how many of you have a "budget"build on your GVR4?

[jnava]

It seems someone thinks most of us are. My parts list alone is above what that guys car asking price and only growing. what's your money pit amount at this point?

 

[transparentdsm]

parts just in the car 19K, all the parts ive changed and other parts i have laying around somewhere in the 30K range. i bought the car for 2K with a blown motor.

 

[GSTwithPSI]

Including the price I paid for my current Galant, I probably have a bit over 10k in the project. Definitely under 20k, though. sh*t is cheap when you do it yourself. And, if you wait for deals and such on parts, it's not hard to put together a nice car and not break the bank.

 

[LIV4PSI]

I've never did the math on my build. It's definitely not a budget build, but by parting out cars and going to junkyards I've saved a lot of money. Def could of bought an EVO by now haha

1501: $4,000
DSS shaft: $700
Frontline valve cover $700
Diff cover: $350
JMF intake: $400
HKS cams and gears: $700
Rear subframe parts: $1,000
FMIC: $300
New manual rack: $300
Brake upgrades: $300
T3 manifold: $450
EVO IX wheel: $200
JDM exterior goodies: $1,300
Scirocco Radiator: $300
Super tech Dual Valve springs: $200
Pedal rebuild: $100
Finish 2015 setup: $1,000
Tial and FP intake: $200
Proper battery relocation: $200
Shifter bushings: $100
New wheel bearings/ball joints etc: $300
Fluidampr pulley $200
Jay Ray Alt relocation/ Saturn alt $200
ECMlink: $500

Free parts:
FD RX7 rims
5 lug swap
4 bolt diff and axles
Gauges
PTE 60 trim turbo/wastegate
3 inch mandrel exhaust
92 grill
Shep stage 2 trans
EVO suspension with Hotbits camber plates
CF JDM RS replica hood with aerocatch pins
Aeromotive AFPR
Walbro 450lph pump
ABS delete
Coil on Plug setup
89 under dash
Cruise control delete

 

[coyotes]

Free parts? Did you steal them?

 

[LIV4PSI]

I've parted out 3 GVR4s for no profit except for free parts. A couple of those things listed did find their way into my tool bag at the junkyard though. I guess that's stealing haha

 

[coyotes]

I would consider my car a budget build, but I haven't put any hackjob parts on it. Just going slow.

1226/2000: $4000 (included some freebies, exhaust, wheels, extra unassembled engine)
evo 8 wheels, new tires: $900
Parts and work on spare motor: $1100
Maintenance items(wheel bearings, 5 lug swap, cooling system overhaul, timing overhaul, plugs, wires, misc extras): $1200
Odyssey battery: $110
Intercooler setup: $500
16g turbo, evo iii manifold, associated new parts and hardware: $400
Misc crap: $200

So I'm into my car around $8000 total.

 

[gvr4144]

I have paper work easily over 10k between paint, the engine build, built transmission. Also that's not including all the miscellaneous go fast parts.

 

[362Ryan]

I have $11k tied up in just my engine and trans that is still sitting in a friends garage.

Not to mention purchase price and repairs.

 

[gvr4144]

I think honestly the words budget and build can't be used jointly lol

 

[diambo4life]

I will need to tally it up but I don't think it's more than $8,000. I know I will have another $2000-$3000 in it before spring. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/mad.gif

 

[CarRacer]

I'm at or below $5k on the BMW engine swap. Mine won't be a HP monster build and I'm making most of everything I can but I'm still trying to do it as cheaply as possible. Getting the chassis for $700 helped a bunch too though.

 

[mikus]

I probably had $11-12K *total* into three vr4s and sold them for $10-11Kish

Am a big believer that the best money you can spend modding a car is the previous owner's.

 

[92_talon_awd]

$4300 for the car
$600 for suspension and new tires
$150 for tint

The GGSX is where the big price tag will be.. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/uhh.gif

 

[faqinshiet]

Yeah with my GGSX I think I'll stop my list so many parts were missing and many others that I wanted!

 

[JamesFoster]

Over $20k

 

[turbohf]

never have i thought there was a budget for the Galant. its just a bottomless money pit... not even sure i care /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/dunno.gif

 

[Fiascoxl]

I'm around 7,200 last time I added it up with the price (500) of the car. This may go up if I plan on restoring it's appearance which probably will not happen.

 

[BENE38A]

hmmm after reading this last night then doing the maths I have just awoken on the floor. 20k+(NZD)... so far

 

[89Patches]

I don't even want to think about it. If I did know how much time & money I put into the Turd I'd probably cry. Also I'd actually may have a running car for more than 3 months at a time if I didn't get my VR4...

Ah life would have been so nice /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/banghead.gif