buying a stored supra

1TuffSupra · 07-08-2005, 02:53 PM

Hello everybody, this is my first post here, but Ive been trolling around for a while doing research

ive been looking for a clean 5sp turbo for a while and havent come up with any that are reasonably close and are in decent enough shape. The ones that are in decent shape seem to want about 2 grand more than the car is worth. But recently a solutiong kind of fell into my lap, a buddy of mine has an 88 NA 5spd red/gray in need of a clutch that he is willing to sell me for a $1000 and its in great condition inside and out. It only has 130,000 miles and it starts but sounds very rough, but im guessing that it is due to the car sitting in his garage for the past year and a half. Im assuming that the gas in the tank has gone bad since he didnt put a stabilizer in it and I was wondering if you guys had any ideas on how to fix this problem. would syphoning out the gas and putting in some injector cleaner and fresh gas fix this or am I looking at some expensive repairs. My thinking is I could get the car replace the clutch and drive it for a while and scoop up a 7mgte and swap it over in the coming months, the car is in unbelievable shape cosmetically though and even with the cost of a swap I would have a nice turbo car for way cheaper than I would found otherwise. So do you guys have any advice for me? TIA

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07-08-2005, 02:53 PM	#1
1TuffSupra Stock Join Date: Jul 2005 Posts: 1	Hello everybody, this is my first post here, but Ive been trolling around for a while doing research ive been looking for a clean 5sp turbo for a while and havent come up with any that are reasonably close and are in decent enough shape. The ones that are in decent shape seem to want about 2 grand more than the car is worth. But recently a solutiong kind of fell into my lap, a buddy of mine has an 88 NA 5spd red/gray in need of a clutch that he is willing to sell me for a $1000 and its in great condition inside and out. It only has 130,000 miles and it starts but sounds very rough, but im guessing that it is due to the car sitting in his garage for the past year and a half. Im assuming that the gas in the tank has gone bad since he didnt put a stabilizer in it and I was wondering if you guys had any ideas on how to fix this problem. would syphoning out the gas and putting in some injector cleaner and fresh gas fix this or am I looking at some expensive repairs. My thinking is I could get the car replace the clutch and drive it for a while and scoop up a 7mgte and swap it over in the coming months, the car is in unbelievable shape cosmetically though and even with the cost of a swap I would have a nice turbo car for way cheaper than I would found otherwise. So do you guys have any advice for me? TIA