Mid 20's life crisis - need advice

[madeofmilo]

G'day boys,
Bit of a background to me, I'm 24 (25 in 3 weeks) and I'm really blessed to have an amazingly good job as an electrician.

Anyway with house renos and working so hard I'm having a little mid 20s freakout about life and how instead of buying sports cars I've been buying "granite benchtops" for the kitchen.

So....here's where you guys come in...as my wife says "i'd prefer you to get a sports car then a mistress", so i've been given permission to spend $15 - $20k (yes, it's true I do have the best wife in the world, and no she is not a memeber of austarion who can read this post).

Gonna get rid of the starion and buy something ball tearingly fast.

I'm thinking
R33 gts-t
Evo
Xr6-t


any ideas and advice would be great?

[FST4RD]

You could get an Evo 6 over here in NZ for that... not to sure about over there. That's what I would go for though if I could spend that much, well actually I would try and push for another $5k and get a 2 door sierra cosworth :drool: My fav car of all time :)

[bridgey]

V8

[fugazi]

Yes shit what a crisis.... LOL
What are you most fond of (with a car)?

Street/drag-racing=>BB v8 (and a singelturbo!)
Tarmac/gravel/rally=>EVO-TME
Allround=>Starion (of course! or maby a Porsche)
Shiney/bling/shit=>whatever

[thrash]

spend the 15k putting a twin cam head on your already forged staz motor, put 30psi through a gt3076r, get ~300rwkw, that should be enough ball tearing speed for you..

i've only got 210rwkw and there hasn't been much on the road that can pass me when the hammer is down.. only thing that has managed to get ahead was a heavily worked v8 commodore - and i had mum and gramps in the car at the time, so no launch from me rofl

if you want outright performance, don't even think about the r33.. so not worth 15k.. don't get me wrong, they are a nice car.. good mix of performance and comfort, but for all out performance, you'd get an r32 gtr for the same quid.

and i'd be very interested if you can get a late model evo for under 20k? or do you mean evo1-3?

xr6t are a very good thing, IF you upgrade them. on their own they are too heavy a boat for the motor. but once upgraded, they can be monsters

[Lunacy]

I would definitely say twincam the staz first but im biased!
Other than that either an r32 gtr or evo 5,6,7 would be my picks.
Over here you can easily get any of those in you price range, but guessing they mite be a bit more pricey in aus?

[WANTSOM]

You realise that whatever you get in that price range is going to be a piece of shit and cost more than than your budget to bring up to what you describe as "ball tearingly fast".

Of the 3 the only one that will remotely deliver is the XR6T, BUT - you will need to spend at least 3-4K to make it "ball tearingly" fast, so you are looking at getting hold of one for under 16K as a starter.

I'd be looking elswhere for your jollies tbh.

[enthuzed]

I'd be looking elswhere for your jollies tbh.

Has your wife got a cute friend?
She's no mistress if your wife knows...

[madeofmilo]

No no. Can't get a mistress. The only ball tearing would be my own balls by my wife. When I say a ball teareri should clarify... I had a mildly worked SS with the 5.7l so something at minimum as fast as that.

[redzone]

get a EVO 5 for 20K easy, just get it professionally checked out before you buy it.. plus they will be kid compatible, as they are a 4 door...

or you could just spend the money on the starion :)

[bridgey]

get an evo 4 or 6 as opposed to a 5...4s and 6s post 206kw factory where a few guys i know with 5s are only pushin 190ish

[1320ft]

Buy a widey

[iXNAY]

out of all of them id be going XR6T and going 3" exhaust and flash tune ECU and bang u got 300rwkw that should be enough to start with!

[palmystar]

What about an fd RX7? even though i don't know how much they go for over there. they look great and respond well to mods.

[vr4gone]

Forget the Evo and the XR6-T, true sports cars don't have 4 doors. An R33 is not ball tearingly fast either. Your budget should more than cover an engine transplant. Drop a 2jz in the staz!