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"Case Modding" a Nissan Sentra
Lawrence Person writes "Given all the interest Slashdot has shown in casemodding as of late, I thought they might be interested in an extreme "casemod" of a Nissan Sentra, turning it into a lean, mean race machine! Emphasis on the lean part..."
I would take a wild guess, and say not many slashdotters are into imports, but that was an article from Sport Compact Car from 2 years ago. It was actually supposed to be a joke, but a good amount of people took it seriously at the time. Sport Compact Car got a lot of hate mail the month after that was published, hah.
-Alex
sorry, but why is this here?... i really expect to see more computer-related things at slashdot... theres car mod-related websites, and this isnt one of them. keep in mind, i love car mods. i just dont expect to see that at slashdot. slashdot doesnt need to branch off into everything there is and try to become the source for it; i can go to microsoft.com for that...
Interesting that one of the hottest hobbies, took this long to make a slashdot discussion. Modding cars is become such a big thing amongst people with all types of cars. From Neon's to bimmers, people do pretty cool thing to enhance the appearance and performance of their cars. Not all look, perform or sound too hot, but some can be better than any factory car you can get.
Its also a great way to actually learn about how cars are made and produced.
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Or does it look better at the end than it did when they started? I hate those tacky rice-rocket "I HAVE A SPOILER SO I GOEZ FASTAR!!" add-ons.
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So, but cutting down and removing parts of the car until it's basicall useless, they can make it do 0-60 in 5.8 seconds. Why bother?
First, the thing probably isn't legal for any sort of competition now. Nobody would let you race this thing, It's too dangerous. What if it rolls?
Second, it's "fast" but it's not that fast. Why not put all that effort into making a car that already a little fast, go really fast? You can buy a car that does 0-60 in 5.8seconds, and we're not talking a Ferrari either.
I get really sick of seeing hondas with huge wings on the back and coffee can exhaust pipes. There are people out there that will till you adding a big exhaust TIP will give you like 5hp! WTF? What's wrong with these people!?
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My goddam fat pig of a 99 Trans Am convertible -- 3800lbs w/o driver -- pulls low 12's. That's *with* air conditioning, 1000w of bass power, and full leather, spare tire, trailer hitch, and body panels. And all for probably a comprable cost.
Sentras are nimble cars... they'll often kick my ass in an autocross, if the course is tighter and slower. But getting 14's out of a sentra is like gleefully reporting overclocking a 500mhz Duron to 700mhz. There may be some technical merit there, but neither the starting product nor end result is particularly impressive.
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-b
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More like 'removed altogether', thus reducing a car into a go-cart.
But who am I to judge? I used to get my kicks. . . Well, actually I never got my kicks doing anything even remotely similar. Or expensive. But whatever.
Oh! I thought of one! I thought the Phantom Edit was cool idea. And Guerilla Advertising. That's sort of the same; taking post conusmuer idiocy and restructuring it so that it becomes something equally ridiculous, but which satisfies the male need to tinker with things and thereby stamp some sort of individuality upon pre-fab nonsense.
People are funny that way. It's how you avoid gazing into the void to face your ultimate aloneness. It's much easier to pull apart flashy consumer junk, feel self-congratulatory for no good reason, confuse your girlfriends, and say, "Cool" a lot with your buds.
When playing that game finally fills you with nausea to the point where you start wishing for death, you're probably 75 years old, and nobody cares what you think at that point anyway.
Cheers!
-Fantastic Lad
My Porsche 944 Turbo has mid 13s, and it's street legal, and it's comfier, and it corners well, and it was cheaper, etc.
But if somebody wants to destroy a Sentra to give me a laugh, okay.
Given that there's no frame to which everything is bolted, you wouldn't be able to take much out of the floor without having it crumple up. Hell, it's a bit of a wonder it didn't start sagging when they popped the roof off.
(Anyone else notice the similarities between case modders and riceboys? They both do stupid sh*t to their gear that doesn't do a thing to improve performance, yet they think they're super-1337.)
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I realize that this is not a simple enough concept for many Slashdot readers who are so obsessed with their rights and freedoms that they fail to realize corporations and business entities have rights too. Here's an illustration to bring it into the realm of computers/Linux that everyone always wants to talk about. Let's say that Linux.com was registered by a startup company, Linux Adult Video Productions, in 1994 (after Linux was beginning to be well-spread and used in a trademarked sense, but before someone in the community registered the domain name. This company would be abusing a pre-existing trademark to bring business from misguided web surfers. Of course, they would probably bring in lots of business on this domain since Slashdot readers seem to be obsessed with "pr0n". However, Linus Torvalds would have a right to oppose this trademark dilution and request a cease and desist order for commercial operation on this domain. Of course, since we all want Linux to be successful and we would be offended by this company's action, we would rally around Linus and talk about how our rights as a community had been violated. Guess what? It's the same deal. Many Slashdot users are so obsessed with hating government/parents/corporations/etc. that they can not see an issue like this objectively.
Also, Nissan makes very reliable cars, something the American auto industry has been only marginally successful at doing thus far. So, it makes little sense to say they suck because of a court case. To me, an example of an automotive company sucking would be the Ford Pinto. Nuff said.
Well there is some difference. In many cases, case modding is about making your computer look good. There is nothing wrong witht hat, jsut liek there is nothing wrong with modding your car to make it look good. Maxing your gear look good is a fine goal. What is stupid about ricing is it is about making your gear look FAST. Many (most even) rice boy mods look retarded, they are just to give the impression that the car can go fast. Well that is dumb. Modding your car to make it go faster is cool, modding your car to make it look better is cool, modding it to look faster (and dumber) is stupid.