I bought this black Daewoo Lanos sport with 137k miles on 4/1/08...still waiting for delivery from Texas though. I came to the realization if I crashed my Lacetti at the track I'd cry myself to sleep every night for months. haha. So I wanted a cheaper, yet very fast car. This Lanos will be stupid quick for the little amount of money put into it. Once it's up and running I'm finally installing my turbo componets on my Lacetti. Since I'm dropping the same engine (U20SED) into the Lanos then all my old N/A parts will work. I'm calling it the budget build. The timing belt went on the factory so it isn't working...no idea on what's damaged yet. The engine in it has had $1,250 worth of head work done very recently so I'll be fixing it and selling it!

[B]The Lanos!:[/B]

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[B]Pictures of mods that I have sitting around:[/B]

2.0 U20SED waiting to be put in

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Subs ready to go in

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Kinky headers

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Kinky mid-pipe

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Kinky CAT-back. 2.5-2.25" taper shown

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Kinky short shifter

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[B]Mods within a year[/B]

KDM black headlights

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Style/color of wheel I'm looking for

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Mods or new OEM parts on the car or by the end of the month (April):
-New clutch
-New tie rods
-New fuel pump at 100k
-New radiator
-New water pump
-New Kenwood KDC-MP2032 CD/MP3
-New 4x6 and 4" speakers
-1.25 Eibach lowering springs
-Kinky 4-2-1 performance headers
-Kinky 2.5" mid-pipe w/ quickly removable (V-band kit)HI-flow CAT
-Kinky 2.5" into 2.25" cat-back
-BMS performance cold air intake
-Alpine 12" 4ohm type Rs
-Kinky short shifter
-Kinky lightweight UD pulley
-Grounding
-Ignition wires
-Custom Baltic birch sub enclosure

Plans in order of time (soonest to furthest away time wise):
-Sell leather seats & trade the rest of the leather components
-Black/blue G-force racing seats
-~3,000 watt amp for subs. Probably hifonics
-Chassis brace
-Lightweight wheels as soon as the tires are done for. Black w/ polished lip, bronze (like 5zigens), or some unique dark color. Ideally I'd like a 15x7.5" wheel but I doubt I'll find one to clear the 12.2" brakes...so 16x7.5 is next but that's not a very common size. I may settle for 16x7 Rota slipstreams or 5zigen Fn01r-C. I'll be running either 215 azenis RT615s or 225 ventus-Rs2
-Apex sport suspension kit lowering 2.4" front and 1.7" rear OR coil-overs
-Strut braces
-Perfect Power SMT-6 piggy back unit
-Walbro higher flow fuel pump
-Sway bars
-Perfect Power SMT-6 piggy back unit
-11.5:1 compression pistons; If I decide to keep with an N/A build
-Slightly bigger injectors
-KDM black headlights
-Wilwood 12.2" 2-piece drilled/dimpled rotors with 4-piston caliper big brake kit
-D20 transmission for extra reliably and longer gear ratios since the factory D16 will top out at ~130mph
-Drilled/dimpled rear rotors w/ SS lines, another factory cars bigger discs, OR wilwood custom BBK

I'd love to stay N/A and build it slightly aggressive using all the resources possible to keep cost down. Like factory pistons from another car to raise compression, that kind of thing. What it will really come down to since it's a budget build is what I decide what kind of power levels I want. If it's anything less than 200whp I'll likely stay N/A...anything more and a turbo build would be much cheaper.