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Old Jan 21, 2010 | 09:55 PM
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^Thanks

And no, the Black wheels are my RPF1's.
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Old Jan 22, 2010 | 02:11 AM
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Oh I see, looking clean man. LOVE the hood, picking up that same one soon.
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Old Jan 22, 2010 | 05:07 AM
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BB photos

Originally Posted by tiltmode43
His car is looking sweeeeet, very clean!
thanx for the love and hate everyone... By the way Tiltmode you are one of the few people thats opinion matters to me! Your car is sooo dope, love the fitment, and all of the wheels. Thanx to rawrx8 and pdxhak for being local gansters from the NW
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Old Jan 22, 2010 | 02:22 PM
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Awww my opinion and love for your car doesn't count Angry? My car isn't dope?
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Old Jan 22, 2010 | 09:01 PM
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Originally Posted by pdxhak
Kind of hard to be a sleeper when the car is blacked out with a big exhaust, aftermarket wheels and kit
compared to most FD widebody, low offset - big lip, big wing etc etc, for instance - DCUPS FD
Originally Posted by CarAndDriver
I don't really consider any FD, stock or modified, to be a sleeper. Sleeper would be a Neon SRT4 with a standard trunk or a Cobalt SS. Something that you wouldn't think would blow you away and then does.
so can civics..... sleeper is when any car is faster than it really is. Not only a slow car that is fast. SLEEPER can also be a Z06 vette TWIN TURBO'd and running 9's or less. a Z06 is already fast but after TT you can only imagine.....








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Old Jan 22, 2010 | 09:27 PM
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Originally Posted by ZumnRx8
so can civics..... sleeper is when any car is faster than it really is. Not only a slow car that is fast. SLEEPER can also be a Z06 vette TWIN TURBO'd and running 9's or less. a Z06 is already fast but after TT you can only imagine.....
A sleeper is definitely a car that would normally look average and then blows you away. I don't really agree that a car that everyone already thinks is fast going faster is a sleeper. I think there is the element of stealth surprise. A Corvette Z06 is not stealth nor is a regular base Vette.
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Old Jan 22, 2010 | 09:51 PM
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^to a ZR1 trying to race a TT C5, not knowing its TT until after it gets its *** handed..... thats SLEEPER in my eyes and im sure in the ZR1 owners eyes also.
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Old Jan 22, 2010 | 09:57 PM
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Either way our 8 is the opposite, not as fast as it looks in a straight line. Around the corners another story.
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Old Jan 22, 2010 | 09:59 PM
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^Amen to that!
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Old Jan 22, 2010 | 10:00 PM
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maybe thats why they put so many curves in the design of the body? because it does good on the curves?
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Old Jan 23, 2010 | 12:17 AM
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^Are you guys seriously having this conversation here...?
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Old Jan 23, 2010 | 12:20 AM
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seriously
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Old Jan 23, 2010 | 12:31 AM
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Yeah Zumn, go home!
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Old Jan 23, 2010 | 02:09 AM
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Topgear your car is so well put together and not some of that stupid *** crap ppl do to it...you should go racing beat or INGS wing next i think that will finish the outside look
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Old Jan 23, 2010 | 02:18 AM
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^Thanks, And as far as looks, not really worried about that anymore. Everything i'm doing is strictly for Solo this year since i'm doing some National tour events.

It will be getting a BBK shortly though
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Old Jan 23, 2010 | 01:17 PM
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Originally Posted by CarAndDriver
You need to change out the fog light bulbs to something that matches the HIDs better or go yellow, just not the ugly stock bulb.

I'm not a big fan of blacking out the 8's tail lights. People are crappy drivers as it is and having my tail lights be dimmer than stock is just asking for trouble.

The fog lights are different bulbs. Not stock. They are men`t to be yellow. I like the look of yellow fogs and for driving in the dark or bad weather yellow is way better then white i think.

The tail lights are still plenty bright. they have all LED`s in them so when i hit the brake pedal it is bright. Have had police behind me never gotten pulled over haven`t had anyone not see them or tell me they are hard to see. But thanks for your opinion.

Thanks kyle
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Old Jan 23, 2010 | 01:21 PM
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Originally Posted by RyansRx8
And 1

What are on the head lights? Is it an overlay? How does it affect the brightness of the lights? How is it at night? Love the look very nice car!
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Old Jan 23, 2010 | 01:50 PM
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Originally Posted by RyansRx8
That's weird I have a pic with a white tc also lol It's my sisters
lol...weird. I have a bb and my sister has a white tc too!
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Old Jan 23, 2010 | 01:55 PM
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^ pics of sis?
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Old Jan 24, 2010 | 11:21 AM
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i have only taken a couple crappy pic's since its been so cold out since i've gotten her home. so i'm sorry for the poor quality. will update as soon as it geets warmer out.
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Old Jan 24, 2010 | 12:28 PM
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^ do u ever sit in ur car? good up keep
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Old Jan 24, 2010 | 01:18 PM
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Come on Zumn! A lot of our interiors look like that! Not everyone maintains theirs like you
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Old Jan 24, 2010 | 02:51 PM
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^ I have all black leather, im going to replace the center with blue leather.
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Old Jan 24, 2010 | 02:53 PM
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^SIKE! but i did get a slash ... on driver about 1 inch, had something sharp in my pocket.
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Old Jan 24, 2010 | 03:12 PM
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Originally Posted by kylelawrence21
The fog lights are different bulbs. Not stock. They are men`t to be yellow. I like the look of yellow fogs and for driving in the dark or bad weather yellow is way better then white i think.

The tail lights are still plenty bright. they have all LED`s in them so when i hit the brake pedal it is bright. Have had police behind me never gotten pulled over haven`t had anyone not see them or tell me they are hard to see. But thanks for your opinion.

Thanks kyle
Yellow is definitely a better color if you're really going to be driving in fog or low visibility conditions.

I have LEDs for brake lights and they are noticeably brighter than filament bulbs. That should work for you since the LEDs put out more light.
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