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Hello all, my name is Ray. Currently living in Madison wi, anyone else around here? I know i"ve see 2 around here.

 

The first time I had ever run across these cars was back in 2002. I walked into my high school auto shop class and there she was up on a lift. First I saw the wide tires with rwd, then noticed wheel flares, thought to myself at that point this thing is sweet! Then 2 seconds later saw it was 4cyl turbo. Turned away from the car and went staight to the shop instructor, "how much for the car?" He tells me it was sold yesterday. NOOOOO!!! The shop would constantly get donated cars, I ditched class the day before. I was a bit of a rebel back then. I went home that day to search the internet to find out so much more about this awesome car.

 

Several months go by, I can't seem to find any in the local area. I go to a party and this guy shows up talking about this super fast porsche that he came in. Me being into cars and half thinking this guy is full of it I ask him what kind of porsche it is. Turns out it's no porsche at all, it's the car that was brought to the auto shop. Turns out a shop he worked at purshased it then he got it. I bought the car from him that night for 2k.

 

Right away I could tell she was hurting. She was fairly stock at that time. Overheated and cracked the head a week later. I kinda cried. Sat around for about 8 months while i spent gobs of money over at TEP. I didnt know any better then. Eventually got it all back together by late 2003 with prty much all the mods you see below.

 

Attended Jim Russell Race Mechanics school at Infineon "Sears Point" for all of 2004. There we had the chance to race the star mazda cars that we devoted all our time to maintain these school cars. One day we had a chance to drive are own cars on the track. Went out and my tep turbo oil line failed. Spun my bearings and put a slight scrape in 1 cylinder, but bugged up the piston too much to reuse. Bummed after only only getting 3k miles on her.

 

So she sat, finished school, got hired onto a team and off i went to Nc. They trailored my car out there for me. She sat in the garage while i traveled the country not having the time to work on her. 2006 started getting back into, buying parts researching what I could do with her.

 

2007 moved into another place and had to put her in storage, she sat there for years. During that time i slowly got engine re-honed, ported turbo and manifold, polished up head, and workd on smoothing up tb. Ended up getting into it with tep for there faulty oil line, had to get a new piston from them. But there not the brightest there. Asked for the 8:1 piston, recived there new 8.2:1. My fault apparently even though i sent them the one from my car. So I had to buy a complete new set. In all I ended up spending over $100 in all the shipping.

 

2008 engine is still in pieces, no way to work on it while she was in storage. Mid 2008 moved to WI, bad mistake that was. Left her in storage in NC though. Was still too busy with racing schedule to go get her to WI.

 

About a year ago I got out of "full time" racing and had a chance to get her, so I did. Everything to make her live again was just sitting on the shelf. I had bought roller rockers back when they were all over ebay. Thought they would be great, didn't have a roller cam tho. Put the head together and realized spring keepers crashed into valve seals. Brought head to machine shop so that another set of valve guides could be installed at a lower height and back sides cut down to work with the taper of the valves I bought. Head sat there for 3 months till i was fed up. Got head back, brought to another place, had it back 3 days later. After doing more research i realized there was no real beni to having the roller rockers with out the cam. So I removed them. Engine went in a couple weeks later, started up a couple after that.

 

So as of a few months ago my starion has come back life. I just really wanted to share my story to you guys, and let you know a little about me. I plan to keep on going n going with this car to eventually have a great track day/drift car. Hope to give a little info given my racing background and plan to learn lots from this community. If you've made it this far in this post you must be a true fanatic, or just bored out of your mind. sry for my typing skills and my choice of wording. Lastly im prty much a wanna b mechanical engineer with common sense! lol

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Thats' a great story man. First, I commend you for having enough patience and passion for the car, these vehicles are not for everyone. It takes a special kind of person to own a StarQuest. We see it all too often, people who give up on their SQ for the most insignifant things.

 

So congrats on getting her running. Keep up the good work and how about some pics? :lol:

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