$10k budget on a car - what do you buy?

[Pantless Spency]

e36 m3.
put a vortec super charger on it.

slide the shit out of it at the track until the chassis cant take anymore damage.

put the engine into a $500 e30.


this could probably be done for like 7.5k lol.

[Hybrid For Life]

Bump

#e90

[jaywood]

Bump

[ST1G]

I'm not. but 31mpg average on any Subaru is well out of the norm and you must know that. Subarus are like water around here, everyone I know has owned or driven one at least once.. if I closed my eyes and walked backwards in any random direction, I'd probably run into 5 or 6 of them.

Go to any REI in the PNW and it's like a Subaru convention. lol

mmmhmmm. I never got over 24 MPG on my EJ22 legacy.

[squidmaster]

Okay so I think we've figured it out.
He needs to get a 2014 BMW GT-B M3 GTR with a 98 low mileage Civic swap for $5k, spend $5k fixing it up for hypermileing at the track, and then his last $10k on 400 dildoes.

[Wanganstyle]

Fuck the haters, I'm getting a gt-b

Gtb has a great engine more durable than sti 2.0L

I ran one for 2 yrs.

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[Northern]

Fuck the haters, I'm getting a gt-b

[nando]

I'm not. but 31mpg average on any Subaru is well out of the norm and you must know that. Subarus are like water around here, everyone I know has owned or driven one at least once.. if I closed my eyes and walked backwards in any random direction, I'd probably run into 5 or 6 of them.

Go to any REI in the PNW and it's like a Subaru convention. lol

[squidmaster]

Just calling you out on the nonsense. An argument about Subaru's getting 38mpg is pretty silly when 99% of them can't break 25. The brand new ones are a little better on fuel (at least the small ones), but they aren't $10k either. Also the EPA says your car averages 19/27, which isn't that great. just because you get 38 for 5 seconds of low throttle input on the freeway doesn't make it fuel efficient, you can do that with any vehicle that has instantaneous MPG readouts.

also, links to social media sites don't work for most people during work hours..

No argument just subaru owners chiming in real experience like you claim also.

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I feel like you're both ignoring everything I've said....

[Wanganstyle]

No argument just subaru owners chiming in real experience like you claim also.

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[nando]

IS NO ONE EVEN READING MY POSTS AND JUST CHOOSING TO MAKE UP THEIR OWN ARGUMENTS AGAINST ME?

Seriously, if you want to argue with me about it, PM me, otherwise there's no reason to crowd this thread with a bunch of crazy responses to things I never said.

And the cruising wasn't off-throttle or any BS like that, just regular flat and straight FL highway. This is insane....

Here, my legacy AVERAGE MPG.

Just calling you out on the nonsense. An argument about Subaru's getting 38mpg is pretty silly when 99% of them can't break 25. The brand new ones are a little better on fuel (at least the small ones), but they aren't $10k either. Also the EPA says your car averages 19/27, which isn't that great. just because you get 38 for 5 seconds of low throttle input on the freeway doesn't make it fuel efficient, you can do that with any vehicle that has instantaneous MPG readouts.

also, links to social media sites don't work for most people during work hours..

[Wanganstyle]

Hahaha agrred. They are turds.

Even my 1997 legacy brighton with stripper everything and 2.2l only got 28mpg or so at best. 185/65/14 tires

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[squidmaster]

IS NO ONE EVEN READING MY POSTS AND JUST CHOOSING TO MAKE UP THEIR OWN ARGUMENTS AGAINST ME?

Seriously, if you want to argue with me about it, PM me, otherwise there's no reason to crowd this thread with a bunch of crazy responses to things I never said.

And the cruising wasn't off-throttle or any BS like that, just regular flat and straight FL highway. This is insane....

Here, my legacy AVERAGE MPG (and this was up north-ish in mountains)


Here's another one months earlier in Florida


This one was all city driving

[nando]

sure, and I can get 45mpg instantaneous on my E30 if I cruise at 70 and lift off the throttle. :|

Our legacy is an 03. A tune isn't going to help, the thing is a turd. It technically redlines at 7k but it falls flat on it's face after 4500, so I don't even bother.

[Wanganstyle]

I daily drive a legacy 2.5 premium and never dip below 31.5 avg mpg. On trips I average 38mpg. I must drive like a geriatric patient.

Obviously, and as I stated very clearly, the 34-38mpg on the sti wasn't average, but immediate cruising mpg. I also said that I got an average of 24-28 on the sti. If you dont go into boost, it's just a regular ol 4 cylinder with oversized injectors.

Being able to tune the car helps an immense amount. For daily driving I tuned it specifically for economy. No reason to waste gas just puttering back and forth to work. That being said, my legacy isn't tuned at all-- 100% bone stock.

The 90's subaru factory tunes were awful. Unfortunately there aren't many good options for tuning them either. With the 02+ impreza and legacy however you get very useful addons like the Cobb access port and open source tuning. These methods can help significantly with economy.

I'm only speaking facts and experiences.

Former sti & evo owner here.

Addiction for sure; I had to sell both and leave it behind as it was too addicting of a financial disaster.



I never ever ever got more than 25mpg cruising sipping boost.

Just saying; you must have the prim and proper training of grandma to be driving one of those weapons at 30mpg++

A 10k STi needs a 5k engine reserve. Just my own experience; sti loved eating engines and I loved pushing it to the engine eating limit.

If you are really enjoying a car like a STi you can blow 10k a year on it in tires/fuel/consumption.