Potential Buy 1997 GSX

[SlowWhite]

Well just found out that the car doesn't have heat (he said it did before but said shane bent the pipe at the firewall when installing the motor. The owner didn't care so he said by pass it.

Well now he said I'd have to basically buy a donor car if I wanted it. As he thinks the heater core leaks.
and he had the water pipe welded and the t-house welded.

He also said its a good thing I started asking him questions about it because he'd forgotten all about it.

And in the current setup I can not run water cooled turbos if I ever upgraded.

So this now created several questions.
this car is going to be driven 1/2 the time at night. Where in will need a defogger/defrosted for colder days as I don't get off work till midnight and home around 1am.

He says the a/c works just no heat. What part is needed to defog the windows?
Im sure to de ice the windows the heater is needed.

Also from the videos he took today i noticed there wasn't any windshield washer prayers and the srs light is on.

He said he removed all the sprayer parts front and back. And there was nothing to attach the airbag to when he took the aftermarket wheel off and put the stock one back on.

I know there is a white ring or something that is usually there for the airbag to plug into. I removed this as well when I put my sparco wheel in my old car.

Any ideas how much im looking at to put heat back in this thing?

[SlowWhite]

Also how is the non water cooled turbos situation going to effect me.
if I ever upgraded turbos I was considering the pte 6266 or there 6766 turbos with bb.

One just came up on tuners today bnib for $700 if I didn't need all this extra money now I'd be tempted to buy it

[dsmghost]

You can get a heater core, an unmodified water pipe and t-stat housing for less than $20 each. And you can find them very easily it's no big deal.

[JET]

Yeah, no way you need a donor car for those minor things. The idle looks pretty rich, I saw it getting down to 12 or so, then it would miss.

[SlowWhite]

Thanks for the better news. I figured if I will do the dash swap at the same time.


How hard is it to install all that stuff? About how many hrs in labor?

I have never removed a dash or done any work other then replacing an each and clutch stuff before.

[SlowWhite]

Replace Ecu ( Damon phone) and clutch work under the dash

[Kracka]

My honest opinion: Run away. If the owner is "forgetting" things, doesn't know specifics, etc. who knows what else he's leaving out for you to discover down the road.

This sounds to me like someones half-assed hacked up "project" car. Buy a nice clean example, yes, they're out there, and start fresh (DSM or Evo). Get the maintenance up to date THEN mod it how you want it modded.

[tehehodi]

Or buy a c7.

[Kracka]

Here are three clean stock examples, all manual tranmission, all under 100k miles, all under $9k:

black 1997 GSX: http://tinyurl.com/nwgjrpk
red 1999 GST: http://www.ebay.com/itm/Mitsubishi-Eclipse-GST-Turbocharged-1999-Mitsubishi-Eclipse-GST-4cyl-Turbo-95K-Real-Miles-1-Owner-/171337870763?forcerrptr=true&hash=item27e4886dab&item=171337870763&pt=US_Cars_Trucks
maroon 1997 GST Sypder: http://tinyurl.com/ohcdgnp

I found these three doing a quick 5 minutes of searching on only Autotrader and eBay. I'm sure far more of various colors can be found if you put more time into it.

[goodhart]

You can get a heater core, an unmodified water pipe and t-stat housing for less than $20 each. And you can find them very easily it's no big deal.

this. no way you would need a donor. But it does seem like there is a lot of little things that are adding up. Might listen to Kracka on this one.