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Originally Posted by chanomatik
I mean, you can honestly look at the speaker surrounds and center console knee resting area and say that you wouldn't prefer to have matching leather with red stitching as the car was INTENDED to have? It's more comfortable AND the interior looks way more complete. And you really don't think the Toyota armrest would be a welcomed addition?
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I'm getting leather knee pads only because I'm tired of banging my knee in to the plastic. I could do without any more red stitching. I'm undecided so far on whether I'd LIKE an arm rest - the storage in the car is already so limited I like having it open. I certainly don't get bewildered by people who don't want them.
If it weren't for stock class in autox, I don't know where I'd be with this car right now (actually, I probably wouldn't have bought it). But I've done the super-stiff-minimal-gain suspension thing, spent lots of money on cars trying to make them go fast and look right.
I started autoxing 10 years ago and slowly I started to notice that the old guys were pretty much all running in stock class. Not old guys that just started going it. Guys that were probably me 20 years ago. They spent a ton of money prepping cars, making them less comfortable and shaking parts loose with stiff springs and poly bushings, and realized you really don't get all that much out of it.
I hover around the top 15-20% of raw times week after week in a car with just tires, a catback and front sway bar. I'm faster than guys with full exhausts, wider wheels, tunes, coilovers, etc etc. Not because of my (limited) talent but because I did the right things to the car.
And in a lot of cases I have the opposite irrational superiority complex. I see people buying the worst bang for the buck parts they can, adding parts that make the car slower and so on. Strut bars, getting all caught up in which catback to buy (as if they're any different), coilovers with crappy tires. People are going to do what they want to do, and other people are going to disagree with it.