RotaryGeek

ha ha wasnt an xr2 your first car jd? a flat black slammed turbo subie wagon does sound pretty tempting though. maybe it was a 2.0t i was thinking about....

Tom-Guy

No, my first car was an 89 Geo Metro, nice try. You should have read my sig before posting if you wanted ammo to fire at me. :P

BTW, I'd be happy to buy an XR2 with a good engine, everything else about it can be negotiable. It's a more or less common bottom end, would make a cheap swap for the Miata I want.

RotaryGeek

just ------- with you man. i had a metro as my first car too. a vr4 would be cool but finding one localy would be murder.

HondaTuner

If you pay me, I'll fly to wisconsin, pick up his VR4 and drive it to you, then fly home. :P

I'd want all expenses paid + $600 for my time

RotaryGeek

uh no thanks but you could think of another stock turbo car for me.

HondaTuner

Typhoon/Syclone

iLLstate

look for a cheap dsm, then swap out the motor for a 6bolt

TorganFM

If you're going to do a swap with anything DSM, get a Colt and drops a 6 bolt in it.. don't ---- around with an Eclipse if you're just going to swap anyway.

Tom-Guy

Mine was the most reliable car I've ever owned. How did you like yours?


Anyway, sometimes you have to look for a hot minute, but you can still find Buick T-types that have sat for a hot minute, and their owners don't know what they are. If you aren't rushing into anything, I'd waste a month and just look at various ----.

BTW, the 4G63 into a Colt is a fine idea, there's one locally that only puts out 250-ish, but at 1800 lbs there isn't much that can hang with it. Even a 7-bolt can take that abuse, and you sidestep the DSM transmission death syndrome by losing 1400 lbs going with the Colt chassis.

RotaryGeek

haha you couldn't kill a geo with a gallon of water in the intake pipe. this bitch has 450,xxx miles on it and still ran. i had to break out the air compressor and blow directly into the intake to get it to fire up, but once it ran it ran hard ( for 3 cylinders). over all great car for the extremely low cost. i would really like to get a stock turbo car since thats kinda the reason i sold the civic. A couple of days ago i was driving home from the prison i work at and the sunroof just ------- flew off. left the frame and motor in place but the glass was gone. i got pissed and sold it about an hour later. coulda got probably $500 more for it cuz it was pretty clean but didn't have the patience to ---- around. at least i kept the zc ive been building. might sell that too though. anyways, buying a car that i have to work on all the time is what im trying to get away from. not saying i don't mind working on it, but breaking once a week is ridiculous. And i guess since ive been lurking here for around a year now with a turbo project in the works but never got boosted, i might as well just buy a stock turbo car and upgrade.