It was fun.
The Murdersofa in question is a 2005 Buick LeSabre limited, my first car (I'm 19). Living in the middle of Kansas it is literally impossible to pull up at a light and look around and NOT see an 8th-gen LeSabre at the same intersection, and I loathed the idea of owning something that everybody else had, so I did the following mods:
Visual:
Blacked out grille
Plastidip entire body matte black
Red autozone pinstripe
18" knockoff Zinik wheels
Red interior LEDs *EVERYWHERE*
Fake carbon-fiber wrapped dashboard
Performance:
Incredibly large (a good 13 inches long, given to me as a joke) warm air intake (heat shield? What's dat?)
Muffler and resonator replaced with glasspack, 3" exhaust made from junkyard steel pipe
All-weather directional sport tires in front, slightly larger summer sport tires in the back
ZPP 1.0 tune that I'm about to tweak a bit with DHP because I still hate this 4T65E and the way it shifts
Heavy-duty rear air shocks
Nonfunctional front strut tower brace
Red painted engine cover makes things faster
Other:
My dashboard is a LG L9 phone running Torque connected via Bluetooth, so I get timing, MAF, MAP, etc. information as I'm driving. It takes a strong will to not be distracted by it
Instead of a legitimate car audio setup, I just grabbed a Sony 3-way speaker and a really REALLY nice Klipsch 2-way floorstanding speaker, duct taped them to each other, and jammed the speakerwire in the stock connections in the trunk. Sounds amazing, looks ghetto as hell.
The intake is duct-taped in place. It makes things faster.
Here's a picture of the majestic.... thing.
Here's a look under the hood. The strut tower brace was mostly just an excuse for me to weld. I've been told that since it isn't held in by two bolts on either side it's doing me no good, so until I weld on an additional piece to each end, it's nonfunctional.
Also notice the huge filter. It's a K&N my buddy found lying on the ground at his shop and tossed it at me saying "fit that in your engine bay". I don't think he expected me to try, but *dang* it opened up the higher end.
Aaand here's a gif I made after a bit of hooning in a snowy parking lot.
Random fact about this car: It has 226,000 miles on it. When I got it, it took a yawn-inducing 11.2 seconds to get from 0 to 60. After these mods and a bit of seafoam, I can now hit 60 in a very reasonable 8 seconds flat. Not bad considering I've spent less than $600 on parts for this car.
