General Style before performance or the other way??

[isobarboy]

Opions please!!!

If your starting out with your cinq that you love dearly

Would you start with the performance of the vehicle first;
OR
Would you make it look the part before you start on performance gains



Reason being;

I am saving up to get the windows professionally tinted, non of that £10 jobby stuff! :bang:

But i now have the money to go get a top green cotten filter induction kit

so....
limo black sleek shiny nice looking complimenting windows
or
a performance mod??

HELP!!!

 

[bozothenutter]

Wolf in sheeps clothing?
Sheep in wolfs clothing?

I'd rather have Bite than bark, so performance first it is.

 

[craigb244]

cinqs will always get laughed at... might as well make it so you can laugh back in there faces

 

[Hellcat]

How about option C?

Dynamics before performance or styling... Get the suspension bushes and bearings replaced first to tighten up the drive.

 

[isobarboy]

Haha someone splitting hairs here! yeh i think i would prefer the wolf in sheeps clothing option, so i can laugh at 17 yr old chavs in their saxos with 20 inch diamater exhausts thinking they can "rag" it with 5 people eating mc donalds in their cars hahahaha ( no offence to anyone )

 

[alainax]

cinqs will always get laughed at... might as well make it so you can laugh back in there faces

not always true, depends what you do. What ever way you do it, as long as you do it right, you'l be fine

 

[ycming]

To me, i always loved how the cinq looked as a standard car. So no styling needed there for me .

And by that logic, always performance

Ming

 

[Todger182]

My car is at the mo, a laughing stock but i'm getting her road stable etc first before I lower a 1.4 engine in. Then i can play with the big boys

Thanks

 

[craigb244]

true but you can hardly call yours a cinq any more

 

[isobarboy]

My car is at the mo, a laughing stock but i'm getting her road stable etc first before I lower a 1.4 engine in. Then i can play with the big boys

Thanks

Hows that going to fit in? whos the donar car ( is it who or what? )

Also Can u call it a Cinq still when its a shell of its former self with a different cars engine???

 

[Todger182]

The whole point of a wolf in sheeps clothing .

It does fit, there are several guys on here who have done it, there is even a couple of step by step threads/guides on doing it.

Oh and mines a Sei

Thanks

 

[alainax]

Also Can u call it a Cinq still when its a shell of its former self with a different cars engine???

of course you can! theres many a cinq on here with punto engines in them - doesnt make them any less of a cinq! just a modified one.

true but you can hardly call yours a cinq any more

dont see why not... its still and always will be a cinq - just highly modified

 

[isobarboy]

a 1.4 eh! Sounds like it will be a fekking beast when its done, how much that going to set you back? Yeh i wanna be a sheep in wolfs clothing hense why i shall be getting a green cotton air induction kit soon among others, saving the pennies

 

[Todger182]

The aftermarket ECU sets you back a pretty penny, as for the engine they are relatively cheap and easy to come across.

On any project (learning from other peoples mistakes) it's the small things you can't budget for as normally they is alot of them.

Thanks

 

[Pep0]

If you still have plukes

brake early
dont tailgate
assume the artic drivers are nodding off (to sleep)

or the engine compartment will be too small for a 1400 and the restyling may be a bit twisted...

Noel

 

[rallycinq]

Surely the first question should be 'what will my insurance company allow me to do?'

Cheers

SPD

 

[Pep0]

Surely the first question should be 'what will my insurance company allow me to do?'

Cheers

SPD

I can answer that if you forget to tell them and they decide to regard this as breach of contract you can pay their default fund e.g. £200/week for life e.g. for any personal injury case.
They also assume you will maintain it properly as well.
Noel

 

[Todger182]

Surely the first question should be 'what will my insurance company allow me to do?'

Cheers

SPD

My friends have done quotes on cars, and as soon as they enter in "induction" or "alloys", or even "lowered" they are immediatly declined becuase the car is modified. Bare in mind these are companies that are frequently advertised.

Has anyone else noticed this? My opinion it's getting silly nowdays thanks to this "Credit Crunch". This and stupidly high petrol prices and taxes.

Rant over

Thanks

 

[Pep0]

Nothing has changed. I bent a steering wheel so replaced it with the cheapest available which happened to be a smaller one. Only to be asked had I told my insurance company.

So I got an OEM one... this was about 1970

Noel

 

[StoneNewt]

Well the big insurance companies want to sell a lot of standard box-tick policies quickly, that's how they get the insurance price that low. When you start modifying the car you can't tick boxes & it takes time to sort everything out so therefor your declined insurance because they don't want the hassle of dealing with you.

Even modified friendly companies will have limits, CKI for instance will not so much decline insurance but recommend other insurance companies if you go beyond certain lines because they have problems with the underwriters. My Turbo Sei' for instance is insured as a road legal track/tarmac racing car & covered for competitive events + 7000 road miles a year, it's actually cheaper that way.

On the OP, dynamics/tuning come first & the styling simply accommodates the requirements for the former & legalities.