

To make things perfectly clear, I would spend the money to buy a $1,500 kit, but I wouldn't exactly take it to the track and watch it blow up. It would be more of a hard parker(like stated above).

It's not that I'm cheap and prefer rocking a knock off kit that fits like shit. If anything, I have the same standards when it comes down to exterior parts as well(hence the reason why i'm running OEM Aero).

Your comparison to Tein and Stance is just personal preference. Both are great coilovers. Some people like Tein's more than Stance and Stance more than Tein.

I'm not one to knock on people for rocking knock-off parts either. I can understand with certain people because I've been in their shoes. They don't exactly have the money to buy Cusco this, or JIC that. They try to mod their cars with their allowed income.

People learn from their mistakes.(That's a true enthusiast). You realize how much your previous knock off part sucked compared to your new legit part. For example, I rode on D2 coilovers for about half a year. That was my first coilover...ever. I made $7.50/hr back when I got those. Sure, I had heard JIC's were the shit, but I just couldn't afford them back then. I worked hard, got out of that crappy job, got myself into an office job making loads of money(for someone still living at home with no real bills). What's the first thing I did? Got rid of my D2's and bought my current JIC FLT-A2's. WORLD of a difference.

From then on, I tried my best to replace all of the crappy parts I was only able to afford with my allowed income. I had the whole new car feel to it. No random clunks here or there.

I build my car for my own pleasure. I chose to use the best parts I can afford.

I'll never talk down to someone running knock off parts.

I simply suggest to do some research. That's really all it takes to know what parts are worth the money.

Like I said it wasn't directed DIRECTLY at you but atleast I believe you got the jest of my post. I used Tein/Stance just for an example you can almost replace those with any two companies, Zeal or HKS Hypermaxs etc. Everybody lives to what you can afford your car is no different, I'm not gonna knock anybody for using a knock off part. I don't know what kind of situation that person is in, think about it this way maybe that person only makes 7.50/hr like you did.