Nilo987

Still for sale!

Car is still for sale, lowered price to $2,200. Clean and clear title in hand.

Decided this car is too much for my situation at the moment. Doing college and it's a 1 hour drive, I feel this car would be better off in the hands of someone more experienced and knowledgeable about this car. It starts and drives fine, until it warms up. Then once it warms up it rocks slightly when pressing on the gas to keep speed. It doesnt rock when your foot is off the gas and it's in gear, nor does it rock when you accelerate hard. Only when you're pressing on the gas to keep at the same cruising speed. Once it's been driven around awhile it sometimes dies if you let it go to idle. Probably needs a new MAF sensor or something... --Asking around $2,200, it's negotiable. --87,xxx miles --5 speed manual -- All original white paint with a couple rust spots and the front fender was backed into and damaged, as seen in pics --Has the SHP wheels I believe. -- Per previous owner telling me, the boost is turned up to 14lbs. -- Radio works though it looks like the antenna was messed up by a previous owner, tape deck does not work. --Heat works, A/C just needs a new belt to work --Gave it a tune up on 8/7/2012, new plugs, wires, fuel filter, cap, rotor -- Seats have tears in them, mainly the drivers seat does, passenger seat looks good --Hatch hydraulics still work fine --Was told by previous owner it has an aftermarket 3" down pipe --Headlights work fine and pop up every time. --Cracked light in the picture works fine as well Any other questions let me know, trying to see how much I can get out of this car as it is right now. http://i1258.photobucket.com/albums/ii540/nilo987/2012-07-19203842.jpg http://i1258.photobucket.com/albums/ii540/nilo987/2012-08-05123525.jpg http://i1258.photobucket.com/albums/ii540/nilo987/2012-08-05123514.jpg http://i1258.photobucket.com/albums/ii540/nilo987/2012-07-19193910.jpg http://i1258.photobucket.com/albums/ii540/nilo987/2012-07-19102451.jpg http://i1258.photobucket.com/albums/ii540/nilo987/2012-08-05123556.jpg http://i1258.photobucket.com/albums/ii540/nilo987/2012-08-05123459.jpg

Checked the hose that went from the vacuum advance, it had a tiny little hole in it about the size of a ball point pen tip. *EDIT* After putting some electrical tape on the hole on the hose, and taking it for a spin, it drives smooth as butter. Only things that have changed since I drove it earlier are: -- Covered the tiny hole on the vacuum advance up with electric tape -- Filled it up with 91 instead of 89(barely had any 89 left in it) -- Temperature outside was about 106 when I drove it earlier, temp outside when I drove it during running smoothly was about 92 and the sun was down. I probably did too many different things at once to be able to tell what it was that was causing the bucking... I do know unless it's absolutely necessary I'm not driving it during mid-day when it's hottest. Coulda been the gas octane was too low... coulda been the pen tip hole on the hose, coulda been the heat.

http://i1258.photobucket.com/albums/ii540/nilo987/2012-07-24201818.jpg Excuse the zip tie plz:P It's just there until I get a proper clamp ring for it http://i1258.photobucket.com/albums/ii540/nilo987/2012-07-24201946.jpg First image shows the hose hooked up to the intake piece directly sitting on top of the engine, second pic shows the hoses, biggest one(not meaning the air intake itself:P but of the littler ones) in the pic is hooked up to intake piece directly above the engine, second visible hose below it is hooked up to the air intake itself, and the third hose on that same piece the other two hoses are on is just open to the air.

Ok, well I just thought checking it meant checking to make sure the hose on it was secure. Guess I'll try your mentioned method next for the vacuum advance. Thanks for the info:) As far as the bucking once I've properly established the vacuum advance is ok I'll get rid of the crappy 89 octane and put some 91 in it. Not as good as 93 but unfortunately there's nowhere around here that offers that high. Had to search to find 91 lol... That sucks that the turbo gauge is innacurate.. because it says I hit 14 a lot.

I checked all the tubing yesterday, all the hoses and stuff are good to go, checked the vacuum advance as well, it's fine. I'll have to check the plugs to see what kind they are and if they're gapped properly. And as mentioned earlier I'm a turbo noob. So I wouldn't even begin to know how to change the boost settings on the turbo. The car does seem to run better when driven first thing in the morning around 7a.m. as opposed to driving it in the hottest part of the day. Is there a tutorial on how to change the boost settings? Or should I just take it to a shop and have them do it? Thanks for all the help guys, much appreciated!

I don't envy you living in Texas lol, lived in Houston for 3 years,at least when I lived there it rained every three days or so. Been so hot here in Kansas I get excited when it's below 100 degrees here!

Cool, thanks I'll check it out this evening once this 100+ weather cools down a few degrees lol...

Ive been thinking and there could be another reason the car was doing the bucking, there's two little hoses that are right where turbo meets the air intake. When I got the car the previous owner had both of them unhooked. Not hooked up to anything. I connected the longer one to the piece of the intake that sits above the engine. Would send a pic but the site is telling me I've reached the max upload limit.

Thanks, I'm loving the white, previous car was blue. I like your cars color blue as well

It stops bucking and goes fast when I hammer it. When I first got it the only gas station around had 87 octane only. So I put some of that into it, when getting onto it when I had the 87 octane it stuttered hard when I tried accelerating hard. Once I switched to 89 it quit the stuttering when flooring it, but when cruising at 55 in fifth it does the barely noticeable bucking. Yea, it's a five speed, and out where I live I've only seen 89 octane as the highest I've seen so far. Might have to check another couple gas stations I haven't checked yet. Where is the vacuum advance, know it's probably a newb question but Im a newb to turbo cars unfortunately.

Hey guys, new to the Starquest scene but loving my car so far. Bought it a few days ago, it's a 1988 Conquest TSI with 87k original miles, only a couple mods done to it by previous owner(s). Turbo is set up for 14lbs, new 3" aftermarket downpipe as well. Only one small issue with it so far but I posted a topic about it in the newbie forum after not seeing any already made topics about my issue. I won't lie, Im a newb to the turbo scene, only turbo car I've ever owned was a 2008 VW GTI, so since it was new I never had any issues with it. Only cosmetic issue the Conquest has is a blemish on her front driver side quarter panel where someone backed into her.

Hey guys, Starquest newbie here, just got it a few days ago and it runs great other than a slight issue when it's been driven awhile. Usually when I'm going 55mph it does a barely noticeable bucking, if I let the speed go down to 50, no bucking. Turbo gauge usually reads in the negative when it does this barely noticeable bucking. Only known mods I know are done on this car is the turbo was turned up to 14lbs of boost, and the previous owner as stated in his ad "the exhaust manifold gasket was just replace, as well as the spark plugs and wires, new aftermarket 3" downpipe and o2 sensor". I'm running 89 octane gas in it, it has 87k original miles, 1988 Conquest TSI.