I have a four day weekend coming up, and I've decided I want to go to California to upgrade my vehicular condition. The options are:
a. Go to Comptech in Sacramento and upgrade my 6 pound supercharger to a 9 pound.
b. Fly to San Diego and buy a '93 Viper RT/10 with 40k miles and a hardtop. Drive it home to Portland, OR.
Option A, including hotel, travel, parts, and labor is about $2100. Option B, in total, is about $34,300.
I can sell the Viper for around $33,000 mid-summer, when demand for such a car is strong. With insurance, depreciation, and lost investment opportunity cost I can probably get away with $2100 out of pocket for 8 months with a Viper.
I figure the $2100 on the Comptech is gone for good. In my experience hot rodding cars, I never got my money back for my mods.
The Viper would be driven on weekends and occasionally to work when it's dry out.
It would be nice to have one, really fast and fun car to drive around all the time (NSX). It would also be nice to have a Viper for weekend joy rides. I've determined that, over time, the cost of both is roughly equal. So, as NSX owners yourselves: Given the choice, what would you do?
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Red (w/ red top) '91. Comptech Supercharger. RM headers. Comptech exhaust. Short ratio gears. Ring and Pinion swap. RM racing suspension. 18/17 wheels/tires.
[This message has been edited by multisync23 (edited 07 November 2000).]
a. Go to Comptech in Sacramento and upgrade my 6 pound supercharger to a 9 pound.
b. Fly to San Diego and buy a '93 Viper RT/10 with 40k miles and a hardtop. Drive it home to Portland, OR.
Option A, including hotel, travel, parts, and labor is about $2100. Option B, in total, is about $34,300.
I can sell the Viper for around $33,000 mid-summer, when demand for such a car is strong. With insurance, depreciation, and lost investment opportunity cost I can probably get away with $2100 out of pocket for 8 months with a Viper.
I figure the $2100 on the Comptech is gone for good. In my experience hot rodding cars, I never got my money back for my mods.
The Viper would be driven on weekends and occasionally to work when it's dry out.
It would be nice to have one, really fast and fun car to drive around all the time (NSX). It would also be nice to have a Viper for weekend joy rides. I've determined that, over time, the cost of both is roughly equal. So, as NSX owners yourselves: Given the choice, what would you do?
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Red (w/ red top) '91. Comptech Supercharger. RM headers. Comptech exhaust. Short ratio gears. Ring and Pinion swap. RM racing suspension. 18/17 wheels/tires.
[This message has been edited by multisync23 (edited 07 November 2000).]