Hey guys,
Well a few years ago I was looking heavily into purchasing a Typhoon for a daily driver. All in all - I couldn't afford it...so, I purchased a base model 3000GT (hold the fat pig comments please haha), and I sold that just about a year ago, picked up a 3000GT VR-4 that needed some work, threw about $3,000 into repairs I didn't know about (gotta love buying a car off of forums, right?)
Right now I'm making some decent money, and I've had the "same" car for just about four years. I'm unfortunately not wealthy enough to be purchasing anything new. I can make the payments, but don't want to commit to a four year lease at the age of 19. It's just not in my best interest.
Going back to the Typhoon part, I've LOVED the damn things since I set eyes on them when I was about 14 I'd say. I'm sort of looking for something SUV-ish and AWD, hence the VR-4 part, not the SUV part. Well here's my problem, my VR-4 is a calender car and I never drive it, I won't take it out in the rain, I won't let it dare touch snow, it only gets driven ~3 days a week. I don't want a garage queen at the age of 19.
I see the market has gone down from when I was last looking seriously, and honestly, I'm ready to dump thousands into my VR-4, or sell it right now. I don't want to take a huge loss in a year or two when I want to sell my VR-4, you know? As I said I'm 19 not looking to get myself into a HUGE hole. I would honestly put an intake, maybe downpipe and cat-back on the Typhoon and a boost controller. I read to upgrade the fuel pump as well?
Anyway, I'm pretty sure I'm rambling, what I'm looking to know is, is there common problems associated with all Typhoons? For example, on the first generation VR-4s (1991-1993) the transfercase is relatively weak if you are to launch the car 5,000RPMs+ repeatedly, at around 100,000 miles the output shaft will wear out, at 60,000 miles the 60K tuneup should be done. What am I looking at if I want to get involved with a Typhoon?
Thanks a lot for any information you're willing to share, and I have searched for common problems, all I've turned up is a heater hose problem, and the fuel pump problem I mentioned earlier. Are those it?
Well a few years ago I was looking heavily into purchasing a Typhoon for a daily driver. All in all - I couldn't afford it...so, I purchased a base model 3000GT (hold the fat pig comments please haha), and I sold that just about a year ago, picked up a 3000GT VR-4 that needed some work, threw about $3,000 into repairs I didn't know about (gotta love buying a car off of forums, right?)
Right now I'm making some decent money, and I've had the "same" car for just about four years. I'm unfortunately not wealthy enough to be purchasing anything new. I can make the payments, but don't want to commit to a four year lease at the age of 19. It's just not in my best interest.
Going back to the Typhoon part, I've LOVED the damn things since I set eyes on them when I was about 14 I'd say. I'm sort of looking for something SUV-ish and AWD, hence the VR-4 part, not the SUV part. Well here's my problem, my VR-4 is a calender car and I never drive it, I won't take it out in the rain, I won't let it dare touch snow, it only gets driven ~3 days a week. I don't want a garage queen at the age of 19.
I see the market has gone down from when I was last looking seriously, and honestly, I'm ready to dump thousands into my VR-4, or sell it right now. I don't want to take a huge loss in a year or two when I want to sell my VR-4, you know? As I said I'm 19 not looking to get myself into a HUGE hole. I would honestly put an intake, maybe downpipe and cat-back on the Typhoon and a boost controller. I read to upgrade the fuel pump as well?
Anyway, I'm pretty sure I'm rambling, what I'm looking to know is, is there common problems associated with all Typhoons? For example, on the first generation VR-4s (1991-1993) the transfercase is relatively weak if you are to launch the car 5,000RPMs+ repeatedly, at around 100,000 miles the output shaft will wear out, at 60,000 miles the 60K tuneup should be done. What am I looking at if I want to get involved with a Typhoon?
Thanks a lot for any information you're willing to share, and I have searched for common problems, all I've turned up is a heater hose problem, and the fuel pump problem I mentioned earlier. Are those it?
