Malhar95

#61

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QUOTE (stephen_lee @ Oct 19, 2011 - 9:15 AM)

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QUOTE (Malhar95 @ Oct 19, 2011 - 3:15 AM)

>probably should have told u guys my bill first,


about 10,526 $ on the car so far.

and i my car is primered. with a bad motor, waiting to get another 5s in there. all stock with bad bouncy suspesion and no rear window on the top.

i probably have the worst / unreliable car on this site if u exclude the parts car /

iff you kept up with maint. and thte oil you wouldnt have an issue..

Well I do take some blame for it but not all...recently found out. The 1st engine that spun a bearing was because the old mechanic put the bearing in the wrong place. (top on bottome viceversa)

Second engine don't know i guess It was just old. Still had oil so I dunno.

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subspec

#62

about 15,000

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96bluevert

#63

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QUOTE (Malhar95 @ Oct 19, 2011 - 4:04 PM)

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QUOTE (stephen_lee @ Oct 19, 2011 - 9:15 AM)

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QUOTE (Malhar95 @ Oct 19, 2011 - 3:15 AM)

>probably should have told u guys my bill first,


about 10,526 $ on the car so far.

and i my car is primered. with a bad motor, waiting to get another 5s in there. all stock with bad bouncy suspesion and no rear window on the top.

i probably have the worst / unreliable car on this site if u exclude the parts car /

iff you kept up with maint. and thte oil you wouldnt have an issue..

Well I do take some blame for it but not all...recently found out. The 1st engine that spun a bearing was because the old mechanic put the bearing in the wrong place. (top on bottome viceversa)

Second engine don't know i guess It was just old. Still had oil so I dunno.

That's the only problem with a used car, you never know how its previous owners (or anyone who worked on the car) took care of it, in most cases.

My Celi ran fine for a few years, I always kept up with maitinence and babied it, but it still blew a head gasket at 127k on the clock (on the car). As I found out, it wasnt the original motor that came with it (vins didn't match).

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kingcarlito4991

#64

i brought mine for 650 and to get shocks and struts and sound system ect i paid a total of 2050 usd. For my 3sgte build i spent 4883 thats for wiseco pistons, eagle rods, 272 cams, chromoly main caps, head studs, main studs, aem cam gears, turbo, stainless 1mm over valves and still not including machine shop(hes not done yet). i spent 700 on rims and tires and 1600 for paint job. So total is about 9k and im still not done lol

kurt95gt

#65

I think im at just shy of 3000 if you include price of car

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stephen_lee

#66

bought my daily for 1800 in 2009. since then ive spent maybe 1200 on non regular maintenance items.

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KAOS

#67

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QUOTE (azian_advanced @ Sep 17, 2011 - 5:05 AM)

>too much

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#68

bought my DD for $1000, and spent maybe $300 on maintenence- runs great.....collecting parts to turbo it, hopefully by Christmas

kormysh8

#69

2500 on the car, and around another 6k on fixes, mods, tires and a parts car. Like some one already said. still cheaper than buying a comparable newer car. all in all, totally worth it.

Lenny

#70

4k to get the car, around 650 for the springs and shocks, 400 for gt4 rims, tires for free and little interior mods for 80. and still putting money into it.

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95CelicaST

#71

I was tallying up the receipts in my glovebox the other day. Regular maintenance since I got the MR2, plus some of the V6 built. It was somewhere around $4k.

I think all in all I am into the MR2 somewhere around $13k...

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thatmr2

#72

I'll let you know once it stops....oh wait it doesn't.....

Hirogodsend

#73

The car cost me $6,500 back in march.
Tires and wheels cost me about 1k.
Just finished some repairs for about $150.

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kurt95gt

#74

Just spent another 250 on tc rims an 30on a short throw
so im around 3300 now

This post has been edited by kurt95gt: Nov 30, 2011 - 5:19 PM

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Promasta

#75

over $20,000

car-10000
paint-2200
wheels-1400
clutch-900
summer tires-600
winter tires-800
kit+paint-1300
projectors-700
coilovers-500
AC repair+recharge-400
deck-350
rotors+pads-400
ebrake fix-150
short ram intake-100
quick shift-180
axles-400

Box

#76

$2,400 for the car. Included new tires, new timing set, water pump, new Tein springs and KYB shocks, new brakes, K&N filter, and new fluids. Probably won't do too much more than maintenance. I'm a cheap bastard like that.

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kurt95gt

#77

Im at roughly 4000 into my 1mz swap an got to drive her 23 mile lol
best 23mile ever!!!!!!

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taibones

#78

i paid $250 for the celica, bought fenders $250. Left door 60€, a couple of interior parts about 100£, and my wife bought me a double din cd player that was 200€, so im at around 1000 bucks usd for my jdm

b22ri22an

#79

keep in mind i deliver pizza in mine and beat the crap out of it, but i fix it right every time i break something
since the car was purchased 3/10

$6000 for the celica
$3900 for finance charges
$4700 regular maintenance
$4100 major repairs
$1800 upgrades/mods
$9100 gas
$2900 insurance

just under 35k altogether

i have exact numbers (tax reasons)but i rounded them to the nearest hundred. since my vehicles usage is 88% (12% personal use) tax deductible i have detailed records of every penny i spend on the car

diegohiga

#80

Lets see if i can remember all..
4000 car (100% stock)
2500 Paint
850 Coilovers
1000 gt4 front
270 trd wing
160 side skirts
120 trd front splitters
1000 sound system
950 fabric suede (seats, head liner, and other stuff)
1100 wheels
450 gt4 front brakes
450 drums to disk convertion
800 ST engine rebuilt
400 clutch for the ST
100 st axels
1850 3sgte
450 mr2 tranny
150 gt4 shift cables
250 axles
120 bov
80 turbo timer
140 fuel pressure regulator

And ill be spending about 1500 more to finish my 3s swap

So about $18,690 (this doesnt include All the tires ive used, gas, maintence, insurance etc) only upgrades to the celica and im sure im missing other stuff
This pic is before spending $14,690 lol

And after $14,690 or more invested. Worth it? Yes in my opinion every penny!!


This post has been edited by diegohiga: May 17, 2012 - 3:42 PM

Malhar95

#81

Can we get any updates?

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1994Celica

#82

Around $4500 for....
Original price of the car
GT-4 Bumper
GT-4 Hood
TRD- Side skirts and splitters
Projector head lights with HID's
7GC Seats
Plastidip
Wheels+ Tires
Rear Strut brace

What I have left to do
Brakes
Suspension
Manual trans swap
build a decent 5s
Rare JDM parts

I'll probably have 7000-8000 invested in it when I'm "done". Its a lot but hey for 8k I get an awesome car.

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playr158

#83

I've probably wasted something like 10,000 - 15,000 over the years on this car....and all I have so far is a randomly pieced together incomplete shell that needs another 10k.

include the price of the car and i'm something like 25-30k into it

This post has been edited by playr158: Dec 5, 2013 - 3:32 PM

mgnt232

#84

Ha same prob 10-20k over 7 years. multiple motors, bodies, paint, lights, ect.
I try not to think about all the money I've put into her lol, just call it priceless

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Julian_Navia

#85

I've kept a list. Only $1,679 including the car

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cyberblader1130

#86

$3200 - Car/Fees
$3700 - Bodywork/Paint
$1300 - Exhaust/Intake
$2400 - Suspension
$2200 - Misc. Main./Mods
$800 - Projectors/HIDs/LEDs/Kouki Tails/Clear Turns + Sides

$500 - Front Bumper, Side Skirts + Rear Splitters that im not currently using...

$14200 - Est. Total Before swap will be completed

Car is very reliable, Run on 93 Octane and Mobil 1 Synthetic/ OEM Oil Filters

Need to be done - V6 swap with Hybrid Trans
- Rims/ Tires
- Full LED conversion

Terzin1

#87

I just want to shout out on how much I have NOT spent. I bought the car nearly a decade ago for $5400. The fuel line rusted out 6 months later and I spent $700 on that. I had to replace the exhaust last year for $250. I bought a car that was a decade old and have had it for nine years now and only put about $1000 in repair costs in it!

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skogs

#88

I haven't read through this thread, but i think i win(or loose?). First i bought an at200 for $12K, sold it for $2k and bought a 7gc for $17k, sold it for $15k and bought a st205 for $30k, blew the engine after a few days, imported a st205 from japan for $7.5K and finaly paying $5K for the engine swap including Haltech ECU og Spec clutch. Bought back my first at200 for $1k.

Including maintenance, i guess i have used somewhere around $60k on celicas over a period of 7 years and about a total of 130 000km. Worth it? Hell yeah!

Trodai

#89

€7500 over a year and a half for car,parts and paint for rebuild from ground up all done by myself to save money

dudeofchaos

#90

$240 - Jdm tail lights
$7500 - Car
$150 - Oem Jdm 3spoke steering wheel
$140 - Oem 3sgte intake hose and air box + TRD drop-in air filter
$75 - Euro licence plate holder
$90 - Powerfolding mirrors (Had already bought another set that didn't fit which cost me ~$70)
$400 - Replacement Gt-Four bumper and fenders
$100 - Aluminum differential mount
$415 - Oem euro front lip

~$30 - TRD rad cap
Also spent ~$750 for new tires

Which makes a ballpark price of $9100 as of yet without the tires and all the maintenance cost.
...What hurts the most is that I know I'm VERY far from being done
Gonna repaint the whole car in black as soon as I can. The whole thing! Gonna strip the car and paint the interior also. I don't want any traces of white left on the car.
Thing is I can't come up with a limit budget for this paint job and I don't know what a reasonable price would be for a good job.
Also I can't seem to find a guy to do it

This post has been edited by dudeofchaos: Dec 7, 2013 - 11:10 AM