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Posted: 08/02/09
03:27 PM
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hey just asking for your thoughts out there, how long/much do you have to mod a car for it to remain the initial car you bought it. say, if someone bought a civic, tuned it so much that the only stock parts were say the shell, or maybe even no stock parts, would the car remain a civic?
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DreZ
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Posted: 08/12/09
05:13 PM
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You have to be careful with legality. There is especially true with engine swaps. I am pretty sure it is illegal to put an rb26 or an sr20 into a 240sx although people have done it, and I think gotten it legalized.
Also, it is unlikely you will change the entire frame of the car. Unless you just take the frame of one car and put it inside a body of another car, which I am not sure why you would EVER do. VIN numbers will be able to tell you what it once was.
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_NISMO_
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Posted: 08/12/09
05:39 PM
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Ditto to the last 12 words.. ^
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Posted: 08/13/09
11:57 AM
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haha thats not quite what i ment. i wanted to hear peoples opinions about the cars like identity to the driver, sort of a sentimetnal question not literary. sorry bout that.
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Posted: 08/13/09
01:04 PM
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That's kinda tough. I mean, I call my car a GTO TT, but it's really a 3000gt VR4. I think a Cobra replica is really a Cobra, not a Mustang. And if someone converted a 240sx into a Skyline, I'd probably call it a Skyline. This becomes difficult to determine and argue, however, when not completed correctly.
At least, I think this is where you were going with this post... lol
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1994 GTO Twin Turbo
nothin wrong with front-wheel drive, I just refuse to own one
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Posted: 08/13/09
11:40 PM
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lol well i ment like tuning your own car and when you'd like stop calling your 300zx a 300zx because its just so unbelievably different than stock. but yeah close enough 
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Bryant
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Posted: 09/30/09
10:21 AM
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no what you start with is what you have.
if you put skyline bodykit on a honda its still a honda
my car has (NO) stock parts but its still a RX-7.
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Greddy T-78 Turbo kit
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ACT StreetStrip Clutch
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PineAppleRacing Racing Oilpan
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Posted: 09/30/09
12:42 PM
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well if you put a body kit on anything, it won't change the car. But, for example, some people do complete engine/tranny/drivetrain swaps. It'd probably be best to just call them hybrid conversions at that point.
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1994 GTO Twin Turbo
nothin wrong with front-wheel drive, I just refuse to own one
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