Honestly it's not a bad idea to have an oil pressure guage...could save a catastrophic failure at the track. But for your case...a car that someone put those extra gauges on was probably beat on often.

 

I know of one off the top of my head.

 

if there is any doubt in your mind about what you're spending your hard earned money on.....walk away....

 

it looks to me like it is sitting in a body shop where it got something done to it
pass

 

But they are rare.

 

I'm going to walk away from it, at this point I think there are too many unknowns with this car. Thanks for the input.

 

How come no one pointed out that there is obviously an X-brace installed on the car, as well as a strut tower bar. Strut bar's are pretty common, but I've rarely seen people put on X-braces who don't thoroughly "enjoy" or track their car.

Also, what is that coming out of the valve cover in picture 8? Edit: nvm that's stock it just looks tampered with..

 

Once you find just the right car, you'll be very glad that you took the time to choose carefully. Be sure to come back and post up some pictures when that happens.

 

[QUOTE=Brownsound,Dec 16 2008, 04:43 PM] How come no one pointed out that there is obviously an X-brace installed on the car, as well as a strut tower bar.

 

Good point

I'll go ahead and paste from Wikipedia for people's amusement:

"With a MacPherson strut suspension system where the spring and shock absorber are combined in the one suspension unit, the entire vertical suspension load is transmitted to the top of the vehicle's strut tower, unlike a double wishbone suspension where the spring and shock absorber may share the load separately. In general terms, a strut tower in a monocoque chassis is a reinforced portion of the inner wheel well and is not necessarily directly connected to the main chassis rails. For this reason there is inherent flex within the strut towers relative to the chassis rails."