Hey everyone, just figured I'd stop in and see what I can learn about my "new" SC I'm picking up after work tomorrow. I'm used to my Japanese ricers after having owned a few boosted JDM cars ('94 WRX & '92 Soarer), and I currently drive a '05 RSX, so it'll be interesting getting into some American muscle lol. Anyways I snagged this '94 SC for $1,300 with 214,000KM mostly cause the body is in rough shape, but under the hood lies a few goodies. It has a 4.2L Crankshaft, ported heads, cams, smaller super charger pulley, electric fan conversion, new valve cover gaskets, straight piped exhaust (with resonator), upgraded clutch, short throw shifter & oem 8.8 28 spline rear end with trac lock. Otherwise from what I can tell its fully loaded with sunroof, leather, JBL Stereo with 10 cd stacker (still has the oem tape deck!), keyless entry pad, some fancy 90's car phone etc...
Immediate plans for it once I get it home is to give it a good mechanical once over. From looking at it before the weekend I know these areas need to be looked at;
- power steering pump needs to be replaced as it almost stalls out the car when turning at a standstill
- the boost gauge is a little wonky which may have something to do with a small hose popping out in the engine bay or an actual boost leak
- AC is disconnected, but I may just leave it like that
- fuel filler door popper doesn't work in center console
- full interior detail (steam cleaning is a must)
- new windshield
- remove old purple tint and redo properly
Once I know its mechanically fine, I may bring it out to a few local drift events I attend every week and maybe the street legal drags for kicks just till the end of summer. I'd like to do suspension work (rebuild front end & lower it), get some new wheels and repaint oem ones and upgrade the headlights (retrofit projectors & HID's). Body work will hopefully happen sometime next year after I get a dedicated drift car.
Here's some quick snaps, I'll take better ones once she's home and cleaned up a bit.
Immediate plans for it once I get it home is to give it a good mechanical once over. From looking at it before the weekend I know these areas need to be looked at;
- power steering pump needs to be replaced as it almost stalls out the car when turning at a standstill
- the boost gauge is a little wonky which may have something to do with a small hose popping out in the engine bay or an actual boost leak
- AC is disconnected, but I may just leave it like that
- fuel filler door popper doesn't work in center console
- full interior detail (steam cleaning is a must)
- new windshield
- remove old purple tint and redo properly
Once I know its mechanically fine, I may bring it out to a few local drift events I attend every week and maybe the street legal drags for kicks just till the end of summer. I'd like to do suspension work (rebuild front end & lower it), get some new wheels and repaint oem ones and upgrade the headlights (retrofit projectors & HID's). Body work will hopefully happen sometime next year after I get a dedicated drift car.
Here's some quick snaps, I'll take better ones once she's home and cleaned up a bit.