Those making 1k plus step inside please
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St. Jude Donor '13
Never break anything on the street. At the track I've broken axles, diff output shafts, and spider gears. Best upgrade that stuff and avoid the aggravation. Avoid wheel hop and chances are good of not breaking.
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List would be long, and not sure if that should include all the preventative stuff where things were found on the way out.
Axles, bearings, driveshafts, rear ends, trannys, water pumps, dampers, fuel pumps, meth pumps, valve springs, pistons, rings, bearings, oil pumps, etc etc etc etc. Just put 6-8 weeks a year when the car will be down, maybe a winter and summer downtime, or spring and fall, and $10k or so a year in maintenance and parts. That is what it takes to maintain a nice 1000+ setup.
Axles, bearings, driveshafts, rear ends, trannys, water pumps, dampers, fuel pumps, meth pumps, valve springs, pistons, rings, bearings, oil pumps, etc etc etc etc. Just put 6-8 weeks a year when the car will be down, maybe a winter and summer downtime, or spring and fall, and $10k or so a year in maintenance and parts. That is what it takes to maintain a nice 1000+ setup.
Le Mans Master
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St. Jude Donor '13
Originally Posted by Unreal
List would be long, and not sure if that should include all the preventative stuff where things were found on the way out.
Axles, bearings, driveshafts, rear ends, trannys, water pumps, dampers, fuel pumps, meth pumps, valve springs, pistons, rings, bearings, oil pumps, etc etc etc etc. Just put 6-8 weeks a year when the car will be down, maybe a winter and summer downtime, or spring and fall, and $10k or so a year in maintenance and parts. That is what it takes to maintain a nice 1000+ setup.
Axles, bearings, driveshafts, rear ends, trannys, water pumps, dampers, fuel pumps, meth pumps, valve springs, pistons, rings, bearings, oil pumps, etc etc etc etc. Just put 6-8 weeks a year when the car will be down, maybe a winter and summer downtime, or spring and fall, and $10k or so a year in maintenance and parts. That is what it takes to maintain a nice 1000+ setup.
In the last 3 years since I stopped going to the track I've had almost no major issues other than maintenance stuff. Redid my heads but that's a wear issue. Normal stuff
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10k a year in maintenance lol.
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Not even joking on that. People who think I am are the ones who try to make a 1000hp car, then let it sit broken forever, and land up selling it for a huge loss. That number is pretty accurate.
Burning Brakes
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The car is one thing, but once you have a car to that extreme supporting it is just as hard. If you have a 1k plus car you're most likely not driving it to the track. So at least 3k for a decent flat bed trailer, or 10k for an enclosed. And if you really want to get serious you will be traveling and trying to pull a 24ft enclosed with a half ton sucks. So 15k or more for a decent truck.. And if you have a 1k car you'll probably want to show it off, the events alone are expensive. Just going to Tx2k, $400 event registration, $730 for 4 nights at a hotel, $400 for fuel, $200 for food. So almost 2k just to go run my car 4 times, granted tx2k is one of the biggest events all year but still around $1k to go to Colorado for shift sector. Stuff like that is what ate my lunch, its no fun having a powerful car and not being able to use it.
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2-3 sets of tires a year. A $1500-3000 clutch a year. Figure heads come off and motor gone though every 20k miles. Tranny will last ~100 passes if lucky. Axles about that, rears about that. Everything just wears more. Not saying it will be $10k a year, every year for up keep and maintenance, but if you average out the years were it is $15k with the ones where it is $5k, a solid $10k a year is a good point to start with.
Wasn't even including anything g23 just talked about or gas or insurance. That is all extra on top.
Wasn't even including anything g23 just talked about or gas or insurance. That is all extra on top.
Burning Brakes
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2-3 sets of tires a year. A $1500-3000 clutch a year. Figure heads come off and motor gone though every 20k miles. Tranny will last ~100 passes if lucky. Axles about that, rears about that. Everything just wears more. Not saying it will be $10k a year, every year for up keep and maintenance, but if you average out the years were it is $15k with the ones where it is $5k, a solid $10k a year is a good point to start with.
Wasn't even including anything g23 just talked about or gas or insurance. That is all extra on top.
Wasn't even including anything g23 just talked about or gas or insurance. That is all extra on top.
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There is also two groups of owners. Some only want to take their big power car out on saturdays or sometimes once a month. Others want to drive it to work 4 days a week and put a 10k+ miles on it a year ect. This combined with simple things like how often you beat on it or how or well will massively change the amount you spend.
To balk at 10k a year to maintain a car you consistently take to the track is shocking. H/C c6 z06 owners are destroying several thousand dollar diffs and trans by the boat load at the track let alone double that power then add in simple odds and ends tires clutches ect.
To balk at 10k a year to maintain a car you consistently take to the track is shocking. H/C c6 z06 owners are destroying several thousand dollar diffs and trans by the boat load at the track let alone double that power then add in simple odds and ends tires clutches ect.
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St. Jude Donor '13
There is also two groups of owners. Some only want to take their big power car out on saturdays or sometimes once a month. Others want to drive it to work 4 days a week and put a 10k+ miles on it a year ect. This combined with simple things like how often you beat on it or how or well will massively change the amount you spend.
To balk at 10k a year to maintain a car you consistently take to the track is shocking. H/C c6 z06 owners are destroying several thousand dollar diffs and trans by the boat load at the track let alone double that power then add in simple odds and ends tires clutches ect.
To balk at 10k a year to maintain a car you consistently take to the track is shocking. H/C c6 z06 owners are destroying several thousand dollar diffs and trans by the boat load at the track let alone double that power then add in simple odds and ends tires clutches ect.
Agree... if constantly beating on the car.. and going to track events I would expect everything mentioned. Since I stopped that and just enjoy cruises, and the occasional beating on the street, nothing ever breaks on my car.
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There is also two groups of owners. Some only want to take their big power car out on saturdays or sometimes once a month. Others want to drive it to work 4 days a week and put a 10k+ miles on it a year ect. This combined with simple things like how often you beat on it or how or well will massively change the amount you spend.
To balk at 10k a year to maintain a car you consistently take to the track is shocking. H/C c6 z06 owners are destroying several thousand dollar diffs and trans by the boat load at the track let alone double that power then add in simple odds and ends tires clutches ect.
To balk at 10k a year to maintain a car you consistently take to the track is shocking. H/C c6 z06 owners are destroying several thousand dollar diffs and trans by the boat load at the track let alone double that power then add in simple odds and ends tires clutches ect.
Also that was doing all the labor myself. If you are paying a shop, double that at least. I'm not taking labor into account.
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For street, you will require regular maintainance provided that you have good supporting mods and high quality performance parts, build and tune.
Also your style of driving one of the main factors and how many times your car will see WOT and how you are beating your car,
Another important thing to consider for example 1001whp car with 18psi is different and require most likely very less maintainance than 1300+whp vette with 30psi for example.
My experience with Ysi A&A setup and 416ci built block , 6speed trans, making 913 on c16 conservative tune, 760whp 91pumb gas,, it was great experience and street use all day,,, spark plugs,,clutch replacemen after a while and thas it,,daily drive it and weekly beat it.
Right now with 26psi making 1150whp on Glide and doing drag racing, this is like a discovery journey which is full of sh... surprises lol
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The 1000 hp and above is more expensive to maintain A separate problem is most guys can not really handle that much hp and can do stupid
things and cause more problems. I have shown guys how to launch and save their axles, then they go out on the first pass and blow both axles.
I find with some common sense 800 hp can last a season with few issues. Even 800 hp can be too much, if you let your mind wander.
Concentration is the key.
Good luck.
things and cause more problems. I have shown guys how to launch and save their axles, then they go out on the first pass and blow both axles.
I find with some common sense 800 hp can last a season with few issues. Even 800 hp can be too much, if you let your mind wander.
Concentration is the key.
Good luck.
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At 760 whpr, my car went in for routine maintenance and cost very little to operate the 3000-5000 miles per year I drove the car.
When we embarked on the present build, Doug and Chris at ECS advised that 5-10k would be the annual repair/maintenance budget depending upon how much racing we did. As they have been there and done that many times, I would take their estimate seriously. it just so happens it aligns with Unreal's experience as well.
Take it for what its worth...………..
When we embarked on the present build, Doug and Chris at ECS advised that 5-10k would be the annual repair/maintenance budget depending upon how much racing we did. As they have been there and done that many times, I would take their estimate seriously. it just so happens it aligns with Unreal's experience as well.
Take it for what its worth...………..
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Burning Brakes
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I also have to buy a new clutch(1.5-2k), and new injectors$$$$$. I just spent over 2k on both of those last year and really want to try and sell them for a lot less and buy new again. Going to Max out the T Trim and build a motor.
