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Thanks to all of your words of caution I was able to negotiate the price to a point where it should be a win win either way. If I cant fix the turbo for my budgeted amount then I'm selling the engine and parting out the Turbo to swap in a 04-05 AP2 engine. In fact I still may do this in the winter if I decide I dont like the turbo. Anyone have any complaints about the stock rims? I may sell the rims on the car and switch back to stock rims.
If it were me I would try hard to resist spending money on the car until after I'd driven it for a few months. Given the low price you might decide to spend money, or maybe not. You might even decide to sell it as is - you never know. But after a few months you will be better acquainted with the car, the newness will have worn off, and you'll have a better idea what you want to do. The issue that I would be weighing is at what point am I throwing good money after bad. That might depend on the condition of the other components of the car.
Personally I have no desire to boost an s2k so that part of this car would be a negative to me so I would be sorting out how to return it to NA with a strong stock engine and how to do that without getting myself too far upside down on the money I have invested. But that is a basic issue you have to come to grips with - do you want an NA s2k? Or do you want a boosted s2k?
Thanks to all of your words of caution I was able to negotiate the price to a point where it should be a win win either way. If I cant fix the turbo for my budgeted amount then I'm selling the engine and parting out the Turbo to swap in a 04-05 AP2 engine. In fact I still may do this in the winter if I decide I dont like the turbo. Anyone have any complaints about the stock rims? I may sell the rims on the car and switch back to stock rims.
Are you thinking the AP1 stock 16" rims? I'm guessing your upgraded RPF1 wheels are 17", so you made need tires too...Remember there is a better selection of 17" tires than 16" ones.
Levi
Anyone have any complaints about the stock rims? I may sell the rims on the car and switch back to stock rims.
I prefer the 16" stock rims. I love how tossable the car is. Give it a bit of power and you can easily kick out the tail. It adds to the fun and rawness of the AP1.
I'm not sure whether or not I want to keep the car boosted. I know I can't leave it as is, so either the shop will tell me it's cheap enough to repair or I start the part out process early and go back to stock.
I threw the stock rims on it today and have to say I like both rims and they both ride well. I like the comment about wheel choices as I need to price out the difference of AP1 16s and the enkie rfp1s.
02-18-2017, 02:46 PM
