I got a 1991 RS from a guy down the street for about 1k.

The Bad:
Master Cylinder and maybe Brake Booster
Headliner is leaking
Upper and lower Tranny cooler lines snapped
Rear Brake Line broke
Left and Right Flex Brake Line snapped
Front and Rear Bleeder Screws seized
Wheel Cylinders Leak
Rear Brake Hardware bad
Heater Core
Transmission (3rd Gear is gone)
Interior Gauges are shot
Dome Light Sparks
Hood Shocks are shot
Drivers Door Doesn't lock
High Beams Dont work
E-Brake Cable seized
Drivers Floor Board Rotted
Front Calipers
Oil Leak
Throttle Body Gasket

What I've Replaced:
Front Calipers
Left Front Flex Brake Line (then i found out the right was bad)
Rear Brake line
Rear Hardware for Drum Brakes
Upper and Lower Trans Cooler Lines (1 was only leaking then when i replaced it, started the car and put it in gear...the other blew)
Driver Front Brake Line from Master Cylinder to Flex Line
Throttle Body Gasket


In the Process/On the adgenda:
Heater Core (Installing right now...pain in the ***)
Transmission (after Finished with heater Core)
Removing E-Brake Cables (while doing Trans)
Wheel Cylinders
Gauges (if i ever find any)
Oil Change/Tune-up (Still haven't done since I got the car)
Master Cylinder And Brake Booster (Replace after I look that over)
Dome Light
Driver's door lock
Stereo (since it got stolen)
Pass. Front Flex Brake Line
Driver Floorboard
So Far this car has givin me problem after problem....Im just about to get sick of it...Once I finish everything I need to...Then im done..

 

rip everything out keep the body and rebuild it lol

 

sounds like you got ripped the hell off. i recently got an 89 RS with a 305 for 600, and it only needed brakes and and 2 fenders. sounds like you got yourself a little money pit, but thats ok too.

 

hey sounds like fun. not the money part but the stuff you have to do. I recently got an IROC myself and it needed Tranny work brakework and a couple of other little things. the big problem.... it had been blasted in the rearend a couple of years ago and never fixed now I dont know if it can be fixed but I am hoping.

 

Well when I got the car...I knew the heater core was bad and the trans cooler lines. Once I got it to the shop i noticed the master cylinder was shot too...Since then...Once I finished one thing...another thing kept braking....So at this point after Im done with the list of things I gotta do, and something else still breaks I quit (unless it's not a big problem...lol)

 

sounds about right. just keep your patience and it'll pay off in the end y'know......just keep your mind on the task at hand and if you break something in the process forget about it until your done with what you are doing. unless you need it for the project at hand

 

yea working on these cars is sorta a *****...the 3rd gens anyway

 

The heater core is a real pain in the ***...I have the whole dash torn out...Before I tore the dash apart I though I coulda bypassed that whole route becuase I found the heater box. One I losened the screws to that and pulled a lil bit...i snapped it into 3 pieces. So Im gonna JB weld it tomorrow and It'll be good as new. Im taking my camera to school tomorrow so Ill take pictures of the car and what Im talking about....

 

alright sounds good.

 

I got the new heater core in! It was a pain in the *** to do but I got it done. When I was under the car tho...I realized that the drain plug for the radiator was lose so after if drained it out and installed new coolent..It was all good. I tried the heat out tho and I was still pumping out some cold air...Prolly because the car hasn't heated up yet and that I still gotta put the Dash back together. So monday morning bright n' early I'll be putting my dash back together. I found a gauge cluster on E-Bay that I bidded on..I just gotta wait like a day till the Bid ends. Im just pretty happy that I got that thing done but still dredding all the other **** I gotta do...Oh well, It'll be an adventure.. =)