Hey. I'm kind of a newbie, 17 years old and looking for a first car.
Getting a starlet gt turbo for a first car would be a dream come true. I came across one that was heavily modified, had a subaru turbo, bigger and better front mounted intercooler, a honda radiator, swapped forged pistons and connecting rods along with a lot of other stuff such as an aftermarket clutch and suspension components.
The owner of this one offered to tune it to "tune" it to it's minimum for me as it is my first car and I won'tbe using the car's full potential. (This will be done by for example restricting boost to 0.40bar or something). I fell in love with the car and the guy is a long-time mechanic and his work looks VERY clean and he sounds a lot like he knows what he's doing.
I also found another one that is a 1000euros cheaper, completely stock, with more than 365000km on it. This would be the better option, however, I was also told by a lot of people that if I go with this option I will end up spending more on this one in the long run due to the need of for example the turbo going bad, suspension components going bad, etc.
What would you do?
Getting a starlet gt turbo for a first car would be a dream come true. I came across one that was heavily modified, had a subaru turbo, bigger and better front mounted intercooler, a honda radiator, swapped forged pistons and connecting rods along with a lot of other stuff such as an aftermarket clutch and suspension components.
The owner of this one offered to tune it to "tune" it to it's minimum for me as it is my first car and I won'tbe using the car's full potential. (This will be done by for example restricting boost to 0.40bar or something). I fell in love with the car and the guy is a long-time mechanic and his work looks VERY clean and he sounds a lot like he knows what he's doing.
I also found another one that is a 1000euros cheaper, completely stock, with more than 365000km on it. This would be the better option, however, I was also told by a lot of people that if I go with this option I will end up spending more on this one in the long run due to the need of for example the turbo going bad, suspension components going bad, etc.
What would you do?