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Appleseed
Appleseed MegaDork
4/11/18 4:49 p.m.

If people built cars to make money, no body would build cars.

pilotbraden
pilotbraden UltraDork
4/11/18 5:54 p.m.

Ok , I say get the kit, but Please tell us where you are getting it. I have a 2005 rustless focus that I paid$500 for. I want to put a turbo on it

barefootskater
barefootskater Reader
4/11/18 6:07 p.m.

In reply to pilotbraden :

When I get all my ducks in a row I'll be ordering from fswerks. All the focus forums I've been on like them.

Will
Will UltraDork
4/11/18 9:08 p.m.
Gearheadotaku said:

I am debating $2000 in wheels and tires for a $4000 car so I can win $5 trophies.

#autocross life

 

Your club's trophies are worth $5?! Does your club have some sort of Scrooge McDuck money bin?

Grizz
Grizz UberDork
4/12/18 9:33 a.m.
stanger_missle said:

This is GRM... So why not buy 2.5 more $1500 cars?  Or 6.66 $600 cars? Maybe a couple of cars and a bus?

Because this is GRM, so all of that happens after the 4k turbo kit. Or during, depending on what you see on the way to pick it up.

RossD
RossD MegaDork
4/12/18 9:37 a.m.

Spending $4k on a turbo kit on a $1500 car is a life changing event. Everything will be different afterwards. It will be the changeover between BC and AD or the moon landing. It's like going to your first swingers event. It's something I hope to do one day; the throw too much at a cheap car not the swingers thing.

RevRico
RevRico GRM+ Memberand UltraDork
4/12/18 9:48 a.m.
Will said:
Gearheadotaku said:

I am debating $2000 in wheels and tires for a $4000 car so I can win $5 trophies.

#autocross life

 

Your club's trophies are worth $5?! Does your club have some sort of Scrooge McDuck money bin?

I'm still amazed at all these clubs with trophies. We get stickers from the autocross chairs vinyl business. 

As for the expensive turbo on cheap car? I'd do it if I could afford it. After years of owning a variety of vehicles, piecing together a kit to install myself has always been full of hard to find parts or missing information even on popular platforms like j bodies and miata, so yes, buying a full kit even at a premium just to have everything proper from the get go makes sense. 

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