true, but about 90% of the mods that were on my protege, everyone thought was stock so really the parts were just there for my enjoyment. The average person(or judge) would never notice that I actually took the time and effort to crawl behind my engine and throw on that awr mount after about 2 and 1/2 hours of pure work. no one noticed the daveb gauge rings, they all thought they were factory. most people actually thought my stripes came on my car from the factory. the only thing that everyone knew couldn't be factory was the stereo and the playstation 2. unfortunatly the stereo was all stock with the exception of my indash screen.
oh and i guess that most people knew that my sparco torino2 wasn't stock either.