I thought the GS always had color coded door handles? Hmph, damnnn... still though, even I miss your car now.

 

the GS's did have the same color door handles. here's the door handle story lol in the SAME FREAKING DAY i pulled both the driver side and passenger side door handles off my car (don't ask how, it was a sign from God b/c i was talking about selling my car at the time) so i had to buy new/aftermaket handles from Ebay and just never painted them. btw... door handles are a PITA to install!

 

Oh, YES I know it, man... Ughh.... could never get that stupid metal bar in the right place... ended up paying for someone else to do it.

 

lol i had a buddy that pulled his handles off like that except his car was a honda lol but im not gonna go there b/c the way i look at it i dont really car who drives what b/c when i line up with b/c track or street imma smoke em anywayz you look at it lol...

 

Guys I don't have the vehicle here but I have found some paper work from the vehicle I hope helps to make a determination on runing it w/o a Turbo.
1997 Eclipse GS-T 2.0 DOHC 16V Turbo 4cylinder w/fuel inj
4 speed overdrive ELC Auto Trans.
Thanks

 

ok, so its a GS-T. with all of the problems that you are having so close to the time of it's purchase... my hypothesis is that the previous owner knew the engine was about to take a crap and sold it as quickly as he could. you say that the crank and 2 rods seized up... what exactly does that mean? if the crank seized up the car would not run. it's possible that your car has crankwalked, and turbo has gone out on it. not a cheap fix if i'm correct. that would mean you would need a bootom end rebuild and a new turbo minimum depending on the damage that was caused. but this is only 1 theory, it could be many other things wrong.

 

Its a 4g63t (the motor code) does this sound like someone rigged a motor that was going to crankwalk or tried to invent a way to repair it to get rid of it... Disconnected the turbo to give it less power, thusly putting less pressure on the motor (slowing down the signs of crankwalk), then sold it to this guy? Thats all theoretical, btw... lol... but it IS a 4g63t... stick or auto?

 

im gonna second with RC there i cant imagine your crank locking up like that but if it did then you have quite a problem there did you test drive the car and inspect it before you bought it b/c problems like that would have been a little difficult to hide or cover up even if he had wanted to...

 

Dammit, Ron... way to beat me to it. lol

 

its auto dusty...