Well ladies and gentlemen. I finally got my FD on Dec 22, 2004 and I scored really good. Its a mint VR 5-spd touring. It had some minor problems such as a high idle, almost dead battery, exaust leak, bad K&N Filters (need to be replaced asap), and I believe thats all. No synchro issues, no boost issues, compression is good. Paint and body is immaculate, interior is about an 9/10 (driver side seat is a little worn but no rips). All for a wopping $10,800.

Anyways my first small project was to fix the idling issue (car idled at 1500 RPM's, I did some research and I figured it was a 'vacuum hose leak' somewhere in there. Thanks to Chris French a.k.a 'JaNusSolSumnus' on the forums, and the best site ever made, 'robrobinette.com' I had a good idea what to do.

I started to take off everything that 'robrobinette.com' told me to untill I finally got as far as taking out the intake manifold, I found a few hoses that were either loose, or not even plugged in at all. While I was checking all of the **** out, I checked out my sparkplugs and they were in bad shape. I picked up 4 new ones and replaced them. I also picked up some Engine Cleaner, and some Intake Cleaner to give it a decent cleaning in the process.

I put everything back together and vwalla.... A nice 800-1000 RPM idle. It did shoot out some white smoke out the exaust for quite a while but It was because of all the cleaning **** I used. Other than that, it was a good 1 day mini-project because I learned alot more about the car.

Next mini-project, Find the exaust leak and fix it, maybe put in my S.S Downpipe (what do you think?) The car is bone stock.

***Pics of the vac-hose mini-project are here

 

Congradulations on your purchase of the FD. Seems like your on the right track. Good luck.

 

hey thanks man. sry for double post btw. admins pelase delete this