How much have you put into your money pit AKA RX7?
 

I felt like making a new thread of "how much have you put in" so here it goes:
87 Sport- 2100
88 GTU- 1000
Sunroof/Bumper/Wing/Illumina/Tanabe- 500
DiffMount/Exhaust Manifold/Misc-100
Install of The Stuff- 500
Misc Parts- 400
Fixing Current Prob- 200
~4800

-400 For Selling Off parts

~4400

Then Insurance is 1800 A year (Being 16 Sucks, And I pay for everything)

And i'm still NA I feel bad, anyone else spend this much and still is NA? Mod list is in sig.

thats how much ur insurance is damn, thats so cheap, i pay 2100 a year for my 97 mercury tracer!!! used to pay 3200 for a 99 kia sportage

I guess its cheap, but I earn 6.75 an hour and all my money either goes to: Option 1- Fix FC, Option 2- Save For Insurance, Option 3- Mod FC, Never go out, every penny counts in this world.

Btw heres my 88 GTU I bought, with the motor swap for 1K

http://www.imagestation.com/album/?id=4285887897

And heres the 87 Sport I bought for 2.1K and it had a broken diff mount, was supposedly a GXL, bad exhaust manifold. But I got 4 TII Rims, 4 Silver GXL rims, 4 Black GXL Rims, RB Cat-Back Exhaust, Sparco Steering wheel and A lil sound system. I was young and stupid back in the day :(

http://www.imagestation.com/album/?id=4285959165

ID: yao2005
PW: drift

-Andrew

P.S. Sorry for the post whoring :(

over $4000

including all mods on my sig...
plus lots and lots of sweat and cuts and bruises from doing all the work to it myself with my friends.
i only payed for the rebuild to be done.

plus this was an 87 Sport model i tansformend to a T2 :)

2,900 for my 91 n/a 500 for exhaust 100 for alternator 150 for fd alternator i need my car checked out bc i think the injectors need cleaned bc it stalls under hard braking revving it to redline and let it drop to idle it stalls sometimes ect and maybe 8,500 for a 89 black t2 in perfect condition and mildly modded

Damn you get cars cheap although i think you earn less money or something?? cause 6.75 is probably below or around minimum wage here (otherwise known as 15 y.o working at mcdonalds)...

I'm about to import a car from japan (all up it's costing me around $8500 to get it here and on-road) car costs about $3,300 for a Series 5 '89 GT-X turbo, then the rest goes to shipping, tax, more tax, duties, and then rego/insurance/etc...

Only very very shit cars in Aust go for about 2,900. You'd probably only get a 1st gen for 2,900$ AU...

weird how it all works :P

20k in one
4k in the other

mine is towards 10k ...
money pit...

Including the price of car, upgrades, repairs, maintenance upwards of 25K.

My habit pays for itself.
Initial cost for '89 GXL (auto) $1,000
Replaced auto trans $200
Bought turbo II parts car $100 (made $600 + took 5 speed parts)
ACT pro lite wheel and TII clutch $0
Bonez straight pipe $100
Custom 2.5" exhaust + muffler $300
Toyo Proxes 4 225/50/16 $380
New system $600
Bought GTU for $800 and sold for $2300

So all in all my car cost $680.

86 GXL $4300
Tires $400
Intake $250
Relpace switches + guages $300
Trans $400
Engine $1000
New sub $175
Plugs $30
Lubricants $100
Clutch $250
Resurface flywheel $40
Headlights $50
Muffler $100

Total $7395 (Holy Shit!)

yeah money pit indeed, but still wouldn't trade it for anything (except another 7) worth every penny if you ask me.

oh yeah....
Tickets $1200 at least, if not more
Insurance $4000
Gas............ way too much

86 GTU N/A $1400
Oil leak first week $300
new 4 piston calipiers and rear calipers $300
TurboII swap $4000
FMIC $1000
GT40 turbo $1000
Hks wastegate $300
RB exhuest $700
New paint and body work $1000
Insurance $1600

$800 including the cost of the car.

Thats just fixing things though.

Mods will eventually suck multiple thousands of dollars out of me. (about $9000 based on my list)

I just dropped $4000 on a paint job. And the fucking thing was *supposed to come out flawless...

87 GXL - $1200
89 GXL - $300
Swap in 87 engine - $0
88 TII - $150
Swap in 87 TII engine $0
sell 87 N/A 300
Total for 89 GXL with rebuilt 88 TII engine - $1350

91 na
purchase price - 500
rebuilt engine - 750
paint - 1200
tires - 300
vert wheels - 250
misc - 400
TOTAL - 3,400 and its now in near mint condition

89 Vert
Purchase Price - 800
Rebuilt engine - 2250 - included new rotor housings
rb catback - 600
tires - 300
rebuilt trans - 500
rad - 300
stereo system - 600
tii lip - 300
tii hood - 150
rear wing - 25
paint - 1500
Light flywheel - 200
HD Clutch/PP 300

Look on ricer when I let off a huge belch of flames at night in front of his house - Priceless

Total - 8K and counting i I have more should I keep going ?:p:

hey you are only 16 right. hears my advice get a project if your car is your project thats good because no mater how much you dump into your car it is worth it. because when you are done with it you will be proud to have it and because it is yours and it is the only one like it. hey i 5 years or so when i am done with mine i will have a shit load of money in it and i doint care if i get my money back because if i dident have that car to spend my time and money on i would be a drunk and be broke any how doint take things for granted

1st car bought for $3700 CAD
put about 35,000 into it

2nd car bought for $2700
put about 2000 into it

3rd car bought for $3500
put about 100 into it

4th car bought for 9000
put about 35,000 into that

I want details on cars number 1 and 4.
Matt:)

About 6 grand including the car. Its pretty built, ported, t4 turbo, fmic, microtech, suspension, rims/tires, somewhat shitty paint tho, And a still completely full bottle of nitrous in it(who needs that shit anyways)

Well i I have just gotten into my project

project fund:
88 SE ~ $500
all misc stuff so for alike fluids and whatnot ~$400~$500

so ive only had it about a month and @ 1000 bucks seems accurate but BELIEVE me it will be alot more

1st car was a base 87n/a i built up over the years and in the last 3 weeks of owning it i pumped another 8G into it doing a swap and tons of other turbo crapola. Then 5 hours after the car got outta the bodyshop with a full repaint it got stolen and stripped and burned the frame.

4th car i bought with lots of money put into it and ive parked it for 8-9 months now and just been puttin mroe money into it.. should be back on the road in a few days.. im getting quite ancy :)

Okay lets see here:
'90 GXL-$1900
Tag/Registration-$350
Insurance (annually)-$144
Clutch-$535
E-Fan- $FREEBY$
Header-Er, I think about $200
Spark Plugs & Racing wires- $FREEBY$
HKS Hi-Power Mufflers-$90 (eBay :D:D)

That bring me to a grand total of about $3,200. I plan on lots of mods in the future so I'll be sure to update the money pit's consumption.

Dont want to count, but its between $10k and $20k