What is the WORST modification you have made to your car?

[Martins Stag]

I see the request for the best modification has thrown up some interesting ideal (I am going to be looking up Fiat Coupe seats) 

But what is the worst modification that you will own up to doing?  

I'll kick this of with removing the paint and polishing up the headlight surround on a 1500 Spitfire. It took me ages to do and it didn't look great so I swapped them back... 

Much better painted 

[RobPearce]

I fitted a (cheap) electric fuel pump to my Vitesse (because the engine swap had meant my original pump didn't fit and the Herald one wasn't up to the job). It was so bad I sourced a later mechanical pump and put it back to standard.

[Clive]

I moved the steering rack forwar and inch or so on my previous spitfire (the rack was in the way of getting the zetec in and being able to shut the bonnet.

Made the car horrendous to drive. Took ages to move the engine back that extra inch....

[Adrianb]

I don’t recon on doing this to the 13/60 But I did mastic the boot of my MG Midget to stop it leaking ! That was alright till my dad wanted his tools from my boot the following weekend! I was the only Tool in the garage ! According to him.

[foshi]

removing a perfectly good original stag engine selling it , then fitting a rover v8 , lost that lovely stag burble not the same car with the rover engine .

[standardthread]

Selling my first Herald 12/50 to build a Spartan, lack of cash, wish I'd had the space to keep both. Then later changing the 1600 Vitesse engine in the Spartan for a Herald 13/60 engine.

[Wendy Dawes]

1 hour ago, foshi said:

removing a perfectly good original stag engine selling it , then fitting a rover v8 , lost that lovely stag burble not the same car with the rover engine .

Stag engine a sound all their own 🥳

[iani]

Removing a perfectly capable Mk1 2l engine from my Mk1 GT6 & replacing it with a 2.5l unit, despite the latter being fully rebuilt, effectively twice, I still don't have it running properly.

[Batch]

Not so much my 'modification' more one I inherited when I picked up a 2.5PI estate from a main dealers Poole in 1978. Travelling up the M3 in the dark, couldn't work out what the noise was from the rear axle above about 55 mph, pulled in the services at Fleet so I could get some light and found out that the rear tyres were remoulds and they had begun to delaminate. Needless to say I carried on at a very much reduced rate and then spent Saturday finding a complete set of new tyres!

[RobPearce]

1 hour ago, Batch said:

begun to delaminate

Funnily enough, the only car of mine that's ever had a tyre delaminate was a 2.5PI estate, and it was a rear, and in the dark, and the only thing I really noticed was a weird noise. I was on the A14 and not that far from home, so just carried on, then checked in the morning to find a large patch of the tread just missing.

[DVD3500]

Not my mod but a housemate cut a hole in the hood/bonnet of his '67 Mustang. I think to make space for new, bigger motor.

Somehow during this they must have weakened/damaged the front catch as the hood decided to flip up on the highway ... luckily thanks to the hole he could keep going!

 

[Wendy Dawes]

Not a Triumph I’m afraid but in my youth my brother and myself had a bond bug, we visited friends in Warwickshire near Gaydon and decided to cut out a ‘sunroof’ basically we cut a square panel out of the roof,  went for a mad drive through the fields at the back of the house drove through a fresh cow pat in the grass — 

i am sure  you can guess the rest 😝 yep it splashed up straight into the newly cut hole in the roof 😂😂

Edited October 20, 2022 by Wendy Dawes