Is It Worth It!!!??? Options

[Bradley]

Hey guys... Ive been in the 3sgte market now for about three years.....

Now that the swap is been becoming more realistic for me financially Im starting to have my doubts about the swap....

I came up with a total of like $8k i need to have in order to do this swap...
that includes...
vented/slotted rotors and pads and braided steel lines
tein ss coilovers
st185 front clip or maybe st202 (praying for the WRC)
3" back exhaust and down pipe
Clutch
electronics including a boost controller and timer as well as a standalone
installation and all the other stuff not listed...


Though I must say I love my celica is this really worth it...??

A gt4 I would say hell yes.... awd 3sgte in a car as beautiful as the celica is my dream

but a fwd 200hp or so celica with a chasis of 190k miles plus on it.... it just doesn't seem like a good bang for the buck

Plus I will be using this car for a dd... i dont mind the 93 octane but how much and how often will the routine repairs be.... Will I have to be importing little pieces between japan every other month? Going to school in the mountains of Western MD will the snow and rough conditions be too much for the car??

sorry for all the questions/doubts It's just that I feel for around $8-10k you could build a sweet 240 or buy an older already turbo wrx and be able to build a lot better of a street car. A celica is cosmetically pleasing and the 3sgte is one hell of a powerhouse but the parts are rare and honestly I just don't see as much potential


any ideas?

[lagos]

The shop that is doing the swap for me is the shop that I actually work at. Not to say that they won't half ass my car... but for the year and a half that I have worked there it seems to me that the quality of there work is good.

Your missing the point.

is a stock turbo car like a wrx a better choice for a perfomance minded dd

For you... yes.

Obviously lots of people have completed the swap..... is it a decision that is commonly regreted

There is one common trend in this community. The guys who did their own work tend to keep their cars for a long time to come, while the guys who had someone do it for them tend to get rid of them asap. Why? Because when simple issues pop up, the guy who did the work will be able to fix it in 5min, while the other guy will think his car "sucks" because its not "running right" and end up spending a fortune dealing with mechanics who either dont know what they are talking about or over charge you for the most basic repair.