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[cjk123]

I am going to look at this car this weekend and was wondering what you guys thought about from what the guy told me. Also was wondering if any of you had any questions that i should ask while i am looking at the car. I am trying to get back into the dsm world and i think this would be a good way. I would love any feedback if you could give me some. Thanks guys.

This is the discription of the car.

This is a front wheel drive, 5 speed, turbo charged car with about 164xxx miles on it. The car has never been wrecked, passes Missouri safety and emission inspections, and is ready to drive anywhere. The interior overhead lights and the air conditioning do not work. The black hood on the car was added for my personal visual enjoyment and the body color hood is sitting in my basement and can be placed on the car easily.

I have done a lot of work to this car to make it quicker and more fun to drive. Almost all of the below work was done at either 146xxx miles or later.

I replaced the timing belts, water pump, auxilary belts, belt tensioners and guides, and had a valve job done on the head at 146000 miles.

At that time, I added a big 16G turbo, ported and polished by Archer Racing Accessories in Duluth, MN, on it, ported 2nd gen manifold, 80mm (a little bigger than 3 inches) downpipe, 80 mm high flow catalytic converter, 80mm catback exhaust on it. The car also has a TeamRip 85mm mass air flow sensor on it, magnecor wires, homemade boost controller, and arp head studs.

I added ground control coilovers with kyb agx adjustable struts and ground control front camber plates, energy suspension bushings throughout the chassis, a suspension techniques 26mm rear sway bar, and archer racing accessories front and rear strut tower bars at the same time.

The car rides on a set of 16x8 Roh Spyder wheels with Fuzion ZRi tires sized at 245/45/16. The car uses a set of front awd dual piston calipers with Carbotech Panther Plus pads up front to stop and Goodrich braided brake lines at all four corners.

The car has a fidenza aluminum flywheel and an ACT 2100 clutch that was done at 140xxx miles and I just replaced the transmission and ball joints at about 163xxx miles.

[awd4kicks]

For what he already has on the car, I think it sounds good assuming the workmanship is decent. If I were to look at this car and see things put together neatly and loose wires tied up I would feel more comfortable than if it looked like a hack job. That would be a deal breaker for me... All the parts in the world wont help if they are hacked up.

As for future mods, I would say you can run the way it has been described. It will run rich if it has no FPR (Fuel Pressure Regulator) as gsxracer is eluding to. When you get the money put in some injectors and an FPR. The larger fuel line can wait until you get a larger turbo, but is never a bad idea.

When he says the MAS Air flow sensor has tuning built into it, I assume that he means he is using a MAF Translator. I have one on my car and it is sufficient for tuning fuel for the equipment he has. To know which way to tune the fuel, you need to be able to log the engine/computer some way. Pocket logger, DSMLink or something. Without this it will be difficult to know how to tune with the possibility of leaning out the car causing engine failure. A used pocket logger can be picked-up for $75-$200 including the palm pilot.

In the mean time it sounds like fun, just keep the boost low if you get it because you don't want to outrun your stock injectors and cause a lean condition.