Hey guys. Well I got a very broad question. I will have about $2500 coming pretty soon here and wanted to hear some suggestions for ways to spend it. My current mods are in my sig. Just blert them out. Thanks.

 

Personally I would buy a stand alone ECU. You seem to already have most of the stuff you can do already without changing out the ECU. Then later when you get more money you can put in a nice big turbo.

Oh wait, you have stock suspension? You could go and buy some nice new shiny shocks and springs for some twisty road fun.

 

If I just had the lump sum handed to me like that, Id get suspension or brakes...

Only because its something I personally would probably keep putting off otherwise

 

suspension - coilovers, shocks, springs
FMIC and SAFC would be a good idea
ahh just get a bis *** turbo haha
man i wish i was getting 2500, FMIC, K2RD coilovers, and a lip spoiler.
Chris

 

Ya its something I am putting off too. My suspension i plenty good for what I do with the car now. Brakes? Well new pads and maybe some rotors, lol. Here are some of my ideas(not getting all of them, just options):


720cc secondaries
s-afc
standalone ecu
catback
upgraded turbo
fmic
bov
getting a/c fixed(its hotter than a **** down here)
boost controller


Right now I am interested in mainly performance in a straight line. I figure I'll work on looks early next year.

 

Personally, I would but lots of carbon fiber stuff from me.....

Seriously though, do you really want to spend it all on your car? Dont get me wrong, I love buying new stuff for my car, but I still have lots of things I could also use the money for. But if youre going to get car stuff, I would say get some good tires if you dont already have them, get some suspension stuff. But think about how much you need. If you dont do much road racing or corner carving, do you really need a fully adjustable $1500 suspension setup? With the left over money, I would try to get a good intercooler.

 

Wait, the "coming soon" in his sig aren't part of what he already has on order? If not then I would say Suspension & brakes, then maybe clutch/flywheel then fuel upgrades, FMIC, ECU and Turbo.....

 

Nope haven't ordered the stuff in the "COMING SOON" part, lol. Was thinking about it. Like I said, I don't need suspension upgrades, they will come later on. Basically from an acceleration stand point I guess.

 

Well, with intake, downpipe, TID if you get the rest of the exhaust done you might want to do the fuel upgrades at the same time so you don't blow your engine. I think you pretty much have to do the fuel upgrades before you do anything else to add more power whether it be with a piggy back fuel controller or the stand alone ecu.

 

yeah i think the suppention would be a good idea
i mean either that or some nice young 20 y/o with nice um teeth yeah that would work too.
but i would go with the springs and stuff

 

I'd put it in a money market account until the US economy really crashes (soon to come IMO), and then buy up a bunch of stocks for cheap, and sell them off in a year or two so that I can afford even better mods.

 

I'd go to Vegas....

Rat

 

just think of which mod would make you happiest, and theres your answer

 

i'd go to vegas too. i'd be at the pai gow table my whoel stay there. if not go with the upgraded fuel system, haltech baby, even though its not enough

 

*singing* vegas vegas here i come.. back where i started from..

 

How about save up for when the engine blows like all turbo's eventually do....


*runs and ducks*

 

 

I would focus on getting things that make a big difference that you wouldn't otherwise be able to quickly afford. Something like larger injectors is easy to save up for in like a month or so, but a big investment part like an intercooler is always something just out of reach.

First thing I'd do is an intercooler - this is one of the biggest, best mods you can do power-wise on an FC. You gain a big margin of safety and more power. The intercooler is one of the foundation pieces that will stay with you for a long time.

I would definitely get suspension - you'd be amazed at the difference it will make! If you are mainly looking at drag racing (ugh), get at least some aftermarket shocks and springs - KYB AGX's and some Suspension Techniques springs. You could get that whole setup for under $600, and will really make a dramatic improvement on EVERY aspect of the car - you'd be surprised!

After that, I would probably take the rest of the money and get maintenance type stuff - do you need a set of tires? Maybe a set of drag tires and rims? Motor mounts? Diff mount? Some Redline oil for the tranny and diff? Fix that broken door handle?

Might even be worth getting a wideband - you can get the Lamdaboy for $485 ready to rock (http://www.lamdaboy.com) and charge your friends to use it .

Dale

 

get the exhaust, injecters, safc or haltech(depends on what else you get), fmic, bigger turbo?, different gears, save up for new motor. or

one hell of a night on the town with a couple of buddies

 

Well, if it was me, i would probably buy a engine to fill the 8sqr foot gaping hole that apeared in the front of my car,

but if i was in ur shoes i would probably go standalone, i would do my best to tune and spend extra $ on some dyno time to tune the hell out of it

-Jacob

 

if i had 2500 bucks i'd send me engine to get rebuilt and get a medium streetport. or maybe buy an fmic, downpipe, bigger secondaries, safc, and full exhaust. can you get all that for 2500 bucks? maybe make one or two of those parts used.

 

Well I already have the downpipe and midpipe. I definitely want to get my a/c fixed. Thats going to happen. Going to get larger injectors because I will need them either way. Thinking about a fmic now. Where can you buy the GReddy for the cheapest?

 

And suspension

 

Hah... So far the only good idea I've seen is from Evil Aviator... Why spend money when you can make it? And remember the saying, it takes money to make money. Or at least invest $500-1000 of it.

 

your not sopose to say that jackass. your sopose to say "that motor will last you for a long time. dont worry about a new one"