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Just purchased my second FB

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Old Mar 15, 2004 | 10:18 AM
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Just purchased my second FB

A very clean GS, light blue, and in nearly perfect shape. No sun roof, it only has power mirrors, and working AC. Comes with an '88 Turbo and manifold as part of the deal. You can guess where I'm going with this. For starters though, I'm going to remove the cats, emmesions, ratsnest, etc. This is going to be my daily driver so I can park the race car and finish it. I'll keep the mods on this car minor, but I'm really looking forward to turbo'ing the 12a. I love rotory cars, so much fun to play with.
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Old Mar 15, 2004 | 10:19 AM
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sounds like a good plan. do you have any pics of your new car?
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Old Mar 15, 2004 | 11:03 PM
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This is before I did any work to it. We've removed the louvers, changed the front wheel, and done some more minor work. The battery is totally dead, and it doesn't like to idle, which may be from the battery. Can't tell just yet. Also, the alternator occasionally overcharges according to the guage, and I'll see like 18v, which can't be good. Finally two of the alarms won't stop going off, lunkily they are nearly mute, but they'll be coming out too.
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Old Jan 8, 2009 | 11:47 AM
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Originally Posted by '85 GSL 302
A very clean GS, light blue, and in nearly perfect shape. No sun roof, it only has power mirrors, and working AC. Comes with an '88 Turbo and manifold as part of the deal. You can guess where I'm going with this. For starters though, I'm going to remove the cats, emmesions, ratsnest, etc. This is going to be my daily driver so I can park the race car and finish it. I'll keep the mods on this car minor, but I'm really looking forward to turbo'ing the 12a. I love rotory cars, so much fun to play with.
Did you get the pre-swap components with the car....If so was it a FI car? If so are you selling, (or anyone reading this) the parts? I want to restore a fire damaged gsl-se from the battery tray....all the way to the master clutch/brake cylinders....maybe you can help

Peter.

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