While browsing through the forums I see many people who have built EVO's and other cars as well. Performance parts for cars in general are expensive. Modding cars themselves is an expensive hobby. I was wondering how people generally afford these car parts. Do they use credit cards or Bill Me Later? Sorry if this sounds a bit "shabby", but just generally curious since I'm going to start modding my car.

 

I sell arms to impoverished third world countries and any faction that supports the US abroad.
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In all seriousness, you're not really giving us any context. I have a career and a car budget that goes towards track time and performance parts.

 

i just go to work, make money, come home spend x amount of money i set aside for the evo annnnnnnd dont buy my GF anything...

 

I ask my parents for it.

 

Thats funny!!!

But in all seriousness, Im a CNC machinist and I work for John Deere. Been running a lathe for 3 years. I save everything, all the money that went into my evo are from the profit sharing.

Yes, school is the way to go, unless youre that^ guy.

 

I only intended it to be funny. No truth in the comment. In actuality I have had to support myself since I was 14.

I'm about to drop $3-$4k on some mods myself. I just have money saved up. I budget accordingly so that I save some kind of money each month. You need to make sure you do not live above your means. This also goes to mods. If modding takes you above your means, then I highly recommend against it.

 

Working bro.

I work an 80 hour week and buy my parts from usa and ship to nz

Its cheap to mod if you live in usa compared to not being.

 

Work, do most the work my self and make my own parts when I can too.

 

Sell drugs and organs.

 

A wise man once said; if you have to ask how much it is then you can't afford it. Based on your question--if you really dont know how your going to afford to mod your car--pls dont. Its far more important that you just remain responsible and out of debt and in school.

 

I would assume most of us work, feed ourselves, feed our families, save up money to mod. If you can't afford to do at least the first 2 (if you have no kids, wife, husband, etc) then modding probably should wait.

Then there are some people who have wealthy backgrounds to begin with and can afford to buy whatever they want for their evo's, but then again most of those guys are probably on the lambo forums...

I just sell my body whenever I can and hope not to get arrested. For a good time please call. 330.6-7-1.....

 

I'd imagine a decent portion of people on the forum buy parts with their credit cards, and then a couple months down the line you see the parts in the FS section. Case in point the FIC 1100 injectors I just sold

 

Can't tell if troll thread or not...

But as many mentioned already, we work, work and work. Budget our money accordingly and buy parts when the time is right. People give me crap all the time assuming my parents built/bought my evo(fully built big turbo)

Wrong. I've worked at my company for 3 years now(I'm a network and security engineer) and have been budgeting accordingly. Also I refinish wheels for side work

But yeah... do not build a car on debt, terrible idea.

 

I work really hard for it. For my age I also happen to make really good money so that helped a lot when I bought the car. As far as the modding part, I budget. I figure out roughly what I want and start saving. If I can't do something one week, oh well. I would never put myself in debt for car parts. I know somebody that charged up almost 90,000 in credit card debt just to build his car. I'm good with that.

 

We are one of the worst countries for credit debt. Not to say that you shouldn't build credit, but do it wisely.