Alright heres the deal I bought an 87 TII that had been run up a guide wire and tiped onto its lid so the body is really fucked. The car has a street port motor that has about 90,xxx miles on it and a bunch of other goodies on it like suspension. I fired the car up today after changing the oil and filter and it started right up but smokes really bad. The smoke started to clear after a while but not completly and the car idles at about 3,300rpm. I turned it off cause it was almost dark and I had to go home. This engine suposidly ran well before the acident. What are some reasons the car could idle so high? Does any one think this motor could still be good? any thoughts would be appreciated. It would be easy to drop this motor in my car if its still good but the other route is to put all the parts on a j-spec I have?!?!?! FRUSTRATED!!

 

90k with a streetport doesn't sound good. How much could you get the car for?

 

what color is the smoke. if it was white and smelled like burnt anti freeze than the car has a broken coolant seal.



fire up the car, pop the hood, look into the front container, if you see that the container is filling. then that engine is no good, the housing would be toasted by then...



my 91 N/A was idling at 2500 when this process was developing on my car.

 

If the car was upside down a long period of time.. there's no telling what could be messed up with it.. since it was flipped and all I would definately get a rotary mechanic to check everything out before commiting to buy it..

 

Well I already bought the car the parts it has on it are well worth the $900 I payed for it. Tociko 5ways, intrax springs, suspension techniques swaybars, racing beat strut tower bar, Racing Beat Boost controler, K&N filter, serviced injectors, 3inch race pipe, 3inch down pipe/w wideband bung, New starter, Alternator, plus I can sell all the parts I dont need like driveline, tranny, gauge cluster, ECU, fuel pump.....yadda yadda yadda All these parts are 2yrs old and newer........oh yeah and a Perfect radio surround!





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so part out the sucker. if in doubt rebuild the engine. do it once do it right

 

He speaks from experince. lol j/k well..

 

Hey echo, kraig was gonna try to get ahold of you about that tranny. If you want we can rebuild the engine Since its already ported you can always buy a rebuild kit from racing beat and rebuild it. If you need some help im sure i can help.

 

post pictures!

 

Yeah I will try to post some pics the car is pretty fucked up! lol poor 7!!! It will die for a good cause tho!



Yeah that sounds like a good Idea Travis maybe I will just put all the intake, injection and ish on the J-spec then maybe you guys can help me rebild the street port motor! I really want to learn how so if I bought all the parts and came up with some $$$ maybe it could be done????