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Old 01-24-2023, 12:40 AM   #16
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Originally Posted by bbbrz View Post
I plan to dump about 8k into the BRZ, maybe 12 if I can find enough mods to peak my interest. Wheels, Turbo kit, and some clean visual mods, nothing crazy like air ride or an engine swap.
Let me just say, if you want to buy quality stuff, you're WAAAAAY underestimating the budget.

Just my coilovers/RLCA/toe kit and rear sway links, wheels, tires, and cheaper catback. Were $8k, if I had bought an ARK catback exhaust it would have been $9k. A properly done, quality turbo kit is going to be around $10k on it's own. And I only bought 8th gen Fortune Auto 500s, had I gone with MCS from Vorshlag, XIDA from 949Racing or similar, add another $3k.

And those prices assume you're doing all the work, paying a shop? Add thousands more.

That doesn't include the $2500 I spent on PPF for the bumper/headlights, full ceramic coating and window tint.

So you can see real quick you're almost back to the cost of a new RS3. This isn't to discourage you if you want one, it's just to show you need to be realistic about what things cost.
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