How much have you spent.

[DBSV8]

DBS V12

Gold badges 275
DBS wheel removing tool 150
CTEK charger 100
spare set of wheels with Pirelli sotozero winter tyres 2500
refurbish wheels 250
Installation of front / rear cameras / Apple iPhone connectivity /front rear dash cameras 2200
removal of secondary cats 800

total 6250

first service ?

[Butter Face]

I honestly wouldn’t want to add it up. Multiples kf the £1800 I bought it for 5 years ago though I’d say, still have a few ££££ to go too!

[A1VDY]

£1200 on a Remus exhaust system for my Cayman. There's very little to it really as its just a cat back system but made of shot blasted stainless will last and sounds mental at 7k+ rpm..

[Hub]

£0

I love cars but I've never modified one.

I'd rather start saving for the next one!

[nikaiyo2]

liner33 said:

I added up how much I'd spent on my Skyline and stopped at around £18k in 3 years as I was worried my wife would find the list

Started like this



Finished like this




Totally learned my lesson as I went on and spent £11k in three years on my Evo 6 which replaced it



to

Why did you change the wheels? Advans are just so JDM

[rufusgti]

Hub said:

£0

I love cars but I've never modified one.

I'd rather start saving for the next one!

I'm the same these days. Never spent anything like what some of these posts state but what I came to understand, I never modified a car that made it better to drive. I went through the big wheels, low suspension, stretch tyres, lots of scene stuff that just made cars worse. These days I just like replacing worn bits on old cars to refresh the handling. Boring I know.

I know a guy who has been building a Sierra Rs500 race car. His wife was telling me she wasn't happy he'd spent nearly twenty grand on it. Made me laugh as he'd already told me he had spent over 50 grand! Lovely machine though.

[Court_S]

Mine is all cosmetic stuff...

Alcantara wheel return - £190
M Performance spoiler £220
Painting of spoiler and canards - £150
Black M style wing mirror caps - £75
Reiger diffuser - £229
M Performance interior bits - £283

So just over £1,100...yikes. It all adds up very quickly.

[CraigJ]

In the last 12 months, 25k buying the car and about 10-15k making it go a lot faster. Currently 740bhp but will be circa 800 by spring for my 200mph standing mile attempt.

All work done by me so saved a few grand.

[Ultrafunkula]

Over £2k on my Cayman S so far (and twice that in repairs and consumables etc ), car cost £26k a year and a half ago. Next year it's a suspension upgrade...

[832ark]

Ashtray83 said:

Oilchange said:

Ashtray83 said:

10k on the engine/trans in my mk1
Couple on the paint, few on the suspension and brakes, couple more on the wheels... got about a third back not my finest hour bloody good fun though

what engine is that?

2.8 24v VR6 enlarged to 3.0 forged pistons, steel rods, schrick cams, gas flowed head, Jenvey 45mm itb’s, msd ignition with DTA management, custom exhaust, with a vwms box and Gemini plated diff,
317hp and 274lb

Sounds like a bloody hard way to 105bhp/litre but fair play!

[watchnut]

Total respect to all the above mods.....so a free air freshener in mine don't count.....

[Jasandjules]

Nothing.

[Monkeylegend]

Nothing here as well, always like to keep mine as they left the factory.

[Jamescrs]

I owned a Focus ST around 4 years ago, probably spent close to 20k modifying it, it was an epic car when I'd finished. Was featured as a cover car on Fast Ford magazine but all said and done I sold it for 9k and it was broken for parts by the purchaser because the parts seperately were worth more than the car as a whole.

It was a brilliant journey and I made tons of mates along the way but I'd never do it again. People used to say to me why don't you just buy a fast car to begin with and I do agree with that now.

[irocfan]

started as...






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an encounter with an old lady who couldn't decide what part of the road she belonged on lost me a door mirror so the path started... new retro mirrors were purchased and I lucked out getting hold of a cheap GT500 bonnet

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Next up were some lovely 20's wrapped in 255/45 up front and 295/35 at the rear together with some Roush lowering springs and uprated shocks






At this point I thought that I might as well add a Roush rear spoiler and some stripes






and then, like an idiot, I sold it




The only non-idiotic thing I did was to make a profit on the whole thing (mods included) - that profit was lost on a future toy which was kept (nearly) standard

[Ashtray83]

832ark said:

Ashtray83 said:

Oilchange said:

Ashtray83 said:

10k on the engine/trans in my mk1
Couple on the paint, few on the suspension and brakes, couple more on the wheels... got about a third back not my finest hour bloody good fun though

what engine is that?

2.8 24v VR6 enlarged to 3.0 forged pistons, steel rods, schrick cams, gas flowed head, Jenvey 45mm itb’s, msd ignition with DTA management, custom exhaust, with a vwms box and Gemini plated diff,
317hp and 274lb

Sounds like a bloody hard way to 105bhp/litre but fair play!

You’ll probably prove me wrong but I think that’s bloody good for a naturally aspirated car! V6 7800 redline.. oh and it only tipped the scales at 765kg what’s that 414hp per ton?

Edited by Ashtray83 on Saturday 9th November 22:54

[832ark]

Ashtray83 said:

832ark said:

Ashtray83 said:

Oilchange said:

Ashtray83 said:

10k on the engine/trans in my mk1
Couple on the paint, few on the suspension and brakes, couple more on the wheels... got about a third back not my finest hour bloody good fun though

what engine is that?

2.8 24v VR6 enlarged to 3.0 forged pistons, steel rods, schrick cams, gas flowed head, Jenvey 45mm itb’s, msd ignition with DTA management, custom exhaust, with a vwms box and Gemini plated diff,
317hp and 274lb

Sounds like a bloody hard way to 105bhp/litre but fair play!

You’ll probably prove me wrong but I think that’s bloody good for a naturally aspirated car! V6 7800 redline.. oh and it only tipped the scales at 765kg what’s that 414hp per ton?

Edited by Ashtray83 on Saturday 9th November 22:54

Not knocking the effort as clearly there’s a lot involved. Quite a few cars leave the factory with higher specific outputs though, thinking Hondas and BMWs mainly. For me 100bhp/litre is kinda the lowest I’m interested in.

[MC Bodge]

novus said:

Few years ago
2016 Golf R £28000
Mods bill at Awesome gti when is finished modding just over ten grand just didn’t know when to stop but know of loads who spent more than that .... madness
Sold the car a year later for £24k got a bout £3k from parts .... yup lost a fking fortune

Then 2017 Audi TTS just under £40k

Remap and dsg remap £900

Current 2018 S3 bought last year £38k

Mod bill £2300 that was done at the start and haven’t been inclined to spend another penny and won’t this time or ever again having done it in every car in the last twenty years

Probaly lost around £40k on changing and modding cars in recent times

I really can't see the point in that for those cars.

[Ashtray83]

832ark said:

Ashtray83 said:

832ark said:

Ashtray83 said:

Oilchange said:

Ashtray83 said:

10k on the engine/trans in my mk1
Couple on the paint, few on the suspension and brakes, couple more on the wheels... got about a third back not my finest hour bloody good fun though

what engine is that?

2.8 24v VR6 enlarged to 3.0 forged pistons, steel rods, schrick cams, gas flowed head, Jenvey 45mm itb’s, msd ignition with DTA management, custom exhaust, with a vwms box and Gemini plated diff,
317hp and 274lb

Sounds like a bloody hard way to 105bhp/litre but fair play!

You’ll probably prove me wrong but I think that’s bloody good for a naturally aspirated car! V6 7800 redline.. oh and it only tipped the scales at 765kg what’s that 414hp per ton?

Edited by Ashtray83 on Saturday 9th November 22:54

Not knocking the effort as clearly there’s a lot involved. Quite a few cars leave the factory with higher specific outputs though, thinking Hondas and BMWs mainly. For me 100bhp/litre is kinda the lowest I’m interested in.

I know what you’re saying! please bear in mind this was 10 years ago when the 20vt was not a common transplant and was about the same weigh all things considered plus I wanted to do something different, The noise it made was worth the money alone. power to weight was the most important factor in my build

[TheAngryDog]

What is the car, op?

I'm currently around £18k plus purchase price, though you could argue that a working engine and gearbox aren't mods