Excluding any apperance mods; what would you do with 11,000 to your FD? say you could do it over again...

I was thinking:

Engine rebuild (street/race port)-4000
Single turbo-3500 ($?)
fuel system-700 ($?)
stand alone -1000
radiator-450
FMIC-1000

anything else im missing...?
OR I think a better idea is to hold off on the single turbo& FMIC until i get more money (13) and then do that, tuning, and some suspension mods and a clutch...

If i got that done to start out with...Couple months later Ill have another 2,000 or so for it...what else would I need to do?

(Im expecting to get flamed about this)

 

That's a lot of money to spend on car. Damn

 

brake and suspension parts

 

clutch and diff

 

I figure brakes and suspension can come later...ive heard it handles awesome stock and im not going to road race it...yet, and im not really heavy on my brakes...

 

OK, at least do brakes, if nothing else. With more power, you need more stopping power.

 

brakes as in a brake kit...or are you just talking about rotors? how much is a full brembo or something similar kit

 

I would buy a forum that deltes THREADS like this in the 3rd Gen Section

 

Since you wrote radiator... that means you need one.

Hold off on the others and spend the $10,500 left on a good reliable beater

 

I'm with nameless, you can buy a almost new civic for that much!

 

a damn 5spd conversion. yeah yeah, i know, shouldn't have bought an auto fd, shouldn't have bought an auto if i really wanted a 5spd. however, deal at the time was too good to pass up. but now i'm sorta wanting to buy another rx7 (manual) and sell my car. *sigh*

10.5k is alot of money to be calling a car a "beater"

 

Are you doing all the labor yourself, are you doing the tuning yourself, if not, you are going to need a lot more $$$$

 

sorry I forgot you knew everything possible about your car when you got it(or looking at one)...my bad...assshole

and I can do alot of the labor my self, but not the tuning, so Im thinking of holding off and get more money when the time comes to accully get the car...

and about the beater car: I have a 97 tahoe I can drive when the weather is bad or want to keep miles off a car.

 

If you're planning on doing most of the labor yourself, I'd suggest holding off on all those cool-sounding mods like a single turbo, fuel system, FMIC, etc. and just do reliability mods first, so that you can spend some time getting to know the car well before you suddenly start tearing it apart in your haste to get big hp. Otherwise, you'll encounter myriad problems that will not only cost you time and $$, but whoever will be tuning your car as well.

Otherwise, I'd suggest saving up a lot more money to pay a reputable shop with mechanics that hopefully know what they're doing to do all the work for you. That way, it'll be easier for you to get questions answered when something goes wrong (you can ask them first, since they put it together), and it will be just a plug'n'play deal.

 

yea, there is a shop close to my house called A SPEC tuning...anyone heard on them in the midwest..they are pretty good from what I hear, Some shop cars to jog your memory... corvette blue FD, Had mazda speed kit, in HIN alot..they also have an EXREMLY fast orange FD, big cf wing, c west front, knight sport hood ( i think)

http://www.a-spectuning.com/

 

yea i agree, reliabilty mods is the best way to go.

Cam, head, intake - LS1/T56 swap ~$11,000

Single turbo power, Stock GM reliability

 

If I had $11,000 to burn I would pay off my debts. No way would I sink it into my car. When it comes to putting money into my car, I restrict myself at a few hundred dollars at a time.

 

SEARCH!!!
After you GET the car, youll know what you need to mod.

 

i wish i had 11k to spend on my car. i would have a sic single turbo car w/ a nice fmic

 

FMIC
Radiator
Cat-back
Coilovers
Brakes
Rims and tires
CF hood
...looks like I need to do some budget revising

 

yea thats not 11...atleast i hope not

 

I'd spend $2000 on my car and $9000 on a Etrade account.

STEPHEN

 

4 rotor NA!

 

Well I'm spending $12,000:
motor and mics= $5000
Intercooler FMIC= $ 1100
ECU = 1250
complete fuel sys.= $500 (from scratch)
Radiator= $380
and the rest of the stuff.