Update the top 10?
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I guess I fooked up my password or something, cuz I tried a different account and works now.. Can somebody delete the SstennizZ garage? KEEP SstennizZ® please! :P
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:shock: :shock: I am in 2nd place
I will put both mine in but they wont be up to speed until end of march / april, I have so much to catch up on after the move, heres a list of bits waiting…..
Full Stainless exhaust system fitting
JDM front lip
Power folding mirrors and wiring
Source a suitable rear diffuser ( have found one that may fit )
Mazdaspeed top spoiler
Full service again ( 6 months is up since last one)The service and exhaust have to be done before dyno day at the end of Feb
I also have the OEM monster to strip and repair, thats a full major service cambelt + waterpump, new pads all round restore alloys, fit new headlight and put everything back to how it came out of the factory plus a major valet as the interior is green with mould now.
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Guys guys guys read the op.
Stop submitting cars start bitchign about the rules and mash something up.
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ohhhhhhhhhhh handbags lol!!
Id suggest we submit a list of atleast 40-50 mx-3s and then open a poll somehow to get it down to a top 10.
still not too sure how to make it work in theory tho ??
maybe you could also use the results to make a uk based top 10 and a world based top 10 ??.
if i have 50 mx-3s staring at me id like to vote on 10 of them in order from 1-10. Then give it a scoring system so number 1 got 10 points and then number 10 got 1 point. Then see who has the most points and then bammmm theres your top 10!!!.
atleast voting that way each voter can vote for their own preference whether its jdm, engine, looks etc!.
thats it im out of ideas! :D
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I think points system would be easiest like above. have everyone that wants to be part of it post pictures of their cars and write the specs and then we go from there.
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Yep, and make it so you can't vote for your own car :lol: :wink:
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ahh good call fox.!
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@fa6b006d85=Lori:
mash something up.
**Done that:
I can haz prize nao?**
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I reckon points out of 10 for quality and workmanship then extra points for either condition for OEM or points for JDM extras, that way it would go up for those who have done more to their car.
Although looking at that
Congrats to Marco for winning
LOL scrap my idea
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@c8ebab2c6a=Famine:
@c8ebab2c6a=Lori:
mash something up.
**Done that:
I can haz prize nao?**
Doesn't count, it's French so deserved it :D
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**That was done when the owners of it drove into the back of my MX-3…
On a slightly less facetious note, the problem is that we each rate different modifications (or lack of) differently - and how we treat our individual cars reflect that.
We won't go into Marvin here, but he's a stripped out track slag because I want a stripped out track slag. If you don't like stripped out track slag '3s, you won't vote him very highly at all.
Similarly Red is an OEM+ point-to-point cruiser - she looks like a stock '3 outside, an SE on the inside and most of the goodies are things you can't see. I think she's quite a special example, but if you're going to vote her highly, you'll vote anything standard just as highly.
Take nightstalker's Bert. I love Bert - he's a little bastard - but I wouldn't do anything to mine that nightstalker's done to Bert. Bert's marmite personified (errr… carified?) and I'll wager most will hate him. Hell, nightstalker hates him, but for different reasons.
About the only thing most of us can agree on is that we hate the sinus-fluid one (except the interior, which is nice if high-maintenance).
While I get it, I genuinely don't think we need a list of the best MX-3s. Mine are the best - for me. Yours is the best for you (unless they're not finished, or you're nightstalker). A list of those belonging to prominent members ought to be enough.**
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but there are always mx-3s out there that you admire, hell i love marcos and gulfs mx-3s and wish i had gulfs paint work and marcos engineering.
Theres more too, mooneggs track slag loads more. Its only others that continue to work on theirs and inspire me to pull my finger out and to do some work to mine. :wink:
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@50d1d99c22=Famine:
Take nightstalker's Bert. I love Bert - he's a little bastard - but I wouldn't do anything to mine that nightstalker's done to Bert. Bert's marmite personified (errr… carified?) and I'll wager most will hate him. Hell, nightstalker hates him, but for different reasons.
Lol, you've got him utterly right there Famine fella, he reminds me of my dog, multi colured, wets himself when he's excited or scared, doesn't like going out at 6:20 am but loves to go out on nice daysand show off, he has a much bigger bark than he actually is and is very disobedient to his owner but when you look at him you see love in his eyes and feel a little sorry for him. He's a little puppy that just keeps eating my socks (bank balance).
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Damn!! I was gonna vote for mine!
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Oi! Less of 'that gold 1.6 hooker'!!!
That car bought MX3's a lot of attention back in the day!!
Good to see the ol' girls still getting passed about! ;)
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:oops: :oops: :oops: :oops: :oops: :oops:
Sorry bud :)
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@ef522519d6=Garfy1981:
but there are always mx-3s out there that you admire, hell i love marcos and gulfs mx-3s and wish i had gulfs paint work and marcos engineering.
Theres more too, mooneggs track slag loads more. Its only others that continue to work on theirs and inspire me to pull my finger out and to do some work to mine. :wink:**I agree - I have no idea who half the people on here are, nor what their cars look like. I know there's a guy with all of the Equipes ever made, there's that Gulf one (which rocks), nightstalker and Bert… err... that sinus-fluid one that apparently has been passed around like Madeleine McCann at a Portuguese Nonce's Anonymous meeting...
Hang on, there's some more... There's a red one... Errr... a red one?
Bluntly, even mine are pretty anonymous and I don't think a top ten vote will change that - in fact I'll wager that the top ten will be largely from the core members who've interacted off the site and, where they aren't, they'll be ZEs. I'd bet that you could predict all ten - though not necessarily in the right order - right now. I couldn't, since I only know four of them to recognise them at first glance :lol:
What would be better for the site isn't a one-off vote, or even the badly underused garage section as it is. It'd be a profile field containing your car(s).
Couple of examples for you:
Pistonheads member profile | Pistonheads member "My Garage" section
EcoModder thread - cars linked below avatars | EcoModder car profileEcoModder's way of doing it is nearly ideal (they could do with with having the cars within the user's profile page too), but to be utterly blunt it'd need investment in the site - phpBB is free for a reason and vBulletin is not free for a reason. But it's borderline necessary for the community.
I have no idea who the people at PH and EM are that I've picked. Twas random*
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The problem with voting is that it never works when theres so many variables, and with cars you have variables and then sub variables and then more sub variables, each one appealing to everyone differently.
Personal tastes should be left aside, so not what you would or wouldnt like, but whether you think it works in the way it has been done. For example, adding a 12" subwoofer bass bin, isnt a mod, its just a box with a speaker in it that someone else built in a factory and you threw in the boot, its no more of a mod than changing your wiper blades from Valeo to Bosch or you plugs from Denso to NGK, however a custom made install with a 12" sub right at the heart of a fibreglass lined boot install is praise worthy, whether youd do it yourself or not, the individual has taken the time and expense to create something they wanted and done a good job, in the same sense you wouldnt rate a car that had 40 speakers duct taped onto it well at all, but if the time was taken to do it properly then its a plus.
Works of art are appreciated by different people in a wide variety of ways, some may not like it or understand its message while others will think its brilliant, but its still art regardless of whether its the Mona Lisa or a childs sketch of a rocket ship, I could draw a rocket ship in 10seconds, and itd be crap, but if your own child drew an equally crap rocket ship youd think it was brilliant, just because they tried and did the best they could, where as I hadnt. How you appreciate it is all subjective to the individual, just as different paint colours on the same vehicle make a complete difference in opinion. I like white cars, but I wouldnt buy one cos they look mucky after 2 miles and the paint always goes bad, but I still like it, and thats why those opinions shouldnt be factored in, what should be is that its in good or bad condition and does it suit the vehicle. Thats what I think should be the important view point to being the best MX3. As such I think anything that isnt standard be it aftermarket or JDM, if it wasnt on that exact car in question when it first rolled out of the factory, its modified.
What Im basically saying is that cars should be rated on the effort and time involved in making them the way they are, not whether you would do it or would want it. Credit should be given to those that have done that, for that reason Ill never be anywhere near the top, since I dont intend on doing a great deal to my car, I like it the way it is, I didnt buy it so I could turn it into something else, so my car will always be better than any of yours and vice versa, but it shouldnt effect the fact that someone else has tried more, I dont like JDM, at all, but I have to hand it to Dj, hes spend months buying and selling cars, just to get the parts he wanted from them, and so for me, his car is the best, even though I personally dont like it (no offense)
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You also have the option of rather than points, have fixed terms over two criteria.
Does it enhance the car?
Would you want it?Both requiring only a yes/no answer, since points are all too messy.
Like Famine said, hes got the highest rated ICE install when all it is really is a double din cd and cassette player. Why is that so highly rated when Dj has what can only really be matched to a rolling studio crammed into his car, yet he isnt highest. Doesnt make much sense. Is that down to people missing Dj's garage or favouritism towards Famine? Who knows, who even cares, all that it shows it that the system doesnt work.
Or you could spread it out like it is in the garage, taking the numbers from each category to determine the best, sectioned by Class, JDM, Custom, Original, Track and Retro, that gives everyone an opportunity to compete, with retro being a reinvented modernised version of the car, where the car stays the same shape, but is as if it had been invented today by Mr Mazda, and the practicality of it has not suffered, that would be stuff like HID conversions, or fitting better speakers into the current locations and still being able to put the grills back on, keeping it looking to all intents and purposes standard.
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@40fb239f67=Jesta:
favouritism towards Famine
**:lol: I doubt that! No bugger would know who I was if I didn't type in blue or if they hadn't met me - and I've met three people off here, not including Venari who I dragged here with me.
However, by the same token, I can't abide huge ICE installs. Cars are shocking places to listen to music properly and dynamat can only do so much. Which means you either go for something simple that just allows you to listen to your music on a long journey (which I have) or VOLUME which I can't stand either. Besides, the V6 sounds just fine on its own :D**