emax95 is selling all his stuff....

had to have been cuffed and stuffed when caught street racing..... or.....he's getting a new car??????
which is it?????
hats off to ya for making one of the nicest I30s we've ever seen!

huh? you wanna share some more info?

:gotme:

WTH? I did not get in any trouble or anything, infact I have not gotten a ticket for 14 months and 2days, hehe. Theres is a lot of things/risks involved in making a fast car, the biggest thing is the $$$$ and 2 is I don't have the will power to control my self from beating the hell out my car and indagering myself on a daily basis. I just think letting the SC go is the right{smart} thing for me to do. I will be able to pay off the remainder of my car loan next week and start saving for realstate investments{$$$}. One thing is for sure though I will still be loving my car every second and chillin on the org all the time. Thanks for you concern and my I30 is still 95% emax style just with out the crazy speed :D .

It's uses too much gas.

Yep and thats another thing. $35 bucks a week in fact.

c'mon... I don't need to tell you that even without the S/C you'll still be able to endanger yourself daily.. don't get rid of it... just drive a little easier. Think about it... you'll lose too much money on the S/C to really make it worth getting rid of.

Might hae to start calling you Russ :) Buy, Sell, Buy...no wait... sell

At this point all you are doing is adding to my Guilt trip, it's too late, the SC is allready 1/2 off and the rest will be off tomarrow. Get this, in 1 Hour I allready removed almost 1/2 of the SC, I am good :D

Hay I am a 1st timer give me a break. Well actualy thats all you know, really I have owned 5 different cars in the last 5 years :D Lets see, a 86 Volvo{I was 16} 240 Wagon, 90 Volvo 740{I was 17}, 91 Ford Explorer{18 and blew 10G's on a stereo, and the car cought fire!}, 95 maxima{at 19-21} and now my I30{20-21 and then?}. I was actually lookin at a IS300 today but my car is so much nicer, I think I am going to keep it for a long{I think?}. Yeah I am spontaneus.

man where do you get the money? i have a hard time scraping up enough money to buy a body kit

Ahh I work?

for shame!!! you're no longer my favorite I30 anymore... you could have atleast left it on long enough for me to check out june 3rd

:bawling:

Hey Emax...
 

what about the dual exhaust....still gonna get it done? :gotme:

Re: Hey Emax...
 

Nahh I am selling it on the 4sale forum along with my Y-Pipe{It's allready sold}. No more mods I am allready in $11K deep in mods and it's starting to really{1/4 life crises, LOL} get to me soooo.. Sorry for letten yeah down. It's time to save mad money and invest mad money which='s Phat cars, I am lookin at the big picture here :D

Re: Hey Emax...
 

oh well... can't blame you for trying to save money...

you had enough money from working to spend 10g's when you were 18... i need your job :)

$16,300 Actually. I am crazy about saving money when I wan't something, hell when I was 17 I had mad savings bonds and ****, LOL. If you want something bad enough you will find ways to get it, it just takes a lot of descapline, that meens no arcade gamed and Ice Cream LOL.

but...but...
 

but... ice cream, it's soooooooooooo good, you can't live without ice cream.

Re: but...but...
 

I am allergic to it so it's real easy to avoid :D Anybody up for some Rice Dream? LOL

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how are u allergic to it?

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Lactose intolerant, and really bad. I know there are pills but they don't work good enough, so no dairy for me.

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o that sucks. so are u short from not drinkin milk (hehe mommas phrase)

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Unless you consider soy milk , milk, then there is no milk for me. You get use to it after a while though. It's sucks though becuase Pizza was my favorite food.

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:( sucks to be u!!

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I know what you mean Ethan. I had a tall glass of milk with Ovaltine and boy am I lucky I live alone. I was exploding like never before. I was talking to my girl on the phone at the time and she was laughing at me. I was scared for my life.

As far as you car goes, for me it was good to feel the power of the SC. I'll never buy one but the best thing to me was hearing the SC throughout the shifts, priceless. Yeah, think about the future and get rich then you'll be able to get the toys when you want.

Emax-

May I ask what you do? You seem very well off at whatever you do :)

It does suck that you are getting rid of the SC, but I completely understand where you are coming from. Atleast you're keeping the I30. I've easily got the cash to buy a SC, but what holds me back is the reliability issues. Too many headaches and too many little things that can go wrong and materialize into a major failure. I prefer to take my car the NA route while making it perform, yet keeping a mostly the stock image, noise, and drive. My goal is 14.2 NA which is entirely possible with traction. If we can mount the 5th gen manifold, then 13s might be possible with a wicked launch.

As for you "investments", way to go. There's nothing wiser than planning for the future when you are very young. Real estate can make you lots of money (my wife's father does this), but it can also be a pain at times. Give it two years before you really start making money. I'm 27 and am already well on my way to retiring early. Save and invest now. Buy fun stuff, but don't get into debt. Nothing is worse than carrying big debt like credit cards, car payments, school loans, etc. If you don't have the cash for the thing you want, then save (unless you're talking about a house or something). I've got stock which if I sold, could by me a very nice car or numerous superchargers. The ability to resist selling is sometimes a bit trying, but I've got to think long term. I also put in about $350 into my 401K a month which could easily be a car payment plus my wife and I top out our Roth IRAs yearly which is $4000. We could be driving much nicer cars and have a much bigger house, but we are very happy where we are at and what our future holds. Eventually we too would like to get into real estate (property rental).

All in all, you're young and you're making the right choice. You can still mod your car, but do it little by little and you'll respect it a little more.

As for having a car fetish, you don't come close to my friends. I keep my cars for about 3 years, but I plan on keeping the Max for about 5 or so. One friend is a bit of a car nut and has NO concept of money. Here are his cars from the past 3 years:

85 Civic hatch
88 GTI
91 GTI
93 Z28
99 Civic 4 door
99 Civic hatch
89 Civic hatch with a B16 swap
97 Accord 4 door
98 Civic hatch

All of these cars have had different stereos and many of them have had various sets of wheels and engine mods. Some of the cars were only owned for months at a time, one for only 2 weeks, and only one was wrecked. The second he gets bored of a car, he buys something else. I get bored of my car sometimes, but I don't get rid of it. His current car is the 99 Civic hatch which cost him about $19500 after you take into consideration how he was upside down in a few prior cars. The Civic is used and only listed for $12000!!!! Like I said, no concept of money.



Dave

Very well put Dave. I have read 3 books on in investing in realastate in the last few months and talk to my parents about investing{they are big investers and it shows}. As for what I do for work, right now I work for my family Bussiness which pays decent + I still live at home so my dollar goes a lot further then a indapendent person. I am planing on getting a 2nd job in about a month so I will be making preatty good money for a 21 year old at that time, from there my goal is to save up about 20-25 grand in one year and buy a 3 family house and pay it off with in a few years and then expand and buy more and more realastate. Each house/Appartment will be payed off twice as fast as the one before and eventually I will be making lots of money not doing a lot of work, it's just the first 5 years are going to be a lot of hard work. But again great info and good view points.

dang i wish i was making the money you're making...

Heh, man, I really need to get out of the bay area.

Three family house with a down payment of 20-25k? I have a fair bit more than that saved for a house in the future, but I still dn't feel like I have ****, because here, the 2 bedroom 1200sqft crappy house next door with no lawn sells for $450k. Imagine the down payment on that..

I need to move. Anyone got any recommendations? :P

Well
 

I guess everyone has to grow up at some point but man you just got the S/C. Oh well, and you said you would race me at MAXUS!!!!! Damn you. SO why did you sell you y-pipe???????????

Re: Well
 

Ethan, losing interest in speed and racing means only one thing - you're getting old :)
Anyway, how's your new clutch working?

Ummm. Yes. But we went over this.

:D

Let me rephrase that.

I need recommendations on a place to move with mild or non-existant winters. =)

Re: Well
 

Sorry to dissapoint you, I am selling the Y-Pipe because I figure all or none{Power} and the noise is really getting to me lately. About racing you I will still wip your butt :D


Andy, the new clutch is working awesome, the thing can hold some seriuos power{it did :bawling: } and is very smooth, I think me and my clutch will spend a lot of happy trouble free miles together. BTW my SC is off now, it only took about 4 grooling hours, of course I still have to put my car back together, argh! Watch out for those damn fuel lines there horrible.

Ok
 

I'll be waiting!

Re: Ok
 

WTF happened to your girl, man?

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She's a stupid ungrateful *****. THE MAX is back though baby, no more ***** draining my funds. i can put them into mods now, or do i want a Z instead, help me guys. NOS or buy a Z????

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Wow, thats a big difference in price there, is the deal get a Z and keep the max or get nitrous and forget about the Z? I would say get the Z and put Nitrous on it :D and keep the Max , but maybe thats just me, LOL