If you had £5000 to spend on your current lude

farlow · Post by **farlow** » Fri Mar 18, 2016 6:08 pm

Id buy a £5k set of wheels and stretch a set of nankangs over them.

Post by **lewd lude lover** » Fri Mar 18, 2016 6:20 pm

I'd buy a decent R33 and leave the lude as it is.

nice motor

I would sort out the paint and flip a coin each day as I drove down to tesco to grab some snacks.

nitin_s1 · Post by **nitin_s1** » Fri Mar 18, 2016 7:46 pm

Ok let me rephrase, when I said rebuilt and service for £1K I meant to say do a proper service. Including the timing belt, small port and polish to the head etc. That should be done in the £1K budget ?

Post by **RattyMcClelland** » Fri Mar 18, 2016 8:45 pm

Your head is already ported and polished however that alone will be around £900-1200 plus a £600 full engine service. Anything with a valvetrain is very labour labor intensive.

Post by **4thgenphil** » Fri Mar 18, 2016 10:29 pm

RattyMcClelland wrote:Your head is already ported and polished

Only very mildly mind

lxstuart · Post by **lxstuart** » Sat Mar 19, 2016 9:20 am

How much would it cost to remove that ATTS rubbish?

lxstuart · Post by **lxstuart** » Sat Mar 19, 2016 9:22 am

If I still had my Lude, and was given £5k to spend only on the Lude, I would probably have gone for a small turbo setup.

And some more rattle cans

prahunt · Post by **prahunt** » Sat Mar 19, 2016 10:03 am

For 5K I would do the following:

Accord Type R engine and gearbox. Tidy it up and fit myself. £2700
Refurb the current wheels £300
Top end quality road tyres. £1000
New back box. £400
New trims all round £600

Engine would be the main bit. I'd be happy with a clean H22A7 in her, spend time cleaning it up and drop it in. Though she would need a remap/ECU change so I think I've covered that in the cost above.
Thankfully the suspension in mine is already good enough for what I use it for and I've spent the money on the paintwork. So this can be spent on the fun stuff haha.
Except trim. Trim is boring but necessary.

89 UKDM BA4 4WS (resto job!) · Post by **wurlycorner** » Mon Mar 21, 2016 8:42 am

Drop in the ocean on my fleet unfortunately!

mart609 · Post by **mart609** » Mon Mar 21, 2016 9:08 pm

I stopped coundting way after 5K

But If I had another... coilovers £750
de-rust arches again - £1000
refurb mugens - £200
and spend the rest on engine stuff