o.k. here is the situation...a guy brought it in from japan and it has only 33k miles on the odometer...he brought it to GUAM about 5 years ago and its been sitting for 3 years now. he left back to japan and sold it to a guy who thought he knew how to maintain the beast...turns out he screwed it up and that is why its been sitting.

i looked at the car and it has a greddy rebic something something, and a couple gauges on a custom glove box. a spoiler i believe to be RE-Amemiya on rear, and a lip on the front. interior is pretty nice too

but here is the crazy part: the new owner removed the engine and dismantled it...the shifter is nowhere to be found, the exhausts are nowhere to be found. there are parts of the engine in the trunk area, but i dont see the engine block...in another car at the house i noticed what appears to be a 3 rotor partially coverred but dismantled as well...or at least i think it is.

the car seems pretty decent to buy and put another engine in it, but i have little to no mechanical inclination to do any of it...i could have the local shop teacher do the work as a class project for free...sooo my question to you all is:
Should i buy this thing? how much do you think its worth? and is it worth the trouble to restore it? or should i buy it and part out what is left of it and put the rest on my vert?

hope you guys can offer some good insight.

Fred

 

no. Stay away. If you don't have the inclination, and you're going to have to rely on someone else to finish it, find something finished, then you can learn. I can't think of anything worse than to buy a project, only to find that the person who is going to finish it can't, for some reason or another.

PaulC

 

I say depends on what he wants for it . .. I mean if you can get it dirt cheap, why not. Try to fix it, or part it and sell it. Anything is better than how the poor thing sits right now. Don't pay alot though incase you can't get anything done with it.

 

worth $500 max

 

he was asking for $800.00 said another guy offered him $800.00 for sure i wont be able to restore it myself...if i sell parts off it, i may be able to recover my investment only...it has round tail lights, no body damage, RE-Amemiya rear trunk spoiler, front lip spoiler, turboII hood good interior pieces plus the gauges and that greddy rebic thing among other parts i didnt really take note of. let me know guys if you want something off it...it may be worth it for me to purchase it.

Fred

 

by the way did i mention it was a race car from japan? supposedly loaded with race stuff but the innerds are gutted no engine, no exhause....not sure what else supposed to be in there.

 

and oh it has a bologna slicer rims which are chrome...its a stock mazda rim but not TII stock rims. and one of the rims have curb nick.

should i buy this car?

 

I can probably pick up the twisted remains of a Ferrari real cheap, but if I don't have the knowledge, tools, and time to do the repairs myself, I'm not going to get it fixed. Same issue in your case. Stay away.

PaulC

 

Have fun with importing it into the USA, i had a bitch of a time importing my car from US to canada!

 

Hey, I'm all for people starting somewhere. Farming out a project car to someone else isn't starting somewhere. Start with a car in decent shape, and make it better, if you want to start somewhere. Don't start with a "race" car. Trust me on that one.

PaulC

 

No you don't.. No no no no

I'm the last person you should be asking about 3 rotor race cars, or turbos

PaulC

 

Oh LOL

Gotcha

PaulC

 

Well, if I don't know much about this car (especially what's missing & what isn't) I wouldn't buy it. IMO, I rather buy a regular street car & learn from there. It's up to you man. I wouldn't purchase anything like that over $1,000. Good Luck

Nick

 

Ya you dont want to buy a project, they never get done no matter how much you think it will. I have a friend that had a car and then he tore it all down and now it has been 8 years andd he has finaly go remotivatied in the past year and its getting close.
The best way to go on a project is to buy something that drives then do one thing at a time and try and keep it driveable during the whole thing with the exception like if engine swap take a few weeks etc. Thats what i am doing right now, one thing at a time. So far i have had the car 77rx-3SP, i have done the suspension, front coilovers with camber plates, front sway bar, rear lowering block, then i concentrates on the motor which i had been working on for a while bbut it tool about a month to get the money and time to bend new fuel line, install fuel pump and then i put in my pp12a. And now i am in the tuning stage. But it is realy good to do one thing at a time, i cant stress that enough. I bought the car around christmas last year and have done all this on a very limited budget, under 3k. So now i am tuning and getting ready to cage it. But ya i would say dont mess with that car unless your going to part it out, and then it is going to be hard in Guam, probably not much of a market there, and no one will pay for shipping from there for a T2 hood. hope this advice helps.

CJG

 

Well i didnt even read the whole post... but if its got the amemya front lip and rear spoiler plus the turbo II hood.. i would say its a good deal... for 800 bucks... Around here where i live the going price for a turbo II hood is $500 dollars... not to mention how expensive all the amemya (i know i spelt that wrong) stuff costs.. you could part it and come out way on top... way on top !!

 

o.k. as soon as the guy finds the ownership...he gonna sell it to me...and no he is not one of my friends. once i get it home, ill snap a shitload of pics and post em. thanks soo very much for all the input guys!! ill remember it when you need a part that i may have. thanks again.
and no it is not hard to ship cars from japan to here! just need a friend at the port and also a friend in shipping...good thing guam is small hehe friends of friends if you know what i mean...

Fred