Do you ever wonder why...

Do any of you just start thinking sometimes why you do this? Like sometimes I will think whats the point in modding my car? For what I have put into my Civic I could have almost paid for my college. Then I think about getting out of the modding game and just have a car just to drive. Then for some reason a few min. later I find myself thinking about what I am going to buy next LOL

You can't get out of modding a car. Not until it beats everything else at the track. :)

I know exactly what you're talking about. Like today when I realized that it's going to cost me over $10G's to do what I want with my car. So on top of that I'm planning on going to school (Wyotech), buying tools, getting the hell out of my parents house, and buying a new drum set. I was supposed to be done with my car 1 or 2 years ago, but now it's looking like I've got about 2 or 3 years until I'm done with it (hell maybe even that long before I start on it). I feel your pain, but it is just a vehicle.

Ya, im racking up quite the bill with just my motor alone... but it will be worth it in the end, and im also going to WyoTech in Oct (PA campus), so.. we'll see what life brings me, all i know is im pretty much stuck with my car now because i would never get back what i just put into it... oh well, 6-700hp is only a turbo kit and axels away right now.... hehehe

That's the one I'm planning on going to too (PA). I'm going to have to wait at least a year though, so I can save up some loot to live off of while I'm there. Now I just have to save up the $ and figure out if I want to go for body repair or auto tech :D

i say auto body, because as advanced as the engines get, people are aways gunna be hittin shit. so we'll always have a job, even if technology make a maintainence free engine.

That's why I wanna sell my car, I can't believe I actually spent as much money as I did on this car, its disgusting.

sweet :) i haven't gone to college yet, not sure if i plan on doing so either. Still deciding what I want to do.

I haven't really even modded my car, besides the new wheels and some other small things. Sometimes I ask myself if it's worth it. Then I go and see how much another car I'd like to have costs. For the money I put into another car, I can make my civic nicer and more of how I want it to be.

But from what I can see, no one is ever really done with their car :)

How much have you guys spent so far? Here is a list as much as I can remember:

Car: 91 Civic HB Si $2700
1) 17" Exel white racing rims and Kumho tires $950
2) Power1 exhaust from friend $40 + $30 for install
3) Catback exhaust and new muffler $230
4) Header back 2.5" piping $40
5) "mugen chip" $25 + $90 for install
6) Dizzy going out cause chip advanced timing so much $200 plus $20 to fill friends tank up for installing it.
7) Coil went out $30 (self instlled)
8) Dizzy went out again $45 for towing and $45 for install.
9) Rotor flew off cause AutoZone stripped screw when installing rotor on new dizzy $45 for towing (autozone wouldn't pay) and $5for new rotor. Also had Mech go ahead and put some new NGK plugs in. $20
10) Stock A6 mapped chip $15 (self installed)
11) 17" Exel racing rims $405 on sale withou tires + $30 to have tires switched over
12) Car started missing bad. Had Honda check it out $25 for diag. Turned out the mech had put in three ngk plugs and there was a champion plug with a broke node on it. Replaced with bosh platinum 4 $45 (mech wouldn't pay)
13) New filter $25
14) L.E.D. underglow $95 (don't ask)
15) R33 style front bumper $250 shipped, carbonfiber hood and Z3 fenders about $575 shipped. $450 for complete car painted Hugger orange with metalic flakes. (got a hook up)
16) D16Y8 block bored .020 over $190 shipped.
17) D16Y8 port and polished head with oversized valves $210 shipped
18) Headgasket blew. $45 for towing, $90 for head kit, $30 for timing belt, $25 for waterpump, $200 for installation of it all.
19) Two weeks later motor went out (haven't tore it apart yet to find out why) $45 towing to mech, and $35 towed to my house.
20) JE 10.5:1 c/r pistons $420, Eagle H beam rods $300, crank balanced $40, new bearings, $60, JE rings $80, bottom end put together at machine shop $200.
21) Adjustable cam gear $65, Moroso plug wires $25 used, used DC 4-2-1 header $65, headgasket from honda $40, new oil screen $15, new headbolts $85, new water pump $25.
22) CRX console swap $35

Things I can think left to do off top of my head:
Nitrous $500-600
Skunk2 intake mani $300
Delta 272 cam $125
New pass side axle $50
Coilovers and shocks/struts $500

So after all this I come to about $10, 250... Not to mention the many CD players I have gone through, the 3 or 4 amps, the 4 sets of subs, carious 17" tire replacements, and I am sure I am forgetting some things.
Then I am paying a guy $250 to install my new motor for me. Man thats a lot of money...oh well...

'94 CX: $1,750
Slipstreams w/beat tires: $200
Short Ram, FPR (not installed), Fuel Pressure Gauge (don't know if that's what it's called): All in 1 sale; $50
Cheezy autozone intake filter: $25
Extra riced 5" autometer tach: $100 (my first 5-speed vehicle so I needed it)
Spark plugs: $6 :D
Pioneer speakers, 2 Pioneer decks (my a-hole bro sold me a broken one): $380
Total: $2,511

i say auto body, because as advanced as the engines get, people are aways gunna be hittin shit. so we'll always have a job, even if technology make a maintainence free engine.
Exactly what I was thinking. And most of my friends are mechanics so I can just pay them with beer and they'll do the work for me, or I could trade body work for mechanical work if I get good at it. And I really want to take their Chassis Fab and High Performance Engines course too

god damn man, you get towed alot... i have 2 times under my belt. And me and my dad do all the work to my car.

$1700 for 91 4 door
$35 for new battery
$80 new axle
$75 for tune up
$90 taxes and tags
$80 tach
$180 cd player
$119 towing (twice)
$? various items
$30 primer, red paint, flat black paint
$12 fuel filter
$200 tires
$200 struts
$100 coilovers
$50 CAI
$about 400 accident parts
$92 rear section exhaust
$50 brakes

thats $3493 for what i can think of.

Yeah I should start my own towing buisness lol

Dude, auto-mech school is cheap then compared to a BA and MA from a university. I have to pay back much more in financial aid. I spent about as much as doug294 did buying and fixing my 944 and it was still a POS. I maybe put 5grand total into my crx including replacing the engine, tranny, springs, and lots of other parts, stereo crap and a couple of tows. Maybe I'm just lucky but having had new axles put on before I bought it, I've put about 45k miles on the car and beat the living crap out of it and the boots have not a single sign of tearing or anything. I bet if I fixed the body up a little, replaced the struts with some cheap gr2's, replace the oil pan gasket and 02 sensor my ricey crx will just keep going. Honestly, I think about getting rid of it all the time, but where am I going to find a car with as many modifications that I know isn't beat up by some non-driving punk for under $3,000. Nowhere around here that's for damn sure. But hey, if anybody wants my ride in the SC area, make me a reasonable offer.

ok, where to start...

-2000 Integra GSR Complete swap: $3900
-Darton MID Sleeves ------------
-JE 9.5:1 Compression Pistons---- total $3800 (balanced up to 10k RPM)
-Crower Forged Rods------------

- ZEX 3 piece aluminum flywheel - on sale for $275

-ACT "Race only" 6 puck clutch--------
-------- somewhere around $400
-ACT "MAXX X-TREME" Pressure Plate---

-ARP Bolts - free (love having connections)

-Skunk2 Vavles-------
------- $425
-Titanium Retainers---

-Ported and Polished Head - included in bottom end price

- Labor to put together with zero tolerance- roughly $2000

(2) Ebay fart cans - $80
Custom bent dual exhaust - $300

TOTAL: $11,180:screwy: Having on sick ass car when youre done- priceless

Not purchased yet: 1000hp axels, roll cage, drag slicks, custom wide body kit, wide lightweight rims, turbo kit, fuel management, prolly more as i go on. (Any one want to sponsor me??)

Sometimes like now I wonder why.. I'm sure the cars cost me over 14Gs since originally purchaced just in mods and the cost of the car.

But then I drive it, and I stop wondering why. ;)

i know what you mean. like take my civic, i feel like i will never get it running. i need a new dx harness and an si harness just so i can put them together. my dx one is choped to hell. i kinda feel like fuck it and sell it. my mitsu every time i fix something and think ok now i can buy stuff to make it faster something else brakes. damn this shit. have you ever noticed that when you go to do something you think will be easy you end up like 4 hr latter still doing the same thing that should have took you like 1hr to do? every time i work on my damn car something always comes up.

You can sell me your GST :thumbsup: lol

Cars are extensions of ourselves. Look at someone's car and you can tell a LOT about them. Some people see them as simply transportation, point A to point B kinda stuff, some people see them as a tool to take them exploring the country side, some see them as a hobby, pushing them to the extremes of speed, and rough terrain. Remember no matter what someone says, your car is you!

Trust Me Man You Don't Want My Gst.......... Or Should I Call It A Pos

Whats wrong with your GST? I have a 96 Eclipse GS that I am going to turbo. I heard the 420A motors are actually better to build off of than the 4G63

like the post asked, do you ever wounder why... and my answer is every damn day, untill i sit in the drivers seat and put the peddle to the floor, and then i remember why i "waist" all of my money on my vehicals (besides if i didnt waist it my girlfriend would... making it all her fault to begin with...)