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Toad

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  • Birthday 01/27/1986

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    Columbus, OH
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    http://fewdea.com

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  • Zip Code
    43235
  • Model
    Conquest
  • Type
    TSI
  • Model Year
    1987
  • Transmission Type
    Manual
  • Factory Color
    Dakar Sand
  • Interior Color
    Dark Red
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    Restoring

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  1. LOCATION: Orient, OH SHIPPING: None PICTURES: http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2727611&id=12415650&l=6de475df76 - these pictures are also a pretty good account of what has happened to this car. MILEAGE: body has 107K , engine has 80K PRICE: 2500 ... maybe a little less. RUNS: Yes ... as well as a blown turbo tsi runs. actually, it runs better than it should. MANUAL/AUTOMATIC: Manual ENGINE MODS: stock engine swap, no upgrades NON-FUNCTIONAL PARTS/FEATURES OR PROBLEMS: Clutch slips at high rev, blown turbo. I bought the car with these problems, and could not afford a stock turbo. New clutch didn't fix slipping. RUST?: frame rails could be worse, but aren't good. body has minor rust at corner of wheel wells. OPTIONS: cd player. DESCRIPTION: I can give you a VIN. The car isn't stolen or anything. But I am poor and I have yet to register the car in ohio after I bought it in Boston. I have the title and everything, but can't afford to pay taxes on it right now. Plus I have to get an out of state inspection. I got ripped off on this car and don't want to buy a new turbo or do a turbo upgrade. I've listed it for what I think it's worth, NOT including the money and time I've already dumped into it, which is a lot of stuff you don't have to do. I keep it in a garage and take it out to stretch her legs when i can. Previous owner kept it in the garage for 7 years. NEW PARTS: New clutch kit plus bearing. new TOB fork Engine has all new gaskets. Previous owner put on KYB suspension, so it's lowered a little. PARTS: I have a complete stage 2, 6 puck clutch kit and a 240 mm flywheel. The head from previous engine (spun bearing). Some other random stuff. I have a set of rims and a ripped driver's seat. PREFERRED CONTACT METHOD: phone 614.599.5431
  2. I made a craigslist post. It's really good and answers all your questions. Has pics. http://columbus.craigslist.org/cto/1623767094.html
  3. Toad

    TOB clips

    They're on their way. Thanks though!
  4. Toad

    TOB clips

    Found them. Part #MD701242
  5. Toad

    TOB clips

    Hey guys I need to replace the clutch fork for the quest I just bought. Got torn off somehow. The clutch fork doesn't come with the clips that attach the fork to the TOB. Was wondering if anyone had them, knows where to buy them or what you do when you get a new TOB (use old ones? Mine are bent bad) Thanks for your help =)
  6. Cool, that sounds similar to what we were planning to do before. Glad we're on the right track. Also on that note, The oil cooler is the only part that will have the old oil left in it. I'm assuming that it has a bunch of particulate in it from the explosion. Should I have that flushed? Is it like doing a radiator?
  7. answer to #2: http://www.starquestclub.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=81255&mode=threaded
  8. Hey guys, I got another g54b to replace the one I exploded recently in the interest of saving money. I have a couple of questions, but I'm sure I'll have lots more. 1. I've read you can use Marvel Mystery Oil to prep an engine that has been sitting. However, this requires the engine be turned on to clean it out. In the first few strokes, before the oil coats the cylinder walls, I'm worried the cylinders will be damaged. Am I being paranoid? 2. I want to buy a complete engine gasket set. How much should I be paying? I've seen a Felpro set for $40 or so, but that seems awful cheap to be of quality. Are the felpro sets good enough? More to come, I'm sure... Thanks!
  9. I've got a PDF of the 88 service manual, if that would help. What's your email? I can shoot it over.
  10. It certainly was. And I'm sure it will continue as long as I have the car. I'm getting the new motor on Tuesday, so I'm sure more chaos will ensue.
  11. Sorry this is so long, but I feel like I left many details out. It could easily be twice as long. I was never really into cars. I knew that I liked driving them, fast. I guess I started working on cars when I changed the CV shafts on my 97 accord. One day my friend James, who owns a 91 3000gt vr4, was discussing dream cars with me one day. I told him I wanted a rear-wheel turbo. He told me my options were somewhat limited, that I should get a DSM because rx-7s are a pain to work on, and he and another friend knew DSMs really well. My options were a starquest or an eagle talon, or an eclipse or some other stuff. Obviously, I chose the Conquest because it had style. I love the lines on it. Oh, here's the only pic I have of it so far: http://dailybooth.com/t3hBattleToad/1077131 So after looking for them on and off for about 3 months, I found one in Massachusetts , 755 miles away for 3700. We drove to Boston on a time schedule (James and I) in my 97 accord. We needed to get to Boston with enough time to test drive, buy and get to a BMV for temp tags to drive it home. We got to town at about 4:00pm. I had to play hookie at work most of the night. I had to drive from Columbus to Cincinnati and back to get my social security card from my parents house to get the registration. Left work for Boston a little after 3am. The drive was long, hit a little NYC traffic, but made it there on time. This part is a list of things not to do. First, the kid wouldn't let me test drive it. I should have walked right there. His excuse was that he didn't get test drive it when he bought it. He drove us around in it, knowing exactly how to drive it so it didn't give away the problems with it. Like a little kid in a candy shop, with enough money to buy the biggest jaw-breaker in the store, I handed him $3700 cash, more worried about getting to the BMV than the shape of the car. Once it was all said and done, he pointed us in the direction of the nearest BMV. We got there at 4:50... This location had been closed for a month now. The kid may or may not have know. Wouldn't surprise me either way. But now the car was mine and nothing would stop me from getting it home. I took my front vanity plate off my accord and put it on the Quest for the drive home. After getting to know my baby a little, I found the turbo was smoking. We determined it was an external oil leak. No problem, we'll just buy 8qt of oil for the journey back. The clutch was completely gone. Kid said he had the engine rebuilt, which I don't doubt - the block was green. Now it had an 8.5:1 compression ratio, without any supporting mods or ecu adjustment. Leaky turbo, minus a clutch, but it was still drivable, so I drove it. We left Boston probably around 8 or 9pm. I'll tell you what, I railed on the Quest for the next 620 miles. I was doing 4th and 3rd gear pulls every few miles, but it was ok because I kept putting oil in it. It was a blast, as I'm sure you all know. Three (3) miles from the PA / WV border, I shifted from 4th to 5th and my revs stayed at zero. Great. So I pulled over, James in the accord in front of me saw this and went to the next exit to turn around. I popped the hood, saw oil everywhere. Opened the oil cap and a bit of smoke came out. Maybe more than a bit, but I thought the car still might run, so I dumped the remaining oil I had into it. I tried starting, turned over really slow a couple times, then I stopped. After awhile, James showed up and determined the clutch fluid res was empty. Had some brake fluid in the honda, so we put it in, and finally got the car started. Let me preface this by telling you there were rumble strips on the side of the road with me. With the car started, I beat it into first gear, thinking this whole time that my clutch had exploded. Once in first, I tried accelerating, thinking the horrible noise my car was making was due to the rumble strips. I got enough speed to shift to second, but that didn't work. The noise became quite obviously more than just rumble strips so I turned the car off. When I opened my hood again, I saw something resting on the battery. As I went to pick it up, James was irritated that I was being ADHD when there were more pressing matters than a neat looking thing on my battery. I picked it up and immediately dropped it between my radiator and oil cooler. Thing was really hot. I grabbed my oil rag from the trunk and managed to free the hot lump of metal from the radiator. James looked like he saw a ghost when I showed it to him. It was my rod cap. It sheared the bolts right off, exploded out the side of my block, and landed on my battery, as if to say "Hello! Welcome to DSMs!" So neither of us have AAA, and it would cost something like a million dollars to have it towed the remaining 120 miles. At this point James and I have had maybe 8 hours of sleep between us since the journey began, most of it coming a few hours before the car died. So we leave the car on the side of the road, sort of tucked behind a guard rail, so the cops can't see my illegal plates on it, in the grass, safe from other motorists. At this point I'm pretty out of funds. I've bought something like 80 gallons of fuel, plus food and drink and everything else you need on a road trip. Luckily, my uncle was gracious enough to let me borrow his beefy F-150 with triton v8 in it. We waited in Columbus for a few hours until a vehicle transport was available at the one UHaul location that actually had one. Did I mention it was move-in week for Ohio State students? Naturally, there was a shortage of vehicle transports. 30 minutes before the 7pm close, we got the trailer. Well now, we sort of have another problem: how to get a dead car on a transport? We decided to go to Home Depot and buy some steel cable and use the trailer's strap wench to pull the car up. We decided to do a test-run on the accord in Home Depot's parking lot. As the employees were leaving for the night, we got some strange looks, haha. Once the cables were at full tension, we feared for our lives and abandoned the idea, opting instead to have a wrecker meet us at the car. So 2am rolls around and we meet the tow truck man at my car. He pulls it onto the flatbed and drives to a safe area to load the car. He wants $75, so I give him 100, as he just saved our lives, most likely. We get into Columbus at about 5 or 6am, needing to get the trailer and the truck back to their owners. I took a small nap on the tile floor of the new house we're storing the car at (no furniture yet). James tried to get the keys to the truck from me. Still asleep, I looked at him and said "I don't have a truck" and went back to sleep. Shortly thereafter, I woke up and backed the trailer up to the garage somehow. We push/drove the car into the garage, I returned the equipment and slept for 21 hours. Moral of the story: Have no regrets. I went on an adventure and I don't regret a bit of it. Now I have the car of my dreams, though I had to work for it. PS: Thanks to scottreallyknows for hooking me up with the new motor!
  12. Found a motor, thanks so much guys!
  13. Interested in the motor mostly. PMed =)
  14. EDIT: motor found, case closed =) Hello everyone! I just bought a champagne 87 tsi. Long story short, there's a hole in the side of the block. I'm sure the head is completely gone as well, but we're tearing that down today so I'm not sure yet. Anyway, I was wondering if anyone had an extra g54b laying around, or at least the block, as I can find another head for it. I live in Ohio, so pending distance, I could probably come pick it up. PM or reply if you think you could help me out. Thanks in advance -Toad
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