Thread: Where are the real budget builders?

very true, nothing worse than trying to get things done before work the next day. Working all hours of the night and half assing things just so you have a ride to work the next day...to hell with that.

Yep, or even better, if you don't have a garage and work against the daylight to get things done, ugh that sucks. You have such a limited window and can't just go "try out a hunch" or something at 2am because you just think you figured something out.

QFT... my 240sx has been one expensive project car. I just hope I dont get unemployed for some reason.

im just out of university and coming up on 2 years at my first professional job and I think this is the best time to waste all my money

hope im right

I have a tight budget , and that means my car gets a really tight budget, even for basic repairs. Most of my upgrades have come about because a OE part has given up the ghost. An example is the windshield, got a big crack in it and swapped it for polycarb. Water pump went out swapped for an electric one, shocks were bad swapped for progress coilovers. I buy used stuff or raw materials and make my own for just about everything else. If you are short on cash this is the method I recommend.


And a method I don't recommend that sort of got me a free car ( and 0 credit rating again).
If you want to get into the purchase price of the car ( and most of the mods in the first few years), I went bankrupt 3-4years ago after I was about to be sued by a shady landlord on a lawyers advise I was told bankruptcy was the best way to go rather than fight.That was with $14,000 worth of credit card debt (which included the cost of the car and cost of living unemployed for a number of months) and another $16k I was getting sued for was all just written off for the lawyer's fee of $900 :o

I think those with tight budgets doing $300 turbo builds simply can't afford compy/innanet/pictars.

like a bawse

I try to be a budget builder, sometimes it works sometimes it doesn`t. one of my most recent budget builds was this festiva turbo. Single ihi turbo off a twin turbo jdm subaru legacy, non intercooled, radiator flex hose charge pipe, no bov, oil return into dipstick, window weld filled motor mounts, no tuning, and the thing ran great at 7psi. If the clutch didn`t start slipping I would of had alot more fun with it.







budget nx running on de ecu





cheapo that I am I recently sold this and bought a 91 sentra to save money

Wow, imagine having a type r or something and getting beat by the Festiva

I have always wanted to boost a B3 or B6 motor in a festiva or an Aspire. I love those cars.

My friend had a Festiva in high school. Like a 1988 or something. What a Pos, unbelievable