Cost to Fun Ratio, Is It Worth It?

[Westside Offroad Group]

I switched to different hobbies

Like collecting government incentives

 

[Bulletnjm]

Like airplanes? Lol

 

[Wilson]

Anyone want to buy me a new combine? It would be a great write off.

 

[FP Forged]

My Raptor is nearly stock, with just a perch change, some recovery gear, and some lights.

It's that way because of lessons learned from going to far with a vehicle as I did with the Evo I had, which turned into >$70k spent in 3 years, on something that I paid $19k for.

At first, it was just simple bolt-on stuff and a fuel change.

Then I wanted a little more, so swapped turbos.

Then I had to have the driveline brought up to par to handle the new power.

Then I had the money and wanted more, so it went to a shop for a full engine/turbo etc build.

Then I wanted more still, and it went back in somewhere else for a ridiculous-to-have fuel system to support running basically straight alcohol(E98).

Then I found out that it WAS going to destroy parts of the driveline at that power level and there wasn't really anything I could do about it except fix it when it broke.

It also turned even a quick romp on the throttle into speeds high enough to be a mandatory license loss.

I parted out and sold the car last year.

It wasn't worth it.


For this reason, my truck will stay nearly stock. I went down that road with something else, and I regretted it when it was done. I live in MN and there's no where to go where I would need that level of investment anywhere nearby.

When I was looking at getting a job in the Southwest I decided that instead of building the Raptor, I would have picked up a ranger or something to make a prerunner out of. The cost would probably be similar, it would be more capable than the Raptor for that one task, and I could tow it out to wherever I wanted to play in comfort with the Raptor.

That said, I would like to pick up a bumpstop kit for the rear, which I look at more as insurance on being dumb mod than a performance one.

I know how you feel. Went a similar route with an Sti. The worst part was, it wasn't I was in to deep that I realized I should have started with an Evo . I'm not going any further than Geiser Bros coils, deavers, bump kit and bumpers.

 

[ntm]

Psshhh, I blew 100k on parts on a 95 camaro ( of all things), and I still haven't learned.
You could die tomorrow, have fun while you can !

 

[Bulletnjm]

Why die debt free lol

 

[Bigg50]

Granted it's not my money, but I drove @GBrown1867 truck to work yesterday, god I wish I didn't! It was a ******* blast. The truck had a ton of body roll but it's so much fun as long as you keep it in your head that is normal. The truck feels so light and ripping around corners with the rear end sliding around is so fun. Even showed off for the guys at the office with some fishtailing around some corners in the parking lot.

I need to win the lottery now because now the truck i was completely happy with isn't going to cut it anymore haha.

 

[Huck]

Everyone of us considers fun different it's up to you. We also have different levels of disposable income.

Then some of us are never happy and always push further

 

[Jimbo]

Just had the Deaver +3s installed and the SVC ABS... now the rear end feels fantastic and the front end just feels, blah. @svc and @HAYNES OFFROAD for doing this to me

 

[EFD_5924]

Ha Ha - rear feels fantastic... Nice.
I picked up a twin turbo kit for my 1993 Cobra... Money well spent!