What's A Good Car To Buy?

[Phaze1ne]

I want to know what is a good car to buy? Something cheap and can be easily modified. I want to buy an extra car that looks decent, but can be modded to pump out some crazy power. The powertrain doesnt really matter. I want to make this car into a sleek, low, black on black, sleeper.

Any suggestions?

[JDM]

Turbo a Honda B18C1 or C5 if you can find one...

1G DSM (lacking a lil on the looks)

240SX Turbo kits are available

2G RX-7 Turbo

Older 3S (Stealth/3000GT)

Found a Nissan 300ZX TT on Car soup for 7K

New Scion Tc has the option of a Blower, but that's a lil on the higher priced side, less power.

On that note, a Saturn Ion Redline...

Or maybe just drop a down payment on an SRT-4

Evo 8...

The list goes on, a price range would help gauge this better...

[Phaze1ne]

I put it between free to $7,000.

[JDM]

Well bid on the 300ZX now, or go find yourself a clean 1g for around 3 grand, and 4 grand should be enough to run a solid 13.

I also know someone with a 3G you can have out right should you assume a loan.. :stick:

[JDM]

http://www.carsoup.com/used/detail.asp?use...eID=1&dealerID=

[Shane@DBPerformance]

What do you consider crazy power. It will take crazy money to make even half decent power on a lot of cars.

[JDM]

Originally posted by ecoli@Jul 28 2004, 01:12 AM
What do you consider crazy power. It will take crazy money to make even half decent power on a lot of cars.

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[Phaze1ne]

For the power, I'm just thinking what car would be a good base to build up on to make alot of power. Something that can be easily tuned to 300+hp would be fine for me.

Originally posted by JDM@Jul 28 2004, 01:04 AM
http://www.carsoup.com/used/detail.asp?use...eID=1&dealerID=

hmy: damn that car is nice

[GSXMatt]

I'd say a 240sx, but thats just because I like the looks of them.

[Shane@DBPerformance]

The 300ZX TT can easily make in the 340-370whp range with the basic boltons and stock turbos. Past that they get very expensive and hard to work on, but if that is enough power for you then that might be a good choice since they can be had for a reasonable price. They aren't a good drag racing or racing from a stoplight car though, they can't hook up worth a crap with their suspension setups in the rear. They aren't to bad on the highway and road race courses though. Don't buy one blindly over ebay without looking at and driving the car. A lot of them are beat to hell with blown turbos or just look like crap from anywhere closer than 20 feet.

Originally posted by ecoli@Jul 28 2004, 01:32 AM
The 300ZX TT can easily make in the 340-370whp range with the basic boltons and stock turbos. Past that they get very expensive and hard to work on, but if that is enough power for you then that might be a good choice since they can be had for a reasonable price. They aren't a good drag racing or racing from a stoplight car though, they can't hook up worth a crap with their suspension setups in the rear. They aren't to bad on the highway and road race courses though. Don't buy one blindly over ebay without looking at and driving the car. A lot of them are beat to hell with blown turbos or just look like crap from anywhere closer than 20 feet.

jeez i didnt know that, but everything you said makes perfect sense

[JET]

Originally posted by JDM@Jul 28 2004, 12:58 AM
Well bid on the 300ZX now, or go find yourself a clean 1g for around 3 grand, and 4 grand should be enough to run a solid 13.

I also know someone with a 3G you can have out right should you assume a loan.. :stick:

Are you on crack??

On pump gas I ran a 13.6@99 in my 1g with $400 worth of mods. $4k into a 1g should put you in the mid 12's on race gas.

On pump gas I ran a 13.6@99 in my 1g with $400 worth of mods. $4k into a 1g should put you in the mid 12's on race gas. [/QUOTE]



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-Matt

[blageo23]

I say you buy a 97 Grand Prix SE. It has some power and has lots of mod options. In fact i have one sitting in my driveway for sale!

[niterydr]

I went 13.0@104 with $80 in mods.
But my car cost me $9800.
Both of my dsms had squat in mods and had potential to do 12's if I fixed problems on them.

[Darth_Laser]

what kind of car are you looking for, i used to own an 85 VW rabbit GTI and sold it to my buddy chad. He has a turbo kit for it and its all for sale. bould be a 13 sec car easily when all is said and done.

[ACRucrazy]

1 g neon with SRT swap...

(come on... did you expect anything else from me?)

IF it were $/hp type deal.. id say a LT1 Camaro.

[Halon]

i've put probably right around 1250 bux in my talon, and the thing is finally probably running about the same as a normal stock one.

[Super Bleeder!!]

mazda 323 GTX, older mazda Mx-6 GT/626 GT/Probe GT, older SVO turbo mustang, mk3 poopra, in my opinion they are all of lower build quality than a dsm, but they are different.