Funding the DSM project
 

So I was thinking, in this day and age with inflation through the roof, gas will soon be $5.00 a gallon "hopefully not" insurance keeps going up along with the cost of living. How do you fund your projects? Meaning what do you do for a living to stay afloat and build a poitent street machine. This here is a chance to get to know other members. I'll start.
My name is Joe Aka. BluntedElvis and Im a Truck Foreman/ Labor/ Mech. for Swaggert Trucking in Elk River. I have 6 other guys under my belt that give me Migraines everyday with the shit they break when beating the hell out of the Trucks. The pay is sweet, the benfits suck, and in the summer I have no social life, useally working 10-15hrs a day 6-7 day a week, and sometimes averaging 60-75 hrs. weekley, You ask WHY!! I love the open road, everyday is something new, either it be hauling dirt, gravel, boulders, or paving the sceenery is always different, been doing this for the better part of ten years now and could'nt imagine myself doing anythig else. Like if I had to sit cooped up in a cubical somewhere getting screamed at about T.P.S reports haha I'd Burn the Buliding down. :KANE: And the best part of this is during the winter I have 4 months off to run my Snowplowing business "When it snows".

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I build car's and paint cars

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I Live at home with my parent :). They dont charge rent so why move out. I go to college and work as a server/cook. Dont make alot of money cuz I choose to only work 5 days a week but only a few hours a day. What funds my car is working and buying cars and fixing them and selling them(only done one tho and the 2nd on its way). And also buying and selling parts(for a profit of course)

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I'm a computer engineer at Wells Fargo doing home mortgage database stuff.

I usually don't fund my DSM, the only major changes I've made in the last two years have been in the past 30 days.

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I work full time doing computer shiz, and share and apartment. Im finishing my MIS degree this summer and looking for a new job so I can keep going with the plans of life. Money management is all whats its about, I try and keep unnecessary spending to a minimum so I can afford car crap or party.

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I dont :(. Hopefully soon though, I will be rockin a cheaper, faster, and more dangerous play thing in the summers.

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I'm going to start whorin myself out.

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I work at LSE, live with my bro and rent one room, i manage to get by with modding rarely or waiting and saving.
If gas keeps on going up, i plan on going to E85 to help out a little.

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I hear that pays nicely. :rollinglaugh:

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im a project analyst for a healthcare company. i dont do alot of modding, so i dont need to save up for it.

but im trying desperately to buy a house in the next 3 months, so im saving up for that.

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For my main source of income for my project, I cannot disclose that information. However, I use whatever summer job money I have left over from the woman and schooling as well.

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Money management is what it's all about for me. Recently I've had more income to throw at the car, but it doesn't change the game. You could make $200k/year and you'd still have to balance car payments, mortgage/rent, food, etc. I usually limit myself to the amount of mods I do, I usually justify it by getting 'something for myself' for xmas or my b-day (end of may, nice timing-wise). Inbetween I'll try and kid myself by saying I'm not modding by doing 'maintenance' but let's face it...18" rims w/ fresh rubber & $400 brake pads/SS lines aren't exactly doing the bare minimum...but it tides me over. Last year I gave myself cams & alky injection for xmas, but didn't install them until Jan. I will prolly do a clutch in June sometime & then pull the trigger on a bigger turbo later in the year, or maybe xmas time.

It's all about planning, waiting, planning, waiting, and hiding the receipts from Anna! ;)

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Sounds s3cr3t!!! Do you work at McD's or what!?!? ;)

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Doh! I forgot to do that I work professionally as a Network Administrator/Engineer, specializing in fixing other people's ridiculous, bass-ackwards, half-hearted, uninformed, stupid excuses for networks. It's crazy what non-IT people will put up with if someone (who's opinion they value for some unknown reason) tells them that it's the 'only way.' Well usually the only way is the right way, and that's how I do it.


....Did I mention that my boss is not familiar with this technique (doing things the right way)?

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Oh yea, and I do mail/web hosting on the side. If I'm completely honest, most of that $$ ends up going back into supporting this site :D

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I work at Cartridge World in the summer. Yea that's right! Those little guys you put in your printer, well I fill em up with ink. The job is geeky but the hours are great and it pays well. I'm planning on doing a little buy and selling of cars this summer if I can make enough bank. My strategy when funding my car is just money management. If I want something, I am disciplined enough to not spend money on stuff I don't need.

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Hah! Me, well I live at home with my mom now, well my roommate that is. I throw cash her way and help out as much as I can. I used to live in Fargo, about 5 minutes from SLS. I think that was about the coolest thing about living up there, SLS, wasn't into Tintmasters too much. I didn't own an Accord or Lexus, nor something worthy of 22's. I actually purchased my DSM off Fargostreet.com forums from a kid who originally bought it from K.Smith at SLS a few years back. Was working up there at Interstate Power Supply as the Tire Guy, building 22's baby, 22's! I work at a call-center now. I'm a Sup/Help Desk guy. Looking to move this summer/fall though. I need to make atleast 9.75 i have figured out and I am just under that, I feel poor with this .75 loss.

My funds are tight and I have had my DSM on stands more than on the road. It's not because it's broke though. I wanted to upgrade and didn't want to drive it into the ground so I just parked it to keep the chassis miles down. I buy tons of shit. Atleast 3 things a week. I love eBay, I'm smart on there and buy what I know is right. Shit, I got DSMLINK off there for $410.00. eBay and MAP is where it's at for my poor-ass.
-Scott

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I make plastic fence.

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Im the IT Administrator (actually the whole IT department) for the US division of a company called Polytec. We design, manufacture and sell High speed laser vibrometers used it measureing vibrations in just about everything.
Pay would be considered good if the cost of living in california was cheaper.

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I work at Target, hope to work the backroom this summer....the only payments I have right now are for my cell phone and insurance. Right now, I don't even think about mods except maybe a 190 fuel pump. I'm concentrating on actually making my car nice and fixing the condition of it instead of modifying.

Not to mention if I tried making my car fast, I'd just get myself into trouble. So I'm happy this way.

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Nope. Going to college but still make a considerable amount of money over the weekends. And MickeyD's doesn't pay well.

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I work as a software developer at a web development firm here in downtown Minneapolis. It pays well and it helps that I'll be living with a friend soon. Oh and I don't have a steady GF anymore, so it's all cars son.... all cars.

It doesn't help that I have a Subaru AND a Mitsubishi addiction though :)

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I split atoms.

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Not unless you've been there for 5 years like me. Hey, it was the only place that would hire a 14 year old (yes its legal) and cant argue with the 70-80 cent raises per year I got. I'm done there though, setting up cones, filling potholes, and blowing up beaver dams for ~$500 a week FTW! Thats all pretty much going towards college though.

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i clean the restrooms at your workplace, also your cubes, and every now and then i have to deal with people who dont know how to aim when they pee.lol but for 12 bucks an hour cant complaint.

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I work at a local auto body shop painting cars. Money management is Key for me, considering I don't make commision yet. :(

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I'm a Network Administrator for a medium sized bank in Wisconsin. I do pretty good there and plan on being there for a very long time. After my 1st year, I'm at 3 weeks vacation already. The benefits are very good there. My '99 GSX does very well. I haven't come to a point where I short changed anything on it yet. I do everything entirely by myself. I'm single and that helps too. Every girl I meet want's to get too committed. I pretty much believe in the saying 'Dump the bitch, let's go racing'.

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Wow!!! Totally assbackwards for me. All you guys are in money management, I see it, I want it, I get it "if the funds are their, useally is". Scheides I beleive in some of your theroy, hide the recepits, But when I take the girl out and lift up the center console to get something and a Novel worth of recepits fall out the seceret is out!!! Anyone elses girlfriend want to burn your whip for spending too much $$$LOL.

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I am transitioning careers and will finish school in a month. For 7 years I was in the Fire and Water Disaster Restoration field and was certified in Psychrometry and related things. I Have dreamed of owning my own business as long as I can remember and I am finally almost there. The more I worked with insurance claims the more I saw people are not getting proper coverage and getting screwed over little things like going bottom dollar and not spending $40/year more for sub pump failure coverage and needing to find a few grand unexpectedly. I was inspired to make a change to help me and them out. I am getting the licenses to start my own insurance agency for Auto/Home/Life and in another year financial products as well.

As for funding the DSM it has been whenever a bonus came through or on a b-day or holiday I make the wife only get me car parts. In Winter months due to the horribly high energy bills I usually don't catch up until mid year again to buy mods. At least Shanna likes this car. She never liked the Iroc-z and the 442 was to cold without a heat core and needed too much work. The Talon has heat and A/C so we are both happy.lol. It's just a long slow 1 part at a time process for me. Credit cards are WAY TOO tempting when owning a DSM!;)

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I've been fortunate enough to have he GF actually enjoy the car scene-soo much, in fact, that she's looking to get a 2g of her very own!

I was working at Hopkins Honda, still miss that place. I now, currently work at Maple Grove Tire and Auto, making less then what I had at honda, but when you are out of work for 2 months, and bills stack up, I'm STILL playing catch up. I really don't know how I manage to modify my vehicle in the manner it's done up in right now. I have too many debts in places I don't want. I hope to go see a debt consolodator next week, so I can atleast roll my snap-on bill, school loans, credit card loan, and others all into one. I think Wells fargo will allow me to do this. Other then that, I'm looking for another job, doing anything I can. It's all about money for me. I want it, and NEED it badly! Anyone have ideas?

-A. Swift

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College?

I'm a software engineer, and single as well. So I do alright with enough money to own a few cars and mod them. Enough is never enough though, and at some point it will have to be curbed to buy a house, maybe sometime soon. 4 car garage ftw. I have a roommate to cut down costs. And my house is pretty bare.

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I move around and play with millions of dollars per day for a Fortune 100 corporation.

I eat out too much, but I still have enough left over to save/invest and fund my car :) Sharing an apt helps!

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I pay rent to my parents! I need out!

-A. Swift

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I was an intern at the diversified products group at WellsFargo for a little over a year workin about 15 hours a week while bustin my ass in College. Today was my last day at WF, but anyways 1 week left, i'm out. 1 month to go, and I start my new gig as an auditor makin sure punks don't cheat the system =)

And i'm gonna live at home for the next 1-2 years. No rent = more to spend.

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Bring it!

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How does that work?

I know!! Always a way around the system.lol

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Yea, 'hiding the receipts' is a relative term for me. Anna knows about almost every part I put on the car, she's just not always informed of the *actual* amount that it cost. It doesn't really matter though. When I had my 2G she ff*ing HATED that car. It was too loud, uncomfortable, I was working on it all the time (not as much as my 1G though!), etc. etc. So When I was looking at getting a 1G to drive when my 2G was on the fritz, she said, 'why not just get an Evo?' That my friends, is why I love her :D I ended up keeping the 2G for a while after buying the Evo anyways!!

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Nuclear Fission. Introduce a neutron into a certain uranium isotope nucleus, and then it splits and releases more neutrons, which collide with another nucleus, and so on and so on and the chain reaction has begun.

I deal more so with the fuel handling and fuel movement though.

And before someone asks, because someone always does, NO My "equipment" does not glow green.

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HAHAHAHAHAHA :score010:

Well lets see here. I want to stop living from paycheck to paycheck. So next week I have to take a test to show that I am smart some what. I am trying to get into a Cleveland Electrical Joint Apprenticeship and Training Center (CEJATC). So does anyone know where I can get some refresher's on Math? Thank you for that.

But right now I work at Target out here. After switching to Evening shift. I lost in hours and my paychecks are not what they use to be. And yes the cost of living is going up. Ugh it sucks....

So modding the car is going to be nil to none when I get it back. Thats if I get this new job. It be fun to play with wires and 110 or 220 volts. hahaha

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I am a stay at home father, and managing money is what its all about. When I have the extra money I get what I want. The bad thing with me is that I don't install the stuff for like a year after I get it. I have a back log of parts to install on the car, and things I want to do to it that are just sitting around waiting for me to get off busy ass and get done. In my younger days, well about ten years ago I was into doing all the work myself and standing back and looking at what I accomplished, well now I just want it done, no matter what it costs me. On the side I am trying to get a part-time job someplace just a couple of days a week, for gas and comics, but I am still managing to get by without the extra money. However that means in the next couple of years while my wife gets her nursing degree finished, I will be getting no mods done to my car. It will all be maintenance from this point on for at least two years.

I store my car during the winter, and it only has 88,000 miles on it, and is in near mint shape I would say, that means no rust or ANY dents for a 12 year old car. Paint chips and crap like that are pretty much impossible to stop so those are there, but other than that its all good. So hopefully, knock on wood, I won't have to spend money on the car for the next couple of years, just drive it around and enjoy...

The Fish