I really appreciate all the input on this.

I really have no intention at this point to race this car, the money really isn't there for that at this time in my life. Maybe in ten years it will be, but who knows. For the time being I would like to just get it operational (and do what with it?). This might be doable for not a whole lot of scratch, but we shall see. Most of the stuff that needs to be done is just small tedious crap like taking care of the body and patching some of the fiberglass - sanding, repainting and all of that. It won't end up with any kind of serious paint job. Some primer and whatever color seems to fit at the time. Mechanically, it shouldn't be too difficult to put it back the way it was, just time consuming.

I went out today and put it up on stands and started tearing some of it down. The differential is wasted as the driveshaft has about a half an inch of play on the input side and makes a lovely clunking noise when you rotate the wheels. The engine looks to be pretty well screwed. It's completely locked up. I took off the manifolds to find a whole bunch of nasty looking powerdy stuff laying in the exhaust ports along with what looks like some antifreeze or something. I went ahead and soaked it down with some seafoam deep creep or something like that. I don't really expect results, but it was worth a try.

Cpa7man, I would definately appreciate your input on this car and if you felt inclined to drive down to look at it and plan a strategy for attacking the various problems I'm sure to encouter, that would also be cool.

Apexl8t, thats a sweet piece of machinery there, it looks substantially more built than the one I picked up.

Camocarl, I paid 1k for the car and a 15 foot flatbed with brakes on it. The trailer is in much better shape than the car and was worth that alone. Also, the wheels are revolutions, that was stamped into the back side of them near the hubs.

I took some pictures of the crap coming out the side of the engine along with some various other stuff. I'll post them when I get home in a few hours.

 

I'd drift it.....

Why can't I get that lucky and be given a GT3??????

 

Nice 1k is a steal for what you got.

 

That's amazing.

For $1000 I found a non running low milage '82 behind a gas station.

I think you just beat me by a mile.

 

Alabama doesn't have vehicle inspections, no emissions. no nothing. I changed my license over with just the title.

Why not street race it fast and furious style??

 

Essentially, this is a total teardown and rebuild of virtually every component. Probably some rust cleanup and refabrication of some components. Still, $1k is a find.

The car should have a number stamped into the roll cage somewhere. This is the logbook number. See if you can find it, and contact your local SCCA to see if they can track down the history of the car for you. Then maybe you can find the former owners and get some history on it. Even if you don't rebuild it, having the history makes it worth something.

If you don't have the time, energy, facilities, money, knowledge, etc. (and an understanding significant other), you will get frustrated and sell it to somebody else.

It is a damn shame that it was not stored properly - talk about rode hard and put away wet!

Good luck!

 

Nice find. Yes it will take some time and $ but looks like you got a great solid start. Hec you could autocross it for some fun once you get it running.

 

reminds me of this one

https://www.rx7club.com/showthread.p...highlight=race

He ended up selling it for $3000

 

Ok, well here's the condition of the engine right now. It looks like it spent a good bit of time on the bottom of a lake with all the crap thats coming out of it. Im going to presume some of that is old antifreeze.



Is this a bridge port I'm looking at here?


The general shape of the suspension, though the rear is worse off. Notice the rust at the top of the shock piston.


I guess this thing will just have to come apart a peice at a time.

 

Primary ports are bridged, probably the secondarys too. Sucks about the blown coolant seal. Engine will need a full rebuild and probably an iron or two and maybe rotors.

 

Sorry for bringing back the dead, but whatever became of this car?

 

 

Poor guy. Hopefully somebody who knows something snapped it up from him. Its probably sitting just like it was in those last pictures. Those ports looks NASTY. I'd run like hell from that.

 

That car would be awesome to build back up. It needs some serious parts, but think about all of the fabrication work that's already been done to the car. When you take that into consideration, replacing the broken parts, cleaning, and painting isn't so daunting. If you think repairing the car is bad, imagine building it from scratch with nothing to follow....

 

It looks like the teenage mutant ninja mice have been living inside it

 

If the car isn't too cut up - and in some of the pic's it doesn't look like it is - then it is an SCCA E Production candidate. EP cars run street port 12A/13B motors with webber IDA 48's with 38mm chokes. They are honest 140mph cars AND very copetitive in E Production.

Go to www.scca.com and check out the live timing and scoring for the Run Offs and see what I mean. Yesterday the second best time in class was held by Tom Thrash in a 12A powered first gen.

That car may have more value than you think - what a lucky dog! My wife's uncles just play F&%^#@#g golf!