Hyjnx

What the hell do you do for a living ? I mean how old are you and whats your job ? its like jsut about every car on here is either turbo or swapped...and im like starting to get alil mad cuz i dont have one ...i jsut wanna know what you all do that you can afford all of this ?

tek_civic

most things are done in small installments, one month you get this the next you get that. or maybe you save up for a year and get a swap or other thing. a friend of mine(16 yrs old) had a summer job as a painter and made $2500 in less than a month, which isn't half bad considering how much he REALLY worked. get a job and save.

JV

Just gotta save man...

Hyjnx

i work at a paint store i know roughly how much they make an hour 10-17 dollars an hour...

Evs-One

say no to fastfood and girlies, unless you have a girlfriend that already loves you!!

Dark Halo

yep

redwinqs

hahaha

ajabbar

Im 16, and plan on getting an EK Hatchback soon. How I plan on paying for my modifications is simple..Find a nice paying job, not fliping burgers, save for about a good 6 months you have a swap laying in your hands!

HXMan

Save!!

I got a good deal on a totalled Si in spring 2001. I refinanced my loan to add the cost of $4100 for the Si.

Winter 2001-summer 2002 bought and installed turbo kit(must have cost around $6k). I saved alot, and it still kinda broke me.

In early 2001 I was working at menards making $9/hr.

Summer 2001 worked at a car dealership for $8/hr

End of summer 2002 got electrican apprentiship. Starting at $11/hr

Now I got plenty of money! Helps to live at home too!




[Modified by HXMan, 7:26 PM 10/21/2002]

fastwanabe

save , save, save & get a 2nd job, that's how I did for mine.

deftones0817

It just takes time it took me like from august till now to finish the suspension and it was about 3000 for everything from bars to springs and shocks and arms and brake conversion...so i mean its possible this was with my shitty job. I now have a network administrator job...so I mean I pulled like 900 this week and I'm going to be getting a engine swap and a stand and start building my turbo b18c1. Just takes time and patience...and make sure your gf loves you and is understanding. I was working 3 jobs before my Network admin job and I was barely making what I'm making a week now. So dont get upset just stay calm and stay. I'm only 21 and good stuff will happen...just save read every book you can get on hondas....and talk to as many people on here as possible. You will be able to save money and do the install yourself. BTW pictures of suspension build up will be online next week sometime.

Have fun and dont get upset. Do it because you love it.


DEF

-Whitey-

i took out a loan for 3000 for a frost white 92 cx paid it off in 2 years then took out another 3500 for a b16a sirII and after this is payed off in 2 years ill have bad *** credit in my banks eyes and they will let me take out bigger loans in the future.

i work at a body shop part time

FortunateFool.

Mine is kinda interesting how i got my swap. It started out when i go into stereo stuff back in high school. Kept upgrading slowly as i sold my old stuff, and by this past summer i had stuff that was worth more than $2000 so when i wanted a swap i just sold all my stereo stuff and did the swap

ejprimo

save money by not eating out, buying alcohol, or going out on weekend nights to the bars or clubs!

mantic6t9

21 and making $900 a week is damn good man that's like $43,000 a year. I'm 20 i'll turn 21 in Dec and i'm lucky to pull $250 a week. Thinking about getting a second job for a little extra cash.

JaeOne3345

a lot of people are saying "save save" which is the best route..but yo..a lot of the cats with the sick ****..are in debt..over civics. seriously. dont get yourself into a hole on payments for building a civic unless u KNOW u can pay it off.

Ricey McRicerton

Work as many hours as you can, and dont do ANYTHING but save and pay for gas...thats how i did mine!! (97 turbo hatchy and Im only 17!!! and payed for every penny of it myself!!)

Hyjnx

i totally understand the save part..heres my deal. I am 17 (18 in 5 days) and i work at sherwin williams for 8.30 an hour as a starting pay till now (almost a year later)...and i save..well i try to save, i drive alot so bout 30 dollars a week in gas..and then i mean im pretty good as sayin no to fast food, and sadly i dont have a girlfriend (still lookin ) and yet i am so impatient...I mean seriously...i see something like springs for a discount (275 for skunk2 coilovers) and the whole engine swap goes out the window. I also have an automatic so then doing a tranny swap comes into play and i really dont want the hassle of that yet i have a friend with a jdm b16a engine in his ef and its like ..I want that but i dont have the patients there is always something else that i want...and i dont know how to control myself from buying it

NorthernXposure

street pharmicist.. j/ks. im a relocation specialist.... in other words a mover haha.. pays ok .. i bring in a little over 30 g's a year.. Im 23 and am a single father... i just purchased a compete h22 swap.. and i had to take a loan out for that bad boy.. but its only an 18 month loan for 4 grand.. and living in alaska has its benefits.. we get a permanant fund dividend every year.. this year it was 1500$ and that went to beef up my suspension and wheels ..

FifthGearOnline

do this then....start a savings account, and put the money in there, and ask the bank if there is a way to prevent withdrawls from the account for a certain ammount of time (like 1 year for example)

then start putting small chunks of your paycheck in to that account for that 1 year.....and then you should be ALOT closer to a swap

JV

Exactly what i did...

stevecockrill

30, PhD in chemistry, work for a biotech company in Houston. Mortgage, 2 car payments ($750 per mo - wife's 02 firebird and my 02 Escape commuter), $250 gas payment per mo (Its a 200 mile round trip to work 4 days a week!!!!!!!) etc, etc, etc. I am broke until the wife finishes school in a year or so.

I got my swap when I hydrolocked the SOHC motor and got a $3300 payment from the insurance co.

Steve


[Modified by stevecockrill, 8:41 PM 10/21/2002]

deftones0817

dude its not easy before i got this job i was studing my *** off and work like 1 day time job for $8.00 an hour and one night job from like 3 - 11 pm for $8.66. I'm just saying that its possible just save money and make sure you save. It doesn't happen over night...i busted my *** and so did everyone else...unless your mom or dad is rich which most people parents arent...at least here and i think building the engine up yourself and making the money yourself will make you have more respect for your car when your done. BTW I have alot of bills want to get a house so I mean I'm saving for lots of things at once...I'm starting to see what all the married guys are talking about (I'm almost there.)

DEF

piscorpio

amen brotha!

careawholelot

pizza delivery i make about $800 every 2 weeks best job i ever had, i started in june and bought a hatch in august for $3500 and now i'm still working on the install for the d16z6 and my paycheck which is around $400 for 2 weeks goes straight to my savings account saving up for the h duece duece half way there just started saving up for it couple weeks ago, and my tip money which i make about $200 a week easily i spend on other **** like suspension, brakes, seats, any other parts that i need. i work 6 days a week also go to college full time. so i barely get enough time to even work on my car.