checked out a car today

[Watermelonwarrior]

this is what the guy told me.

The engine was just rebuilt. I have all reciepts of the full rebuild. The car will not stay running and is not getting spark on 3 cylinders no matter if a good coil is on or not. I am just tired of messing with this car and would like to get a feeler to see if anyone would be interested. The fact that their is no spark is because of the PTU (Power Train Unit). The engine is getting fuel so I have eliminated that. I just think their are several vaccum leaks causing it not to stay running. I have tried to source the leaks out with a vaccum leak tester, but the tool was designed to find leaks if they were small, but because there are several of them leaking air it's harder to single them out.

what do you think the problem could be? i had this on my old motor as well.hes asking 6500 and the body and interrior look amazing. from what i can tell i doubt this car has more then 100k on the motor.thanks

[evildky]

I would suspect the ptu as well, as for val leaks I'd pull the plenum and lower intake manifolds and put it all together again to help weed out any potential leaks, the price seems high for a non drivable n/a, if it were runnning and drivable I think that would be a fair price but in it's current condition you could spens thousands tracking down and fixing problems

[Watermelonwarrior]

i forgot to mention it is a twin turbo.

[evildky]

in that case it's a rpetty good deal I would still want a bit more of a reduction given the potential future expense, if he would have ahd the prior work done by a reputable shop this would not be a present issue