Can someone identify this car?

dsmkid87 · 07-31-2008, 12:31 PM

This guy is selling a 94' TSI AWD on craigslist and I called him up and talked to him about it. The guy bought the car fully modded and he doesn't know shit about it. All he knows is that it goes fast. He says that it was fully built by a local performance shop. If anyone has seen it before or knows whos it was I would really like to talk to them. All help is appreciated. Thanks

GsxEcutioner · 07-31-2008, 02:50 PM

94 doesnt have pop up headlights do they?

CrazyM · 07-31-2008, 07:48 PM

Nope they did not. Unless someone did a full 1GA conversion including doors, and spoiler reaching all the way up to the mirrors.

r1991_4g63t · 07-31-2008, 07:49 PM

didnt all 94s also have ABS? this one doesnt seem to

r1991_4g63t · 07-31-2008, 07:52 PM

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Originally Posted by CrazyM

Nope they did not. Unless someone did a full 1GA conversion including doors, and spoiler reaching all the way up to the mirrors.

also the rear bumper and tail lights and front fenders are 1ga, neither front or back lights would fit with either 1gb bumpers or fenders.

dsmkid87 · 07-31-2008, 09:29 PM

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Originally Posted by r1991_4g63t

also the rear bumper and tail lights and front fenders are 1ga, neither front or back lights would fit with either 1gb bumpers or fenders.

hm It's probably older than a 94'. I dont think Ive met someone that knew so little about their car. He has no idea what turbo is installed and he says there is sometuning program that uses a comptuer that needs to be reset. I'm guessing dsmlink.

r1991_4g63t · 07-31-2008, 09:32 PM

if its original its either a 90 or 91, check the VIN

or the sticker under the hood or on the door pillar

dsmkid87 · 08-01-2008, 06:04 AM

Well I don't live close to the guy so I will ask him the vin. Sadly he is going to put it up for auction next week if I don't buy it.

Steelnation36 · 08-01-2008, 06:13 AM

if u have doubt be careful. dont risk it. especially living far from him. just advice.

dsmkid87 · 08-01-2008, 07:39 AM

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Originally Posted by Steelnation36

if u have doubt be careful. dont risk it. especially living far from him. just advice.

Yea I do have doubt because I haven't even seen the car and I probably know more about it than him and that scares me, but I would just like to know what is done to the car because that pic of the engine bay looks interesting. He also said he is selling it with the laptop that is hooked up to it. I'm kind of just wondering if the guy doesnt know how much the car is really worth if it is built, because he is selling it very cheap. I just wanted to see if anyone on here knew anything about it.

Pure_Power65 · 08-01-2008, 10:51 AM

looks to me like it has a fmic greddy BOV 2g intake and some other goodies

Pure_Power65 · 08-01-2008, 10:52 AM

and its no 94

dsmkid87 · 08-01-2008, 05:40 PM

so no one has ever seen it before?

D20mobile · 08-08-2008, 09:18 PM

90-91 at least, if it's a tsi(awd model) it's eagle talon , other wise it's a mitsu eclispe gsx. I doubt it was a conversion either. He would have had to replace the non-retractable for retractable lights and change the fenders they differ too. which would be a waste of cash personally.

91gsx20g · 11-06-2008, 08:02 PM

looks like 14b from the top mounted charge pipe. decent fuel pressure reg. 2g maf. decent BOV and nice flow manifold. Its a 90 or 91 talon.

Kaotic_red · 11-06-2008, 08:21 PM

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Originally Posted by 91gsx20g

looks like 14b from the top mounted charge pipe. decent fuel pressure reg. 2g maf. decent BOV and nice flow manifold. Its a 90 or 91 talon.

I second that. the mani is the FP dsm race mani so it has to be a MHI turbo. In considering that, with the top mount it does look like a 14b. The BOV looks like a Greddy type RS with a 2g MAF. Still though... It looks pretty clean.

xsboost · 11-06-2008, 10:32 PM

First off, This thread was started over 3 months ago and dsmkid said the guy was going to put it up for auction "next week" so it's probably long gone by now so all these new threads are probably pointless (I know even mine) but because the thread is still alive, might as well keep helping. First off (as stated before) that's definately not a 94. To even do a 1gb to 1ga conversion would require a 1ga front fascia, headlights, whole parking light assembly across the front, quarter panels, core support,headlights, wiring, hood, 1ga rear bumper cover, tail lights, and even the wing looks like the one that extends all the way to the doors which only came on the 1ga (I believe early 90). That's way too much for it to be worth the trouble. Also that's not necessarily a MHI turbo or a 14b. There are a lot of turbos that are not Mitsubishi Heavy Industries that are Mitsu flanged. It does however look like a Mitsu style compressor outlet but the compressor outlet is the same for the 13b (which came on the autos), 14b, 16g, big 16g, EVOIII 16g, EVOIII GT, even 18Gs and 20Gs, ebay knock offs and a few others. It's almost impossible to tell exactly which turbo it is just by the compressor outlet. It looks to have some good stuff. GReddy type RS, FP exhaust mani, 2g MAF conversion, possible DSMlink (which means he probably has nicely sized injectors) nice looking AFPR, pretty nice looking FMIC piping, nice wheels . . . a lot of those parts aren't cheap. It looks like whoever did the work spent some money so it's a good bet he upgraded from a stock 14b. The engine bay's clean but you can't tell anything from that because a lot of people clean the hell out of that stuff before they sell it. Keep in mind almost any used car (especially DSMs) you buy is bound to have it's gremlins so you have to expect that regardless. I know the car's not close but if it's close enough to take a weekend to drive over and test drive it, do it. If not you could go back and forth on it forever. That being said, if I were you and if it's still available and you obviously know more than he does, I'd try to get him to come down on the price seeing as how it's at least 2 years older than he said. If the price is right I' d buy the hell out of it.