- Oh.
Ow.
Big oomph.
These are the ones that are a doozy in the comment section
and then just sometimes
just sometimes
there are some comments
that would probably make your mother disappointed.
I know Julia would not like to see me saying
mean things in the comment section, so I don't.
But either way, controversial mods on cars
are something we've been talking about for decades.
Whether that's flipping out steel wheels,
low riding hydro cars, body kits,
big wings,
camber, oomph.
Always going to be there.
I'm Alex.
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and today we're going to be talking
about the top five controversial mods right now.
Let's get into it.
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So the first and likely most controversial car modification
right now would be the good old extreme camber.
Now, camber has been a thing for a while,
especially in the European and Japanese market,
besides the obvious fact
that it's gotten more attention in the United States,
it's not something that's inherently new.
It's just been more popular now then ever before.
And it's definitely taken the hot seat
as the one thing that almost every single person wants
to argue about whether that's something that they love
or whether that's something that they absolutely just ...
(inhales sharply)
hate.
The extreme camber, boys and girls,
fit ultra wide wheels under stock
or over fender cars usually with a static setup
meaning that it's just coilover, so there's not air.
And you're able to achieve that good ol' like
(crackling)
noise with the wheels in there.
The reason for its controversial nature is because,
well, people
(lip smacking)
people don't like that it removes functionality.
It loses what makes a car, a car.
Counter argument to those points though
is that people have always been doing stuff like that
to their cars that make it inherently
not really as much of a car
as it did when you got it from stock.
And that's been a thing regardless of decade.
You've had people cutting and flipping steel wheels
for the ... they just chrrr ... flipped 'em around,
welded it, painted it, powder coated it,
threw it in a good ol' chrome dipping machine.
You had people that were offsetting wheels
and had no idea what they were doing,
throwing the whole balance of the wheel out of whack.
You had the early low riders scraping frame down wittier
because they actually couldn't really afford
the gasoline to go race their cars,
so they had to find different ways to show off
and they did that by just scraping
frame absolutely everywhere.
And then you have massive body kits of the early 2000s
and flat wheels and flame vinyl kits on cars.
You had unfunctional hood scoops.
Who remembers aisle nine?
I do.
And now you have extreme camber.
People have always been trying to make their vehicle unique
and that's nothing new.
Unique camber is just one of those things.
It's the show scene.
Man, I'm just telling you.
(upbeat music)
Getting more into the show scene,
something we've been seeing making waves
is up sizing multi piece wheels
when re barreling multi piece wheels.
So what people do is they go
and they take a small, multi piece wheel
and they up size it through new barrels and lips
which gives it this
(whirring noise)
massive dish.
This is happening 99% mostly with old BBS wheels
and is an iconic like German automotive thing right now
which is pretty friggin' neat.
Re barreling the wheels is pretty common,
but the up sizing isn't so much yet.
In fact, BBS has discussed with us
that they're really neither for nor against the change.
They kinda sit in that weird middle.
I'm a business and I don't know whether I wanna be cool
or whether I wanna deal
with the liability issues kinda thing
and they believe they did the best job
when they made the wheels,
so why would you go and change it.
Wish is kinda fair, I would say.
But re barreling BBS wheels is something
that's extremely common and if you haven't seen it before
when you do see it for the first time,
you're going to be a wee bit confused.
But you wanna know the best thing about RX7's
is their soft,
(kissing sound)
sleek curves, the iconic front end, the ...
(clicking sound)
flappy ... (flapping sound),
headlights, the door handles.
I mean, look at the door handles.
They are so neat.
And to top it all off,
the best part about the car is when you open the hood
and you find that beautiful,
Wankel rotary engine sitting still
making its weird, two-strokish, lawnmower noise.
(engine humming)
And then just replacing it
with a good ol' American V8 because ...
(crashing sound)
I'd rather have reliability
and big ol' thurbsky noises maybe
and then maybe some good ol' fashioned exhaust
because you know what Wankel rotaries
they sound like my lawnmower.
They sound like an edge trimmer
without the electric, fully gas two stroke.
Some actual opinion, however, that is the opinion
of lots of opinion on the Internet.
LS swapping RX7's is about as controversial as you can get.
You might be asking yourself why.
Why, Alex?
Why is that the case?
Well, that would be because the rotary engine
has a sense that purists have
that it is pretty much a perfect motor.
And then you have people that love everything about the RX7
except the fact that it has a Wankel rotary motor
and therefore, it is the most unreliable platform
you could possibly do with that car.
So people just end up LS swapping it.
That and the fact that the whole engine bay
allows for you to swap big motors in to
makes it pretty easy.
Now, if you've ever seen two people get at it before,
if it's not about camber,
it's probably about RX7 and LS swapping.
Another real controversy that goes a long way
is just the overall argument on whether
you build a car for form or for function.
Form is obviously the looks
and function is a car that functions as intended
so that's where you get the ol' form versus function thing.
Functional car builds are controversial
because a lot of times they can be a bit
boring
to those form guys over there.
(scoffing)
Conings.
Why not three piece wheels, bro?
Michelins with a 40 series sidewall.
What are you?
A moderate.
Lower springs versus air suspension.
How dare you even think about that.
Then you get the exact opposite side of the fence
where everything is created for looks
with absolutely no regards to any sort of function.
Big wings.
(whistles)
(pop music)
(whistles)
Slammed wide wheels,
stretched tires,
little lights that do the fancy tricks in the headlights.
Then, you got the function guys over there saying,
(inhales and exhales loudly)
Okay.
Why would you put a wing on it?
Did you know that the coefficient drag of the down force
of the weight of your GT 86 wing
that you decided to put above your hood is 1.356234
and that a trailing wind of 20 mph
that your turn drag is 1.23 which could be 1.02
without that massive wind which would result
in you being able to drive your car around the round about
and with the same exact way
with approximately 0.22 inches of more drag
probably result in a mileage differentiation
of about two miles per gallon
depending on how many round abouts
you go through the day,
so why would you do that?
That's how it be.
Don't have fun.
Don't be functional.
There is an in-between there somewhere,
if you want there to be.
Coilovers are nice in-between.
I wonder who sells those?
Me.
And last but not least, would be
the plasti dip/vinyl/wrap/anything versus paint.
Not sure if you've ever seen the argument
around any of these topics at any time,
but they never end well.
#paintisdead, you know bro.
Like wrap or dip can look just as good as paint, bro.
Don't believe the hype, bro.
Paint is dead, bro, versus the paint purists
that unless you spend $10,000 on a paint job,
it's not even ... Don't even look at me.
All right, it's not even the same thing.
The plasti over conversation used to get hit a ton
by those people that were and for against it.
It kinda was a really hot topic about five years ago,
but it shifted to more of the wrap game versus paint
with many people wrapping their cars.
Pretty crazy designs
and stating that it's just as good as paint.
Not really sure where that's coming from but, you know,
it is what it is.
Paint is inherently a little bit more simpler
and over time people want something crazy,
so they end up wrapping it
while paint guys are saying,
"Well, why don't you just paint the ol' bad boy?"
And not everybody's got about 10 grand,
so you see people kinda have a tendency
to argue a little bit back and forth.
So what's the most controversial thing you've seen
in the car scene.
Let us know in the comment section below
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You know, we got it all pretty much.
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Peace.