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The stuff your friend lists kinda kills the whole $5k he's spending. Between the manifold, turbo, AEM EMS, and FMIC, I'd say that's around $3500 give or take. Also have to include tuning, supporting mods, and maybe installation. Not to be a hater to show-car guys, but the most I know usually end up paying people to do stuff for them. They lack the will to learn and/or work on the cars themselves. In relation to myself, I'd rather rip an engine apart any day to painting a car (thats where my pride dies out)
As to a showcar with a lot of "go" if its a true showcar, then yeah, it wont be driven a whole lot, and HybriDSM is right, he should save the money for something else.
If he's doing like a body-kit, lights, paint job, lambo doors, interior, sound system and all the goodies, and wants to drive it for like a weekend cruiser, then he should rethink what he's doing. It still won't be driven as much, but the fact that you take a showcar onto a regular street opens up the gateway to getting hit by debris, hitting potholes, ripping body kits off, scratching paint and so on. So really, if he wants a lot of "GO" where is he going to go? I have a local cruise night in my area, which is mainly muscle cars, and living in New England alone has gotten me away from ever wanting a seriously lowered car, or a bodykit.
Also check out that Super Street Celica in a recent issue. Totally rebuilt from the ground up even has a TURBO on it, but only pushes 240HP! It's mainly ALL SHOW and could NEVER GO, LOL '95 Copper GS-T "Serena" Stage 3 CM Clutch w/alumin flywheel, Injen Intake, Apex'i I/C pipes + Twin Chamber BOV, Defi D-Series Boost + A/F gauges...pushing 17psi!
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