The REAL cost of Forced Induction -- NOT for the faint of heart

**RatedZ** · 11-29-2010, 03:28 AM

Originally Posted by CALL911

First off, I didn't just have $65,000 sitting in an account and decided to spend it all at once. Like Fastbird, it was spent over a period of time that lasted over a decade, and just kept adding up to where it is now.

Second, there was a time when I was around the $45,000 mark that I would have easily traded the car for just the money I had in it. But after time I realized what sentamental value the car had on me. It was the first car I ever bought, the frist stick I learned to drive, it became known as "CALL911" very early on and later identified who I was as a person (sounds wierd, but it has). I wouldn't trade my old LT1 for anything!

ESPECIALLY a ZR1!!

There are plenty of other cars out there I would like to have, and many of them would turn more heads and in some cases even be faster than my Z. But I really don't look at my investment as something that was foolishly spent, or something I could trade as if it were part of the stock market.

I'll be rockin' out my LTX Z28 till the day I die!

I've owned my 1994 B4C since 1996. I probably have about $45,000 tied up in mine, too, and it's a pile of shit with nothing but problems, but I can't get rid of it due to sentimental value. Not to mention, after putting up with so much shit with this car, I still question every day whether to carry on, or toss in the towel and sell it for the $3500 I'd probably get for it.

Honestly, if this car didn't have any sentimental value to me, I would have ditched it a long time ago. I'm not so much sick of the car as I am the idiots who aren't competent to work on an LT1 for some reason. NOBODY seems to know how to work on this car for some reason, and somehow, every time I have somebody work on it, highly recommended or not, I get dicked up the ass.

**1badz** · 11-29-2010, 11:19 AM

Sheesh! There is about 18k in my car, minus cost of car. MOST of it is in misc. things (not just performance). It's funny how the little things add up. I stopped recently though. Need to focus on finishing school. Grad school will be 'spensive, so the Camaro jumped the gun on hibernating.

**QC97Z** · 11-29-2010, 12:41 PM

I'm at $35,000 right now, including the cost of the car...and I'm still playing with it here and there.

**killerz28** · 11-29-2010, 06:31 PM

Im at 4k and im about to pull the motor because of a rod bearing so ill probably put another 4k into it here in a month.

**LT1UltraZ** · 02-21-2011, 11:52 AM

reading all this makes me feel better

good to know i am not the only one out there wit the same problem

**QC97Z** · 02-21-2011, 12:38 PM

I think it's pretty safe to say we all have the same problem....just some of us have a bit more extra coin than others.

**bigtoyz** · 07-18-2012, 01:43 AM

I have 15.5k into the build I have now. Basically motor all redone with the best of the best parts 383 stroker, could still do custom intake ( but has been ported) and ecm, but that is stock for now. Tranny has been redone with all upgradable parts with 3200 stall. The 15.5k is ALL parts I did the whole build myself engine and tranny and the machining also. I used my uncles machineshop to do boring of cylinders, line bored the mains, converted to 4 bolt mains, and groved the block for firewire for high boost levels. Everything else is stock of as to date. But looking to upgrade that in the future.