Okay, right now I'm in a bind. While I have been looking to sell my car and buy something else, the thought occured to me, why spend all that money on a new car? Why not just drop it into my 7 and keep it?

So what could be done for $20k? Considering I have some small things done: PFC, FMIC, Intakes, DP, MP, CB, coil-overs, rims, body kit, TwinPower, Y-pipe

I guess I would be looking into a LARGE turbo and a built motor. What kinda hp numbers should I be able to pull out with that kind of money?

 

Single Turbo conv. and Port it for starters, thats alot of cash you get to work with.. that must be nice

 

Oh yea and an ECU

 

custom fit a big-screen in the rear. that would be mad sick tight yo! no what RotorMotor said, get a big-*** turbo and port the motor...although i don't know what kind of numbers you'd be looking at. you could always send it my way and i could put it into my 3rd gen

 

With 20K into a car i think you seriously could build a crazy crazy racecar from the chassis, carbon fiber panels to a crazy motor/turbo combo.

If you go crazy with things such as racing seats, interior, stereo, that could be 10K right there. Paint job body kit nice rims will be another 8-10K.

 

GET ANOTHER FD AS A PARTS CAR!

 

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i was gonna say that too, and like elmo said, don't do cosmetic stuff. i would get all your performance stuff done first. or save up some more and get a 20B

 

Sorry this thread posted twice

 

if you dont have it already, you better get the most important mod for any FD..... a daily beater! for like $1000 you could pick up an older civic that would run forever thennnnnnnn, i would go check out the single turbo forum and ask those gues, the new hot turbo for street driving is the Garret 35/40 and then get a street port... some nice new rims and a nice coil-over suspension..... then maybe a little interior and stereo, and some nice new racing seats.... yummy! good luck

 

Id use it as a down payment on a new zo6....call me crazy.

even 20 grand wont get you a reliable seven. Highly modded sevens are very temperamental...even more so than the stockers. I should know..Ive spent 20 grand on mine over the past year and a half.

granted it would be a hell of a lot of fun...and is...but tis short term fun until it ends up back in the garage/shop.

dont get me wrong...I love the fd...its just if I had it to do all over again...Id get a zo6 and put exhaust/intake/ecu and be almost as damn fast....and a hundred times more reliable.


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I would just get the basic reliability mods, some performance bolt ons for 2-3k and a daily beater.
The rest I would put towards a house or go traveling for a few months or just put it in the bank.
If you put all in the car its down the drain and gone......