What is the 88 GTU production numbers is it rare common ?
(this is mainly for icemark since he knows about damn near everything) -thanks Gabe

 

I can't tell you how many that they made, but I own a 88 GTU and they seam to be rare. I haven't seen very many of them.

 

I own one as well and I haven't seen another in the Tampa Bay area yet.

 

I have an 88 gtu but only seen one other 88 gtu in Dayton.

 

what's special about the 88 GTU?

 

Come on someone has to know

it was the gtus of 88.... 4.10 lsd, turbo suspension, power nothing with the exception of a sunroof, and turbo seats. only made in 88 replaced the sport which is a nice car as well. -Gabe

 

Sorry, my bud in Irvine hasn't got back to me on production for 88 yet.

Off the top of my head I would guess around 7000-9000.

The 88 GTU was the upgraded version of the 86-87 Sport, with performance brakes and suspension, LSD, T2 seats, power mirrors, tinted glass, the sports aero kit with the new wing style rear spoiler. Most came with a sunroof, but occasionally there were a few without.

Its really what the 89-90 GTUs model was except it didn't have the 4.3 rear end, and was about 75lbs lighter than the GTUs.

Road and track in 88 compairing the 10thAE T2 and the GTU, called the 88 GTU the real 10th anniversary RX-7 and picked it over the bloated 10th AE. In that article that the 88 GTU While in the same article they called the 10th AE

 

did it have 4 pot brakes?

 

Of course...

The 88 GTU should not be confused with the strippy base model S5 GTU

 

Didn't the 88 GTU come with the TII tranny as well? I haven't thought about my tranny for a while now (it is running great thank god) and I remember doing some research on it but can't remember what I found now. You had posted a list with all the model #s for individual parts a while back.

-Lee

 

how can you distinguish a GTU from the rest? me's thinking of getting an s4

 

I got a 88 GTU also , also ive been told that it DOES NOT have LSD. Any proof? (Dealer Endorsement Sheet?).

 

The 88 gtu came with a 4:10 lsd rearend.Your dealer sheet must have not been updated.Factory spec.s are always better than than dealer sheets.

 

woo so i have lsd

 

how can i tell it apart? different wheels?

 

I wouldn't know, but mine has the papers and the badging. You live in boynton? Thats real close

 

yeah like 50 minutes lol

 

I have a '88 GTU and it does have a beefier tranny than a N/A. You can see the extra ribbing/reinforcement it has vs. the N/A

 

No, again the 88 GTU (or any N/A) didn't come with any beefer or heavy duty tranny. I came with the same tranny as all the other S4 coupes (the M582).

The ribs are on all the trannies. The easiest way to see if there is a Turbo (or R-type tranny- R526), is to look at the botton of the tranny and see if there is an access plate. The R-type trannies have an access plate bolted onto the bottom.

And only the 88 GTU came with a LSD, the 89-90 GTU did not.

 

The 88 GTU will have manual windows, but power mirrors. Of course it will also have the things I mentioned above.

 

anyone got a high res chart of what came on the 1988 models? It shows the different trim levels and stuff.

 

yeah, but it is like 3 MB want to host it??? PM me your email

here is a low res version:

 

thx icemark

 

yeah man thanks mark i still want a hard number

 

for what? that piece ant rare. im down with the rareness of the basemodel crew!!lol