How much you might spend modifying your ride.

[just_passed_you]

Year 1 has ended, initially bought the car for $1,000 with a "blown" motor.
The guy was wrong and I started slapping stuff on.
Here's a spreadsheet of my total costs. Mods, maintenance, and car.


http://arctic.net/~r_morgan/tsi/Parts Spread Sheet.xls


This got me a 13.2 @ 110mph
2.2 60ft launch, unable to get into 2nd gear (bad synchro)
110 trap for not being able to launch is pretty $#@! good.
Stock clutch, stock messed up tranny...

 

[NjzRedGST]

110mph is one hell of a trap speed for a AWD, that would easily get you into the 12s.

 

[dave99gst]

last time i add'd it up... counting the cost of the car.. i was around 45k .. and i stopped adding

 

[hellotbone]

Yeah once you start into a DSM it never stops.

Lets see buy the car for 6G's needs a paint job place goes overboard on my car cost 7G's for paint. Humm Start modding auto trans blows. Rebuild trans, decide I want a 5 speed, Buy a donor to swap it, 7bolt crank walks do a 6bolt and AT/MT swap,PTE 50 trim blows new turbo time,Im getting more into it now so I get a CF hood too,the stereo sucks so I had to upgrade that 2 jl subs speakers and a clarion in dash 7" screen, all the little things performance parts here and there, it just goes on and on and things just break from making good power and you just keep fixing. Its a bit of a circle forsure.

I have probably 25,000 canadian in my car which is alot less then some and i have accomplished alot.

 

[theebluecrx]

I'm roughly around 1800-2k on my talon.With slicks i should be capable of 12's.

 

[just_passed_you]

I'm roughly around 1800-2k on my talon.With slicks i should be capable of 12's.

When you get the slip...

 

[fwdturbobov1996]

I'm roughly around 1800-2k on my talon.With slicks i should be capable of 12's.

and youll be getting broken axles and driveshafts with that. Its possible tho.. I have around uhh dropping another 3000 into her right now. Bought for 3, spent 2 on mods so far.. and another 3 .. so 8k

 

[GSEclipse06]

1500 for the car, roughly another 300 or so for repairs...brake pads $20, tie rod ends $50 for both (outers), new drive axle $60, new muffler section $170 (advanced raped me out the ass), the new stud was only a dollar, clear signal bulbs for inside of headlight $4, getting into the minor stuff now (i havent had mine long enough to sink large chunks of money into it.) the headunit was about $250 but thats out of my old car so that doesnt really count. so about $1800 or so.

 

[MrBentley]

Well here's my little tally of how much has been dumpped into my ride

14,500 for the car (less than 50k miles on it)
3,000 for my rims and tires
~2000 for recaro sport seats (black arista w/black nardo material)
1,300 for my greedy 18R FMIC setup(a.k.a. Large core)
1,200 for my Rotora 4 piston BBK
500 for the NEX coilovers (ebay)
~300 for camber kit (ingalls)
100 for cf overlay
60 for cf shift knob (lightweight)
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Total Mods Cost: ~8500
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Total cost: ~23k