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

[Eliot]

peugeot 306 gti-6

Its already fine as it is but if I have to then.....

Full respray in the same colour (China blue) best paint EVER.
all the seat retrimmed in better leather and new alcantara
Alcantara headlining and a RCZ-R steeing wheel in alcantara
Cover the dashboard and all other plastic surfaces in leather

Shell would be seamwelded, All external panels replaced with carbon and (but painted)
Engine would be increased to a 2.3 and throttle bodies fitted with a custom carbon airbox
Block would be rebuilt by an engineering placed out of magnesium and dry sumped then moved down about 3 inches.
Forged crank pistons and conrods etc

Exhaust manifold and exhaust would be made out of Inconel

Ohlins dampers all round.
Beam tube replaced with one made from titanium , same for torsion bars.
Would get 16" wheels made as replicas of the 15 inch ones it came with but lighter metal used. Maybe magnesium

Forged aluminium wishbones and hubs made
Brembos from Citroen C2r2 rally car fitted (magnesium)
Gearbox out be kept the same ratios but with a longer 6th
Lsd fitted


Basically would then make sure it looked absolutely standard and didn't sound louder and would refit the same exhaust tip

I reckon that would cost about 60k

 

[mike gunnz]

Front control arms.

It's going in for an MOT end of the month so will get them replaced. Roughly how much should I be looking at for parts and labour?

 

[Kenai]

I have absolutely no idea, I would imagine £100,000 would go a long way on a Mk4 Golf and then it would still handle like a beach ball full of blancmange.

 

[acemastr]

It's going in for an MOT end of the month so will get them replaced. Roughly how much should I be looking at for parts and labour?

Think I paid 140 a side, don't quote me though. Makes a huge difference

 

[Maccy]

Stretch the Clio into a limo and make it a French luxo barge

 

[King4aDay]

Hmm, how would I spent 100 times the value of my car on improvements? Probably just ship it back to Honda for starters and ask them to replace every single component

 

[Lakeland]

I would buy a reconditioned shell, chassis and ancillaries as there's not a lot worth saving

 

[mike gunnz]

Think I paid 140 a side, don't quote me though. Makes a huge difference

Thanks.

 

[[TW]Fox]

It's going in for an MOT end of the month so will get them replaced. Roughly how much should I be looking at for parts and labour?

I got Lemforder upper and lower front control arms for about £300 all in. They are the best choice. Totally fixed my shimmy under braking.

 

[Jonnycoupe]

Insight. Probably shoot for a blown k24 with nitrous and go for the fastest FWD car in Europe or something daft. Or something like a tesla drive motor into the engine bay with 40kWh of batteries as something of a project car with wireless charging on the drive.


The MINI countryman S.... Errm really. Guess you could get hold of some WRC old kit and get the body modded to take it the suspension and engine and then take the restrictor off!

 

[flibbage0]

I'd buy an Audi A1

Wait am I doing this right?

 

[Begbie]

If I had too...

Either

Fast cam set up with suspension from the Trophy.

Also seats from the trophy and a full respray in liquid yellow.

 

[mike gunnz]

In

I got Lemforder upper and lower front control arms for about £300 all in. They are the best choice. Totally fixed my shimmy under braking.

I really need to remedy it once and for all. Replaced calipers, front discs and pads and it keeps reoccurring. 300 smackers plus labour a couple hours (at a guess) isn't the end of the world. I'll spec the parts on ECP.

 

[Iamzod]

For the Capri I'd probably have it professionally restored with an X-Pack kit fitted rather than me doing it and bin the Cosworth V6 & have it swapped for an aluminium Ford 302 along with an independent rear suspension setup & far more expensive brakes etc than I can currently afford.

The change would be spent on keeping it in decent condition for the next 50+ years.

For the Mondeo, I don't think I'd want to spend £100k on an 11 year old Mondeo TDCi.

 

[Akagi]

Base car:

2002 (02) Volkswagen Polo 9N 1.2E 55PS

Modifications

Engine & drivetrain: (Reason - speed and noise )

- 3.2 V6 'BFH' engine from Golf R32
- 6 speed manual transmission from Touran 2.0 TDI
- Rebuilt gearbox with strengthened components & R36 bearings, etc
- Fast road clutch
- Shortened & balanced Passat TDI drive-shafts w' Golf IV outer joints
- Front axle & steering components from 9N GT TDI
- Optimized Engine control with air mass meter from the Golf 4 DSG
- Stainless steel exhaust manifold from Audi A3 3.2 V6
- Modified Golf 5 R32 Y-pipes
- Straight pipe to rear silencer
- rear silencer adapted from 9N3 GTI
- K&N R36 air filter
- Modified engine mount position
- R36 engine mounts
- Modified air/cooling components/brackets & mounts etc etc
- Heat protection to underside, bulkhead, around exhaust components etc


Handling components: (reason - handling )

- KW Clubsport coilover suspension kit
- 35MM lowering front & rear
- Aftermarket ARB, strut, links, etc
- Rear disk brake conversion
- Brembo Gran Turismo disk brake kit
- Custom brake line runs, braided
- Master cylinder from ESP R32
- 17" BBS RS
- Continental ContiSportContact 5 (225:45:17)


Exterior cosmetic: (reason - to make it pretty )

- Polo 9N3 tail lights
- Polo 9N3 tailgate
- Polo 9N3 GTI CUP front & rear bumper
- Polo 9N3 front conversion (wings, slam, headlights, bonnet)
- GTI honeycomb grilles
- R32 badge front and rear (in place of GTI badge)
- DRL's
- HID's
- Heko wind deflectors
- Fully bodywork repair
- Smoothed/de-textured rub-strips
- Audi door handle conversion w' dim white LED illumination
- Stock tailgate release handle removed & smoothed
- Golf V tailgate handle emblem & Golf V boot release conversion
- Golf IV tow hook cover
- Exterior mirrors with inbuilt indicators & lighting from Octavia
- Audi A4 GPS antenna
- Satin white re-spray & satin black roof
- Blue brake calipers
- Gunmetal finish to alloys
- Personalised plates
- Pressed metal legal-font plates
- Pressed metal German font show plates


Interior: (reason: so it feels less cheap, and is more comfortable )

- Any damaged interior parts replaced
- Polo GTI sport seats, gearstick & gaiter, handbrake trim, centre dash, vent surrounds, lighting
- Golf V R32 steering wheel
- custom re-trim of door cards and headlining in black alacantra
- custom re-trim of seats in 50/50 leather/alacantra (leather bolsters/sides)
- Custom padded/thick/soft-touch re-trim of steering wheel
- Blue stitching all round
- Soft-touch-black finished plastics
- Jet black carpet
- Tailored white carpet mats
- Recessed interior handle lighting
- Skoda VRS metal door locking pins
- Audi TT pedals
- VW Bora sunglasses compartment
- Chrome headlight switch rim
- Polo 9N3 GTI instrument cluster w' multifunction display
- White interior lighting
- Sound dampening


Electronic: (reason: creature comforts! )

- Touchscreen HU with USB, Bluetooth and Aux
- Uprated tri-driver front speakers behind original covers + rear speakers & mounts added behind OEM covers
- Electric window conversion
- Climatronic climate control conversion
- Remote central locking conversion
- heated front seat conversion
- heated front screen conversion
- 'Coming-home' light function with light sensor
- Automatic DRL control
- Rain sensing wipers
- Interior boot lighting
- Foot well lighting
- Door edge lighting


Extras:

- Professional photo-shoots of car
- Loads of driver training
- Club memberships

Parts will likely come in at a little under £25,000 - Labour/paint/re-trimming will add to this considerably and will likely make this £1000 Polo a £50,000 Polo...

Short of having everything custom-made and attempting to fit an R8 V10 engine, then proceeding to dip the car in liquid platinum, I don't think it is possible to spend £100,000.

The remaining £50K will be required for fuel and insurance.

 

[Rainagul]

Supra N/A

Original TRD Widebody Kit - 6k
TRD Steering Wheel + Instrument Panel - 1k
Carbon Bucket Seats - 3k
Fully Built 3.4l 2JZ - 8k
Precision 7175 Turbo - 1.5k
Syvecs ECU + Sensors - 5k
18'' Fiske Alloys - 4k
Respray - 2k
2 * R888 325 - 500
2* R888 285 - 400
Labour - 10k
Fuel - 10k
Anything else - 20k

 

[adam cool dude]

Toyota Celica ST205.
-Engine 5SGTE 2.2 with as many WRC parts I can muster. Not too crazy on the power. Most likely around 600BHP region.
-Controlled by Motec.
-Full custom Quaife 6 speed dog box
-Active center diff. LSD front and uprated 1.5 LSD in rear.
-Rocket type antilag system as used in the Subaru WRC cars.
-Remote reservoir Teins.
-Full roll cage and seam welded chassis while still retaining interior.
-Full WRC inter and engine cooling setup.
-OZ Roulette rally wheels wrapped up in the best 235 width rubber money can buy.
-Custom Big brake kit. Most likely 6 pot front and 4 pot rear.
-All engine mounts etc remade from light weight materials to shift as much as possible from the front to the rear.

Not much change from that. Might have to ditch the active diffs and just have a center one with LSD's on the others as it might just creep over budget with those!

600BHP, active center diff, 1200kg kerb weight and anti lag. All wrapped up in a classic sexy body

 

[G-MAN2004]

I'd spend the money on blackjack and hookers because I don't have a car.

 

[Joe T]

On the Firebird, I would:

Spend £10k+ on a paint job (possibly original colours, ie Nightshade Green with Ivory vinyl roof)
Spend £1k on the interior in its original colour (Ivory "deluxe" interior)
Spend £20k+ on a 572 crate motor (700 bhp n/a) - or possibly a slightly lower-powered one that doesnt require 110 octane!
Plus - discs all round, new exhaust, boot lining, centre console, rechrome front bumper, refurb the steering wheel, and the countless other minor jobs I need to get round to doing!

 

[Scania]

2000 e46 325i touring.....

V10 Gpower engine swap and related ancillaries, brakes to match, re-shell with all new panels, Buffalo hide interior, uber sound system,custom bespoke exhaust and a straight jacket to wear in my padded cell!