I was going to turbo my 96 GP but it ended up having very bad rust on the driver side trailing arm mount area. So the search started for a TGP on craigslist. I found about 4 for sale with in 4hr's driving distance. Ranging from 1400$-3500$. Only 1 had pictures and sounded to be a perfect car for me to restore and was only two and half hours away. It was listed for 1500$. And I got it for 1200$.

Its a 1990 with 121k miles. 1 owner and hasn't been on the road really since 2000. 100% original. Even has the factory gm floor mats. Interior is mint - the sagging headliner. Exterior is decent. No rust except a little spot on the conner of the roof where some paint came off. No rust under the car. Car runs good. Only issue is a big coolant leak somewhere on the back side of the motor.

My plan for the car are to restore it to original. Only things I am thinking of doing is maybe a K&N cone air filter which I will run when I drive it and put stock tube back on the air box when I go to car shows. I think I want to take the cat off since its a little too quite. And a chip for it if I can still get one.

Here's the pictures of how I bought it

The paint looks good, better than mine on the bumpers. Take more pictures of the engine and the interior.

Lots of K&N filters will fit, there's a sticky in the Performance forum. (I have a RU-1390 but I don't recommend it because the engine torquing over is pretty much guaranteed to crush it.) Some people also run some exhaust pipe from the turbo down under the car and pop the filter on near the bottom to get fresh air in. For a tune, PM flybynite, I just got mine re-tuned by him literally a couple days ago, waiting for it to ship back.

Nice TGP bud as far as the coolant leak check the coolant lines that run on on the firewall and the one that comes off the back of the intake and runs under the down pipe and back up. That pipe on my TGP rubbed a hole about a year ago.

Quote from: NTRCOOL on October 04, 2011, 04:36:22 PM
Nice TGP bud as far as the coolant leak check the coolant lines that run on on the firewall and the one that comes off the back of the intake and runs under the down pipe and back up. That pipe on my TGP rubbed a hole about a year ago.

That sounds a lot like where my leak. I can see It leaking on to the down pipe.

Quote from: Fred931 on October 04, 2011, 03:02:11 PM
The paint looks good, better than mine on the bumpers. Take more pictures of the engine and the interior.

Lots of K&N filters will fit, there's a sticky in the Performance forum. (I have a RU-1390 but I don't recommend it because the engine torquing over is pretty much guaranteed to crush it.) Some people also run some exhaust pipe from the turbo down under the car and pop the filter on near the bottom to get fresh air in. For a tune, PM flybynite, I just got mine re-tuned by him literally a couple days ago, waiting for it to ship back.

The paint is pretty good and should shine up pretty decent. Only part I don't see coming out great is the trunk since it at pitted. I plan on restoring to 100% original and then get it repainted in a year or so.

I bought the one K&N 5" filter with the 20* bend. I am just put on for when I drive it. But When I take it to car shows and stuff I will put it back to stock.

Ill get some pictures for ya tomorrow.

Congrats on the score it looks pretty clean compared to most these days.