I'm gonna take it that the 'student' issue rodhog is talking about refers to me...
Rodhog, i can agree with your statement but to a certain extent. Anyone, including students have the right to purchase any car and modify it or blow it up for that matter, even if it means they have a hole in their wallet. That is the owner's predicament, be it stupid, yes it may be.
HECS bills is something that is so negligible, that it couldn't affect me (or anyone) the slightest. I dont care if they take out $10 or so dollars a week when earning a decent salary...I feel sorry for the people (like my sister) who do a honours year (which is around the $10,000 dollar mark) and to people who do postgraute degrees.
Yeah i'm a student. That ain't holding me back from doing anything like you said about delaying and end up selling etc. That has absolutely nothing to do with being a 'student'
I know plenty of people who have full time jobs, work on a car and make slower progress than i would do, and many of them still sell/abandon their beloved projects because they can't afford to keep it.
Finally, I'm not spending thousands of dollars on my TX5 to make it faster and end up blowing it (well i hope not hehe). I make sure before i do everything, i know exaclty how this is going to affect me financially and the impact it will have on my car as it will be my daily driver for years. I dont want to part with it. Around christmas time, i had enough money to buy a 1993 180sx SR20, but chose to keep my Tx5 as by having a slightly newer and more expensive car doesn't solve anything in my situation (Although it would have been kickass to be driving that black 180 now!!).
All I want to do is update my turbo as my seals are about gone (i'm burning oil) and i'd want to do a t25/ t28 conversion (hopefully Scott still has his
), put together my cooler piping, remove my air con, fabricate a new intake pipe and get the woo's chip done. I plan on doing this in June when i have the time...Why am i writing this anyway? I dont have to prove anything to anyone, especially to people from a car forum website....
Peace.