FD Just Not Fun Anymore!!
11-27-13, 08:13 AM
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if you are looking for attention you will be happy with your decisions. If you are looking for the thrill factor you have sold the two best options and about to purchase a lot of let down. Great for attention and can be incredible when built. Just a lot of money for a low 12 second car.
11-27-13, 08:17 AM
#29
On topic I think we all go through this in the winter. I finally purchased a fun 4 door daily(E55 with all the bolt ons) and it doesn't make me feel as bad about the FD sitting during bad weather. The only other vehicles that "do it" for me are Vipers and Campagna Trex. The TRex is the only other vehicle I have owned that when I sold it I immediately missed it. However the viper and TRex are far less practical in the winter than the FD.
11-27-13, 08:49 AM
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Had a great time driving mine on track last weekend.
My GT3 was getting fixed up some with a new diff, exhaust work etc.... it's delivered to me at the track and I take it out for a lap or two to see if it's OK. It's fine but doesn't hold a candle to my FD and this is a pretty well prepped GT3.
I'll ALWAYS have an FD there's is nothing like it
PS In the fall winter and spring I just buy more of them LOL
My GT3 was getting fixed up some with a new diff, exhaust work etc.... it's delivered to me at the track and I take it out for a lap or two to see if it's OK. It's fine but doesn't hold a candle to my FD and this is a pretty well prepped GT3.
I'll ALWAYS have an FD there's is nothing like it
PS In the fall winter and spring I just buy more of them LOL
11-27-13, 09:59 AM
#31
Wasn't yours an auto? if you are looking for attention you will be happy with your decisions. If you are looking for the thrill factor you have sold the two best options and about to purchase a lot of let down. Great for attention and can be incredible when built. Just a lot of money for a low 12 second car.
if you are looking for attention you will be happy with your decisions. If you are looking for the thrill factor you have sold the two best options and about to purchase a lot of let down. Great for attention and can be incredible when built. Just a lot of money for a low 12 second car.Last edited by purerx7; 11-27-13 at 10:04 AM.
11-27-13, 10:20 AM
#32
My dad had a 512BB when i was a kid. He poured money into it for a few years, then went back to Porsches. He's got a TurboS now...Man, it's a nice car, and it doesn't spend half it's life (and half his bank account) at Bruce Canepa getting tuned.
If you do all your own work on the Lambo, you will save yourself 10s of thousands of dollars every year. I wonder what a Gallardo fuel pump costs? Installed by someone like Canepa?
If you do all your own work on the Lambo, you will save yourself 10s of thousands of dollars every year. I wonder what a Gallardo fuel pump costs? Installed by someone like Canepa?
11-27-13, 10:37 AM
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Maintenance on a modern Lambo is extremely inexpensive as they have gotten much more reliable than their predecessors ie diablo and countach. Unless you break something you won't spend more than a few hundred on annual maintenance for the G, the clutch is roughly $4-5k and needs to be changed every 20k miles. I already looked at insurance quotes and that will run $1100/yr with less than 3000 miles driven annually. Aftermarket parts are another story, a decent aftermarket fiberglass LP front bumper runs $4,000 before paint and install, ss exhausts start at $3k.
11-27-13, 11:32 AM
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It's that time of the year. The time where I loose all interest in the FD and thoughts of selling it start to take over. You start to take Note and realize how much money you have spent on the car and the numbers are overwhelming. Is it worth it to keep going?
How many of you go through this winter crisis and what do you do to shake it off?
How many of you go through this winter crisis and what do you do to shake it off?
11-27-13, 11:50 AM
#37
Stop spending money on 'mods' and drive the car! 
Mods does not equal investment. It's an expense. Just like rent.
I find it amazing how long people are willing to have the FD off the road for extended periods of times. I get antsy if I can't drive the car whenever I want. Even mild bolt-ons the car is a blast to drive.
Mods does not equal investment. It's an expense. Just like rent.
I find it amazing how long people are willing to have the FD off the road for extended periods of times. I get antsy if I can't drive the car whenever I want. Even mild bolt-ons the car is a blast to drive.
11-27-13, 12:16 PM
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I talk to my wife about 2
And deeply inside the first one that wants me to sell my car is her
But when she see that am really thinking about it
She tells me not think about it because the one who is going to deal with me crying about it later is her lol
And deeply inside the first one that wants me to sell my car is her
But when she see that am really thinking about it
She tells me not think about it because the one who is going to deal with me crying about it later is her lol
11-27-13, 12:31 PM
#40
Stop spending money on 'mods' and drive the car!
Mods does not equal investment. It's an expense. Just like rent.
I find it amazing how long people are willing to have the FD off the road for extended periods of times. I get antsy if I can't drive the car whenever I want. Even mild bolt-ons the car is a blast to drive.
Mods does not equal investment. It's an expense. Just like rent.
I find it amazing how long people are willing to have the FD off the road for extended periods of times. I get antsy if I can't drive the car whenever I want. Even mild bolt-ons the car is a blast to drive.
I just want to get my car on the road and DRIVE DRIVE DIVE , forget about POWAR , or other silly mods I just want to get in and drive it everywhere M car was down for 6 months , and now will probably be down a couple more weeks , but not really for mods just getting the car running correctly
11-27-13, 12:35 PM
#41
Me. I want a car, not a fashion statement.
Finally...this! ^
A while back I mentioned in another thread that I quit trying to make my car "faster" a long time ago. Now I just focus on making it "better". IMO there's a difference. It's also cheaper and way more fun than looking at it sitting in the garage or at the shop.
A while back I mentioned in another thread that I quit trying to make my car "faster" a long time ago. Now I just focus on making it "better". IMO there's a difference. It's also cheaper and way more fun than looking at it sitting in the garage or at the shop.
11-27-13, 01:48 PM
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It's that time of the year. The time where I loose all interest in the FD and thoughts of selling it start to take over. You start to take Note and realize how much money you have spent on the car and the numbers are overwhelming. Is it worth it to keep going?
How many of you go through this winter crisis and what do you do to shake it off?
How many of you go through this winter crisis and what do you do to shake it off?
Buy more parts to make the other part purchases seem trivial. Thats what I do.
Once you get on track next year you will never want to sell it. If you do sell it, I got dibs on the Fikses
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11-27-13, 07:53 PM
#45
"A while back I mentioned in another thread that I quit trying to make my car "faster" a long time ago. Now I just focus on making it "better". IMO there's a difference. It's also cheaper and way more fun than looking at it sitting in the garage or at the shop"
This is the stage I am at currently at and couldn't agree more...
I finaly realized that I am constantly making changes and not driving the car enough. I have made the decision to reverse that and I am having a blast with her.... Loving every minute of it...
This is the stage I am at currently at and couldn't agree more...
I finaly realized that I am constantly making changes and not driving the car enough. I have made the decision to reverse that and I am having a blast with her.... Loving every minute of it...
11-27-13, 08:45 PM
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You need to remember that the FD performance makes it a real supercar, and it out performs almost all supercars since the first Lambo. For the money it is unbeatable as a driver car and not a showoff I am rich car.
Sure mine has pissed me off since buying it in June 1992, but so does my wife once and a while.
The real question is, do you have the ***** to be a FD owner like me?
It is also fun improving it every few years so that it is still faster and better than most new high cost supercars.
Sure mine has pissed me off since buying it in June 1992, but so does my wife once and a while.
The real question is, do you have the ***** to be a FD owner like me?
It is also fun improving it every few years so that it is still faster and better than most new high cost supercars.
11-27-13, 10:13 PM
#47
Me. I want a car, not a fashion statement.
Finally...this! ^
A while back I mentioned in another thread that I quit trying to make my car "faster" a long time ago. Now I just focus on making it "better". IMO there's a difference. It's also cheaper and way more fun than looking at it sitting in the garage or at the shop.
Finally...this! ^
A while back I mentioned in another thread that I quit trying to make my car "faster" a long time ago. Now I just focus on making it "better". IMO there's a difference. It's also cheaper and way more fun than looking at it sitting in the garage or at the shop.
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