Maybe If I could convince Charlie Sheen to take ONE night off of hookers and blow and give me that $$$ to invest into my fox I could have one like yours!!
For example: Just the blower and gear drive hanging off the front of my engine is 10k. I have 4,500$ in just cylinder heads. Add the block, crank, billet rods, custom pistons etc. Factor is 1,400$ fuel injectors 1,000$ in a throttle body setup, Xfi with all of the upgrades and we are only scratching the surface. If I remember correctly the torque converter was 1400 some dollars not to mention the dedenbaer case powerglide. We haven't even stopped talking about the drive line yet. Where should I stop hahaha
For example: Just the blower and gear drive hanging off the front of my engine is 10k. I have 4,500$ in just cylinder heads. Add the block, crank, billet rods, custom pistons etc. Factor is 1,400$ fuel injectors 1,000$ in a throttle body setup, Xfi with all of the upgrades and we are only scratching the surface. If I remember correctly the torque converter was 1400 some dollars not to mention the dedenbaer case powerglide. We haven't even stopped talking about the drive line yet. Where should I stop hahaha
I added up the prices once, and I won't do it again. It's one of those things where I had to build the car in order to realize how much of a mistake it was.
Case in point, today on facebook I saw that BRAD BRAND is selling his racecar and all associated items so he can get out of racing and build a restomod C10 pickup truck. Do you know who Brad Brand is? That announcement was DRAMATIC, but I was thinking "yep, I feel ya brad." It's nonsense the kind of money these cars can eat up. 2 or 3 years ago, AFTER the car was already running, I went through a long period of time, maybe a year and a half, where I spent at least $1000 or more per month on my LX. Utter nonsense.
I added up the prices once, and I won't do it again. It's one of those things where I had to build the car in order to realize how much of a mistake it was.
Case in point, today on facebook I saw that BRAD BRAND is selling his racecar and all associated items so he can get out of racing and build a restomod C10 pickup truck. Do you know who Brad Brand is? That announcement was DRAMATIC, but I was thinking "yep, I feel ya brad." It's nonsense the kind of money these cars can eat up. 2 or 3 years ago, AFTER the car was already running, I went through a long period of time, maybe a year and a half, where I spent at least $1000 or more per month on my LX. Utter nonsense.
Do tell....
.. but it will NOT be a racecar. I learned my lesson!
I so very much wish this was BS. But for the most part. It's exactly the case. Everyone wants a badass race car, until they have one and then they just go "I've been around this hobby for years.
Turning a fox into race is the death of it.
I've seen it so many times with nice cars i can actually picture the time lapse of these cars in my mind. Kinda depressing.
Race cars are for people who own or work at a shop and the wealthy. Helps too if you have some sponsors, which sucks because now you are selling your soul and putting decals on a car that clearly looks better without them.
It's nearly impossible to compete with people with unlimited skills and resources as a regular guy off the street. Eventually you are going to break something you can't afford to fix and that's when your car turns into a planter in your backyard (in your front yard if you live in the south).
Soon after it's being parted out on craigslist for pennies on the dollar.
And then do what exactly? Buy a vanilla 4 door sedan and become part of the mindless masses that do the same old/same old ever day for the rest of your life? These cars, be it a full blown drag car to a hot street car give us an outlet for our creative jucies, they give us some of the spice that is life. You take that away from me and you might as well put a round between my eyes and get it over with. I don't do the builds for the money or the lack thereof, I do it because it is who I am, it is what makes me tick, money be damned.And for the record, this thread is swaying me to sell off my car(s) and go-fast junk while it's apart and worth the most money.
Damn it.
And that's exactly why I can't. It wouldn't be 15 minutes until I was scheming my next car. I've tried giving it up, finding a new "hobby" or just anything.And then do what exactly? Buy a vanilla 4 door sedan and become part of the mindless masses that do the same old/same old ever day for the rest of your life? These cars, be it a full blown drag car to a hot street car give us an outlet for our creative jucies, they give us some of the spice that is life. You take that away from me and you might as well put a round between my eyes and get it over with. I don't do the builds for the money or the lack thereof, I do it because it is who I am, it is what makes me tick, money be damned.
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