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Originally Posted by jamesm
if the purpose was to own a car, that would probably be the smarter way to go. i think anyone considering a swap's idea is to build a car, like a project. it's about the project, not owning the result of it.
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Yeah, I get that; it's fun to build projects and make it your own. Just personal opinion, but I have "built" several cars, including a 300whp turbo Civic, 608rwhp Cobra, and a few track cars.
For me, with the first car I built (turbo civic SI), it was frustrating when I had $25k into the thing total (including the cost of the car) and could have bought a bone stock Z06 that outperformed it. I then got an 03 Cobra, spent only like $3-4k extra on bolt-ons, and had a dead reliable 600rwhp monster. I probably spent a tad more in total on the Cobra setup than I had into my turbo civic "build", but I had double the power, and it was much more satisfying.
Personally, I'd rather start with a fast car and do a few bolt-ons rather than a complete build, but like I said, to each his own.