Hi, I have finally saved the money to buy an 1997 Mazda RX7 FD which has been my dream for 5 years but I wanted to hop on this forum to see whether or not I should invest my money into the Veilside body kit (my dream car is the RX7 FD with the veilside body kit) first or get the car straight away. This is a decision I have been going back and forth on a lot and I still haven't been able to make up my mind on. The reason being is if I were to buy my RX7, then I would be stuck with a car that I would like to drive but knowing how it requires high maintenance costs would limit the amount of times I should drive it to keep myself within a reasonable amount of money spent on caring for it in a year. And even with the RX7 I still wouldn't have my dream build of having it with a veilside kit. Now if I were to buy the kit now I would be able to not have to worry about maintenance and resolve the biggest thing that I fear which is that veilside ends their manufacturing line of RX7 kits making them worth much more. But that would mean I would have to hold onto the kit for around 1-2 years just to get my RX7. If anyone also has any idea as to how much longer veilside will be selling these kits or some suggestions as to what to do because I am not quite sure if its worth it to just get the car now and continue waiting to get the body kit, or to just get the body kit and then the car I would greatly appreciate it .

 

Just buying these two things will cost you as much as my house that I bought 25 years ago. Not to mention the serious amount of work to get the kit on the body. You would be much better off trying to find a fully built car. Often times these cars have 10's of thousands of dollars spent on body kits and whatnot. Almost nobody is willing to pay for what is actually into the car money wise. Someone that needs the money will eventually have to lower the price to sell.

Personally, I would not take an original condition somewhat rare care and add all of the extras. Finding one that already has rough fenders, etc and starting there seems like a better strategy, IMO However, it could be costlier if it is missing to many parts.

Best wishes in what ever the choice is.

I can't answer you about maintenance. I drove an FC regularly and all I ever did was add fuel and oil....

Seriously though, maintenance will depend on mileage and the mods the car already has.

 

Okay, I see. I'll see what I should do cause I am very comfortable with my current cost of expenses and realized I could finally get the car but I see now that it could end up costing more and it would be better to wait. Thanks for the suggestion

 

The fortune kit has been available since before Tokyo drift came out. Replica kits will likely always be available even if veilside stops making it. Back in 2014 when I was weighing costs on kit options for my fd, I found it would be ~50k to take a stock fd to fortune. Body work, the kit itself, wheels and tires. That was 2014.... 10 years later it will definitely be more than that now. Buy an already done car of which are DEFINITELY available.

The install of that kit will take 6 months to a year if not longer depending on where you go. It's a tremendous amount of work to fit properly and a monumental cost. You will also be without your car for the duration. Dont do that to yourself. If a fortune kitted fd is what you want then buy one already done.