Originally Posted by Om1kron

In a nutshell, you probably don't have the money to make any of your ricer dreams come true. This is the reality that people can't seem to face when they think that a car is some kind of return investment. Once they make the realization that they can't afford to make the version of their car they hoped and dreamed for even slapping every fake part to make up for the slack of their budget on it. doing a couple of shit events and realizing you need to move on with life and grow up.

You'll quickly realize that the people replying to this thread with advice have not made the jumps with their builds or projects their suggesting because they too have realized they don't have the money to go through with half of the shit they post on these forums. And the few that do add up the stresses of spending the money vs the fun they're having with the car and silently disappear from here just like you will until we get the next wave of people who just bought a 240, want to get an fd license, or be the next senna.

And the few who are actually doing what they post on the forums are still building their cars, will never finish building their cars, and even if it seems done there is always more to do.

In the end it depends on where you're sitting in life.

That's pretty much the best answer you're going to get in this thread.

I can tell if you can't afford an LSX swap which will run 10 grand for everything to get it running out the door, anyone who tells you otherwise hasn't done it or has an LSX swap sitting around uninstalled because they're waiting for more parts to get it working. OR CAME UP.

I can tell you won't be able to afford any nissan v6 swap because those run around 7-8k for everything and not a lot of people do them, very few and you're not going to be able to take the car to someone and have them press a magic button to make everything easy for you and if you do find them you can't afford their time.

If you don't want to bother with a 2500-6000 dollar sr20 swap with a turbo you can always just keep the car KA and enjoy all of the natural abilities of that motor it has to offer and focus on making the car nicer in other areas.

Making power, sustaining that power, and maintaining that power all cost a lot of money.

And when people post "what should I get, but I don't think I can afford this" then the thread stops right fucking there and this should be quoted in EVERY thread someone posts about what should they do to their new car while working extra hours at the dairy queen thinking that they're going to have a team burst car with 6 months of paychecks and tons of free labor from awesome friends.

Because that's not reality.