[Wreckless]

I had to dust off the old account here, after all.

Look guys. It's a simple thing. $6500 is the single cheapest 25 year legal RHD JDM import of any kind that I have seen of any RHD JDM import ever, not just SVX's, and most of the cars in the $7-9k ballpark are haggard rusted out piles of fart stucco.

From the outset, he imported that SVX to enjoy it for a bit and then break even. Yet this whole community of folks just talked a bunch of smack about a $6500 price tag with zero cognizance of the costs involved in a legal import, or the value it represents, being such a low mile and well kept example of an AWS car.

Given that Chris and I both spend a great deal of time with a lot of other cars and their enthusiast bases, we're seeing this from a broader perspective and frankly the fact that people weren't jumping over each other trying to buy it for $6500 outright was confusing as hell. An S13 with a CA18DE (that's a non turbo 1.8L) pulls an easy $9k in the same condition as this SVX. An S13!!!

But after months of this SVX sitting, and people henpecking at the price, the raffle idea got forwarded and once again, people griped and moaned about the price and people not even interested in really dropping $100 for a ticket dove into the weeds to complain about specifics and pedantic minutiae that honestly DID NOT INVOLVE THEM BECAUSE THEY WEREN'T BUYING A TICKET ANYWAY.

Then all that time, henpecking about asking price, griping about the raffle, rules, etc.. and what 7? tickets got sold?

Why should Chris give a sloppy wet fart what you all think? He's the one who put the money into this, he's the one that dealt with all the BS importing it, which as his friend I can tell you that SVX was a mother****er to get sorted out, and now he's thanked for that effort by getting a bunch of static about pointless crap like you're owed something.
The only thing owed to anyone is a refund of the existing ticket sales. Full stop. Chris didn't even handle that AFAIK, so Chris isn't even the real problem here. So stop pretending like he is.

As a community, all you did was collectively prove that people with connections, drive, and resources to get cool parts or import cool cars are WASTING THEIR TIME trying to serve you guys.

Same thing happened with Zach and the ECUMaster stuff. Same with ProEFI - every time a real hitter in the aftermarket industry courts the idea of an SVX product it's met with resentment and text-wall autistic shrieking asking why a good EMS has to cost more than $200. That's a good way to drive away talent and leave you all in this bubble of wonder that regards basic wiring and engine management issues as if they were black magic, only to be solved by rarified wizards and anointed saints.

I 100% stand by what I said about the cruise ship. Every week the same 'lets do a baby turbo' thread shows up, every week the same 'how do I 5spd for $300' thread shows up, and it seems that when it comes to bona fide technical expertise, the SVX community has the collective memory of a goldfish, and dismisses sound advice from experienced perspectives with alarming regularity, and as such, stays stuck in this same relentless cycle of nothing happening.

You all can collectively decide that you want these SVX's to live and gain aftermarket support to keep them on the road as a future classic - which make no mistake, means you need to be ready to happily spend some money with aftermarket providers, and get serious and technical about DIY stuff.

Or you can stay the path you're on and keep being shrill, deliberately ignorant cheapskates about everything and watch them fade into worthless oblivion over the next decade.

I was tempted myself, out of nostalgia for the SVXtasy project my friend Sam and I loved so much so many years ago, to buy that SVX from Chris.
Now I'd just as soon see its pieces fed into a crusher after bouncing it around an explosives range with a MK19 and some AT4's.