What should I doooo????

[.tony. .riot.]

Here's the deal.

I'm gonna get about $2,000 later this month because of a mess that happened with my computer, but you don't care about that.

The thing is, I don't know if I should sell the Camry and try to get about $3k for it (it has 214,000 miles already) add the $2k to that and my dad will probably give me aout $500 and buy a 95+ Prelude or Integra with those $5,500 or if I should just take those $2K and keep modifying my car. With those $2K I would probably get the RIPP Mods header, springs, rims, and I don't know how much a paint job would run me.

HELP ME.

[skewe]

is the camry sucking $$ from u rite now ?
u can put in 10k in the camry modding it and within 1 month, the engine or tranny blows.. there goes the $10k of modifications..

[DAMON]

keep like $1000 and do some routine maintenance.... replace gaskets etc etc. spend the other $1000 on mods... thats my two cents

ripp headers=

[.tony. .riot.]

The car just spent the two months I was in Georgia in the shop. Getting an oil leak fixed, which ended up in about $600. New water pump, new oil pump, new retainers, new timing belt, and pretty much the whole engine was rebuilt. The engine dying on me or any major problems regarding the engine is not really on my mind because the mechanic that worked on it did a really good job and it doesn't have any leaks at all. Well, except for a tiny power steering leak that I'm gonna get fixed this week, but it's nothing serious.

[PBM]

Take your family on a vacation.

[.tony. .riot.]

I'm a 17 year old kid.

[skewe]

take ur dad on a vacation then...

put $700 into the car and the rest for a rainy day

[.tony. .riot.]

My dad can't really take a vacation.

Anyways, I'm currently looking into rims, struts and springs and maybe a nice blue (x-runner blue) paint job.

How much would a paint job cost?

[RichieRichJP]

I've said it before, everyone has preludes, civics, integras, eclipses, accords...that is the biggest mistake you can do. You can't stand out unless you're fast as shit.
I say do the mr2 swap, or get allthe parts together for it

[Anshu]

17 year old + pimp camry=




(guess my age)

[skewe]

good paint job can run you about $800-1k easily.
Or you can get a cheap one for $300.

It varies from state to state and place to place..
best bet is to call and check.

[V6LE_CAMRY]

You shold sell your camry and buy an 4th or 5th generation camry. that would be a smarter choise.

[.tony. .riot.]

If I'm going to have a Camry it will be a Gen 3, no other gen for me right now.

What I've been really thinking about is that I've only seen 3 modded Camry's around here, one of them only had tinted windows and rims and the other one had rims and smoked out tail lights and headlights. I want to be the kid with the Camry that everyone looks at and thinks that they've never seen a Camry like it.

[PBM]

You're still young, unless you come across money like that often, i would just save it. Once you grow out of your car phase you'll wish you didn't spend money on stuff like making your car another shade of blue, making it an inch or two lower, things like that. Not to mention if it gets stolen, you will get only a fraction of what it was worth since it's an old car.

[.tony. .riot.]

I can't really imagine having any money at all and not spending it on the car I have in the future. It's something I REALLY enjoy, and even though I don't know much about cars I love to spend money on my car, because right now it's the only thing that I have that I can say is mine. If I keep the car, I have to get the springs and struts anyways because mine are blown. So I might as well drop the car if I'm going to spend the money anyways on the parts.