Modding your guitar would be a great idea especially since you own a strat, probably the easiest guitar to hotrod. So, if you're looking for something different without dropping tons of money into a whole new guitar, check out the "Everything Axe" set from Seymour Duncan. It's a set of 3 strat-sized mini-humbuckers. They are direct replacements for your fender single-coils. So all you really need to do is print off a wiring diagram and solder the new ones in to place. The set is pretty expensive but if you're like me and only play in the neck or bridge position you can replace just one (depending on where you like to play). My friend put the set on his '57 reissue and it screams. Also, when "hotrodding" a strat you can look at some custom wiring tricks such as push/pull pots, kill switches, etc. When it comes to the looks of the guitar, that's the easy part... just do what you want. I recently made-over my first strat by wrapping the pickgaurd in duct-tape and covering the body with old ticket stubs... But before all that I took the electronics out and set the body on fire... haha. That's a bit extreme but like I say, whatever works for YOU. Good luck with it man