Ever regret modifying a car?

[jphanna]

Is there decision you made to modify a car that you wish you never did?

For me in the 80’s I had one of those wedge front celica’s (please don’t ban from this site now!!!), you know the ones that had a rating of 56kw , well I had the idea of installing one of those import japanese twin cam engines. the orig motor was running perfectly at the time and it had only 50,000km so I decided to give that to the mechanic!

The car served it purpose as a ‘pose mobile’ back then with even a Suzuki mightboy being able to blow one of those into the weeds…but with a twin cam that was going to fix all those embarrassing traffic light drags.

Well that motor never ran right. I went to at least 6 different mechanics to try and iron out a massive flat spot and it never went away, also there was a driveline vibration that could be felt at any speed, and the valves kept receding into the head so it always needed shims to correct that problem so you get the message that the whole idea was a disaster.

Anyone have a disaster story you regret….