Very cheap or FREE mods/things to do to ur car

[ELOK]

i saw a thread like this on another forum somehwere, cant remember where.
but anyways, cmon people share your ideas, whats some very cheap say 30$ or under or FREE mods or things to do to ur car when ur bored in the weekend???

i got nothing

[Muzzie]

I got nothing as well, but am extremely interested.

Although, how many people give their car a decent valet once in a while - go out buy some car care products and go nuts.

[Caveman]

Performance wise there isn't much i can think of.

Heat wrap the headers
Home made short shifter

Otherwise a hot soapy bucket of water and some polish. Oh and armor all for the interior comes up well.

[Al]

Where do i start!

gut the cat. converter

drop exhaust after downpipe or extractors

remove aircon belt

get out your dremel and port match throttle body and inlet

do same in intake manifold

and exhaust manifold

advance timing and run avgas

if its turbo, put in a ball/spring manual boost controller and wind up a few psi

strip underseal/sound deadening from floors and remove any unneeded weight

make ur own fcd or use diode to delete it for under $25

clean up any corrosion around the grounding points of the car

[Adamal]

Problem with 'free' mods is that you're usually removing something that prolongs the life of your engine.
You could take out the air filter and any hosing to the throttle body (On an N/A) to reduce the ammount of induction, but you'd get lots of crap in there and screw your engine.

[aesc]

Al, the king of rangi backyard mods

[ELOK]

oops double post

[ELOK]

nice list! i dont understand half of it or know how to do it lol
im not talking just performance wise. cosmetics? interior? comfort etc

i gave my gt the hell valet today! 4 hours of cleaning, polishing, vaccuuming, vinyl wipes, glass cleaner, oil top up, coolant top up, cleenscreen fluid, cleaning around the sparkplugs. looks mint!

i thought of a couple:

paint ur calipers with heat proof paint, repco and supacheap have purpose made cliper paint.

paint ur rocker/tappet cover (same as above)

paint interior trim parts (the previous owner of my gt did this in white and it looks nice from a distance but up close its shit and bubbly so make sure u do it right.

clean up your wiring

degrease ur engine bay

shine ur tyres

if u have shitty looking rims, paint them (it can be done well!)

[Muzzie]

Id paint my calipers/drums/rocker cover BUT

The engine is under the front seats, so 1) it never gets seen and 2) theres soo much other crap around it that to do a decent job it'd take severals hours of removing all the other crap.

Calipers & Drums - great idea, BUT you can't see through my wheels so it's pointless

Might nick the steelies off my donor Ace though and paint them hehehe

[Stealer Of Souls]

You can make a cold air feed for a factory airbox...

Clean you airfilter out a bit...

Replace any convoluted piping in the intake...

Strip the car of all useless crap... back seats... etc...

New plugs (hey no one said we were talking of good stuff!!)...

Advance the timing but turning dist cap...

Install an electric fan instead of belt driven fan...

Buy one Hella cool blue...

Buy a scale that always reads 10kg too heavy and give it to the girlfriend... then exclaim that she's weighing your car down... then tell her to either her lose weight or get her own wheels...

Use the scales yourself...

Smash some of your windows and replace with clear plastic taped into the frame... (not recommended for Sera drivers...)

Buy tons of old car mags (or porn), stack them into the boot and get that lowered look....

Buy a can of baked beans... eat the beans... attach the can to the end of your exhaust for that Fat-Tip look...

Spray paint your windows black for that Mafia look...

[ELOK]

hahaha love the scales idea!might rip all my seats out this weekend and vaccum all the carpeting that i cant get to under the seats and then tighten my front seats cos they are loose as hell on the rails, the rails are a bit stiff too so some crc on them will be a help too.
how much is caliper paint i woner, off to repco i go.

[eightytrueno]

uh oh wat colour u paintin?? red painted standard calipers wont look as good as you might think, if ur goin for the 'brembo' look. it will normally just eccentuate how small your calipers really are

to add:
adjust handbrake for those good handbrake turns

rip out all the resonators on ur intake box

clean your battery terminals / connections

use tyre shine on other stuff i use mine on the bumpers, tail lights, window surrounds, and side mirrors, gets the black coming up super clean and shiny

do up/tidy up your old wheels - the ones on my car looked like shit when i first got them, $20 got them tidied up by hand a little bit more respectably!! that includes stripping paint, sanding, masking off silver bits, spraying inside bits black, 2x coats, then sanding / polishing the shiny bits

extra rear swaybar only ended up costin me $10

2x McDonalds combo's, to eat in, on seperate trays. eat combos, take trays, place under cars rear wheels, place handbrake on, FWD car, = drifting on a full stomache

[keiichi]

2x McDonalds combo's, to eat in, on seperate trays. eat combos, take trays, place under cars rear wheels, place handbrake on, FWD car, = drifting on a full stomache

lol cool
That'll cure some weekend boredness

[EVLGTZ]

pump up ya tyres nice n high. makes huge difference haha

[CozmoNz]

Buy some throttle body cleaner, remove throttle body, clean the hell outta it.

discon your battery for 10-15 mins, restart the ecu .

Buy some metal polish, polish up those headlights (the outside plastic bits shine up good).

if cars turbo, remove all intercooler piping / intake piping, it has a film of oil around it, wash in soapy water, and dry. (sun or hairdryer if in hurry, just be careful with hairdryer).

replace all those shit hose clamps with good ones.

if intercooled turbo, strighten all fins with needle nose pliers., same with radiator.

climb through engine bay retorquing bolts (exhaust mani, intake etc), be amazed what a leak can cause.

retorque all wheel nuts (cant hurt can it?).

topup oil, all levels, check battery etc.

check your gear and diff oil, quite important.

run around the wreckers, find those missing *fan housings* and such for inside the car.

sound deaden, find any rattles and shut them up!

buy some meguiers (sp), polish, that hardcore $50 stuff lol, made my car GLEEM... dark mica blue is the shits when polished up. even had an old woman say *VERY nice car young man, very lovely indeed* im like *heh* .

wheel polish.... that supercheep $10 stuff works.

buy some air freshners

retune your radio, possibly clean it....

yeh... thtas all i got

[Spannergal]

hahaha love the scales idea!might rip all my seats out this weekend and vaccum all the carpeting that i cant get to under the seats and then tighten my front seats cos they are loose as hell on the rails, the rails are a bit stiff too so some crc on them will be a help too.
how much is caliper paint i woner, off to repco i go.

was speaking to a panel beater a few weeks back who was telling me that there's little point using crc, cos it just dries out and leaves ya with the same problem again - he reckoned that ya better off using grease.

[Spannergal]

hsven't looked at the cost of brake fluid recently, but you could replace the brake fluid

[Dell'Orto]

Buy a friendly mechanic 2 dozen beers and get him to give your car a tune

[Twolitre]

Replacing your fuel filter is generally less than $30 and can sometimes make a bit of a difference to performance.

[Rollux]

Bypassing the heating to your throttle body can net a small increase, just make sure you clean it out from time to time.
Make sure all your HT leads are seperated
Increase the gap on ur plugs (if ur ignition is up to it)