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Ok how can I get over this?  :confused:  

I drive my skyline daily... to work and back, so about 70km's a day, combined with cruising two days a week, and all in all, a decent number of KMs.

I'm all good when i'm driving it, but everytime I get out of the car, I sit at my PC at work and dream about mods... exhaust, suspension, turbo, power, tyres, ECU, having no traction in the first three gears, running 11s... i'm sure you get the idea.  I go to the extent of pricing EVERYTHING up, reading 50 billion threads about how my car would react to those mods, etc etc.

However... the problem to go with this, is that I can't afford any mods at the moment, haha.  How do other skyline others get over the need to mod their car? :)  I am progressively going insane, and the empty $4k credit card is starting to look friendler towards me!!!!

SELL DRUGS :(

ive set myself a limit i dont want to spent so much money on my GTST so at the end i dont want to say "GEEZ i could have just bought a GTR with the amount of money i have spent"

all i need is a few more hits and im done - I swear , I promise

Front Mount - boost controller - tints and thats it

maybe change my rims but thats it ;)

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:) all too familiar...I had my car for a while (a couple of years) before I had the money to even think about putting some decent mods on. When my wallet was thin, i just waited out and found a few bargains here and there ;) that fuelled my dreams at least a little. Now that i'm earning a little more money I'm trying to decide where best for it to go (aside from the credit card :) heh oh well...all in good time.

Best of luck :(

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