06-09-2005, 05:17 PM
I'm sympathetic to Keith. He wants to start a project now like I was two years ago with that gungho attitude of, it doesn't matter cause I'll fix it. Sorry Keith, there's a but to this . . . You have planned out the motor swap, trans, time costs but what about the little things. Like what RJ and Mike said, the nickel and dime will rape you in the end. Look at my prelude or rex's supra. Honestly, I would buy a car in good condition that you can add to slowly. Buying a project now would end up costing you more money and most importantly, your passion for cars. When I was having daily problems with my prelude, i really began to hate it. It stopped being fun. Now that I'm out of debt with a reliable car that's fun to drive, i'm all about cars again. Keep that in mind. If I could have done things all over again, I would have bought a relatively nice car and done suspension/brake mods then when I knew the car better, swapped engines and truly appreciate the extra power. I bought my lude with a blown engine so i never really appreciated the h22a until i got a slow ass mr2
Two feet.