My name's Brandon and I'm from northern Indiana, here's some back story on my daily driven spirit rt family fun car.
Well I've spent most of my time over on the other turbo dodge site and recently found out how much more interesting this site is compared to the other one soI figured I'd throw my little project log up here. I had a few td's back in the late 90's and did everything all wrong which led to breaking everything from pistons to transmissions. After getting married and having two kids I decided I needed some boost back into my life. It took my a bit but ended up picking up a 90 Daytona es with a 2.5 T1 auto. Well after driving this car for a few months I came to realize it needed alot of work to handle any kind of boost increase. So I decided I needed to find a car in better shape to drive while I worked on my Daytona.
So I looked and looked and ended up finding a really nice 88 turbo Z and also a really clean 91 spirit rt both within an hour froim my house. So the decision was to be made wether to go with the 8 valve smec tii Daytona or the 16 valve sbec tiii spirit. I talked to alot of people and almost everybody said to stay away from the tiii and just go the safe route of the 8 valve. Then I started talking to Jackson and he made me feel much better about going the tiii route. So I headed down to check the spirit out in person. I like how my Daytona looks but something about the styling of the spirit rt really made me want to own it. Then came the test drive. It only took half throttle and a few years and my mind was made up, the spirit was coming home with me. Got the car home and parked it for the first few months so I could thoroughly go through all the problem areas I was warned about before I started daily driving it.
The mileage is unknown, odometer stopped working at 113,000. The car had 3 inch exhaust that stops just after rear axle with no muffler only a 3 inch catco cat. Stage 1 ND cal and +20 injectors and a k&n air filter when I bought it running about 14 psi. Only other parts were a b&m short shifter and a boost gauge. Here's a picture of when I picked it up, not much has changed on the exterior, all the changes have been under the hood. The car came frmom the north east originally, I think Connecticut, then was owned by goose in Virginia and a guy from Norwalk Ohio had it before the guy I bought it from. It has now found its forever home!