Well figured I would post this up, since she isn't a member here (yet). We drove 3 hours from Lafayette to Chicago to pick up what I was lead to believe was a beat up 87 Turbo that was to become pretty much a parts car for my 5spd swap into my Cressida. Well we got up there and the wife fell in love with the car, telling me "you can have the 5spd stuff, BUT I get the car". So after waiting 3 hours for the tow truck driver to show up, and another 3 hour drive back home, here is the wife's new project car.
The car has some patches of rust that we will be trying to take care of. We believe the car has been hit once in the front, hence the black bumper and hood. The radiator core support is somewhat dinged up, the driver's side headlight will not close fully, the black bumper does not seem to fit very well (goes into the frame rails but the bolt holes don't line up very well). Also we need to replace the front driver's side targa bolt, as currently it has a nearly 4" long 14mm bolt in it, and will not bring the top all the way down to seal. The headlights will flip up when we flash the brights but not when the lights are turned on, and the passenger window doesn't roll all the way up (stops about 1/2" from the top)
Also we were told "the engine started knocking and then spilled all of the oil". Due to this we are ripping out the engine and transmission, going to go through the engine and see how stuff is stacking up and whatnot. She says she doesn't want the turbo, so I will be converting the car to an N/A using my Cressida's 7M-GE, I also have access to a N/A auto MKIII in a local junkyard to get the proper ECU and harness for the conversion, along with the MKIII y-pipe setup.
The car has some patches of rust that we will be trying to take care of. We believe the car has been hit once in the front, hence the black bumper and hood. The radiator core support is somewhat dinged up, the driver's side headlight will not close fully, the black bumper does not seem to fit very well (goes into the frame rails but the bolt holes don't line up very well). Also we need to replace the front driver's side targa bolt, as currently it has a nearly 4" long 14mm bolt in it, and will not bring the top all the way down to seal. The headlights will flip up when we flash the brights but not when the lights are turned on, and the passenger window doesn't roll all the way up (stops about 1/2" from the top)
Also we were told "the engine started knocking and then spilled all of the oil". Due to this we are ripping out the engine and transmission, going to go through the engine and see how stuff is stacking up and whatnot. She says she doesn't want the turbo, so I will be converting the car to an N/A using my Cressida's 7M-GE, I also have access to a N/A auto MKIII in a local junkyard to get the proper ECU and harness for the conversion, along with the MKIII y-pipe setup.
When you pull the cam caps, you'll see if they're truly in great shape.
