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no doubt about there being a reason, I stated the reason, although buying a car with a broken engine doesn't help, also not addressing the engine's weakpoint(s) will get you nowhere real quick don't get me wrong guys, it's not his fault, I would say it's bad luck, but I don't believe in that...

I was actually just looking at some pics of that car of SF :cool: sweet ride looked like that guy was runnign a jz intake mani. on a 7m :-/

how much do these go for?

the n/a 87 I bought had ~220k miles on it, 2 owners was super clean other than some paint coming off the front fascia and a BRAND NEW ENGINE $2,000

always sucks to see how quickly people's readiness to dive in head first quickly fades to unrestrained frustration and abandonment (not of the car, just the temperamental 7m)

I would like to do it myself but I have neither the tools nor the space... I came across a knowledgeable individual that grew up working in a body shop... he was pointing out a lot of really small stuff on the car I may have not noticed, like an imperfection from assembly... misaligned panels...

LOL are you JOKING?!?!?! who said I had $7000 to play with!?!?! I AM poor, just so happens I know enough of the right people or (in this case) randomly stumble across the right people that will help me out at little or no cost to me and no I don't miss people giving out freebies, I can't...

ouch for 7-8k you can buy a fully built mk3... what have you been smokin?

um... my car always idled @ 700 dead on. perfect. so the question is... why do you think that's low?

coming together nicely... I'm likin it :cool:

the car I just bought was a 89 turbo 5 speed, engine just re-built for $2,500 the one I bought before was a 87 N/a engine just re-built for $2,000 (those figures were full price I paid for the cars, the engine work for both came out to more than the price I bought them for) I've bought...

yup, previous owner thought it was the cam seals or cps... but it was that... you only have two other seals...

you check the galley plugs? mine was leaking from there...