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Old 09-29-04, 12:28 PM
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Question Should I buy this car?

My friend has a 93 FD with a t-78 hybrid turbo. He crashed the front left of the car. The car has full interior and everything. He is willing to sell me the car fo $4500, but he wants the bare block and the Haltec engine managment, all other parts to the car stock and aftermarket I can keep. Do you guys think that it would be a good deal.
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What's the estimate to fix the accident damage -- from a GOOD shop?
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hard call . . .
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If it's your first FD, I'd probably avoid it. If you have or have had FD's and are familiar with them, might be a good project. Depends on how hard the car was hit as to whether it's fixable. But, you're looking at some MAJOR work to get that car back into 1 piece.

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Depends how much you are willing to spent...
might be useful if you have any pictures of it as well..
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I dont know how much it would be to fix it. I already have an FD and I just blew my turbos, but I just bought a set that had 15k on them. Does anybody need parts off of the car, because if you do I would consider buying the car and parting it out, if there is enough people that need stuff.
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Is it a manual? How many miles?
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And where the hell is Herndon?
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Originally Posted by oktay400
I dont know how much it would be to fix it.
No offense, but it's pretty silly to ask us if the car is worth it if you don't know the basics. It could be $8-10k worth of work to fix the damage PROPERLY and then the $4.5k doesn't look so good.....and we haven't even gotten to buying a core engine and ECU. Plus all the labor to put it all back together. Unless you're doing it yourself as a project, this car will not save you any money.
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just my opinion BUT i would stay away from it ..... once a car is crashed it
will never drive the same again.... NO matter what any one tells you

plus there are so many cheap fd's on the market why not find one with a blown
motor????

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Assuming this car has all the parts to support a t78 I would be all over it. Sell the turbo kit for 2500, Full exhaust you can get about 500.00 out of, If intercooler is salvageable there is another 6-800 dollars. You can always get 2k out of a roller with full interior. Just the way I would aproach it. Good luck

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Originally Posted by jkisineffect
just my opinion BUT i would stay away from it ..... once a car is crashed it
will never drive the same again.... NO matter what any one tells you

plus there are so many cheap fd's on the market why not find one with a blown
motor????

- johnny k
Someone hasn't seen what happens to a car after turbojeff has gone over it.
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Originally Posted by jkisineffect
just my opinion BUT i would stay away from it ..... once a car is crashed it
will never drive the same again.... NO matter what any one tells you

plus there are so many cheap fd's on the market why not find one with a blown
motor????

- johnny k
It is exactly my same opinion especially when it come to RX-7s.
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The car is a manual, I will be doing all the work, it is also a street port motor from pettit. He says I can have the motor but when I am finished give him my stock motor that is in my FD right now. He has a custom 4 row peter ferrel innercooler. It has wheels, gauges, all accesories for the turbo kit plus the turbo. Full peter Ferrel exhaust, supre fuel pump, 850cc pirmary, 1600cc secondary injuectors with upgraded rails (etc). I will try to get pics.


P.S. Herndon is in VA, half an hour from DC.
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Also I am not trying to fix up the car, I am just trying to decide if it would be worth buying and putting the single turbo setup in my FD and parting out the rest of the car. I think I may be able to get it for 4k instead of 4.5k. Plus I was planning on doing a single on the car, sence I blew my stock turbos but when I was calling around for all the parts it was really expensive.
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And where the hell is Herndon?
Dude you need to get out more. I live in New jersey and I know where that is!!
Its right next to Sterling. Also near Mclean, Out off Route 7 i believe.
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Originally Posted by oktay400
Also I am not trying to fix up the car, I am just trying to decide if it would be worth buying and putting the single turbo setup in my FD and parting out the rest of the car. I think I may be able to get it for 4k instead of 4.5k. Plus I was planning on doing a single on the car, sence I blew my stock turbos but when I was calling around for all the parts it was really expensive.
Wanna make a deal? I have a brand new set of rebuilt twins that have around 950 miles on them, only boosted to 10 psi. Buy that car and make some trades with me on the single turbo and the set up, and the manual. Hell just sell me the car!
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oktay400 sent you a pm if you decide not to it buy and your friend still needs to unload the car.
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I will let you guys know what happens.
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