how much have you spent!!!

[the lemster]

everyone...  with all this talk of feed bonnets and carbon shafts along with ported engines and  everthing else...

what i would leik to know and maybe keep record of is how much peop[le have spent on their cars and in how long...

I will start

£6500  bought in sept 04
£615 new clutch
£180 new vacuum hoses
£950 inlet manifold gasket replacement ( £20 quid parts rest is labour!!!!)
£3980 rebuild by rotechniks including release bearing, coolant hoses and a few other bits on their way out
£500 various other bit that need doing... solenoids.. coolant flush etc..

total of ....

£12725 ( approx)

and the car is standard!!!!!!!!!

maybe if this takes off we could stickify the thread?...

[Ada7]

Far too much!!!

Adam

[ds2000]

Purchase £8000 in 2004
£60 new hoses
£50 new rats nest
£20 braided fuel line
£10 for 4 check valves
£30 for new exhaust gasket and turbo gaskets
£70 for downpipe
£120 GReddy CAT Back (bargain from the US - rotary ressurection)
£50 for brand new lowering springs (same as above)
£50 for braided brake hoses
£70 new SFS rad pipes
£10 for new dash \'hood\'
£20 paints and materials for refurbing centre console
£90 km to mph speedo conversion

Approx £8700

If I get the reassembly wrong then £xxxx for a rebuild

Not too shabby for 2x years ownership, not a true figure though as it\'ll have been off the road for 2x years this November... eek!

[rmagictastic]

erm, i dont like this thread........

[Iwan]

...don\'t ask!

[probedb]

Hmm, not done too much really.

Car - £3500
Major service with intake gasket replacement, AST replacement, oil leak fix plus odds and sods - £1500 @ WGT
Stereo - £300ish in total
Oil/Filter change - £40ish (I don\'t drive it much @ the mo hence only one change)
HKS Racing Suction kit - £180 (thanks G@ndy)
Sparco gearknob - £15

Car is being rebuilt by me and some friends come October so will be replacing lots...exhaust, hopefully vmount, various other stuff...

[Ada7]

I think there was a similar thread a while back that had the same kind of question.
IIRC John York was the \'winner\' and had spent some 50k on his slippery banana rx in 5 years!!

Adam

[DaveP8883]

To be honest not had a very good time with my Rex. After a few problems with the engine a month or so after i bought it, (Ant @ Sterte Garage and Pip @ WGT were awesome getting this sorted though), a period of being skint meant i didn\'t get to use the thing or get an apexi ecu that i needed. I began to use it again and some clever fella in his Mummys Audi thought it\'d be good to drive into the side of me!!! :mad: By the end of the year though everything should be rosey!!

£11,500 purchase price (included re-build well worth the money and would recommend Sterte Garage (A7NTY on here)

£330 - for part service/small engine work from WGT

This is pretty much it for the time being so.....£11,830 for me.

Car is currently awaiting new front bumper, nearside front wing. Also once these have been done it\'ll be getting a apexi ECU fitted and if funds allow a complete re-spray thanks to the local t**ts and there golf balls.

Here\'s a pic before the smash @ a northern meet.

[barmar]

Nice thread but I don\'t think i\'ll be totalling up how much i\'ve spent. I don\'t think my mental health could handle the final figure

Barry

[RAW]

i\'m going to pretend i never saw this thread...:guinness

[A7NTY]

So much money it would make most of you cry, me included

[TwistedHumour]

Well, I havent even got a rex yet.. but I fear it may cost me my job!

... if my boss ever finds out how much I use the forum :bandit

[nikp]

Far too much. Can\'t remember eveything, but:

Car: £6250
ECU: £450
V-mount: £850
Rebuild: £1700
Single Turbo and secondary injectors: £700
Wastegate: £440
Clutch: £350

Several other bits and pieces, probably coming to over £400

[Crazy Eddie]

Car £3000
HKS hardpipes £85
Service £249
Alloys £400
B&M shortshift £30
Start Button £40
Steering Wheel & Spacer £150

Total £3954 :wiggle

Not too bad so far but this is tempting fate so look out for a new rebuild thread:(

[sadgoth]

I did this on Pistonheads, just I don\'t keep it up to date, here goes:

car: £1500
rebuild + porting: £2200
Tein Springs: £200
first FMIC + custom piping: £650
Microtech LT10s ECU: £700
Apexi Turbo Timer: £60
Wheels: £500
Turbo II Leather seats and Alloy Bonnet: £250
2nd hand shell bought for Konis, exhaust and Microtech Dash Unit: £200

so far: £6260

currently undergoing:
new much bigger V-Mount IC: approx £250
uprated Rad: £250
T70 Turbo: approx £1000
external wastgate: approx £400
4x1000cc injectors: approx £500
Fuel Pump approx £150
FPR: approx £120
Apexi Boost Controller £250
labour charges: who knows??? (prob about £1500 or so!)

so another £4500 ish to spend!

Have sold the first FMIC, the SS Exhaust and one or two other bits so I\'ve made back about £550!

wow, by the time i\'ve done this phase, I\'ll have spent nearly £10.5k (less the £550) on a Turbo II! Who says us FC owners are tight-wads?



(now replaced with 2nd hand Konis and Pi Springs)