haha i feel for some of you's hey...makes me feel better My car was $13500, paid $2200 for gearbox rebuild, $2300 for wheels and tyres, $1500 for reco on my head, so whats that like 19 grand... yipee... Some original photos have not been recovered yet.

Mine must be around $12k... Tints $300 wheels $500 Suspension mods $2000 Stereo $2500 intercooler $1000 exhaust $600 autronic SMC $2000 036 Injectors $1000 984 Fuel pump $300 T3/4 $2000 Replacement MX-7 $2000 Bottom end Rebuild $3500 New Head + porting $900 Tighe Cam + gear $250 Replacement LSD ~$700 (today HAHAHA!!! unsure what that ones gunna cost) Total of above - $19,550 Oh my god.... my blood pressure just hit the roof - doing the sums in my head i thought i'd spent $12,000. I'm not going to add the purchase price or 'maintennance' costs like the $300 i just spent on a head gasket, valve stem seals and head studs.

Quote: Originally Posted by dragme i have been saving for years and not going out and wasting money on useless ****. Wish i did have a job so my vl would be turbochargged but its pretty hard to work during HSC so i'll worry more about the car after 7 months when the hsc is all over. thats the same deal with me, all the nights of staying home and doing fu*k all with one day pay off in the form of a VL Turbo...it takes time tho, i've been saving for 6 months now and i've only got $5,600 [full time work]. i think most guys here have taken around 3 or 4 years to get there VL's to "acceptable" levels...it depends on how much you want to save.

Spent about... $1000 lol

i spent a couple of bucks on tire shine.. im now broke

brought the car for $1000, spent $1000, 4 subs spilts and an amp, due for a major rebulid soon...

Every Day Road Vl Calias $40,000 Inc The Car. The Walky $35,000 Including The Car, The Vl Touring Car $35,000 Including The Car And Me Pride And Joy Vl Calias $85,ooo Plus $10,000 When I Bought It And And Other $70,000 To Go On It Ready In About A Year And A Half. A Lot Of Money But If It Makes You Happy Why Not.

spend 4500 buying my rx2 which i swaped for my fakenshaw vlt which was bein sold for 8gs i had spent 3000 on engine rebuild on rx2 so there is 7500 then on vl new exaust 150 leads and plugs 200 airfilter 150 rims set of 6 500 stereo 3000 head 500 cooler 700 thats about it but more to come!!

on the N/A sh*tbox that still has a faded roof and no front bumper, around $10k over the last 2 years.

Quote: i have been saving for years and not going out and wasting money on useless ****. You do own a commodore dont you.... I just replaced the head gasket (twice, first time the corner of the head just happened to fall off after I had it back together, so I had to take it off to get rewelded and refaced...) Since then a tune, gearbox rebuild, a tune, now its in getting a new throttle sensor and a tune... All for less than 300kms and $4000... Thinking of that I just realised I'm planning on putting the rest of my body kit on the car this weekend... Worst bit is when i sell it nothing will go wrong for the new owner, as in my last vl...

that's right - if i ever sell my baby, nothing will go wrong becasue EVERYTHING is brand new! Engine, gearbox, diff, all bearings, bushes, windows, etc.

yours won;t be the only vl man ...... many others are like that too ...

8k for the car. 3k for the kit/paint 1.2k for the cooler .5 for the plenum .5 for the zaust manifold 2k for the haltech 2k for the turbo 3 for the trimatic .8 for the wastegate 1.4 for the wheels 3k for the stereo 2k for the interiour, 1.5 brakes/camber tops etc needs... 1k for the fuel pump/reg/surge tank so about 29k, and thats not including 'anything' ive done twice, like wheels, brakes zaust, or things like cooler pipes/random chroming/guages/dump pipe/number plates, easly another 5k in there FFark and its still a vl,.. and a fairly ****ty one at that, Some original photos have not been recovered yet.

Aerocalaisturbo - First VL calais turbo spent 11k, wrote it off. The car was uninsured so lost all the 11k! Current VLT purchase price 12.5k plus another 5k fixing **** up now got a 15k loan aiming for around 300rwkw .. Will hav to save more cos 15k isnt enough So all together spent $43k on VLT's SO FAR

i spent a grand on buy a walky body kitted shell, $8000 on getting it on the road, got rear ended spent $400 on a calais shell $1000 on new spoilers that were broken $2000 on paint job and refitting body kit $3200 on engine Tring to find gear box $200 on disc's that don't fit $2000 on seats and sounds system still need to get suspension and diff centre and intercooler, another $1200 whiteline suspension kit $500 for lsd diff centre $650 for Microtech MT8 $1500 for intercooler and piping and then $2000 redo all my interior and then me gear box would have shat it sell so another $3000 getting that rebuilt bigger turbo and wasgate and injectors and manifolds etc so i recon $40 grand all up already spent $17000 since last August could have brought another house Some original photos have not been recovered yet.

so far, this thread is making me feel better - keep posting... You just don't realise how easy it is to spend a few grand here and there and end up with a $30,000 car :| Some original photos have not been recovered yet.

Miz-vl-turbo, is that 'another' 15k loan to get 300rwkw??! souns like a rig, i'm hoping for around 350-80 rwhp with mine

Yeah, but are the other options. Regular readers of SC Magazine would see some horrendous amounts being spent. Michael Vellah? Supercharged 700Hp VT Clubby $160,000. Whoa The list goes on BLOWN, TTV8, BLOWER, CHARGD, Eddies Beast, KRUPTR? Compared to other commodores the VLT makes very good power for dollars spent. Yes the entitial out lay is less but that aside that, the RB30 is still right up there.

also depends if u get people to do the work, or u do all the work your self, makes a big difference to, i just can't afford to get someone to do the work for me, i can only just afford the parts! no way can i afford the labour

i guess we just love our cars . No wonder we get pissed when they get stolen!! The new LSD i put in last night is unreal by the way . Looks like i need more $$'s for new rubber now . Some original photos have not been recovered yet.