Fook me, in response to a dare from my gf I just added up roughly what I have spent in the last year on the car and it is still not going yet!

= £7465

And needs the whole thing painted again. Think the broken turbo could well be the straw that breaks the camel's back cos I could have bought an evo, scooby or a cossie for that amount easily .

In fact I forgot a few things such as brakes, tools etc so probably nearer £8k ffs!

 

16k approx
got plans for another 10k

 

With the car about 7-8k in 2 years with out insurance and tax

 

Well I bought mine with the intention of doing track days and so far have only managed one last year. Had a quick look at Clio's 172 & 182 on Autotrader and they are going for about £3k.

This has got me thinking about getting one stripping it out and using it for track days. By the time I have the Escort broken I should be able to pay off the Clio no probs and anything left over would go towards throttle bodies and slick tyres for the new ride, hmmm.

 

serious dough being spent there fellas! are you guys doing monster engine builds and full resto's etc or whats all the cash going on?

 

Since Febuary 12k, still not done.

 

Well it is scary how it adds up if you don't keep track like me! The car was only £1300 the rest is all parts including wheels & tyres, engine rebuild and pretty much everyhting else in the engine bay replaced. I keep thinking of other stuff I have not included like 2 x starter motors and a new alt and batery! Trouble is I doubt I will get half of that back even by breaking it!

 

Never, never, NEVER work out what you've spent. I once started to with mine and got to almost £30k over the 14 years of ownership. I promptly stopped working it out after that sum of money.

 

SHIT THE BED!!!!!

 

6k including purchase over 2 years its lookin like for me

 

4.5 k had the car 3months purchase price was 3250

 

yeah never add up but my car will owe me nearly 16k by Jan 2011 after paint work done.Includes the price of me buying it just 2 and half years ago!! Where does it all go!

 

i brought my s1 in november 2009 and drove it to a mot station and back and it owes me....

about 8.5k and i still need.....
brakes/uprated mounts/mapping/grey injectors/better wheels/ few bits of body work and a few odds and sods to make it how i want it so i recon it will owe me 12k by the time im happy with it and im getting a rs1600i shell to do next already lol

 

managed to do my rs on a shoe string budget, So I think running costs and insurance etc aside I'm at about the 4-5k region. Still needs to be painted though so will be near 6-7k by the time i'm done.

 

you've done very well mate

 

sounds class m8 from what u told me so far hope 2 see u at central day with it finished cuz it will b a weapon

 

spent just over 20k on mine but worth it imo and now all the parts are all over my garage whilst i get my new toy ready for action

 

13k ish would get you a nice white escort cosworth-late 95-n reg private plate
taxed and mot 12 months garaged and drove by a pensioner!!!!(well nearly-lol-collection only-drive away
want more foe???

 

About 7k over 4 years including original purchase but probably 2k of that was funded by selling parts, and the GF always gets my something for the car for Christmas, birthdays, etc..

 

Spent about £12k on mine now, not including buying the car in 2 years.

 

For a sec i was gunna panic but u jus gave me sum hope of keeping mine for another year or so Karlos lol 7k aint too bad over 4 yrs... 20k ppl spending! Foooking hell, n i thought us ford nuts were skint lol

 

Ive bought a new mfi unit gearbox rebuild clutch cams all in total around 2k over a year, hopefuly run without probs for a while now lol and its still running standard boost stock ecu lol

 

I've got to admit though, I do look at cars sometimes and think oh god why have I spent so much on my Escort when I see things like this...

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/1987-E-BMW-3-S...ht_1238wt_1139

 

hopefully mate i will be chuffed if i get anything over 270bhp realy

 

to be honest mate tho, ew all know when it comes to selling its easier to just break them, when the day comes i will just buy a rot box and and paint every part ect and fit to mine and sell as a standard s1 and sell all my bits seperate

 

It makes me sad when people just break them for parts. I've said to myself that I will never do that with mine regardless of the money difference. I would rather see someone enjoying my car than think "thats another rs turbo off the road for good".

 

spent quite alot lol

 

the only way i wouldnt break it is if someone offered me another cosworth or mk1/2 escort .... but as i said i would build it into a standard car as thats how i would make the most money.... as my shell is worth what £1500-2k as a restore s1 with history but if i built it back up to a full car its worth 5k+ all day long and it would only cost me about a grand as i still have alot of it....

plus ive got about 5k worth of bits on it to sell seperately and whats a fully modified s1 with 270+bhp worth lets say 7.5k so i would make 2.5k for a bit of messing about...

 

well im 17 only at college earning 30 pond a week no part time work and have spent 3800 on a fucking moped that needs another 300 pound to be finished in a year