Date: 19th February 2014
Username: minigts
Full Name: Jon Trotter (the OTHER Trotter)
City, State, Zip: Roughly Memphis, TN
Contact: PM with contact info when needed
Selling or Wanted Price: $3,000
Description: This will be updated later with more information and pics, but I'd like to get this on the table.
http://www.turbo-mopar.com/forums/sh...toration/page2 start at post #37 or read the whole thing if you want. :)
89 CSX #453. The overall body is in decent shape meaning 2 areas that have dents that will need repair, one on the passenger door and another in front driver's side fender. Both the front and rear ground effects will require some reconstructive surgery, but both are there and were installed on the car and just have damage to them. The front was taken off, but I will re-install it if someone buys it. Car needs paint, body work and bumper/gfx repair work, but all the Shelby stuff is on the car and it wouldn't take much to get it looking good. The wheels do not have curb rash, amazingly and only one wheel has an issue with the center. Looks like someone tried to push a center cap in too hard and it broke the seat where the cap sits. Two of the four caps come with the car, but I've been told that all the center caps for other cars will work. I have not tested this, nor do I have any I can spare to give with the car.
Interior needs attention too, but minor. The headliner was replaced and looks good, I think (I did it. :D) It has new carpet and the dash is in very good shape. The interior pieces I started to paint, but the color was a little off and I was planning to get a darker color and do it again. The seats all should be recovered, the driver's side needs the most attention. But I have at least 4 yards of the OEM Shelby fabric that will come with the car. I paid a premium for this and will be passing the cost onto the new owner, which is why I'm asking $3K for the car. Without the fabric I would take $2500, but I'm not flexing on the price. I don't have to sell it and the more time and money I invest in the car, the higher the price will go.
When I got it, it was burning oil like crazy. Figured a turbo or something mechanical, turned out to be valve seals that unseated. The car has a "new" head on it, albeit Chinese. I would recommend swapping it for something real, but for now it's doing the job. I did a quick fix with the valve seals by using some silicone on the inside and then securing them to the head. It's held up well given that I've driven MANY miles since, but it's not the real fix that it should be. My plan is to get some ones that crimp on and be done with that. I also have a coolant issue with the supply line to the turbo, but it will either come with the TU lines to and from the turbo or I will install them before the sale, just depends on how much time I can give to fixing it. Right now the stock lines are there with a replacement heater hose line that is crimped on using some worm band thingys? Standard heater hose clamps, not sure what they are called. I'd consider getting the stock line repaired, there's a guy in town that can crimp AC lines, I'm sure he could do this one. I need to get a PS line fixed, so I'll check into getting that done for this.
When I got the car I did the following:
Installed new CV shafts (Empi) very heavy duty ones, I'll get pics
Replaced front and passenger motor mounts with Polybushings
Replaced control arm bushings with Polybushings
Replaced the bobble strut with Polybushings
Replaced some of the vacuum lines from end to end
Replaced the head gasket
1.5 year old battery
Car runs really well and I consistently get about 26-28 mpg driving back and forth to the Indy area going about 75-80. I think going about 70 and it could potentially hit 30 mpg. It has a stock computer, stock timing, stock everything. The main wiring harness is in really good shape and my only plan was to pull it and re-wrap it. I think the sub-harness is ok, but as most of them, it could use some attention. The rear harness for the fuel rail is fine and I'd even give the new owner some terminals to re-crimp the wires if they wanted them. The vacuum setup needs some work to look stock, but right now it seems ok. The lines I replaced were the 1/8" diameter ones.
I know the airbox broke where the PCV runs to it, but it's functional. It would require getting a new box to be considered acceptable, but just the base not the cover. But the intercooler is fine and the plumbing going to and from are the stock ones. Speaking of ICs, I will throw in an untainted truly new core and ends that have never been touched with the deal. I was going to use this, but since I'm not going to keep this car and I have a larger one for the GLHS, I won't need it. This IC has never been assembled or welded together, so you can do with it as you wish. I'll get pics posted later of it.
Let me know if you have any questions and please ask if you need additional pics if there is one you can't find in the build thread.