WRX is ugly and not that fast! STI is a different story, but it's still a 4-door sedan....

I also say invest 5-8 grand into your car and you will get a beautiful looking, unique, and STI level fast car!!!

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (UltraTibby @ Apr 22 2005, 11:33 AM)</div><div class='quotemain'>I was joking about the WRX tongue.gif . Yeah it is all about the money. Not saying I couldnt afford the tib it is just going to be difficult. Thanks for the thoughts guys. Also it would be with the Mods. Parting it out would be a pain since I dont have most of the stock parts anymore.
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If you really want to part it out and sell it let me know. I would take your CAI off your hands and in return for a decent discount give you my stock airbox in return.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (MK3Design @ Apr 22 2005, 12:50 PM)</div><div class='quotemain'>Yeah, but then you will still have car what took $3500+ to make just as fast as a STOCK car....
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yeah, but it would be 10k less than the sti stock.

thats like saying dump 25k into a sti and it wont matter because it was slower than some ferraris stock.

 

^^ Excellent point tibby01

Ultra, if you wanna sell I say you're only option is to part it out. With it that heavily modded people will be wary. MK3 has a good point. With mild modifications I/H/E and things that make stock parts better you should have no problems. You can get a cheap stock IM and sell your Airram to somebody here with no problems.

I dunno though, you gotta make a choice, if you wait you'll just keep getting less and less money for it. 02.gif sucks I know. I decided to keep mine until she dies. I'll spend some money on a nice family car and keep this one for myself.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'>yeah, but it would be 10k less than the sti stock.

thats like saying dump 25k into a sti and it wont matter because it was slower than some ferraris stock.</div>

Thanks!! tongue.gif

Yeh, there's this hot girl who owns a Mustang at my work. Since all mustangs are V6's, her car stock is like a 15, 16 Second car. My car WITH mods and no weight is probably going to be just as fast as hers.

1) I paid 3k for my car, maxed out options, put 3k into it. That's 6k.

2) She paid 17k and it's stock. Mine performs better. I save so much more on gas and I save so much more on insurance.

Sure she could make it faster than my car. It's a V6! But then she would be topping over quadruple times what I paid for my car. That's a lot of money!

And yes, Ferrari insurance costs a bunch, GAS, parts cost a friggin lot. My best friend's uncle worked at Ferrari and he said the labor on Ferrari's kills because the parts are so hard to replace and only a few people know how to replace them.

My point, along with Tibby01, is you win with the Tiburon. You get a nice package. Turbocharge it and you get 250hp. It'll match up to any fast car because of the light weight. Think of how much you're saving. Get another car when you got money.

Before the Tiburon, I almost got a Ferrari 328 GTB replica I saw in the ad. Reason I didn't buy it? If you got in an accident where would you find parts for it and how much would you pay for them? Next car I thought about, Mazda RX-7. Almost bought a hooked up Veilside RX-7 but rotary engines just don't cut it for me. The car is small as heck. Insurance would be high. The came the Eclipse, but too many people had them, and they are smaller than our cars! So I decided to buy the Tiburon FX, the car I always wanted since it first came out. I saved myself, my family a lot of money on insurance and gas. It looks hot and it's rare! And I would have never gotten to these forums.

 

The entire dollar for dollar thing makes entirely no sense. Its like the worst argument ever, considering the Tib isn't even in the class of the WRX... I could easily just say the Tiburon sucks because I could go find a dead LS1 Firebird, rebuild it, and be running low 11s for less than the Tib was new. You can't compare a new car to a used car or cars of different classes. The dollar for dollar thing only works if you say, were comparing a used K20A Eclipse to a Beta Tib.

 

He siad he has 86 + thousand miles on the engine,
is that really safe to turbo?? serious question, as I am thinking of it, but turbo-ing a high milage engine,...
I dont kow if its a good idea or not.

 

Don't forget Tiburon is FWD, WRX is AWD.

 

If the more wear and tear parts of the engine are replaced, it should be fine... mileage isn't really a concern unless you've cracked the block or shot rods out of the engine or something major like that which wouldn't be repairable.

BTW, they did make a 4 cylinder mustang at one point, and they do make 8-cylinder ones (guessing a typo on that one).

 

well, you can't compare apples and oranges.

but if you are talking about being cost-effective, then keep the tib.
if you got the cash, you might as well buy something of higher value (In this case the WRX, if you like it that's all that matters.)