- All right guys, hey, what's going on?
I'm sitting in a chair that's got a back rest
because it's way more comfortable
'cause we're gonna be taking a trip down memory lane,
where I rank my own cars.
Which is kind of sort of terrible
because when I look back at some of the filters that I used
and some of the cars that I did drive,
they're pretty terrible.
And what we're also gonna do is we're gonna rank them.
So I'm gonna rank them from pretty much one to 10,
one being, oh God, and 10 being,
I would buy another one in an instant and own it forever.
But we're also gonna walk through
and you get to make fun of if I modified my car
and if I modified it with good fitment, bad fitment
or any fitment in between, speaking of which,
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And if you pick it up with tires that are also in stock,
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which is pretty gnarly.
So when I was 17, I actually had a 1994 Mitsubishi 3000GT.
It was red. It had the black top on the top.
It was an SL so it was front wheel drive.
It was like 225 horsepower.
This did have the steering wheel cover, the seat covers.
It was manual so I had screwed
on an AutoZone short throw shifter that was red and black,
it was super sick.
And the floor mats
and of course everything was paint matched.
(clears throat) It looked terrible
but I did find these aftermarket wheels that were like
17 by seven and a half square set up that fit the car.
It was really actually terrible to bind wheels that fit
because the forms were super scary.
And it's actually what ended up helping
push Fitment Industries was this exact setup.
Kind of rough to look at.
Stock suspension, tinted windows,
I got pulled over a lot and it smelled like oil.
But then finally, I did get a little bit better
with my taste, I did pick up that C5 A6.
It was a 2.7T , which was awesome.
A six speed, it was APR stage two tuned,
ST Coilover Suspension that I ended up installing
or had a shop install, we really dialed it in really nice.
Then I had VMR V701s
And then I was running some kind of stretchy boy tires
that kept blowing up and debeading.
But one of the things that I did learn is,
is you can debead a tire often,
especially when you consider how heavy the A6 was.
I actually really liked the C5A6
and if you guys know Sean Berger,
he really likes like off meta bills
because you can get the same power plants
in a lot of cars that are in the sports car models
but not with the sports car price tag
and that A6 was one of those cars.
You get a B5 S4 motor and trans in C5A6,
which was sick
but we had to deal with the fact that the rear end kind of
sort of was ugly.
I'm saving all the rankings till the end, by the way.
So you guys keep a mental note,
you write down what you would rate out of 10,
maybe drop a comment below.
What would you rate my cars and see if it lines up
with how I rate my cars at the end.
But then we jumped into a Mazda Miata
and Mazda Miata was actually my wife's
but we ended up picking that up,
it was 1991 Mazda Miata.
It was supercharged, it had the whole nine yards,
Jackson Supercharger kit,
threw in some aftermarket coilovers
that were no-name brand.
Some NRG racing seats, there was roll bar.
We did not install the racing harnesses correctly
because why would you?
Mostly because I had no idea.
If I'd highly recommend, if you're gonna do racing seats,
do it right so that you do it safe.
Don't be like me when I was younger.
It had a front lip, it was actually pretty cool,
I really enjoyed that car.
That car had Toyos on it
and then was running of course, Enkei RPF1s, baby.
I mean, what else would you want on a Mazda Miata?
One of the things that I really loved
about this Miata though,
is that we painted it kind of deep blue,
which was actually really cool color.
I really enjoyed it a lot, it had the Toyo proxies on it,
so it had a nice meaty look.
And then ultimately Becca, ended up driving it, my wife,
and then she ended up with a license plate that said,
is you down?
And of course with top-down and being a girl
and driving a Mazda Miata that was supercharged,
she obviously got egged onto race, literally, 24/7.
Now, for anybody that knows me before the Fitment days,
you probably know me through a car club
in Wisconsin that I started back in 2012.
One of the cars that I actually started that club
with was by picking up a car that was a Datsun.
And I had a 1976 Datsun 280 Z
and I did everything to this car.
This car went through three different paints,
two different transmissions, three different motors.
I learned so much about this car
and it when it actually came to me,
it was blue and then it was brown
and then it ended up being white
at the end of its life span.
I learned how to Plasti Dip on this car,
you can actually see it in some of these pictures.
I Plasti Dipped the brown
back when Plasti Dip was going through its main craze.
I had a friend of mine, Cory Jensen,
who ended up taking a Sharpie
and Sharpied the side of the fender
in this Japanese dragon-ish design,
which you can see and it's super sick.
Though it had a 355, it didn't then it did.
355 supercharged V8, had a six speed trans.
It had a five speed, blew that up coming to Appleton.
But that car taught me a lot.
I mean, it ended up at the end of its life,
an entirely different looking vehicle.
Not everyone's cup of tea, but at the end of it,
we ended up switching from,
we had Diamond racing ceilings on Toyos
and this weird engine Enkei cowl
and then it ended up having, at the end of it,
it was pearl white with a half cage and the inside.
We reupholstered the interior, it looked super, super clean.
Six speed trans, we had new gauges, new everything,
new cowl, we did fender mirrors.
We've ripped off the front bumper, did a 240 front bumper,
shaved the rear ass of the car and really made it sleek.
And then did three piece wing on the back,
Brinkworth fender flares, Atara wheels,
Atara peace sign wheels, side exhaust.
I mean, it was just a super cool car.
I kept that car for, I think,
right about five years until I moved to Appleton
and I finally sold it.
But one of the cars that I had in the meantime,
while that thing was broken 24/7,
was V7 A4 Avant with an RS4 front clip
and that thing was pretty sick.
Had that for a couple of years and it had a big turbo on it.
19 inch wheels, it was lowered, on ST's, I believe it was
and it looked really clean, I liked it a lot.
Back then, I didn't really understand
what the StanceNation sicker was
and it wasn't until I got older that I realized what it was
and it said function over form
or form over function, I don't know.
But I strapped a Christmas tree to it
and I took a picture and it looks sick.
I really enjoyed it
but the blow off valve was almost too much at times
'cause you'd be driving at 1200 RPM
and it was just like, (imitates blow off valve)
and it was just a lot, you know?
And then I sold it and then it blew up.
And I was probably around 18 years old
when I picked up a 2004 Mercedes-Benz E55 AMG
from somebody in New York that I found on eBay
and it was actually a really fun time.
It was super clean, had a couple of modifications to it
but the thing I loved about it the most
was that it was an E55 so it's a 5.4 liter V8 supercharged.
I really love supercharged V8s honestly,
but it had an E63 front clip.
I love the E63 front clips
but I love the E55 engine platforms.
And this thing was super clean.
It was like this graphite gray,
it had a shaved front emblem, it had the tinted headlights,
which I know some people don't like.
Carbon fiber all the way around, carbon fiber side skirts,
carbon fiber diffuser lip, everything.
And we put some Niche wheels on it, there were 19s,
a great fitment.
Nitto 555 G2s, I think they were.
Staggered set up, nine and a half, 10 and a half.
Super clean, we put Airmatic lowering springs in it.
This thing was so good looking
and just like all good looking E55 AMGs,
they suffered from power draw issues and they kept dying,
it just would not start.
The thing I love the most about it though,
were the burnt orange brakes, they were so clean.
That was my first experience with an air suspension kit.
before it was stock,
but you had the Airmatic lowering springs
so it looked really good and I really enjoyed it.
It had a water meth tank, it had all the good stuff, pulley.
All that tune TCU, ECU. We, we did all that work.
It was a fast car.
I don't know why I sell all the cool cars.
After that, 2001 Porsche 911 Turbo,
the one with the funky headlights.
I know a lot of people talk smack
about the funky headlights,
but from dollar and bank perspective, not the energy drink,
you can't go wrong with a 996 Turbo
because you don't have the IMS failure
that the non turbos have in the 996.
The 996 is probably one of my favorite cars.
It was a tank, the thing was awesome.
We ended up getting it up to like right
around 600 horsepower.
It went through a couple different setups.
When I got the car, it had modular concept wheels on it
and some Toyo old school tires.
And then I switched it around, I put on Rohana RFXs.
Did a staggered set up, I think it was an eight
and a half and 11 on some Toyos again,
which looked really, really good.
It had Moton coilovers.
If you guys don't know what Moton is,
it's actually on the website at fitmentindustries.com.
It's a very high end quality, quality, quality coilover.
They do a lot of stuff with Porsche
and I love their platform.
It went through a couple of different looks.
I mean, it had a livery kit on it for road rally.
I had the Rohanas with just the nice black paint
and then I had a Techart body kit on it,
which I thought looked really, really good.
It kind of simulated that GT2 look.
And then when I got into its final year,
so we decided to go crazy with it.
We wrapped it a distressed livery kit
to kind of make it look like if it was
on the racetrack from 2001 to now,
what would it look like?
And that's kind of the wrap that we ended up going up with.
We introduced that,
I think that was the season opener in 2019.
We threw on some ESR 3 three piece forged wheels
and we did a single dark tint, double dark tint look.
I really loved this car and the peanut butter interior
again, not everyone's cup of tea, but I loved this car.
It's what put Porsche on the map for me
as one of my favorite cars.
Then we ended up picking up that 2007 430,
that I think a lot of people know and,
not don't really love, but know it.
It's actually gonna be at SEMA in 2021 at the Acura Boost.
We're really excited about that.
Spoiler alert, I'm not sure if I'm supposed to tell people,
but the 2007 430,
that's kind of like what we call the Datsun 2.
And what I mean by that is,
it's kind of going through its own little transformation
in different stuff and things.
So, it's a 430 which means you're not supposed to modify it.
So the very first thing we did was modify it.
We threw it on air suspension, Acura-E Level Plus,
we threw it on universal air bags.
It has ESR forged three piece wheels.
It's running Michelin Pilot Sport Cup 2s.
It's got an air motion eight inch riser wing
that's carbon fiber one by one weave.
We have a Minitubia style headers
with an Agency Power exhaust.
It's got the carbon fiber splitter, Challenger grill,
interior, engine cover kit, side skirts,
front bumper, front lip.
It's got pretty much everything you could possibly imagine.
And every single time I post it in the Ferrari forums,
everybody gets either very, very excited or very,
very angry.
It's not everyone's cup of tea though,
because it's a tucked setup.
And one of the things that I always try to tell people
is it is a tucked setup
but I really do enjoy the way that it looks
when it's aired up.
Sometimes I'm not a huge fan of the super fender
to lip fitment because sometimes when you air up,
when those tires come out, it kind of looks a little wonky.
You have a super stretched tire, just the gap seems weird.
So I'd rather have it looking super good when it's rolling
around versus just aired out.
Then we ended with a 2017 R8,
which is like the track set up so it's on Variant wheels.
Michelin Pilot Sport 4s', H&R lowering springs,
Vorsteiner rear wing, which is, I think,
kind of like the tying piece of the car.
Absolutely love it, super, super clean,
nothing actually too crazy.
Starting off at the top,
the Mitsubishi 3000GT SL out of 10, gets a four, all right?
We all start somewhere.
The 2.7T, that one gets a five
and it doesn't get more because the dang pipes
on that platform blow off every single time
I did a full throttle pull and I hate rim clamps.
1990 Mazda Miata Supercharged, that was blue, seven.
Awesome car, did kind of the interior wrong.
The racing seats sucked
and I didn't like the racing harnesses.
1976 Datsun 280Z, that one gets a nine
because I learned so much about it,
I probably wouldn't be here if I didn't have that car.
Loved that car even though it would never ran.
Then the B7 A4, that one gets a seven.
The AMG 55, the E55, that gets an eight.
I love that car, so comfortable, the seats were so nice.
It had massaging bolstering stuff, it was great.
The 911 Turbo, nine, that's a great car.
And I would recommend to anyone that's looking
at that price range,
I would put my hat in for one of those.
The 430 gets an eight and the R8 gets a 14
because it's almost the perfect car.
Those are the cars that you know about.
I own probably 10 or 15 more that I'm not gonna tell you
because they're embarrassing.
But let me know what you guys think
in the comment section below.
And if you're interested,
a lot of these cars can actually be found over
in our gallery over a fitmentindustries.com/gallery.
So if you're interested, enter in the year, make, model,
see if you can find it so you can see the specs.
And of course, if you do have an aftermarket car,
don't forget to add it to our gallery
at fitmentindustries.com/add.
Hopefully you guys weren't mean to me in ranking.
I'm definitely gonna look at all the comments
and probably cry myself to sleep.
But, I'm Alex from fitment industries
and we will see you later.
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Peace.
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