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If you ever sell your car, mods don't add anything to the value. Most the time they subtract from the value and reduce the potential numbers of buyers for your car. When the time comes to sell your Z (even if you can't imagine it now) you will come out the best if you put your car back to stock and sell the performance parts on here for additional dollars $$$. With ~57k miles on your car, sold as stock you'd probably having people flying in to buy a "low mileage unmolested Z". If you keep your car and IF it becomes a collector car, it will be worth more with the stock parts. My dad bought a 67 427 vette in 73' and modified it over the next decade while he rolled with local car clubs. With time however, the stock vettes started clibming in value while the modified vettes started dropping. Throughout the eighties as a kid I helped my dad hunt down stock parts at flea markets until it was returned to stock. We had to find parts with a date stamped on them within a 3 month range. Now it is bloomington certified and he's gotten offers from collectors at shows for up to $130,000. About a decade earlier when his car was appraised at 69k, his buddies were selling their modified big block vettes for 20-30k. I don't know what the modified ones are fetching now, but I'm sure it's not as much. Either way, it is not worth the small price you'd get to sell the parts. That is why I keep all of mine in the basement.
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