ju-on

Those pictures are off craigslist, at the guys house. It's now sitting in my driveway! Definately isn't the prettiest looking vehicle ever. But hopefully I can get it figured out and running, and just be my ugly junkyard racecar! If in a couple years I get sick of it being ugly, I can just buy a base model colt in good shape, and swap in all the stuff into it.

IndianRide

how about the grass roots motorsports 2k7 challenge, I thought about entering the shadow but I don't have the drive to actually go enter

G2turbo_terror

that would require organization and thats not about to happen.

celicakid777

i found a 89 colt also i was debating on buying it but wasnt sure if it was worth 995 and i dont think it is already turboed

Jorsher

Yeah I have a friend that totalled about 5 cars and ended up buying one because I think it was the only "tunable" car he could afford insurance on. He talked about adding awd and the 2.0l years ago but I bet it's the same...

ju-on

If you have a N/T shell, you can swap the turbo stuff into it. But the problem is getting everything you need. There's a lot of crap, and axels are hard to come by. It shouldn't be too difficult for me because I already have a complete turbo colt. So if I decide I want a cleaner shell, I could go buy the cheapest Colt shell and just put all my crap into it. But if you just go buy a N/T colt, and want to buy everything to turbo it, you can do it but it does involve a lot of searching to get everything you need.

Racintweek

there was a guy a few years ago at MIR with one that ran high 13's. i know it was boosted but dont know if it was swapped or not. with a car that small i'm sure 13's are easy w/ 200-225hp

they remind me of suzuki swifts.

96turboracer

Yeppers, I have the issue sitting on my table right now. I beleive on that one they dropped in the 2.0- thing was putting out just over 400whp. Said it was basically useless, kept spitting the axles out of the trans and stuff.

Hecka fun though

Oh yeah, they nuked the motor just after the photoshoot :P

davcivic

guys one them mags don't know jack for the most part.

Those are great. I was going to buy one swapped with a 2.0l for $1500. Rough paint, good mechanics. When I called the guy it was already gone. Those are cool little hatches, just hard to find. I mean the car as it is is hard to find running, the turbo one is more like a treasure to find.

Fix it and make it last.

ju-on

Well I finally got this bastard in the garage. It needs some TLC that's for sure. Here's a couple pics as it sits right now.

So far I've removed all the emissions, and probably around 90% of the vacuum lines to clean up the engine bay a little, and make some more room under the hood. I'm throwing on a different throttle body I have on the shelf, since the one on the car is eff'd. I'm also currently redoing a bunch of the wiring under the hood, because it's a mess. Anything that could rust, has rusted. So I'm trying to clean up that. I'm looking to out in a honda half sized dual core radiator to make some more room too (anyone have one??). These things are non-intercooled, so I picked up an Evo8 fmic off a local guy for cheap because the fins were in pretty rough shape. But it was nothing a pair of tweezers, and about 4 hours couldn't fix. I gave it a light coat of flat black, too keep things inconspicuous. I'll kinda update this as I get ---- done on it.