easily it comes down to one thing cost yeah alot of them spends upwards to 40 grand or more to supe up their car but if you get down and look at the years of the cars you will see they are newer cars in the the last few years and the older performance stuff is easily found at swap meets now cause everyone is always trying to switch out to better stuff all the time which means they are getting alot of extra parts stored on the shelf which also means they are becoming cheaper to buy ,an example is a high end intake that would've cost at least 300 dollars a few years ago will goto a swap meet and get sold for around half or a third of what it originally cost ,,why you ask its because its starting to become a glut on the market it happened years ago too when the small blocks came out the flathead ford performance parts went in the toilet couldn't even give it away literally because it was a glut on the market you could go anywhere to get a intake for a flat head for almost nothing . so most of those kids are running secondhand or third hand equipment ,so more than likely they paid only a few grand instead of the 20-30 grand it originally cost and they are making some pretty nice improvements to an engine that was never meant to be nothing more than a high mpg driver ,and they are very cheap to pickup used usually in my area you can pick one up for around 2-300 bucks so if you consider the average pay for a teen is around
3-6 grand a year its about the only thing thats out there they can really afford to fix up,when i have talked to some of them i get they really like to have a 32 coupe ,or nice muscle car or something like that but the price on a decent one is too high and costs more to restore one even and if you think about it the civic is the modern days equivalent of the model t of years ago- posted
19 years ago