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Im in Eugene Oregon. This car was originally black with red interior, now its blue and green with red interior. Mods: Clutch-Fan,JVEK,BSEK,AC delete,lo-buck FCD,new speakers. Website for the car/rebuild https://sites.google.com/site/1986starion/ I also have about 500 pictures of the car here: https://plus.google.com/photos/102108211058800240055/albums/5436082381246068705 I just posted a couple pictures of the car after putting on a bunch of bare metal parts. I bought the car off a guy on craigslist. He says he's been garaging it for 10 years, but never got around to fixing it. He got it from someone that drove it in california for 10 years. It had about 127k miles, it was in pretty rough shape. Believe it or not, I've spent over $4,000 on this car, just to make it reliable, and almost stock. I did the FCD last fall, and have pretty much wrecked the turbo (stock 12a). It will still boost to 1 bar, but I know that cartridge is ********. I've ordered new parts and will build a new turbo when parts arrive. The car does have some small dings, but no major dents (but there is a mystery spot by the gas tank, I found bondo when I accidentally scratched the paint) The only rust on the car is on the old messed up bare metal panels I've recently put on the car, I still have all the original panels too. The tires on the car are totally the wrong size, and they are old, and just generally suck, I shouldnt have bought them. The only real appeal the tires have is the rears look thick, and probably last for many burnouts. There is a whole I burned (battery acid) in the back seat when a battery tipped over, The drivers seat is pretty worn, and stitching has ripped. The steering wheel leather is worn prettymuch too, but its all stock, and everywhere else, its in good shape. I painted much of the rubber/vinyl with vinyl dye, but the front bumper, and spoilers its didnt take too well, and is flaking off. Right now I have it in flatty front fenders, and all bare metal, but those are just spare parts I have, if you want stripped bare panels, I could throw some in to sweeten the deal.

Ok so I'm going to try my best to explain this to the "T". it's a 86 starion esi-r When I bought the car you had to pump the throttle constantly to keep it running and it would not rev passed 1800rpms, if you tried to hold a constant rpm with the throttle it would bog down and die. My first reaction was the fuel filter was clogged.... Easy fix I was wrong haha. I limped the car to a friends shop and started digging. I change out the fuel pump and filter just to make sure it was getting enough fuel ( the old pump was weak). I didnt see the "pre-fuel pump" filter/screen so I assume someone has already been there to replace the pump. After all of that it still doesn't run right at all. The car starts up with out any problems with in 2 seconds of cranking the car is running, but it idles soo rough like it needs a good tune up( which has been done I will add a parts list at the end). Now it kind of idles on its own and I can drive it but when I drive it sometimes bogs down and I have to let off so it wont die. It will buck and bog and start building boost also. While trying to hold a steady speed lets say 60mph it bucks and feels like a huge miss but when I checked the plugs the shows that it's burning all the fuel like normal so it's not a mixture issue, the timmong is set to 10 btdc. The old owner said he went to go eat and went inside and when he came out to leave the car ran like crap and limped it home. I'll try to post a video of it as well. Parts list ( stuff that has been replaced or tested good) New fic 850cc injectors New plugs Good ngk wires maybe 3000 miles on them New cap New rotor New fuel filter New fuel pump New o2 sensor New maf All new vaccine lines (replaced one by one to not mix them up) New coolant temp sensor The car had a oil change in Cali at 77,300 miles it has 78,100 on it now so this problem just happened. Any help would be great!!!!!!!