Gotta love those - Ohhh, it's only a couple hundred bucks......
I'll show what's lead me to here. It'll be long-winded but I like to share as much of the story as I can.
My first car was a 97 Grand Prix GTP. Like any dumb teenager, I modded my one and only car and not always in good taste.
You know how it goes, start out with some rims and mufflers and you think you're the badass in town, meanwhile they usually look like turds. I was no different. Though I found the errors in my way and started to do tasteful mods I think.
I was building the supercharged engine up purchasing parts; cam, intercooler, exhaust etc. Then decided that a turbo was the way to go.
After buying a used pt61 kit, intercooler, meth injection, powdercoating all the parts and whatnot I ended up with this.
Then the engine spun a rod bearing. Came across another car so I just threw a stock GTP motor in this car and used it as a daily driver and built the other car.
This was a 2000 GTP from Florida.
Moved my parts over to it and it was fast. Did a lot more mods to this engine. Head work, bigger 66mm turbo, bigger exhaust and e-cutout, bigger cam etc. Engine was a beast and made a ton of power. The transmission was built with many hardened parts and even had the highly coveted indestructible 1" GMR chain.
Never did finish painting the engine bay so it never looked as good as it should have.
Then decided that lowering springs just weren't low enough. So I made my own coilovers which were a hit with others and I ended up making some for other forum members.
Cut the perches off the struts, got some threaded sleeves, nuts, bearings, springs and poly bushings and was set. Modified the top strut mounts and some angle iron for the rear sway bar and they're ready to drop in.
Upgraded nearly every suspension part, bigger swar bars, trailing arms, strut braces etc. Handled well for a 3400 lbs front wheel drive boat.
Then had to make some pods in the dash for the extra gauges I needed.
Finally ended up looking like this.
Then one night at the track...(horrible 60' but I wasn't worried about ET, just trap speed)
and this happened on the way home...
Bearing is a little spun...
So I swapped in another engine. Drove it around a lot, loved it, had fun. Then the end of one year I decide to go on a cruise with some friends.
Few days later I fixed my methanol injection switch and the output shaft didn't like that. It snapped and welded itself to the torque converter.
Decided that was enough, I've had my fun so I parted it out and made quite a lot of the money back.
Traded the turbo kit for my first bike. An 03 GSXR 600 track bike. I knew the frame was branded so I couldn't get a plate for it so I bought a clean titled frame and swapped it all over.
Got it home:
New frame.
Replaced all the bearings and rebuilt the forks:
Headlight was busted so I tore it apart and retrofit some Morimoto projectors in it:
Gave the fairings a paint job, tinted cbr954 taillight, pimpbikes race undertail, shorty levers, mirrors, and I cut down a Yoshi can to shorten it up. New chain and -1+2 sprockets. Later added a rear hugger.
I loved this bike, never gave me a single problem. Rode it for a few years and then I got into track days. Didn't want to destroy this bike so I got a dedicated track bike. After the first day I was hooked. I sold the GSXR this year because I just didn't ride it enough, too easy to get a ticket and wanted to build a low and slow bike.
With the money I made off selling this bike I've paid for both mine and my wifes bike and parts with money left over.
Phew, that's a novel to anyone who actually reads it.