91 Spirit R/T W/ 8V 2.5L - 523 in 14569 WNY

[Aries_Turbo]

Im selling this for a friend. My buddy bought it off of gary donovan a few years ago and just drove it around. ive helped him with some little things over the years that he had it.

its a 91 R/T with a 2.5L that runs good and a 523 trans with what I believe to be a actual R/T clutch. the pedal is a little stiffer than a regular clutch provides. trans shifts good and smooth.

the car has some engine bay wiring harness issues. its a R/T Harness converted to run an 8v. i believe the problems are due to loose connections in the 60 way. those are easily remedied. i cleaned as many connectors as i could under the hood. those issues make the car run on 3 cyls as of now. that may be remedied if i can get enough time before sale.

turbo is a mitsu and works but the wastegate rod keeps popping off the pin cause the cotter pin is missing.

good thing though, the car comes with an extra 91 spirit 8V harness though, a R/T SBEC and a socketed 8V SBEC with the high torque 2.5L cal burned to the chip.

body is super solid. a little rust at the inside bottom of a door or two and maybe the trunk lid as well. its a 91 white R/T so it needs paint. :) Gary fogged it with a spraycan before sale but it needs it again and there is a little rust on the roof. not bad at all. floor is rock solid.

interior is in decent shape. rear pass window needs a little work. take apart and regrease and check wiring. pass front window is a little sticky at times but works pretty well. i took it apart and regreased everything a little ways back.

suspension is stock and probably original. prev to Gary owning the car, someone clamped the stock springs one coil. car comes with suspension techniques springs.

its a really solid car but needs a little tinkering and some TLC to make it really nice.

Ill have some pics Friday.

1500$ obo.

Brian

[Aries_Turbo]

oh BTW. car comes with stock snowflake wheels. pics will have lebaron GTC lace wheels on it most likely.

Brian

[Aries_Turbo]

bump.

[turbovanman²]

How can you bump without pics? :confused:

[Aries_Turbo]

i said friday for the pics simon the non-reader :) lol. i get one bump per day. im using it. :)



Brian

[turbovanman²]

i said friday for the pics simon the non-reader :) lol. i get one bump per day. im using it. :)



Brian

I read, just bustin your chops, bumping a thread with no pics, ;) :nod:

[Aries_Turbo]

as am i busting yours ;)

im a thread bumping rebel!!!! :)

oh and BTW the car has 179k on it. motor has alot less as does the trans and the clutch has a few thousand on it.

Brian

[Aries_Turbo]

ok better late than never..... pics

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Brian

[Aries_Turbo]

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[black86glhs]

How did you levitate horizontally and take that one picture?;)

[Aries_Turbo]

oops, forgot to rotate that one back lol

[Aries_Turbo]

bump.

remember the OBO at the end of the asking price. shoot me a PM with your offers if you are interested.

Brian

[Tony Hanna]

looking good tony.

shoot, if i knew you were going to get a spirit, id have sold you mine for cheap. super clean underneath and waaaaay less roof rust. its an R/T too but with a 2.5L 8v in it.

Brian


I see what you meant about less roof rust! That one would be a whole lot easier to get looking nice than my ES was. Seriously, somebody should buy this car, repaint it, and document the repaint. It's fun (no, that's not sarcasm), not very expensive, and you get to take lots of nifty before and after pics.:thumb: Plus you're getting the benefits of an R/T (brakes, suspension, etc) without having to worry about expensive 16v parts.:nod:

If I wasn't broke and over my limit on cars, I'd be all over that.

Tony

[banshee X]

why does everyone pull out the 16v motors gawd that makes me MAD!!!

[Aries_Turbo]

i didnt pull it out. someone long before i saw the car did.

Brian

[Orangetona]

Brian, I may be intrested in it if you could possibly get it running correctly. If you got it running correctly will this car be able to be driven back to my house? Also, is there any rust underneath it? Pics of that? Id appreciate man lmk. :)

Also, whats with the picture of the snowflake rim and no snowflakes on the car?

[Aries_Turbo]

yeah i should be able to get it running to get it to your house. it runs right now but not the greatest. i probably just need to go over the 60 way a little.

as you can see the snowflakes are on that k car in the background. they will be back on the car though for you.

rust underneath? i dont think there is any. I can take a look and a pic though. ill see if i can swing over there tomorrow and get a pic.

Brian

[Aries_Turbo]

btw, i probably wont be able to work on it till sunday though. i can grab the pic though.

you may not have much boost to drive it home though. ill see if i can get the wastegate arm to stay on a little better.

Brian

[Orangetona]

Im not worried about racin it on teh way home ;)

Well, if you could do that stuff let me know underneath the car is important to me because of past issues ive had heh.

[Aries_Turbo]

yeah i can see why the underbelly check would be important. ill try to get over there as soon as possible to get a few more pics and to do some tinkering.

Brian

[Aries_Turbo]

now here is another scenerio. what if sean towed it out when he was going to visit his folks?

i havent even talked to him at all about it but would that be a possibility?

Brian

[Orangetona]

Do you mean to tow it here to show me the car? Or do you mean if I bought it to have him tow it? Kinda confused.

[Aries_Turbo]

bump.... price drop to 1250$

Brian

[Aries_Turbo]

bump, 1100$

[Simsy]

if you decide to part this car out Let Me KNOW

[black86glhs]

Damn, I need to rob a bank!

[Aries_Turbo]

im not planning on parting it just yet.

1000$ OBO now.

Brian

[Aries_Turbo]

bump. simsy, what parts did you want?

[Aries_Turbo]

bump 800$

[moparfwdsleeper]

if you decide to part this car out Let Me KNOW

+1, hope it sells whole though.

[JohnnyIroc]

anyone have the story on why the paint peels on these
i remember my dad told me it cause he had an acclaim and he said something like all the lighter color ones paint some thing about the guy who was painting them was sweating all over the cars and a reaction with his deodorant under the paint makes it just peel off?
i dont completely remember the whole story

[90Dodgevnt]

Bump for a great deal.:thumb:


I looked into ship fees....ugh

$900+

[Aries_Turbo]

road trip^^^^ ;)

the paint peeled because certain paints had bad UV resistance. i heard that the paint let the UV through, killing the primer/sealer.

Brian

[nsd811]

i see there are a lot of people interested in this car but no one has any money what is bottom line on car and how far from binghampton are you if price is right and u are not to far i will pick it up to add to the collection thannx nick

[Aries_Turbo]

im ~2.5hrs from binghamton.

Brian

[mopar-tech]

why does everyone pull out the 16v motors gawd that makes me MAD!!!

The car was saved from certain death-

It was Seth Pentisis' car when he was living out here in New England and he picked up and moved to California. The car was sitting at his old place with no drivetrain and slated to be dragged off to the boneyard and crushed.

I towed the car back to my place and brought it back to life with a 2.5 and a stick. The car was very, very solid with no rust that I can recall.

It looked much nicer with a fresh 50 foot spray can paint job, lol. Looks like most of the original paint blew off and left the rattlecan paint behind!

Gary

[mopar-tech]

Going through some pictures, look what I found.

[Aries_Turbo]

yup, thats the one. its amazing how strong that rattlecan paint is lol.

it has a little rust here and there now but it wasnt driven in the winter so its still solid. i have too many cars or id be tinkering around with it and possibly putting a 2.4L-T in it.

Brian

[mark]

if you can get the headliner out in one piece i'd buy the headliner :) hehehe...

it would be nice to see another AA body on the road...

[Aries_Turbo]

naah it stays with the car.

is yours muffed up? is it cardboard like your old SC or is it the fiberglass gay stuff that GM uses?

you should buy the car anyway as yours is pretty rusty. :)

brian

[moparfwdsleeper]

;)I'm still waiting on the word:p:lol:

[mark]

rust adds to the sleeper ability.

besides, rust saves weight


naah it stays with the car.

is yours muffed up? is it cardboard like your old SC or is it the fiberglass gay stuff that GM uses?

you should buy the car anyway as yours is pretty rusty. :)

brian

[Big_P]

Sh*t. If I could dump my GTS I'd buy that in a second. Stupid cars.

[briceturbosports]

i thought denny was get the car ?

[Aries_Turbo]

denny was but he decided to go another route.

Brian

[turbovanman²]

why does everyone pull out the 16v motors gawd that makes me MAD!!!

I agree but the cost can be obscene to fix a TIII sometimes, and some parts are damn near impossible to find, :(

[Aries_Turbo]

bump. still at 800$ for a solid car. price negotiable. pm offers.

what someone should do is buy garys red 8V one thats getting rusty and this one and make one super solid car thats fast. :)

Brian

[black86glhs]

Damn, I need to sell a kidney or something!!!!

[jl93sundance]

Does it still have wiring issues?

[mopar-tech]

bump. still at 800$ for a solid car. price negotiable. pm offers.

what someone should do is buy garys red 8V one thats getting rusty and this one and make one super solid car thats fast. :)

Brian

I'm going to miss it, the Spirit has been a real good reliable car. Never broken down, never left me on the side of the road, hell the only major work done to the car since it was assembled was a ball joint on the passenger side and some alternator bushings.

And tires, lots of front tires.

[Aries_Turbo]

Does it still have wiring issues?

yes cause no one has touched the car at all. its more like connector issues. the 60 way on the sbec needs to be taken apart and cleaned and some of the pins tightened. you get a code 27 alot for injector driver and the car misses on one cyl. as stated earlier, i have a good 2.5L 8v spirit harness for the car.


I'm going to miss it, the Spirit has been a real good reliable car. Never broken down, never left me on the side of the road, hell the only major work done to the car since it was assembled was a ball joint on the passenger side and some alternator bushings.

And tires, lots of front tires.

yeah. they are nice comfy cars and fun too. :)

Brian

[tsiconquest88]

Man i want a spirit RT but really want the 16v motor. I am at a delema now, buy a running 16v or buy this one for less than half the typical running 16v costs and make do, or spend the triple number and have what i really want lol. This is killing me. I can drive up and get it now or anytime. This 8v thing is just urkin on me so BAD lol. I have an 8v already!!! What to do haha

[Aries_Turbo]

get it and swap in a 2.4L. easier to obtain motor, more parts available, pretty simple to adapt to the 5-speed trans and then you have a 16v motor. you can evan paint the appropriate parts red so it doesnt look out of place under there. :)

that was one of the ideas i thought of doing for the car.

Brian

[Aries_Turbo]

get it and swap in a 2.4L. easier to obtain motor, more parts available, pretty simple to adapt to the 5-speed trans and then you have a 16v motor. you can evan paint the appropriate parts red so it doesnt look out of place under there. :)

that was one of the ideas i thought of doing for the car.

Brian

[mopar-tech]

Man i want a spirit RT but really want the 16v motor. I am at a delema now, buy a running 16v or buy this one for less than half the typical running 16v costs and make do, or spend the triple number and have what i really want lol. This is killing me. I can drive up and get it now or anytime. This 8v thing is just urkin on me so BAD lol. I have an 8v already!!! What to do haha

If looking for a daily driver the combo can't be beat- The SOHC is an anvil that just won't die and if it does breakdown parts are cheap and easy. If you break down with the DOHC make sure you bring spares with you because Autozone will look funny at you when you go to buy parts.

The R/T chassis handles great and make an awesome road car.

[tsiconquest88]

yea i do agree. I guess its not so bad without the 16v, i just wanted that 224 stock hp lol. I think this is a go aries im going to pm u now about a few concerns i have with the car before finalizing though.

[mopar-tech]

yea i do agree. I guess its not so bad without the 16v, i just wanted that 224 stock hp lol. I think this is a go aries im going to pm u now about a few concerns i have with the car before finalizing though.

224 out of a SOHC is a piece of cake. =)

[Aries_Turbo]

sure is. maybe not with the mitsu that is on the car still but with a stock t2 turbo, 250whp is cake. :)

brian

[t2voyager]

:confused2:i dont see y no one has bought this $800 is a great price if u were closer i would buy this thing in a heart beat bump for a deal:nod:

[Aries_Turbo]

car still available... bump

i did just check underneath. a little rot around the ebrake hole but thats it.

i did start the car a bit ago too. ran rough. i think it needs some plugs.

Brian

[WickedShelby88]

Wished I would of seen this a while back. That is a heck of a deal. Too bad its soooo far.

[Aries_Turbo]

bump.

300$ its gotta go. no suspension techniques springs though anymore.

Brian

[tsiconquest88]

wow this is funny, i was just thinking last night about calling you today to see if you still had the car, i been waiting to buy an RT i been interested in that is quite high in price but was tryin to save up but buying this one for 300 wouldnt exactly kill me towards the other one haha. Im giving you a call as im going to get this man. I just want to discuss a few things first and make sure its ok with you. Heck i could use my van to bring it back lol.

[Aries_Turbo]

gimmie a call. you still have my cell?

Brian

[tsiconquest88]

yea i still got it hence why i said i was going to call you today anyway then i seen this recent post by you haha. Anyway i was planning on calling later cus i wasnt gonna call you this early till now of course since you said call, unless it is too early?

[gti_7]

Wow! what a stellar view from the house.. those rolling mountains are gorgeous!:hail: car looks good too:thumb:

bernie

[tsiconquest88]

i cant wait till i get there to pick it up!!!! Tryin to get to it soon

[moparfwdsleeper]

Now all you need is parts from my R/T to get it TIII'd again:p

Good buy:thumb:

[tsiconquest88]

lol i was going to be posting up for t3 stuff once i got the car in my posession. I did post in someones t3 thread. Dont have the extra money right now for t3 but i will def keep yours in mind man. Pm me info on it though for sure. like prices and work done etc. But yea t3 is definatly going to be done eventually!! If i sell my built 2.6 engine and my turbo mini heck i will get the stuff right off the bat lol. A guy from TD is interested in the van and hopefully someone gets this starion engine out of here cus i dont plan to mess with those cars for a while. and i can build another one anytime.

[tsiconquest88]

oh the thread i posted in was yours haha. shoot me a pm with price for a package deal on all i would for the swap to use your engine and trans. Well for what u have left that i can use that is lol.