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Originally posted by surok

did u get your car checked out yet?

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Hopefully booking it in this week. But no matter what, I will be moving on from this car. New gearbox/clutch will be like $2500 and at the end of the day it's still a 1990 with 260,000km on the clock.
This car would be fine for someone that wants a stock-like daily driver with a bit of balls.. but it's not worth pouring money into.
I need to pick a time to stop p1ssing money away, and now is that time.

I am taking all my bolt-on mods off (seats, wheels, stereo etc.) and then I need to decide whether to:
A) Strip the car of anything of worth. Deregister it and use it for racing until something major blows up
B) Part it out
C) Swap all the good bits to my new car, swap stock parts back into this one. Sell as a whole.

I've been told that it's perfectly safe. I guess it just wouldn't handle so good when turning, although I didn't notice it when I was doing hills runs etc.

Jezza if you really wanted to - take your old car to a car restoration company that specialised in classic cars (people that deal with classic cars usually have a higher attention to detail) and give them the measurements above. They will be more then willing to get it all measured and sorted and they will put it back to how it was.

Had to do the same with my weekend (come everyday car till MR2 is done) car which had chassis damage by a forklift. Removed all the welds straightened/strengthened and improved it to the standard measurements. Total cost was a little under $1500 and got it better then new.

260,000km (on the chassis) isn't much at all - if all the drivetrain has been replace should last another 260,000km.

Personally, would fix up this car and all the known issues - at least then you have a clean car with a clean slate which you know everything about.

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Originally posted by DVST8R

So, anyone want to vote on the likelyhood that the next MR2 he buys will have something major wrong with it too and he will waste another $10k on it?

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Surely guys here have spent more fixing up there cars.

i'm spending another $4.5K fixing the issues with my car and its purely ricer cosmetic, at the end of the day find the right car the first time around and keep it. Nothing will be perfect unless you able to buy it from new or almost new and keep it.

if mine was a turbo jezza, you wouldn't be able to afford it. it would be 20k.

I fail to see how it would be so hard to fix this car. Honestly give me a grand and ill fix this rear end issue for you once and for all.

^ would bother trav, i think its just an excuse to buy a black car, which he should have done in the first place. (everyone wants to be like MR2QIK)

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Originally posted by jezza_boii


At the end of the day, I don't want to be another jupiter.

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And people respect him for it as he still has it in NA format.