So i have an offer of 3200 for my car, and i have been debating taking that offer.

However, i feel that the only reason i want to sell the car is because the body kit.
-always worried about bottoming out the front end
-this is the same reason i dont have side skirts because im worried about clearance
-This makes the body kit incomplete and looks a little off

And the fact that i have to wait till the car is warmed up till it runs right. ( it will stumble in first untill its warmed up)
i dont know if its just the aem because when i plug in the bypass harness it doesn't stumble when cold.
-upgrade the aem fic firmware maybe?
-i read somewhere that they put a resistor in line between the ckp and the aem to stop these symptoms.

Options
-sell my car and buy something else to work on (don't put a body kit on it)
-try and sell the body kit and replace with stock bumpers
-figure out whats going on with the aem( have no idea whats wrong)
-trade straight up for a low miles tiburon ( there is a guy that has one and wants to sell it to buy mine so im sure he would trade)
and build a better turbo setup with a full stand alone.

Opinions about the above options
- Having a clean tiburon where i dont have to do any body work would be nice
because I would know what mods i would want to do and not to do
for example wouldnt do
cat delete
body kit
piggy back ( would use full stand alone )
High compression internals ( would use low compression instead )
don't tint head lights
get properly sized turbo
instead of new oem (toga high volume oil pump)

-Selling the body kit might not show interest
-I have no clue where to start on fixing the cold start problem
-selling the car for 3200 leaves me little choice in what my next project is.

 

If you don't love that car, you are at least very attached to it mentally/emotionally, and you have a LOT invested in it -not just money

Selling out for not-enough money to get someone else's pile of problems is not what you want to do.

You want to ditch the kit, fix the running condition, and continue to love your car. Do it. Next step: WTT thread with pictures of the kit in 3...2...1...

 

if ur looking for a stock body kit, i just got my old tib back man! deff dont sell the tib that cheap. if anything do a part out. ur make way more! trust me on that wink.gif it just takes time, plus u dont have to sell the parts u wanna reuse.

 

you have gone back and forth for close to a year. everytime you plan on selling it, you dump cash in it the week after. when you try to sell it, you put crappy pics on craigslist, don't talk it up any, basically fail at even trying.


stop asking for our ideas whether to sell or not to sell, it's getting old.

 

Thanks stocker and corey, i appreciate you talking to me about it.
sometimes i tend to type out a long post to weigh out the pros and cons.

first things first im going to ditch the body kit.

 

ditch the kit man, get an F2 bumper, get it professionally sprayed and work out the kinks once and for all. i think you rushed everything without setting goals one by one.

i'm not planning to sell my car because i love it so much. i don't want to sound conceded, but i love what i've done. i NEVER get tired of what i think is the bes possible solution on a really cool cheap economic fun unique car. for example when people tell me, "no i don't want HID's on the foglights" ...i think that's totally stupid. it improves lighting. period. get them.

onward. the McLaren-designed F2 bumper is rare, and unique (tell me your bumper was designed by McLaren, Genesis boy!). the 4 HID's are badass, the full LED conversion is BADASS at night, the HCD I,II,III designed interior... awesome rally history, it's small and can dodge and squeeze everywhere including tight parking spots, the list keeps going man.


(Monica Lewinsky walking past)

there are also rules to follow depending on the car. like NEVER putting a large spoiler (like the shark spoiler) on the rear without having a low front bumper. never ever install a bodykit without having aftermarket rims (yours has stock rims). never ever put an incomplete bodykit on (like yours missing the side skirts). never combine body parts that weren't made to go with one another from the factory (like RD2 wing on RD1, RD2 rims on RD1, GK wing on RD1 crazy.gif ) never have yellow foglights. never have vinyls. never have euro-tails. never have fartcans (unless it's an apexi, or a Toyota Supra)...etc. if any of these rules are broken, there will be some subconscious dissatisfaction.

point is, there's nothing i've done to this car that i don't like. it keeps me loving it everyday. tibbytib is the perfect example of keeping a car that pays off. he's done a classy, tasteful job one step at a time.

that being said, i think yours is just on the verge. get some nice rims (not some ugly JDM honda rims), F2 bumper (or nice improvised lip like the Home Depot garden liner) like this one if it were painted to match or wrapped in CF!:

sorry for the hard long read. it's just my honest set of rules that i judge cars by.

 

HKC brought up some really good points except the diff parts from diff generations tongue.gif I think the shark spoiler would look good on either the rd1 or rd2.

But honestly it comes down to what you like. No matter what anyone tells you, it's YOUR money and YOUR car. Either you can just listen to the suggestions we give based on what we like (which will get you nowhere), or you can just do what you like and build a car that you like. Everyone has their opinions, but you're not building your car to make them happy. You build it to make yourself happy.