Project: Budget Beater

[NC325iC]

yeah that cone looks like the worst mod ever, its a high flow cone, but its completely covered with only one air inlet... seems alot like the stock box, except the filter in the stock box is probably bigger

[Digitalwave]

Yeah but is the stock airbox fake carbon fiber? NO!

[Charlie]

Found you some headers on ebay.

They're 10 bucks over your 50 dollar limit, but totally worth it.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ru=http%3A%2F%2Fsearch.ebay.com%3A80%2Fsearch%2Fsearch.dll%3Fcgiurl%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Fcgi.ebay.com%252Fws%252F%26fkr%3D1%26from%3DR8%26satitle%3D8037865630%2B%26category0%3D%26fvi%3D1&item=8037865630

-Charlie

[65Matt]

Budget beater - hats off to you for going your own way. The R3V regulars dont like the fact that you're rocking the boat. They all worship the guys that have flawless paint and the oh-so-rare front lip spoiler. Not to mention ones that completely disassemble and re-assemble their whole car...

Good job on your car so far - mine's a similar theme. Bought it for $1300, probably have about $2400 in it after suspension and maint., but its a fun little car.

[Dave]

The R3V regulars dont like the fact that you're rocking the boat. They all worship the guys that have flawless paint and the oh-so-rare front lip spoiler. Not to mention ones that completely disassemble and re-assemble their whole car...

You couldn't be more wrong.

[Bimmerfanatik]

You couldn't be more wrong.

[erik325i]

The idea is good (trying to prove you can mod a car without spending tons of money), but the execution is poor. As heeter stated, you prove nothing if you are doing maintanance AND your ricer ebay mods at the same time, because you don't know what caused the gain or loss.

Also, Just because you are trying to do everything for cheap, doesn't meen you have to buy all of the ebay mods. You should be searching your local junkyards, fabricating parts, and getting creative. Don't just buy every piece of crap on ebay thinking you will gain a bunch of horsepower.

-Erik

[golde30]

Found you some headers on ebay.

They're 10 bucks over your 50 dollar limit, but totally worth it.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ru=http%3A%2F%2Fsearch.ebay.com%3A80%2Fsearch%2Fsearch.dll%3Fcgiurl%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Fcgi.ebay.com%252Fws%252F%26fkr%3D1%26from%3DR8%26satitle%3D8037865630%2B%26category0%3D%26fvi%3D1&item=8037865630

-Charlie

hahaahaha, those were posted on my local e30 forum also. those must have been sitting outside for the last 15 years...

[Charlie]

Budget beater - hats off to you for going your own way. The R3V regulars dont like the fact that you're rocking the boat. They all worship the guys that have flawless paint and the oh-so-rare front lip spoiler. Not to mention ones that completely disassemble and re-assemble their whole car...

Good job on your car so far - mine's a similar theme. Bought it for $1300, probably have about $2400 in it after suspension and maint., but its a fun little car.

What?

Not counting tires & consumeables such as pads, rotors and the like, I'd be hard pressed to say that I've put more than 5k into this car in the 9 years I've owned it. The people giving him a hard time are the ones that have completely pulled these cars apart and rebuilt them. We're the ones that flog the shit out of these in the proper environment. We're clowning him because this is a stupid, misguided project.

-Charlie

[Rob]

Budget beater - hats off to you for going your own way. The R3V regulars dont like the fact that you're rocking the boat. They all worship the guys that have flawless paint and the oh-so-rare front lip spoiler. Not to mention ones that completely disassemble and re-assemble their whole car...

Good job on your car so far - mine's a similar theme. Bought it for $1300, probably have about $2400 in it after suspension and maint., but its a fun little car.

haha, a clueless dickrider, what a lovely combination

rocking the boat, $50 at a time. rofl

[SpecM]

The idea is good (trying to prove you can mod a car without spending tons of money), but the execution is poor. As heeter stated, you prove nothing if you are doing maintanance AND your ricer ebay mods at the same time, because you don't know what caused the gain or loss.

Also, Just because you are trying to do everything for cheap, doesn't meen you have to buy all of the ebay mods. You should be searching your local junkyards, fabricating parts, and getting creative. Don't just buy every piece of crap on ebay thinking you will gain a bunch of horsepower.

-Erik

-Well said

[e30Matt]

ROFL at you spending "$50 per mod" to make your car even more of a Saturday night parking lot queen.

I think we should plan a R3v track/dyno day right around the finish of his "project" just to see how "awesome" this thing's gonna be.

Hell, I'll take one for the team and drive it. :)

[SpecM]

ROFL at you spending "$50 per mod" to make your car even more of a Saturday night parking lot queen.

I think we should plan a R3v track/dyno day right around the finish of his "project" just to see how "awesome" this thing's gonna be.

Hell, I'll take one for the team and drive it. :)

-Don't hate. :tsk:

-Hehe, seriously, if one could mod the the car SO MUCH with so little money... why didn't BMW do it, like 20 years ago? The only real power mods will: add displacment, add air (FI), or make the car 98% undrivable. Sorry, even our holy little 19lb squirter+m30 afm dont do much.

-But, you effort is appluaded. By me, anyway :up: Just think of better stuff to "mod" with that the little rice-boy intake that doesn't add ANY power. Just noise.

-Tell 'em, Matt! Just noise, right? ... I kid, I kid ;)

[Scott314]

but you don't seem to know that since your fucking baseline run isn't a baseline if you replaced your fuel pump and filter AND added a fucking ebay rice cone at the same time.

Quoted for emphasis.

I didn't even catch that at first. He claims a dying fuel pump fuxx0rz up his dyno run, and then changed it and started doing his rice-mods at the same time. If you wouldn't have caught that, he probably would have come back after his next dyno run making all sorts of BS claims about how much power his ebay mods make (assuming that shit pile of an intake doesn't cause him to lose whatever HP he might have gained back from having a working fuel pump).

[RobertK]

This project has not comparison or controls to make it a valid point.

You really should have performed all nessesary maintenance to your car first, dyno'd it and then dyno'd it after each mod. Otherwise you're cheap mods are invalidated because you did not properly control your "experiment"

To make a valid point you need to start from square one. Get the car back to where it's completely stock and tuned. Dyno the car then dyno it again every time you add a mod.