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      10-14-2011, 12:27 PM   #1
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Feeler: Stabilizer rods on arkym front splitter...Yay or nay?

Re-installing my arkym lip soon and thinking about adding the shiny stabilizer rods to the front splitter. What are your thoughts on a mod like this? Anybody?
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      10-14-2011, 12:51 PM   #2
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the akrym lip dont need it unless you have an extended front lip... it looks like shit if you do it...

SO ITS GOING TO BE A BIG FAT NO....
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      10-14-2011, 01:02 PM   #3
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i personally like them - they shout out "track car!" .. and I love track oriented cars!
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      10-14-2011, 01:12 PM   #4
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I think they're tacky unless you have a track only car.
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      10-14-2011, 01:12 PM   #5
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if you track your car, I do not see why not. I've seen a few lips get ripped off just from wind force.
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      10-14-2011, 08:15 PM   #6
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If you do it post some pix. I'd like to see it.
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I was going to do it on my Vorsteiner front lip. It looks nice. But then I was told they'd have to drill into the front bumper and that made me change my mind. Do I think it looks nice? Yes, I think it looks great. But the day I mess up my lip, which with time it WILL happen, I have holes in my bumper!!!
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track look is the new rice, most euro-trash owners are too blind to see it
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track look is the new rice, most euro-trash owners are too blind to see it
to each his own. everyone thinks their car is 'clean'...
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      10-15-2011, 05:04 PM   #10
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to each his own. everyone thinks their car is 'clean'...
same thing can be said about ANY car then, no reason to call anything rice according to your logic. But M3 drivers are quick to call them out, yet they do the same exact thing to their car but just because its a "M3", its immune to being riced out?

I dont care if you have a huge wing and use it on the track, then keep it there and remove it for the street. The same reason why some M3s have certain mods is the same reason some japanese cars have certain mods, but when its done on a Japanese car its rice? I see alot more import cars at the local track days than I do BMWs let alone euros.
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      10-15-2011, 06:48 PM   #11
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Pinhead is correct to a certain point. The huge wings and things like that is totally rice unless you have a reason for it b/c of the track. But, I guess I kind of fall in the rice section a bit b/c I really like the hinges. I just didn't want to drill my bumper. But try to keep your car as clean as possible. I don't regret NOT putting on the hinges.
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same thing can be said about ANY car then, no reason to call anything rice according to your logic. But M3 drivers are quick to call them out, yet they do the same exact thing to their car but just because its a "M3", its immune to being riced out?

I dont care if you have a huge wing and use it on the track, then keep it there and remove it for the street. The same reason why some M3s have certain mods is the same reason some japanese cars have certain mods, but when its done on a Japanese car its rice? I see alot more import cars at the local track days than I do BMWs let alone euros.
since you're the resident judge, can you post your car as a reference so we can all be educated?

thanks.
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since you're the resident judge, can you post your car as a reference so we can all be educated?

thanks.
my car is bone stock

thanks.
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my car is bone stock

thanks.
all makes sense now. especially your banner.
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