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It's funny you say this. Among friends and family it's believed that the longest time I keep a car is 18 months and the more I mod it the faster

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Old 08-24-2016, 10:25 AM   #1 (permalink)
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It's funny you say this. Among friends and family it's believed that the longest time I keep a car is 18 months and the more I mod it the faster I'll get rid of it. It hasn't quite been 18 months lately but I do have occasions where I'll take a platform to a certain point and plan from the beginning to move on after I get there. When I had a Titan that point came after full exhaust, headers ,cams cutouts and 90mm LS3 throttle body swap with a modified LS3 intake manifold. Sold it and bought a G37. From th get go I regretted the 7at but I went full bolt minus headers and then did a differential swap and carbon fiber driveshaft. That car was stonger than my 15' Nismo (pre boost). About a week before I sent the money for my BP kit I was a phone call from swapping the Nismo for a GTR. My nismo isn't done with tuning yet and I have less than 1k miles on the kit but I'm seeing myself in a GTR inside the next 2 years. I may be done then or maybe not. Maybe I'll leave the Nismo alone and see what I can do with a Titan again. Dunno that but thats just what I do and it would seem I'm not alone. Tear stuff apart make it better then do it to something else.
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You need to drop that VK Titan motor into your Z like Chris Forsberg
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Also a lot more problems tend to pop up when going FI that over time gets old real quick and makes it very easy to do a impulse sell after it gets to a certain point of annoyance.
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This is true, but I was more referring to the low mileage setups being sold/traded. If there are that many issues within the first 5000 miles, something was done seriously wrong.
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This is true, but I was more referring to the low mileage setups being sold/traded. If there are that many issues within the first 5000 miles, something was done seriously wrong.
I'd actually go the other way and say most of your small annoying problems are going to crop up in the first 5k... Once you get them ironed out you are probably good =)
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I don't drive mine nearly as much as I should. It's the pain of shuffling two other cars to get it out of the garage. Oh and the Texas heat. I park it for over 90deg season. Even though I don't drive it much, I still love it. I'll own it for 5-10 more years.
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I daily drive mine - I have about 25K miles on my setup and it's still rock solid. But as far as people getting rid of it because their priorities changed - One thing to consider is how much it costs. It's around $10+K all in with supporting mods. For a lot of people, that takes some time to save up. And while they may be totally focused on saving for FI, things are slowly changing in their life during that time. So they finally save up for it and do it, and then realize that it's three years later, and their car has 25K more miles on it then when they first decided to do it, or that they are three years closer to having to start a family, or purchase a home...

So there is mention about foresight, and a lot of people don't have clear enough foresight to see the landscape that will exist when they finally save up for FI. I did a stint in the aftermarket car industry for about 10 years, so I've seen this happen to a lot of people. It's kind of like buying a Porsche - people want them starting when they are very young, but when they can actually afford one, they're too old to track it and do all of the hooligan stuff they said they would do. So they buy it, and garage it. Different scale, but same principle. Me, when I picked up my car, it had 35K on it, and I supercharged it immediately because I thought, "If I'm going to supercharge/turbo it AT ANY POINT, I would be kicking myself for not doing it when it only had 35K on it." No one wants to be in the position of finally deciding you want to do it, but realizing that the car you want to FI already has 100K on it. It's different for an intake or something small, a couple hundred bucks is a quick save and a quick spend. Not much changes in your life in the time it takes to go from "I want it" to "I have it" on something like that.
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