Well. when I could get her to run right, she screamed. I ate 5.0's all day. I had a mechanic friend of mine help me with the engine part, the BIG jobs anyway. The Merks didnt have intercoolers from the factory unlike the SVO mustang and T-bird Turbo Coupes, So I added one from a late 80's 944. Then upgraded the T3 to a Grand National Turbo, ran 19 psi with ported intakes and heads. I installed a 9" ford with 3.73 gears and ripped out the T-9 for the infamous T-5 tranny. All in all, she scorched the earth, that is until I blew the head gasket and ultimately melted a piston to the cylinder! AHHH!

holy shit, what kind of car are we speaking of here?

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Is that a honda? What is that silver thing?

XR4Ti..........aaaaahhhhh, alow and behold.
Them things are sweet but get to lookin like shit if you dont take care of them.
I'd rather see someone else have one. I like my money. .......But they are nice. Someone had a 300zx V6 Turbo in one in a "Readers Rides" section a while back in SCC.

My Dad and I test drove a XR4Ti back in the late 80s. Not a memorable drive other than the fact the car only had a thimble's worth of gas in the tank, and the car started stalling a block away from the dealer.

I hear they were interesting - when they had gas in them. http://laf.cioe.com/~benbobbo/NonCGI/wink.gif

my friend bought one awhile ago just to jack around with it... Very interesting in deed. I did like the RWD and Handeling, but boy did he have a TON of probs with that car. He ran it at hte track, blew the headgasket on its first pass lol. Then a few weeks later just caught on fire when he was goin down the freeway, he got sick of the car and left it on the side of the road unclaimed.

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'95 200SX SE-R - Jim Wolf Clutch, K&N, CN Catback Exhaust, CN strut bars, KYB AGX, Eibach ProKit, audio
'99 Prelude base - CAI, Greddy SP
'02 TL Type S - Stock

Oh yeah! As many times that I went to bone yards to swipe various pieces, I would say about 85% of them were in there due to engine fires. Nasty indeed. I replaced the engine in mine twice, tranny twice(before the T-5 Conversion), and the rear end twice. I blew about 5 drive shaft bearings/guibos off of it, that was real fun. Like I said, when she ran right, it ran like a demon, but that was about half the time.

well, it is a Ford product!!
oh uh.

HAHA! Right you are, exactly the reason why I now drive a 200!