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I think there is only one choice, drive the built one and enjoy it whilst you spend a bit of time building and perfecting the low milage one as yoy want your forever car to be spot on. Once you've got it perfect, sell the built one and recoup some of your investment. Fingers crossed its value goes up in the meantime!
One of them I guarantee is going to be a give away car. Rotaries are like riding 4 stroke bikes your whole life then getting a taste of a proper two stroke.
Keep the low mileage stock and restore the bodywork and paint, keep it sat as an investment/museum piece (sounds like you got it at a decent price and OE conditions ones are only going to get rarer and more valuable). Then keep the other 1 as your driver car and modify to your hearts content
I think it depends on your goal with the car . If your thinking OEM plus fast road going car then I’d pick the low miler and respray it factory red . If your considering cages, different arches, lock kits etc then I’d just use the 80k mile one as you’ll be replacing everything anyway I think both would follow same approach for giveaway car , low milers just getting some love n TLC , then the faster one getting some racey bits on it and a lip kit 👌🏼
Welcome to the FC club! 🤝 Respray the low mileage Turbo ii, keep it simple, especially since good FC interior pieces are hard to come by nowadays. Second FC, just go crazy with it, or possible next giveaway car.
with how hard interior is I'd go with the stock one, as others have said you can fix the body and both probably need at least some paint and the stock one is just a better untouched play ground to start in, especially with the interior (the other one looked slightly yellowed on top of the light wear)
Like some others have said, it depends on your goals for the car. If you are going for the oem+ vibe, then definitely the low mileage one. If you are gonna do a full refresh and turn it into a drift car (because you did drift it so i assume that you are planning on turning it into a drift car), then the high mileage one. The low mileage one should sell for more too since it is so good both on the inside and outside.
As a fellow owner of a 1988 FC Turbo II in red, they are both nice! The 30k car though seems like it will need some money thrown at it to make it perfect. You gotta ask yourself if you will enjoy the car in stock form. They are pretty slow with stock turbo and all. I vote for keeping the 80k mile car as you won't feel too bad about making it your own build. My FC is mostly stock under the hood besides a fresh rebuild, studded keg, and upgraded fuel system. I want to put a bigger turbo on it and HKS cast manifold I have laying around, but I'm on the fence!
I think your gonna like the one that looks brand new on the inside more then the one that’s already had other touches done to it by someone previously!
Watching this clip brought back alot of memories for me alot of them good and some sad as a previous fc owner it made me happy to hear and see one but after spending 18 years searching for one but realizing the prices were way to high made me sad maybe one day I'll find one and fix it up to share with my son when he is of age. Thank you for taking me back to memory lane brought me to tears sharing my love of the fx rx7 with my best friend
A stock FC is such a joy to drive. I've got an original '87 TII and I can drive it 9/10ths and not worry about getting too crazy. Keeping the restraint to keep it stock is SO difficult. But I've enjoyed my stockish FC TII.
Ultimately they're both going to need bodywork and although the engine in one has some upgrades, they're questionable, so both are going to require engine work. I'd keep the low mileage one as it's not been messed with yet.
I'd say the 30k car. The body repair and respray you guys can easily do inhouse, and the rest is near perfect. Other thing: it doesn't have a sunroof that will leak.
You can buy high temp hose that won't melt for those push lock air hoses. Years ago, when I had air suspension, I was melting lines a lot, till I stopped at a ParkerStore and found the high temp alternative. Also, with everything you do to cars you keep, I say keep the modified one, and "sell" the low mileage one to Collette. lol
We use those push air fittings at work for solenoids and what not. The biggest issue for us it the fittings get brittle and leak. Havnt had a line go bad yet 🤙
You and the old lady need to do a budget build off and keep both for you guys my idea though up to you guys. or do a race at the end and for the winner, do a giveaway maybe
Go crazy on the built one and make it drift ready with 400-450 hp seat time all time fun car. Do the bodywork on the clean one and turn it into a clean show car and then display both of them side by side on events, would be so cool to look at.
When using push lock festo fittings always use the thicker clear high heat line. Works perfectly. I always use festo fittings an line. It's kinda high but well worth it. I have pushed the lines an fittings to over 20bar.
I like the driver car, the built one, its already a fun machine and we can se a little serie putting suspension, wheels and tyres, and all that fun things we had back in the day!, miss those videos but we know things have changed!
That all comes to preference since both are virtually the same power, many people dont like the ztune kit, and personally i find adams purple better tjs is a little too dark. I like the oem+ nature of tjs but you have to admit fabrication is much cooler and its shows much more time and effort was put into the build rather than just bolt ons. Both are sick builds but I wouldnt call one better than the other
Colettes probly super happy that Adams been on such a rotary kick lately cus she gets to cherry pick any parts she wants from them lmao but its just cool to see the insane collection adams accumulating
I use to have a 10AE and if it where me, I’d want it stock as can be. You already have heaps of fast and fun cars. It’s nice to time travel every once in a while.
Love the problem. I have a similar problem 😂 all the special Japanese cars are the passion and how can you choose just one. 🥵 The bone stock girl would make a great street car and the mildly tuned car would make a great track car. Red is the jam. We know you’ll give them both the ocd treatment so it’s a good place for both to start from. You have the room. Put the stock girl in the corner and have fun with the “driver track car” you can continue to abuse it and have fun with it, knowing you have the old stock girl for a rainy day.
It depends what you plan to do with it. If you want to have OEM look under the hood I'd take mostly stock one, but if your planning on making it a lil weekend ripper I'd take the street car and call it a day
I day switch interiors and the red spoiler and some of the engine room stuff like the a/c and keep the modded one. It will be a fun driver and looks better than than the lower mileage one.
I think new paint for ray on the low mileage one will be worth it, built one looks good but having a fresh start with an OEM from 87' is a whole experience
I remember back in like 2016-2017 you came out to lone star drift here in houston. I was 16-17 at the time and met you. Then you put my fc in the video showing off its interior sayin its the cleanest youve ever seen. Been watching since the “game of bike” says this is dope to see It was the first time driving with a 2jz video
The bodywork car is the one to keep, but i'd take the built one. Yes there are alot of things done but not the "right" stuff, it has turbo, IC, but id have most of the things from the 13B REW of the FD except the twin turbos. I would put like a BW 7670(the 8374 is a nice chocie for more power tho), and enough injector for about 600whp on E85(the turbo won't supply enough air for it, but it's nice to have some headroom and not be on the limit) topmounts are cool but id stick with V mount setup on the FC and when it comes to the engine i'd just make sure it's in good shape, probably have it rebuilt. And sell the existing one as a built and good working engine :) Ofc then there is all the planning, but it already have a fuel system that can supply the fuel but knowing me i would still tear into that shit. Hmm, now when i think about it, why not spend the whole wallet doing the stock one completely to my own taste, i mean, when everything is gone over anyway? Then you don't have another persons project and shortcommings to deal with :D
Keeper is the built, get a haltech 1500 I have one in my FC and it is amazing. I also have the turblown twin gate manifold and it sounds very similar to yours but I can hold 10 psi no problem
