How would you spend 100k on modding/improving your current car?

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Hi there

So your given upto 100k and you must:
  • Spend it modding/improving your currently owned car(s)
  • Cannot be used to buy a car or spend on anything else.
  • Explain each modification as to why and the benefits of doing it.


My example would be:

911

1. Porsche genuine 997 bucket seats - £10,000
2. Akroprovic titanium full exhaust system - £7500
3. Supercharger kit for circa 550BHP - £10,000
4. Some lightweight wheels with cup 2's fitted - £2500
5. Professional removal of roof and carbon fibre roof installed - £2500
6. Wavetrek differential install - £2000
7. Ohlins road/track suspension - £5000
8. Engine rebuild for when it explodes - £15000

Total: £54,500

Bucket seats because the look superb and save a good 40-50kg weight. Exhaust because it sounds unreal and again saves upto 50kg. Supercharger kit simple, you can never have enough power. Wheels look nice, add to performance, roof a further 15-20kg saving, diff for more traction and Ohlins for ultimate handling both road and track. Rebuild for when engine explodes to be rebuilt and strengthened by Hartech.

That would be a near 1300kg near 600 horsepower 911 would be beyond quick and with GT3 beating handling with a whole load more power.





M3

1. Carbon roof install - £1000
2. 3.91 or 4.10 gears with rebuilt M Motorsport diff - £1000
3. Two additional sets of Apex lightweight allows, one with slicks and one with wets - £2000
4. Motec engine management, cams, map etc for 430BHP NA - £5000
5. Carbon bonnet and wings - £2000
6. Full respray to custom colour - £2000
7. Rear cage - £2000
8. AC Delete maybe: £0
9. Supersprint manifolds and full race exhaust - £3000
10. Engine rebuild if it blows: £5000

Total £23,000


Carbon roof because it looks great and saves about 15kg from top of car. Shorter gears as improves acceleration vastly, wheels for make swapping between weather conditions easy. Motec and cams to have best NA power levels without killing drivability. Carbon bonnet and wings to save weight. Full respray because it's track car, silly colour, cage for safety, headers and exhaust for weight saving and great sound. Engine rebuild in case it blows.

1250kg-1300kg in such a well balanced car would be quick.


So what would you do and remember you don't need to spend all the money.
 
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Subaru WRX

Entire new interior custom made - $2500-$5000
New wheels - $2000
Exhaust - $2000
Tune - $1200
4 cars to surround me everywhere I drive so retards in Chevy trucks towing boats don't run into it - $80k a year
 
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Mx5 2.0 with lots of mods already...

Given the budget....

Bin off the Meister R suspension for Ohlins R&T
Lightened flywheel and uprated clutch
Recaro seats as per the mx5 recaro edition
Forged internals
BBR stage 3 turbo kit with zircotec coated downpipe, manifold and inconel fixings (easy 320+bhp safely once forged)
BBR 2.5 inch Supersport exhaust system
Get AP Racing to develop a big brake kit
17x8 enkei RPF01 wheels
Mazda OEM appearance package

100k could be spent but it'd ruin it as a road car, the above would be lary enough for my usage. Could change the Ohlins for penske race dampers, fit a sequential box, roll cage, strip it out with buckets etc and fit the Jota GT4 aero parts too but it's rreally a race car then...
 
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Saab 9-5 2.3 Aero Estate

Engine rebuild
Gearbox rebuild
Body work straighten and respray
Alloys refurbished
Add heated and massaging seats
Add rear heated seats
Redo all the rubber seals
Get the headlamp wipers working
Top end clifford alarm with remote start
New exhaust
I love my Saab and wouldn't want to drastically change it..

Alfa Romeo GTV 3.0 V6

Engine rebuild
Gearbox rebuild
Strip back to shell and treat for rust, waxoyl and make good any bad bits
Body work straighten and respray
Sort out the airbag light.. :p
Alloys refurbished
Add LSD
Add a Supercharger
Add a top end alarm
New exhaust system with a bit more grrr at high revs
Take it out on a track

I'm sure I can do all of the above and get plenty of change for £100k
 

Jez

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100k, I guess you could chew a lot of that by stripping my range rover back to basics and basically turning it into a 2012 5.0 supercharged model. They have the same chassis and shell so it'd ultimately be doable to retrofit literally an entire 2012 car into mine :p
 
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I'd spend £25k on a 572ci twin-turbo engine from NRE that'd make 1300bhp on pump fuel, and the rest on supporting mods like the transmission and rear end. Then I'd have to give it back to the press garage in 3 month's time, as it's not really mine. And I'm not sure they'd approve, haha :D
 
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£40k for donor audi R8

Now here's £60k to glue all those bits to my octavia. Off you go! (I have no idea if this is even possible)
 
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I'd just built an ST cup car with ~350bhp N/A and less weight with possibly AWD and sequential box.

Nothing fancy, if I wanted to blow all the budget then all that would be left of the car would be the VIN number :D
 
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Seeing as I still don't own a car, "modding" it would include actually buying one so I'm going to be boring and say I'd buy a new Nissan GTR and spend the money left insuring the thing :D
 
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