You know how sometimes you're bored at work, pulling OT, and then you look on Kijiji and make some bad life decisions?
Meet the Poopra. It was sold to us by the owner of a storage yard in Acme, who was liquidating it after the owner presumably stopped paying his storage bill.
It comes with zero horsepower:
The interior is a mix of P-Type parts and L-Type parts, with some important panels (HVAC controls) entirely missing or broken. It smells prominently of mouse itshay, and there are at least two mouse nests that we identified while taking the hood off the car and preparing it for transport. The yard operator believed it to be a 1985, but based on some other information we received (see below) it is probably a 1982. The shell is almost completely free of rust, which is god damn remarkable for a Japanese car that's older than me.
Near as we can tell, one of the previous owners was a moderator of the Alberta Supra Club but
his build thread peters out near the end of 2009, after this car drove him insane trying to rewire it multiple times for a 7M swap. I'm guessing that he is not the same guy who dumped it in the yard. Hoping to get my account approved for the forums so I can ask the dude some questions about it.
This is going to be an extreme long-term project; we have at least three cars in the queue in front of this one, including whatever our Trans Mountain car will be for this year's rally. It came stuffed full of boxes of parts, which we haven't had a chance to open, so if there's a nice Chinook and we get bored there might be some "unboxing" posts in which we discover more mouse itshay.
So far, all we have done is source another W58 manual transmission with an "M" bellhousing: it came off of a '90 so my understanding is that this is a "steel case" W58 and therefore slightly stronger than the W58 this would have come with.
The plan is to repower the car, strip the interior as much as possible, and then use it for ice racing and/or autocross? I dunno.
Expect very slow updates as this now sits on a trailer in a field. That is, unless you have a 5M or 7M lying around your garage and want to give it to us so that this thing gets kicked up the queue a few spots.