Anyone know this type r?
- Thread starter whitegtr
- Start date
Keadeen
Well-known member
Went out to look at this in January when it was up for €5500 asking price about 20 min south of Kilkenny.
Car was originally intended to be a track car and totally stripped... then left in a shed for quite a while.
Then the chap I went to see it at bought it and started putting it back together.
Good points:
* Newish clutch
* Centre Pod gauges work
* fully polybushed
* no big accident damage
* turbo timer fitted
* In January only was on 2nd Irish owner and in the country since May '07
* Drove well, gears good, came up to temperature good and stayed at normal temp during drive.
Bad points:
* 6-padle clutch is very aggressive and juddery and stiff
* passenger side very badly resprayed with lots of "orange peel" (one of the main reasons I walked away as cost of doing it right made car too dear as chap wouldn't take less than €4500)
* Doesn't look like was big crash and could have been superficial transport damage, chassis looked straight from what I could see and no obvious fillers or welding.
* a lot of wear of driver's seat
* supposed to be mapped, but no proof or history so big question mark over it
* i/c spray not working and disconnected
* no underseal
* Odd tyres on it and one of the fronts is illegal as no E mark on it
* Wheels rub badly on full lock as size too big/wide
* no jack or boot liner or spare wheel (got lost in the shed during conversion)
* Registered as a 4 door instead of a 2 door coupe (probably for VRT saving)
I have a Cartell report if you are serious about wanting to look at it and can save you the cash on that one (pm me if you need it). There's nothing bad in it except that registered as 4 door instead of 2 door (to save VRT probably) and obviously there are gaps in tax and NCT. At the right price this could be a good one to put some money in maybe, but would need to be a lot better than current asking price as will take a few thousand to get her the TLC needed to tidy it up.
Car was originally intended to be a track car and totally stripped... then left in a shed for quite a while.
Then the chap I went to see it at bought it and started putting it back together.
Good points:
* Newish clutch
* Centre Pod gauges work
* fully polybushed
* no big accident damage
* turbo timer fitted
* In January only was on 2nd Irish owner and in the country since May '07
* Drove well, gears good, came up to temperature good and stayed at normal temp during drive.
Bad points:
* 6-padle clutch is very aggressive and juddery and stiff
* passenger side very badly resprayed with lots of "orange peel" (one of the main reasons I walked away as cost of doing it right made car too dear as chap wouldn't take less than €4500)
* Doesn't look like was big crash and could have been superficial transport damage, chassis looked straight from what I could see and no obvious fillers or welding.
* a lot of wear of driver's seat
* supposed to be mapped, but no proof or history so big question mark over it
* i/c spray not working and disconnected
* no underseal
* Odd tyres on it and one of the fronts is illegal as no E mark on it
* Wheels rub badly on full lock as size too big/wide
* no jack or boot liner or spare wheel (got lost in the shed during conversion)
* Registered as a 4 door instead of a 2 door coupe (probably for VRT saving)
I have a Cartell report if you are serious about wanting to look at it and can save you the cash on that one (pm me if you need it). There's nothing bad in it except that registered as 4 door instead of 2 door (to save VRT probably) and obviously there are gaps in tax and NCT. At the right price this could be a good one to put some money in maybe, but would need to be a lot better than current asking price as will take a few thousand to get her the TLC needed to tidy it up.
OP
OP
whitegtr
Member
Great information there cheers for that. I did a cartell check on it myself today so could have saved myself the bother.
The registered as a 4 door thing would bother me. I wonder are there any legal issues with this if you had a an accident?
As long as it in isured as a type r I assume it would be ok.
Might go and have a look at it anyway and see if he's willing to deal.
The registered as a 4 door thing would bother me. I wonder are there any legal issues with this if you had a an accident?
As long as it in isured as a type r I assume it would be ok.
Might go and have a look at it anyway and see if he's willing to deal.
OP
OP
whitegtr
Member
I was asking about the sti because I can't find a good wrx at the min. The reason I want a wrx is I had a V4 jdm wrx a few years ago and loved it. I owned it for about 5 years and it was never remapped.I ran it on octane booster and E5 later when it came it. A few people I knew at the time had sti's and most of them had to rebuild the engine. So I suppose I have it in my mind that a wrx is more reliable. This is not based on any research,just my experience. The later wrx's have the same turbo as the sti and I always found them to be quick enough.