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Originally Posted by jflogerzi
Congrats! Where are the pictures? Any other mods planned?
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I'll put up some pictures after I give it the new car clay bar / paint sealant treatment this weekend. For now, imagine a stock asphalt 86, then reduce the height by 1 inch.
I'm going to try to avoid modifying it as best I can, but it's clear after driving it a few hundred miles that this car was designed to be a platform for doing so. The main draw to me for this car was fun/dollar with fun/reliability secondary. I think simply better tires would have the biggest results in terms of additional fun/dollar.
It is pretty tempting though to replace the wheels and some basic stereo stuff. If so, I'd want to keep the appearance as stock as possible. Wheels, I like the 17" forged TRD wheels or maybe BBS if I could find a good set at a reasonable price. Carbon car systems in australia sells a flush mounting/full screen kenwood stereo that's plug and play and adds android auto and phone screen mirroring, but is about $1k once wiring harness and shipping is done. Wouldn't help the sound any though since it would still go through the stock amp, so hard to justify spending $1k on just android auto and a pretty screen. I did check with a local stereo shop and they quoted about $650 to replace speakers and amp with some basic focals. If there was a factory optioned premium stereo for $1,650 I probably would have opted for it. We will see how well I can hold out and not buy these things.