PDP180180

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Get it from L tuned parts here:
http://www.trademotion.com/partlocator/index.cfm?action=AccessoryCatalog&catalogid=9816&siteid=214915&categoryID=211899

It's $1,600 plus a few bucks for delivery.

Worth the little bit more than your budget!

Meraki Autoworks

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exhaust.. best money spent on the car.

Compthis

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Borla hands down.....

mkp81

Screw it, just ordered up the Borla. I have no patience lol. I'll hold on to the rest for now, tires might be a better investment than springs at this point.

Bigcloud

I would buy some track days so you can learn how to drive the car at it's limit.

teamcalvin

imo, if you would would have chosen the borla route.. i would have just bought it used lol. Way cheaper than probably what you got it for.. but thats just my opinion! hope everything works out for you!

darbs242

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Borla or joe z exhaust, ppe or sikky headers

shyguyF

Rear sway bar, HPS elbow intake, ECU steering wheel and maybe used Borla exhaust.

F_Throttle

Has anyone done, just resonator deletes? Not the muffler. Can't find any sound clips

bnizzle87

Performance-wise, headers, exhaust, and intake are all that's available for the time being in terms of bolt-ons. Two-piece rotors and lighter wheels can also help with speed.

Aestheics range from carbon fiber parts to LEDs to front lips and rear diffusors. I would first check out as many build threads as possible, as many parts are showcased to uniquely identify one's F from another.

With a $1500 limit for right now, my best advice would be to go with coilovers. I have driven F's that had just springs, and while it does produce the drop the owners' have been looking for, ride quality simply isn't an upgrade to the jarring stock suspension. BC Racing with the upgrade Swift springs are what I would recommend.

But to better understand the car, just take it out for more track time. You might not be driving a track-purpose vehicle, but this way you can understand the extreme limits of the car. Sometimes, owners purchase car parts thinking they automatically improve the car, when in fact it does the opposite. Others might not care about tracking the car and for spirited runs/daily drivers, they just want to add some nice carbon fiber parts or make it look really sexy inside and out. It just depends on what you want to do with the car and your plans for it in the future.

Best of luck!

dabs

The ISF is very expensive to modify especially for me cos i have to import everything and the shipping is generally the same price of the item, so i pay double.

I started with CF pieces but if i had to do it again, I would start with the exhaust. it really changes the demeanour of the car from silent to violent

mkp81

I actually searched online for a used setup, didn't have any luck. $970 shipped didn't seem too bad IMO.

I've been lurking for a couple of months on here, so I kind of have an idea of what all I "want" to do... this post was mainly to see how you guys would stretch your first little chunk of change. I'd actually love to get in some track time, though I'm not building this thing to race by any means. It'd just be fun to push it to its limits in a somewhat safe/legal place.

mkp81

To follow up on my previous post about not having any luck finding used Borla setups... I JUST now discovered the glorious classified section on here lol. Yeah, I'm an idiot. Guess I'll know where to shop first next time.

Sincerely,
Newb.

ULTSISF

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Either coilovers or JoeZ exhaust to start with your budge.

teamcalvin

haha don't worry about it man.. we've all been there. Nice to see more ISF's coming in. So welcome!