wondering about show criteria.

[Wallenc]

I havnt even been to a car show in years and when I did go I didnt compete and never really paid attention to the standards, I just walked around with my jaw on the floor gaping at all the shineys.

Now I have the goal to make my accent show viable. I want LOUD sound but I dont really care to go SPL as I'm making enough modifications that I would have to go Ultimate/unlimited to meet the modification criteria and I dont really plan on putting that much boom in the car. I was planning on going overall, interior/exterior.

Originally I hadnt planned on touching the engine compartment or undercarriage but I'm noticing that seems to be a pretty standard thing at most shows does anyone have any feed back? does having performance parts on the car help with show ratings? I dont really care much to make the car faster (yet, I'm debating a beta swap down the road) but if I need to dress up under the hood and under the carriage i need to know now so I can take care of some things before I put on a body kit or do the paint job. I hate posting here, I really wish there was a chat room that I could just grab some one and ask a billion questions, I need a mentor!
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[accentguru]

what I have learnt already about showing is most places wont let you enter with out rims, lowering and/or a body kit...that is step one..if u dont want speed and u want to be show (all show, no go) then concentrate on one area at a time...build it up then move on..u will have a sweet lookin ride before you know it. Dress up the engine by making it shine! The judges look for clean looks..such as clean lines on the car (shaved mouldings..blah blah blah)...If you want to win some shit, when you get your new paint job, get the mouldings pulled off and filled in..that will give the body a stream line look...get some nice rims...drop it with some springs (I actually suggest coil overs so that u can adjust the height)...Main thing to remember, make the car yours..make it so that when ppl see u at the show they stop and take a good look!!! After you have completed the exterior...move to the interior...make sure that if you paint the car a colour such as BRIGHT ASS YELLOW, that the interior is matched taste-fully. Dont have like a red interior and a blue exterior...make the car flow together...it takes patience and money, but u know what....it pays off in the end...Good luck and you are in the right place to get ppl to respond to these types of questions cause there are some hot rides here..!! MAKE IT YOURZ BRO!!! l8r...

[Wallenc]

I'm doing the interior right now because I can fix it up for less money

My "vision" so far is a metallic pearl white exterior with a tribal style black flame on the hood and sides. 1.5 lowered on 16inch racing style 5-8spoke wheels probably gun metal finish. Rally style body kit not to "shogun" looking but with a little flare to it. The interior is partially done but finished will be all fibreglass finish panels in white and black with some grey accents here and there. Green lighting, black carpet, black grey and white flame accents in a few spots. the back seat is gone and replaced with a black carpeted box that sits fairly low but doesnt extend into the trunk or into the "leg area". I'll be molding a fibreglass panel for the leg area that will house some of my electronics and hide alot of my wiring. replaced the seats with black and grey racing buckets and I'm putting a thin black layer of cloth on my overhead with lights underneath it so there will be a pattern glowing through the cloth.

So far the seat is removed and the box is in place, my seats will be in next week and I'll be redoing carpet black.

The engine compartment I'm not too worried about, I can shine it up np, the undercarriage I have no clue about I'll have to read up on that and see some examples. if they dont care about performance parts like CAI and what not then I'm set. making it pretty I can do putting performance parts on I'm not really feeling. I dont care much for performance on this car just looks and sound

[1SickGS]

This is what I've learned from the 19 shows that I've entered my car in...Almost every show and every judge will use different criteria for judging. Don't perform any mods with the intent of impressing a judge. Cater your mods to your liking and your needs! And never go into a show with intent to win, just show up and try to have a good time. You're building your car to have fun, not to take home trophies.

My opinion of a show car. Should be well rounded. If you're going to do a wild interior, your exterior, engine bay, and trunk (stereo) should be equally wild. If you're just doing basic mods (simple interior, wheels, body kit), you engine should have, at least, basic intake/header/exhaust/dress.

[NeoRage]

you gotta post pics of your stuff man. Don't be teasing us with what your going to do and then not post pics! WIP pics are cool tool. They help me get creative.

[IGotASlowCivic]

Well dude. If you want to keep it simple and drive this puppy around town everywhere, as well as not throw your entire fortune into it. You can simply redo the interrior for 500bucks , put some rims on it for 1200, polish some stuff under the hood (if not buy performance parts [headers,intake] , drop the sucker a tad, and buy a nice system with a nice custom box (wood or fiberglass. or combo of both) in the hatch area, and then you've got yourself a nice accent thats a competitor for "Stock" class.

Most people assume stock class is roll with something that came right off the lot of a dealship, but in most cases (up to the people who are throwing the show) , its just a sharp looking vehicle with mods here and there. So all those that are rolling in with stock cars thinking they'll win a trophy.. they'll be competing against you.

Remember the classes : Stock. Mild. and Wild.

someone double check me on this but isnt stock also known as "street"?


Edit: Most shows dont let you look at their score sheets, but if you have a city or state with a car council, go there and they usually have a basic score sheet for everyone else to follow off of.

[Edited by IGotASlowCivic on Oct 18, 2003 8:10 AM]

[Wallenc]

I've got some pics of the wip for the box I put in but thats about all I've done so far if I can find a reliable hosting service today I'll get em up and post em.
I may just slap em on cardomain.com that should work In the middle of installing my new scanner so I can get to work on my design for my vinyl car wrap and guages.

btw Mr. Kevin.. thank you for the info and insight I'll be pointing anyone I find that wants gauges your way lord knows I dont wanna do this shiz twice!