Thinking about going FI...next week

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Jan 25, 2009 | 12:37 PM

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Tarzan_0802

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I didn't have to pay for my destination wedding, I would go FI

or just do what I did, keep the z stock and buy another turbo car and have fun with that

Jan 28, 2009 | 10:13 AM

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XTAHZ

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Originally Posted by Phantom Menace

Go...because you just came up on $8-$12k in cash and you can always just do what ever it was again! F/I the Nismo!

Wow...Been a member less than a month and your car is loaded! Congrats...I hate you!

BTW, I've noticed that mostly everyone that goes F/I sells their cars a few weeks after...I don't know why, they just do.

So PM me in a few weeks and let me know who I have to sell my kidneys to, and I'll buy your turbo Nismo!

Hey everyone...still have the money and have not pulled the trigger. Waiting to ensure other financial priorities are handled before bothering my guys about this again.

My girlfriend and I were talking about the fact that a lot of people sink a ton of money into the turbo mod and then drop the car. If the car is making crazy power and leaving far more expensive cars behind, why let it go?

The shop I work with is great (Intense). These guys have turbo mods down to a science and from what I've seen and read put out quality results.

It's scary to think that the cost of a good reliable turbo mod is a down payment on a GTR....MMMMMM. Anyway, you never get back the money you put into the modded ride.

Jan 28, 2009 | 10:21 AM

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Yeah, I've been doing a lot of reading and decided to hold off for right now. Numbers wise, it seems like 600hp is a great thing because Z06s, vipers, and GTRs seem to pull this off (with help) without becoming insanely uncontrollable. My tuner also mentioned that beyond 500hp the car may actually become undrivable on the streets.

The option is still on the table for me, but I would hate to dream about this, follow through with it only to realize the car becomes scary rather than fun.

why would your tuner say that? you keep the car at very low boost levels on the streets if you even do go into boost. im not in boost most of the time daily driving. i just dont see why he would claim if you went over teh 500whp range it wouldnt be streetable unless you just wanna go WOT in 2nd and 3rd gears on public streets. as for the guy who said there are HR's hitting 580whp with a stock block, rofl. stock block DE's have dyno'd 500whp+ too just to say they did it. was it gonna last that at power level? nope, they just dyno'd it to say they did.

we just dont have enough of a sampling to say what the HR can truly handle in a stock block form but we shall see soon enough. more than likely pushing around 9 to 10psi at 450whp to 475whp is gonna be the sweet spot for great performance and reliability. just remember, if you do want to push your luck, have another 10k around to rebuild the motor.