Originally Posted by Karl2bdc

You know, for guys running around with 996's, it isnt a big deal for a lot of them to drop $30-40k in mods on their car.....could a 944 (and for the sake of my rant, when i say 944, i mean 951/24/etc) owner do that? A 944 is a 20 year old $5,000 car, it is going to break, and it is going to be bought by people that can only afford a $5,000 car. Is it the smartest decision to make? Nope, but people are still going to do it. And how quick the so called "911 mentality" will come out and say "Well, then they should wait before they can afford the repairs to buy a PORSCHE for god's sake." Maybe we should have car buying police....."Hm, lets see son, you only have $4,500, you can only buy a 1993 honda accord or nissan maxima, they are reliable and don't need many repairs." "Yes son, i know that 944 for sale for $4,000 looks nice, but you need at least 10k in the bank to be able to buy that beauty....too bad, i hear they handle like a dream." But in the real world these cars will be bought by people such as college students, grad students, hell even high school students, mechanics, new grads, all of who are trying to get on their feet, and sometimes you have to fab something up until you can afford the real part. I doubt anyone out there that is making $150-200k a year will be caught bitching about paying for a $40 shifter. For someone who can only afford a $5,000 car, a $150 repair item is going to hurt their bank account a bit. Some of these guys have a lot more time than money, and if they can spend 4 hours fabbing up a $40 part for a few bucks that works, then good for them. Maybe it is worth it for them, so that they can take the money they saved and take their kids to a movie. People on here act like "Oh my god, it is a porsche, it must only have top of the line brand new parts put on it." A 944 is not the greatest vehicle on the road by any means, yea it corners good and a turbo has decent acceleration, but come on, i got my *** handed to me by a maxima today. A 944, even with a turbo on it, is still a disposable piece of metal with 4 wheels just like every other car out there. I use to try and fab my own parts, such as doing a shifter fix, and yea, i found out that for ME it wasn't really worth it (mostly because i suck at making things), but if someone else wants to try it and can pull it off, then great good for them. It's great that some of the guys on here can afford to buy their car, and then dump another $10-20k in mods on them, thats awesome, i will soon be in that category too, but not yet. If you guys are sick of people trying to fix their own parts, fabricating something up, then go buy a higher end vehicle that costs more than 5 grand, which has a warranty, so you don't have to hear about people doing what they have to do to get by. I've got a hard head (my mother use to drop me when i was a baby alot), flame away.

Originally Posted by tifosiman

I was just trying to make a point, that, people can't have it both ways. People bitch and complain on here all of the time about the lack of available tuners/aftermarket products for these cars, and about the fact that mods for these cars cost so much money compared to the same mods for other cars (ie, that carbon-fibre hood thread recently comes to mind). What tuner is going to consider spending the money on r&d and production to come up with a product en masse (enough so that it is a decent price), when people don't want to spend even the smallest amount of money ($40) on a factory part that fixes a problem the right way (and has a far greater chance of NOT leaving them stranded when it breaks in the middle of nowhere)?

That's all my point was.

Originally Posted by Blue S2

Yeah im interested in this sock thing too? Any links?