I'd say buy a suabru WRX or STI if your looking for an AWD Turbo 4 banging sedan. 4G63 needs a lot of work to thei nternals to be reliable, even then its a crap shoot.
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i would love to get a STI or WRX, but im on a college budget, and cant afford payments. any other awd turbo car suggestions, like under $5k
suprahoops said:
good luck finding one in good condition for $5k. you;ll have better luck with an All-Trac. you can find older ones for around that price.
in fact, there's a person in boise with a super clean one for sale. it needs a new head gasket tho.
If you are going to get one GET RELIABLIBILTY FIRST! Go ahead and upgrade your trans with Shep (www.sheptrans.com), as well as ARP's MHG, then work on the cooling. I would also elminate the balance shafts as well, when the belts break..so does the engine, READ UP on them before you do ANYTHING. Pm me if you have any specific questions.
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For under 5k, I'd suggest a decent DD thats reliable yet fun, a DSM is NOT the way to go here. Try an mr2 turbo, normal Celica, maybe a lexus sc300 an early model, or maybe even a camry. If it's reliability you want, then power and low cost aren't good bed fellows so to speak.
You could try and find an older Subaru Legacy, they are usually cheaper and still a fun powerful AWD car.
You could try and find an older Subaru Legacy, they are usually cheaper and still a fun powerful AWD car.
good call, I liked my old 91 GMC Sonoma 5 speed it wasn't bad for normal DD stuff and being a stick it was still a lot of fun. I would love to go 1JZ then drop my 7M into a Sonoma or S10 like I had, if they had more power they'd be pretty badass lil trucks.
under $5k AWD turbo?
Do what i did and get an Audi 5000 CSQuattro. Get one w/ lower miles, if you hunt hard enough you can find one. Mine had 220k miles on it so it had a few worn out parts.
Needless to say its AMAZING in the snow being a Quattro, Amazing fuel milage, something like 24mpg in town and i got something arround 32 on the highway, its got a small turbo on it but you can fiddle w/ the wg. and get up to 1.8 bar of boost
. Amazing car for taking it up in the twisties, I can honestly say i didnt learn how to drive stick shift until i got that car because you can do pretty much anything in it, especially in the snow.
I got mine for $800 and i blew the headgasket and fixed it in 1 night. + it was beat to shit.
Find a good condition one, in really good condition, maybe $1500-$2000 and you'll have one hell of a 4wd turbo saloon w/ good snow potential and reliability. Not so great going down the 1320 but will hold its own in the mountains, especially if there is snow and ice involved.
Do what i did and get an Audi 5000 CSQuattro. Get one w/ lower miles, if you hunt hard enough you can find one. Mine had 220k miles on it so it had a few worn out parts.
Needless to say its AMAZING in the snow being a Quattro, Amazing fuel milage, something like 24mpg in town and i got something arround 32 on the highway, its got a small turbo on it but you can fiddle w/ the wg. and get up to 1.8 bar of boost
. Amazing car for taking it up in the twisties, I can honestly say i didnt learn how to drive stick shift until i got that car because you can do pretty much anything in it, especially in the snow.I got mine for $800 and i blew the headgasket and fixed it in 1 night. + it was beat to shit.
Find a good condition one, in really good condition, maybe $1500-$2000 and you'll have one hell of a 4wd turbo saloon w/ good snow potential and reliability. Not so great going down the 1320 but will hold its own in the mountains, especially if there is snow and ice involved.
i hate suvs except for 4runners, i already have a mr2(1st gen) and a legacy(rod knock and A/T) fuck it who knows, i just want to get an xt or xt6 but theres none for sale around here and same with all-tracs.
this is the car im lookin at
http://denver.craigslist.org/car/414912178.html
this is the car im lookin at
http://denver.craigslist.org/car/414912178.html
"don't have money for the project" = it has issues but I'm not going to tell you
I wouldn't touch it, I hate interferance engines, worst engine design ever. Only time it's acceptable is if it has a timing CHAIN, timing belt sucks...
I wouldn't touch it, I hate interferance engines, worst engine design ever. Only time it's acceptable is if it has a timing CHAIN, timing belt sucks...
Wouldnt hurt to go look at it, and drive the piss out of it to see if its really what they say it is. Only 1k miles on new rebuild and only $3k for car that usually fetches $5k? Looks more like he just rebuilt it to sell it.
i didnt know what to think when i read "just had a hole engine" did he for get the letter "w" or the word "in"
Take a look at it but dont expect it to be your old faithful.
i didnt know what to think when i read "just had a hole engine" did he for get the letter "w" or the word "in"
Take a look at it but dont expect it to be your old faithful.