What would I do and not do to my car?

Okay most of the young guys I know are already harassing me about "Tuning" my car. Am I going to tune my car? Hells no, she's under warranty. But if my wife can talk about 400 dollar dresses I can talk about performance upgrades. So lets talk Tiburon Upgrades! I might do this on and off and it gets a little meaty so lets limit it to three upgrades a post :)

Cold-Air Intake: The cold air intake is a pretty simple modification. Stock air intake pulls air into the fuel mix through a series of filters. More filtering equals more constriction of air flow. Taking colder air into the fuel mix also tricks your car into adding more fuel into the mix. More power, no obvious rice-boy look and you can pick one up for under 100 bucks. All good.

Angel Eyes: On one hand, it looks pretty cool. The inner coil of LED lights sits inside your regular headlights and your running lights now look like some cool glowy eyes. Sure it looks nice but A) It's expensive as hell ($480.00) and B) You're screaming rice-boy. A little too showy for the near-30 white boy in the sports coupe.




Racing Cat-back and Exhaust: Like a Cold-Air intake, higher flow is your friend and constriction takes away your power. However in regards to your exhaust less constrictive airflow means your normally quiet exhaust sounds a little more like a kazoo. The "Fart Can" effect. It generally amplifies your car's engine sounds. So on a 4 Cylinder Civic it sounds weak. On a V6 engine it might have a more-powerful rumble. Still Ghey as all heck! This is practically like an all-access pass to ricedom.

Of course even if it's a cool upgrade no vehicle upgrade would ever meet wife approval anyway :p