Greets from Charleston, SC. After months of looking around I finally sold my Nissan Spec-V and got my Evo! It’s a 2003 in awesome condition with the sunroof and HIDs. I’ve been so excited the last few days, this car is unbelievable!

I found her at a CarMax, she had a perfect carfax report, and runs great! I couldn’t pass it up! I’ve been debating for a while if I should get a used one, or get a new one. Around here, I couldn’t get a new one off the lot for less then $34K – and I wanted to keep money in my budget for maintenance and modifications. In the end, a used one was the perfect fit – being a 24 year old software engineer in the southeast pays good, but it isn’t exactly the big bucks. Not to mention a used one only caused my insurance to go up $17 every 6 months.

Right now, I have about $500 a month to spare on maintenance & modification without dipping into other areas of my budget or using my credit card. How much of that should I set aside for maintenance??

GSC Motorsports is in town, so I’m going to check them out in the coming months. Has anyone out there had any experience with these guys??

Anyways, thanks for all the information – I’ve learned tons from this board.

 

And here's a picture

 

Congrats.....be good to her and she'll be good to you

 

Congrats on the new purchase. I use LancerShop.com, VividRacing.com & JSCSpeed.com. All three have lot to offer for your Evo and great service.

 

congratulations, you are going to enjoy it

 

that's a very clean used evo IMO.

 

congats man.

 

save up for about 6 month
then spend the 3k on engine upgrade

 

Thanks, I've looked at LancerShop before -- that's a great website! Thanks for the feedback everyone.

 

congrats.

 

Congrats. Nice choice of color .

 

Congrats on the purchase, they are great cars - swing by the shop sometime and we can shoot the bull - we have a shop evo8 here as well that we are working on and are building up slowly so we have some great idea's on what you could do to your car

look forward to meeting you

James
James@GSCMotorsports.com
843-852-2727

 

How many miles? And how much is an 2003 going for?

Did it come with any mods?

 

Must be joking. What put an Sti engine in it? Is that a good upgrade? U must mean Bolt-ons and tuning or a bigger turbo Bolt-ons and tuning.

 

Greg over at GSC is a great guys....i love my cams!