eBay seller decreased price to 550$. Not sure if it's just for me.
Good points. I’m pretty surprised that they even gave the boost upgrade. When I ordered my car I never thought I would think to track it, but it just looks so fun!
I always hesitated trading the car in because I always thought “what if Tesla did a full track mode upgrade?” I’m with you that it will probably never happen.
Just make sure you will be actually going to track. I don't know if you were doing it before already, but if not, here is a short list of IMHOs that you can try to guesstimate about that probability:
1. You have either good track options with fast charging facilities nearby or plenty of time for travel if they far.
2. You are ready to buy few sets of tires, pads and brake rotors every year.
3. You are ok with 25% chance of mild accidents per year that would require few months of car fixing.
4. You are ok with 10% chance a year of car totalling with potential mild injuries.
5. You are competitive by nature and that regularly shows somewhere throughout your life.
6. You are ok that your results will be *sugar* for years and more important that it will be improving.
7. You aware that with all of the above - you only going to be competing with yourself most of the time.
8. You are ok that your car being dual purpose will be making all kind of noises and would be generally uncomfortable on the street.
9. You are ready to go to school and learn basics from the beginning.
10. You are not crazy enough to kill yourself by overconfidence and impatience.
Again, those are just my IMHOs and might be irrelevant to you if you have some experience already. But I just saw way too many people who were overly optimistic about building dual purpose car and found themselves in a money pit, frustrations and even hospitals.
Good thing about Tesla that this money pit is not too deep for now - not many things you can actually change for the track - rims, tires, pads, brake fluid, sway bars, coilovers and camber arms. Totally enough to try and see if it's for you or not.
And if you have an autox around - always start from that without any mods first.
If you actually don't plan to go to the track, you don't need larger brakes. Especially in the rear. And you don't really need track mode on the street unless you can't live without drifting in an empty parking lot.
Hope it will be useful for somebody even though it's a wrong thread for it