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Originally Posted by BAN SUVS
Yes, this is true. But spending somewhat more money to swap the car you own is not so totally foolish it should be ridiculed by those who would not do it, or wish they hadn't. Deciding that you want to take a car you like and make it faster is not equivalent, in my opinion, to simply wishing you had a faster car. "I want a 12 second car" is not the same goal as "I want to take on the project of swapping a totally different drivetrain into my car to make it faster" or "I want to do a swap because I will get satisfaction out of doing the work." My argument is not that it doesn't matter how much you spend to achieve a certain set of criteria with your car, but that diferent sets of criteria can justify different levels of spending.
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Having done a swap in a car that I could have just purchased from the factory, I can without a doubt tell you that it is foolish.
It's one thing to do a swap to get something you can't get otherwise, and another if the swap is the cheaper method of getting to your goal, but to spend more money on an inferior product is pretty much the definition of foolish. It's something that cost me tens of thousands of dollars to learn... and is still costing me money well after I learned my lesson.