flamin-roids

I just scored a '87 TII for $200 and I already own a '89 GXL and here's the story. My '89 is an auto but is in excellent shape and is a nice shade of red. The turbo I just scored is in great shape with the exception of a missing spoiler and paint peeling off the bumper. My uncle works for a towing company and he impounded it. It was never claimed and I saved it at the last moment before it was crushed. The engine was just rebuilt and replaced. Unfortunatly it is missing a manifold and intercooler along with some misc parts. Now I can either pull the drive train and replace that auto and put that hood scoop on my GXL. Or I can sell my '89 and put the TII on the road. I'm not sure what the car needs but I think the motor has been ported and the body is in awesome shape.So should upgrade my S5 or rebuild this TII. (Can a TII turbo bolt on to a S5 6-port?)

Luna

Get a manifold, intercooler, and a paintjob. Keep the TII.
You won't be able to turbo your 6port without alot of work. Swap the taillights from your 89 to the TII, and then sell your 89, and fix that TII.

Roy James

jesus christ a TII for 200 bucks, if you want to make a quick buck ill buy it for 500.

badboi24u

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yea will you sell the t2?

J-Rat

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Ditch the 89, and put the TII on the road...

tie pilot

your s5 (as it is now) sounds like it's worth a couple thousand at least. with that much money, you should be able to address any issues that would prevent the TII from being driveable.

what about the interiors of the cars? which is better? are they both leather?

flamin-roids

The '89 has leather and immaculate interior. The TII has decent interior thats that grey color. I'm worried about how nuch work will be involved and I'd miss my '89 dearly if I have to sell it. If I can keep both cars and use the '89 as a pimpmobile and the '87 for a rapemachine that would be choice. The problm is that there is a 13B block with no rotors or anything in the back and I'm not sure whether its the new or the old one because it looks the engine was replaced or being replaced. What advantages dues the '87 TII have over a S5 n/a other than a turbo?

jon88se

Get the TII running, then put the S5 bumpers on the TII and part out the S5 for $ toward mods etc...

flamin-roids

If I'm going to go through that effort shouldn't I just yank the drivetrain out of the TII and drop it into my S5 seeing as how its in better shape?

tie pilot

hmmm... oh, the turbo! wait you said that already... hmm...

lol. but seriously, it sounds like you should some more time inspecting the TII to see exactly what kind of shape it's in. an immaculate leather interior (in your s5) is nothing to just toss aside, if you ask me. maybe the most work (but the best results in the end) would be to take the entire TII drivetrain - motor and all - and fit it into the s5. could result in a lot of downtime as you piece together the puzzle, though. do you have another backup car?

flamin-roids

Yeah I've got a 2001 taurus that I normally drive. So I could gut my S5 and drop the entire TII drivetrain so I'll have the nice looks of my S5 and a force to be reckoned with. Or I can piece together the TII and have 2 7's. Hmm. Once I saw the TII I realized its too good to part out and scrap. But if its too much work and money I'll probably take the tranny and drivetrain and replace that auto in my '89.

ra ra rotory

Id either say.. swap the drivetrain into your s5, or just keep them both and get the T2 running...

Fritz_X

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I think you all missed a key point, the S5 is an AUTO....say it with me now...automatic. Here is what you should do in my opinion. Take the immaculate leather interior, the S5 Taillights, the Front and Rear Bumper and the Mouldings off your S5 and hunk em onto the TII. You now have a TurboII with the look of the later model save 200 lbs. AND you get the sexy *** leather. Now take your bumperless taillightless mouldingless interiorless Auto N/A and part off every little piece you can. With the parts disassembled and on your floor, take a digital camera and photograph them, make an itemized list and sell the car down to the shell. At this rate you will probably end up with enough to at the very least get the TII running up to snuff, and not to mention it will look like an S5 and be Manual!!! Seriously though auto's on these cars is simply robbing them of their power. If you really wanted to you could make this TII both a "rapemachine" and a "pimpmobile". Also your insurance will go down having one less car, rather than having two. Just my .02 but I would definitely do what I wrote

--Fritz

flamin-roids

The problem with that is why tear apart a perfectly good RX-7 to rebuild another that needs a lot of work. If that were the case it would be easier to pull the drivetrain from the TII and drop into the S5. I don't know how much work the car needs but I'm going to tear into it this weekend and get a rough Idea on what it needs to run good. If I can have both cars in awesome condition or sell the '89 whole and use the cash to rebuild the TII. I have a soft spot for RX-7's and I had to save this one from being crushed. Fortunatly its a TII in great shape. If anyone wants a '89 GXL thats red and in awesome shape I'll sell it for $2500. It has new tires and CD player and everything. The only work it needs is a TPS sensor. New tranny and spare parts to boot. I just never want to have to put a 7 to death.

tie pilot

exactly. having owned and driven that s5 for a while, you have a good feel for it's quality too. that's something you can't get just by lookig at a car. the overall condition and drive quality of the TII is still unknown (all those little things that you never notice about a car until you've had it for 3 months). Betting the rx-7 farm on it is probably not a sound idea.

the s5 GXL is the pimpest FC made and you have one that's solid. the TII powah inside it would be the bomb. that's what I think.

flamin-roids

I'd miss the power everything and A.C. to much. So the decision is made then. The S5 is staying the way it is and the TII is going to tear up the streets this summer. But you are right the S5 is alot more refined and comfortable. And it certainly turns heads. I had one girl offer to sleep with me for it. I straight told her it wasn't worth it. Much more pleasure in my opinion. That and my girlfriend woulda killed me. For giving the car away of course.