Forget Ferrari.

I have been meaning to check on the price of a brake job for a 2006 Z06.

20 Pistons( 8 pot front, 4 pot rear), one pad for each piston.

The Z06 uses exotic materials, has low production numbers, and shares few parts with the std Corvette. Imagine maintaing it 15 years from now.

 

I generally agree with you. But keep in mind there is the easy way to own the car (keep it close to stock, do preventive maintenance, don't beat on it) and the hard way (engine swaps, daily driving, power upgrades, lack of maintenance, or starting out behind the 8 ball by buying a poorly maintained (aka "project") car).

But not everyone has had major repair bills. There are some owners who have owned the car since new and are at 90k miles and never had a major repair. Or those who bought a well-maintained car, owned it for 5 years, and never had a major repair bill. Of course, I'm talking about the low mileage drivers, few power mods, deep(er) wallets, etc. I sorta fall into that category - about 5k/year, engine is only 20k old, I don't flog it much, and I do a lot of preventive maintenance.

My point is that while this is no Camry, buying an FD is not sentencing yourself to thousands of maintenance dollars each year. It's an expensive car, yes, if your engine and turbos hold up, you take the time to buy the right one, you have the right mechanic keeping up with it, and you don't pile lots of abuse or mileage on it, you probably won't see huge bills. I just think those people aren't on the forums much.

And that's the thing I think any buyer should know about. 1) there are cars for sale for this very reason and should be avoided, and 2) if a huge repair cost is laid in front of them that IMHO they should be prepared to pay it.

Dave

 

steps to having a non POS fd:

step 1: dont buy a junky beatup FD to begin with. if you did, do a rebuild or get a rebuilt motor
step 2: do ALL cooling mods and get a downpipe
step 3: replace turbos with low-mileage set (or rebuilt set) and do full non-sequential mod
step 4: use premium fuel and keep up with the regular maintenance (oil, antifreeze, brakes, tranny/diff oil, etc)

if you want to go fast and be reliable, thats a whole different story
then you're all good.

 

Lets see... I am 18, I dont make much much money a week probally bout 400 a week. I have the FC FD and a ranger. I budget the **** out of my money, so if something happens I can deal with it... I replaced everything on my fd pretty much already... went single did fuel, pfc, cooling, next is suspension and little things I just want to make it perfect

 

That mod is for the kind of guys who wear lace underwear. I kept the sequential setup.

Dave

 

Some people here have kids, mortgage, other cars or all of the above, its hard to just own and maintain an old turbo sports car.

You say you make 400 a week, some people make twice or 3 times as that and still have a hard time keeping this car. I make nearly 4 times that a week and sometimes i feel like im throwing money into the 7 more than it should be, i have a mortgage now and i wanna buy a new car so all the unnecessary bills for this car is not worth it. Not all FD's are the same, sometimes you get the money pits, if you're lucky you get the ones that need nothing but maintenance for years.

I feel like anyone in the market for an FD should ALWAYS expect the worse, that way they are prepared before even purchasing one.

 

Prepare for the worst, and you'll never be disappointed. Matter fo fact... if you plan on hearing a POP every time you turn her over, then every day she starts is going to be like a surprise!

I don't know, i guess that COULD be a little pessimistic...

 

its all bout the new wave of kids messin up the scenes these days