Hello to all,
Joined a while back but never posted. I picked up a crash damaged barely rolling shell middle of last year. Shes an original manual NA and apparently when the car was alive she was quite well known so if anyone has any info on what happened id appreciate it. Below should be some of how she used to look and how I bought her. Damage to the front meant she needed a new front clip, roof, rear NS quarter and drivers door/sill all saw impact so its taking a while to get her straight again.
I managed to pick up an is300 so will be swapping the vvti lump into her after its had a rebuild with forged rods, pistons, tt head gasket and single turbo kit, etc. Aiming for around 5-600 bhp and I had sourced a w58 at the same time but last night purchased an 6 speed bmw box and ordered a PMC adaptor and clutch kit so hoping that will be the better option.
I will have loads of questions throughout the build, mainly on wiring a vvti lump into a non vvti shell so apologies in advance.