I am looking to buy a FD, but i am having a hard time evaluating the value of the car due to some weird mods. The car is a 1992 FD euro-spec, it has 3mm apex seals, street ports, 1600 injectors, haltech ecu, no rust etc. But has to be repainted and the interior needs extensive work. It has run 120k km. What would you guys evaluate the car at.

 

 

the engine has been rebuilt 30k km ago, it is currently running BNR stage 3 turbo's, but has been run with Greddy 25G singleturbo setup making 420whp. regarding the paint, it wast bad in the way that it had been standing outside just some minor scratches etc.

 

 

the paint isnt really nice its matted, it has minor scratches and orange peel. i believe he did the rebuild, but he is a machine engineer with alot of experience 30+ years, also he has had the car for 12 years. he knows everyone in my country that owns a rx7 basically and he is a rotary expert. the streetport etc have been done by a company in sweden. he went back to sequential turbos due to our country regulations.

 

 

well i am fully aware of the state of the car and there are def some red flags, but i am not sure if i can justify using 20k usd on a car in that state. that was the answer i was looking for from this post

 

 

 

20k is a lot. But its hard to find a running FD for under 15k in california at least. Maybe somewhere in between? I bought mine salvage title with a little bit of work needed for 13k but that was 2 years ago if I remember correctly. I sold a blown motor and turbo one in nor cal for about 10.5k that needed electrical, paint, and interior work also. So FD are just not cheap in general.