car 3200
timing belt 500
rebuild head 600
uicp 50
licp 75
supra sidemount 150
injectors 200
afc 200
exhaust 400
palm/datalogger 150
clutch 300
cv shaft 70
used wheels/tires 150
fuel pump rewire 20
2g mas/intake 100
o2 dump 100
$6300 give or take

yikes!

its so worth it though, I love my dizzum.

Pat

I would guess somewhere around $9000

You guys who added in regular and unscheduled maintenance, labor (dyno time included) and other general costs associated with owning a car shouldn't even be here if you're going to whine about how much you've spent or are spending to own a car, let alone a DSM money pit. Parts and hard items are the only things you should ever add up when finding out how much you truly have spent on your car(s).

In all, I am going to spend less than $5000 on my car, built engine, and a lot of other goodies. The end product will result in a car capable of over 300whp and mid-12 second 1/4 mile runs... But who cares, read the sig. ;)

If you want to look at just the price of the Car and then the cost of Upgrades only . And No Labor Cost's.

Going off the my MN.dsm.org profile (part for part) - per my reciepts

Cost of Car - $13,500
Interior - $2382
Stereo - $5345
Exterior - $990
Performance - $11,063
Total=$33,280

4 Years of Labor Work - $16,000 (doesn't include work I've done or free help from friends)

The Rest is:
-Repairs - $17,000
-GSX - $5000

$7,000 for car
$1,500 for rims
$10,000-$12,000 Performance

All well worth it.

4Jenny's Car

Car - $1500
Interior Mods - $60
Stereo Mods - $1653(includes price of stuff waiting to be installed)
Exterior Mods - $120
Performance Mods - $3508 (Includes cost of Mods that came with car($475) and Shep tranny)
Total = $6865


All said and done with labor/OEM parts,etc $8208 would be the total of Jenny's car so far.

In reality to get her car up and running only: $4443
-Car
-Shep Tranny
-ACT 2600 clutch
-60K tune up (tensioners,belts,waterpump,gaskets,Fluids)
-NEW head
-ARP's
-Labor I had to pay for

Still needs some body work/paint but Hopefully won't be more then $500

Does that include the 2G? or just the 1G?

-brian

That just includes my 1G. The topic is "What's The Total You've Spent Your Your Car?". Not What's The Total You've Spent Your Your Cars?. I'm not even going to figure out the total spent on all of my DSMs.

HAHA your right.

looking at it that way the total for my GSX.

CAR - $5000
Interior -$2382
Stereo - $5345
Exterior - $990
Performance - $11063

=$24,780


I like this the amount keeps getting smaller vs. Getting Higher!!!!

Exageration vs. Reality

Glad I could help. ;)

That's pretty impressive when you consider my 75K car only runs 14.4 in the 1/4 mile hahahahah.

Plan on a re-match this summer once the cars are tuned

0-140 down france is just nuts. That race would have gone on for ever. It was dead even. But with the Cars coming up you know I had to let off.

I'm taking a rough estimate of around 20k.

I wasn't exagerating when I said I've spent over 70K in this hobby.

anyone that knows what the first 2 years of my dsm carrier were like knows I'm not kidding. hehe

But I was racing every single night back then and getting as much video as I could while doing it.

Those were the days back then. NO FNF, DSMr's were the Best group of people, Most parking lots on Uni were open/free of hastle, Red Rock was awsome no dumb @$$'s, And the cops actually stopped so that they could look at our cars vs. to give us tickets, Frizbee, football.

Hell I even once flew my R/C helicopter inverted down University Ave. Back when Speedwerks was still opened.

IF you want to go back even farther Hell MIAC, Xrated, Volksport were the only import clubs in MN.

ive spent about $3000 on my 92 talon. $2300 on the car and the rest on parts and mods.

i had about $5k in to my 90 talon when the timing belt busted. $2300 for the car. lots of the rest was spent on parts. about $1200 in mods

1990 laser (project 500) bought her for $500 haha
mods- $324
tranny's-$550
misc.-$180
total= $1554

Not to bad i suppose! runs a 13.4@111 too<---thats changing this spring!

Way more money than Ih ave ever had maybe $10,000 who knows

What's your mod list?

How are you trapping at 111mph with only $324?

-Brian

lol...

Driver



LOL
jk brian you know you can drive better than me

oh i forgot the $60 for the mbc in there sorry
ahh 3inch open d/p mbc(elite style yo) rewired fule pump, k&n, act2600...thats it. drop springs too...those were free along with the 2600...and now i just got a S-afcII thats not in there eather. thats it...and im going for a certain record this year.....fwd 14b record...

Kevin

That's pretty impressive when you consider my 75K car only runs 14.4 in the 1/4 mile hahahahah.

Plan on a re-match this summer once the cars are tuned

0-140 down france is just nuts. That race would have gone on for ever. It was dead even. But with the Cars coming up you know I had to let off. [/b][/quote]
hince why I have $800 into brakes, its a good 'just in case mod'.
A few years ago the scene was quite different, everything was more layed back, and competition wasn't as fierce. Oh well, we'll run again this year.
Lets do it at the track, that way you have a fighting chance :).