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Old 08-06-02, 01:39 PM
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$20k for parts, what would you get?!?!?!

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?
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Single Turbo conv. and Port it for starters, thats alot of cash you get to work with.. that must be nice
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Oh yea and an ECU
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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
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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.
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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
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Sorry this thread posted twice
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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
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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......
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