Popular Mods and Where They Came From #BlogPost

We all know that trends come and go. There have been countless car mod trends that have become popular over the years, but where did the ideas come from?

We all know that trends come and go. There have been countless car mod trends that have become popular over the years, but where did the ideas come from?

Yellow Lights

Popular Mods and Where They Came From #BlogPost

Yellow headlights (usually achieved either by tint or by yellow HIDs) come from racing origins. The concept originally came from France, and was used for GT racing. The idea behind is that yellow lights create less glare and allows faster classes to identify the GT cars at night.

Negative Camber

Popular Mods and Where They Came From #BlogPost

Running negative camber on street cars is arguably the most popular current trend. While this tends to hurt performance due to a decreased contact patch size, its roots are performance oriented. Slight negative camber is used in racing, and the theory behind this tactic is based on increasing the contact patch through corners. As weight shifts to one side or the other, the tire is actually forced into having optimum grip.

Taped Headlights

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The taped X’s across headlights are another trend that originates from racing. Taping headlights is often required as a safety measure in case the car is in a collision. Taping the headlights reduces the likelihood that glass or plastic shards will scatter across the racetrack which could cause tire punctures for other racers.

Fat Tires

Popular Mods and Where They Came From #BlogPost

Fat rubber has been something that has been popular for both performance and aesthetic benefits for decades. This trend became especially popular in America in the 70s with muscle cars trying to mimic the drag racers running enormous slicks. Obviously, there are performance benefits from running a wider tire as well.


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Anonymous

What about stretched tires

03/07/2016 - 20:24 |
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Anonymous

In reply to by Anonymous (not verified)

No racing oriented origin whatsoever… Just pure stupidity

03/07/2016 - 20:56 |
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Christo M

In reply to by Anonymous (not verified)

I am pretty sure that someone just tried to put smaller tire on wider wheel and people found that it looks cool.

03/07/2016 - 20:59 |
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Anonymous

In reply to by Anonymous (not verified)

Their Origin is from when a brother and sister are having sexytime and the girl gets pregnant.. 18-19 years later that kid gets his hand on a car, and doesnt know better than put a 130 on 25j rims… Thats all

03/07/2016 - 21:03 |
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Anonymous

Fattiresarefat

Why drive the racecar daily? Because I daily race.

03/07/2016 - 20:24 |
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Quinten

Because racecar!

03/07/2016 - 20:25 |
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Anonymous

I blame most everything on the fast and furious films

03/07/2016 - 20:50 |
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The Central Intelligence Agency of America

What about OTT rice?

03/07/2016 - 21:49 |
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Anonymous

Yellow headlight came from France. It was a restriction or something like that.

03/07/2016 - 22:34 |
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Sprek

I know they originated from France, but I’ve heard yellow lights are better when foggy compared to white ones. Does anyone know if this is true?

03/07/2016 - 23:46 |
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Baka Tori

In reply to by Sprek

Yes. White light reflects off fog. Yellow penetrates. Our eyes pick up light easier, the close they are to a 3000k-ish spectrum. Even if white and yellow HID’s share the same lumens, our eyes pick up the details better if it is yellow.

03/08/2016 - 02:09 |
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Ricardo Mercio

In reply to by Sprek

Yes. They were the legal norm in France in the 40’s, and became very useful during the second world war, as the underground resistance would use them to differentiate French and German cars at night: anything with white headlights was allowed to approach until point-blank and met with a hail of bullets.

03/11/2016 - 14:31 |
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Igor Konuhov

As far as I could gather the taping of the headlights is not required for cars with plastic light covers, only for glass. Which is exactly why I’m the only one sporting these sexy crosses on trackdays :D Old school!

03/08/2016 - 01:30 |
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Anonymous

Actually pretty informative :D Please expand future versions of this list :)

03/08/2016 - 03:15 |
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