General LSX Automobile Discussion - School Project Poll: Modify your car?

The poll is to see the amount of people who purchase their LS1 or LS2 vehicle with intent to modify it in some way to increase performance?

I say you will end up with 99% yes, 1% no :jest:

who would buy an LS motor and leave it stock?

except for the few with pure garage queens, i think everybody modifies it in some way, at least exhaust or something

Isn't it written in the Bible that when God created the LS1, he did so with the intention of us modding it?

moding cars is stupid and pointless...






i voted yes

I voted "Yes" even though it really is stupid and pointless during a HP war.

who would buy an LS motor and leave it stock?

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Grandmas leave them stock for us younger guys to modd.

People who leave them stock don't know what they got.

Who would plan on leaving it stock..:gtfo:

I planned on leaving it stock but that lasted about two weeks so I'm gonna have to vote no even though that couldn't be further from how I feel now.

mine is slowly getting fast :)

Never did the thought keep it stock arise in my mind....

the aftermarket is our salvation from boredom and slowness

even though it's my daily driver... yes absolutely... they respond so well to mods

i wouldnt want to go mid 13's for the rest of time

My original intent was to keep the car stock except for minor things like intake and exhaust. I remember telling a friend there was no way I would do headers.

Well I found LS1Tech and all of a sudden the car absolutely needed headers, a torque converter, and so on...

Now my car absolutely needs a forged LS2 with twin turbos and a 4L80E:D at least that is my ultimate and final goal....hopefully

I bought it planning on keeping it bone stock untill after I get out of college. that lasted like 2 days or so until i got on ls1tech and saw kickass deals. I said fuck it and now im even more broke than before. so yes and no

This poll is skewed. You're posting it on a tech website for the motor. The people here are car enthusiasts. Of course they all want to mod the car. You're leaving out all the non-enthusiasts who don't modify cars (which is pretty much everyone).

I got my first T/A (02' a4) when i was 16 with plans of keeping it stock. And it was stock until i found out about LS1tech haha. The WS6 i have now i definatley had plans to mod it, but i wanted to make sure i had a bone stock car so i could start from scratch and thankfully i found one :)

My original intent was to keep the car stock except for minor things like intake and exhaust. I remember telling a friend there was no way I would do headers.

Well I found LS1Tech and all of a sudden the car absolutely needed headers, a torque converter, and so on...

Now my car absolutely needs a forged LS2 with twin turbos and a 4L80E:D at least that is my ultimate and final goal....hopefully

lid and catback was my plan, with maybe a intake manifold. keep it a reasonable car with good suspension under it. those damned sponsors are evil with their sales and GPs. that has since changed into cam, headers, stalled, built tranny, and planning a 403 nitrous motor backed by a t400

I fully intended to keep my LS1 stock (and that's how I answered the poll), but when you're into cars and gatherings, it's hard to look at all the goodies and hear the grumbling without wanting to join in...so far, she's pretty close to stock, but when I'm done spending money on the third gen it will be the LS1's turn.

i baught mine with full intent on modding it tell death do us part

I had every intent to modify it. I waited a year before I did it and boy was it worth it.

I would've bought LTs and TDs before I had the car if I had some spare coin. I didn't, so I bought them a week later :lol:

-J

I had a v6 camaro and rode ina couple of TA's, and had to have one and had to modify it.

Since I am still a student, my 98 T/A will remain stock. However the 95 roller I just bought (will have some sort of LS in it) is another story :D.

who would buy an LS motor and leave it stock?


COLLECTOR’s .I known a guy that has the 35th anniversary TA (white with blue stripes) and one of last TA's made in 2002(yellow one) with super low miles and no intent to mod them, he puts them in car shows :pimp:

I bought it planning on keeping it bone stock untill after I get out of college. that lasted like 2 days or so until i got on ls1tech and saw kickass deals. I said fuck it and now im even more broke than before. so yes and no

that was my original plan too

i had no idea what an ls1 was when i bought it...so no i didn't plan on modifying it

i had no idea what an ls1 was when i bought it...so no i didn't plan on modifying it

I knew about them and then i got one . Once i got the modding bug it was all over, IM HOOKED. :devil:
Im SIK , i even joined a car club that didn't help
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The poll is to see the amount of people who purchase their LS1 or LS2 vehicle with intent to modify it in some way to increase performance?

Why buy a toy if you don't plan to play with it! :)

Who buys a car to leave it stock?!?! :)

I voted no, but, now I'm still about $22,000 in the red on my credit card. I'd have that much cash in the bank ... had I not gotten 'the fever'. Put about $40,000.00 in it sonce I had it ... changed the exhaust 3 times and in two weeks, the American Racing headers are going on for the LAST header swap I'm EVER doin'! Can't EVEN count all the tires I've been through.

I have never had any intentions of leaving any f-body I owned stock. That would be crazy to me, I buy them to enjoy not keep the miles off and try to turn a dollar.

I didn't know what I got when I purchased my LS1. I knew what I wanted. When I bought the car, I had NO intentions of modifying it. Then, I found this site....

I have seen the light! Check sig out for what I've done to my beast!

COLLECTOR’s .I known a guy that has the 35th anniversary TA (white with blue stripes) and one of last TA's made in 2002(yellow one) with super low miles and no intent to mod them, he puts them in car shows :pimp:

Some collector he is if he advertises it as a 35th anniversary TA :D



I actually bought my car as a winter car...yeah, no joke. I had an '88 TA at the time and had just decided I was leaving MSOE and had a little over $6k left over, and I found my car for $6400. Couldn't pass up on a 100k mile LS1/6spd car for that kind of money back in '05 (brand new GM clutch and rear gears)! :eek: Bought it to drive in the winter (6spd/TCS + snow tires = ROCKS in snow) because the '88 couldn't go ANYWHERE in snow.

Installed a Magnaflow exhaust a few weeks after purchase, and a few weeks after that I picked up my MTI lid/K&N filter for $30. I was very happy with the car as it was then. First car I got to beat up on was an '05 GT :D

Ended up being forced to do motor work when I slammed some pistons into some valves on a 3-2 shift at the top of third racing a Supra and an Evo. Couldn't put a stock motor back in, so I went ahead and did heads/cam/intake/headers/pulley/fuel/clutch/trans/clutch (yeah ended up with two different clutch setups when my slave went out 3 days after I got it all back together).

Ever since, the project keeps snowballing. Now its getting yet another shortblock and a D1SC :D

This poll is skewed. You're posting it on a tech website for the motor. The people here are car enthusiasts. Of course they all want to mod the car. You're leaving out all the non-enthusiasts who don't modify cars (which is pretty much everyone).
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Basically, it's like going to michaeljordan.com and asking if they like to watch basketball games.


But, with that said, I vote yes. Stock sucks :jest:

This poll is skewed. You're posting it on a tech website for the motor. The people here are car enthusiasts. Of course they all want to mod the car. You're leaving out all the non-enthusiasts who don't modify cars (which is pretty much everyone).

I agree, your results will not be accurate. I'd be willing to bet the amount of modded F-bods is somewhere around 20-30% (based on facts I pulled from my ass). That said, I voted yes. Hell, I came to this site to learn how!

i started looking for performance parts the day i bought my car

This poll is skewed. You're posting it on a tech website for the motor. The people here are car enthusiasts. Of course they all want to mod the car. You're leaving out all the non-enthusiasts who don't modify cars (which is pretty much everyone).


EXACTLY!

There is no doubt that the majority of people here want/do mod thier cars. That's kind of the point of this site. So the results are clearly going to show yes to modding as the popular answer. But the fact is that most F-body owners are NOT members of tech sites, die hard street racers or track rats. Most probably can't even spell the word modification :D

If you could actually poll all LS1 owners in the world I bet the true result is a clear cut victory for stock.

Of course they would be idiots for not unleashing all the hidden LS1 potential :devil:

I had parts waiting to be put on my t/a even before i had the car

I don't buy anything without the intent to modify it.

Hell yeah :devil::nod:

This poll is extremely biased. Not so much of the people on this site, but the overall community. Think about all the older people who have completely stock c5s and such. They just putt around in those things and it's probably never seen redline in its life...

I actually had all of my mods picked out before I bought my car.