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Old 05-03-03, 04:37 PM
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Cool '88 GTU vs. '89 GTUs

New to rotaries...

After my mr-2 and Miata, I bought an '88 GTU to build into street-prepared auto-x car.

What are the differences between the GTU and GTUs???

Also, if anyone has a rough guess on number of GTU built, that would be cool... Some people say it's fairly rare, others say it simply replaced the base model in 88.

Thanx!!!
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No the 88 GTU did not replace the base model, it replaced the sport, and the difference between the GTUs and GTU is that the GTUs is made in 89-91, and has the extra horse power from the reworked intake and has a differnet type of LSD, and there are probably more differences but I can't think of them right now. And I think Icemark said there were only like 2,500 88 GTUs made, but I could be wrong.
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The 88 gtu has a clutch type 4:10 lsd rearend and the 89-90 gtus has a viscous 4:30 lsd rearend.
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So I guess I should keep the running 88 GTU I bought earlier this week for $200 and sell the 89 GTU.

Decisions, decisions........
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Oh by the way the 88 gtu did not replace anything,the sport replaced the base model,in 89 the gtu replaced the sport.
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My mistake.
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