Not sure how much I have spent. Lets see:

-$50 for brake and fuel lines
-$100 for new rear brake rotor
-$450 for exhaust
-$100 for used radiator
-$100 for rear one piece wrap around spoiler
-$50 for primer and rubberized undercoating
-$60 for welding tank
-$50 for wiring (not sure, havent done it yet but needs to be done)
-$40 for carb rebuild kit
-$200 for winter tires
-$150 for door seals
-a few other parts that I haven't looked into yet
-having fun while spending the money, priceless.

In all, I have spent about $1350. There will be more, but thats all I can think of right now. That doesn't include the $500 purchase of the car. That is all canadian currency too.

Oh yeah, forgot to mention that is I add in the stuff I got for free, I could add another $1650. I got an E-fan for free. Probebly worth about $150. Then the gas tank. It isn't a direct fit, but it works. An OEM tank for this is about $800 american, which is about $1500 canadian from mazdatrix.

 

How many forum members does it take to change a lightbulb?

1 to change the light bulb and 1 to post that the light bulb has been changed
14 to share similar experiences of changing light bulbs and how the light bulb could have been changed differently
7 to caution about the dangers of changing light bulbs
5 to point out spelling/grammar errors in posts about changing light bulbs
17 to flame the spell checkers
10 to correct spelling/grammar flames
6 to argue over whether it's "lightbulb" or "light bulb"
... another 6 to condemn those 6 as ****-retentive
2 industry professionals to inform the group that the proper term is "lamp"
15 know-it-alls who claim they were in the industry, and that "light bulb" is perfectly correct
8 to email the participant's ISPs complaining that they are in violation of their "acceptable use policy"
5 to post that this forum is not about light bulbs and to please take this discussion to a lightbulb forum
9 to demand that cross posting to hardware forum, off-topic forum, and lightbulb forum about changing light bulbs be stopped
4 people to post. can this be made a sticky?
1 new forum member to respond to the original post 6 months from now and start it all over again

hahahahaha.. thats great.. oh.. and I was in the last bracket.. *shrugs*..
theres more to be spent....

 

71.00 for car at ins auction , 60.00 sale fee, 85.00 transport home , 150.00 for paint and supplies, 100.00 wheels and tires at pawn shop, 30.00 tune up stuff, 45.00 at midas to have 2.25 pipe made from conv back and install donated fartpipe with 4.5 tip, 10.00 highway patrol inspect, so about 550,560? ive had it a month and got about 80 hours in body and pain and prep, man i love yellow, btw i forgot about 25.00 for junkyard spoiler, and 35 for high speed tire balance, and the best part ?reciepts in storage bin ,new mota , clutch, driveshaft, and ac comp 15k ago,

 

Bought the car for 500. 1200 on paint supplys/spray guns. 1000 for misc interior/exterior trim. 1200 rims and tires. 800 carb and intake. 1000 for the engine. 200 fuel pump and regulator. 375 steering/suspension. The joy of doing it all myself.....priceless.

peace

 

The only one? Think again.

I don't even want to think about how much I've put in mine, and then it still needs paint ....

 

I worked it out last night to exactely $15,000 dollars since I bought the car.

And it's still not complete, another 15,000 and I should have everything that I want.

 

about $2000 on the stereo.
$300 for tinting
and $50 getting my 5th and 6th ports to work

 

Yup. That's it. These cars are easy and cheap to work on, and the pleasure of owning and driving such a car is priceless.

B

 

I did the same post less than a month ago. I guess the starter of this thread didn't bother searching. It had almost the exact name too.