I bought my 1987 Supercharger with just under 50K miles on the clock in November 2000 time.
I won't say too much about the 'dealer' I bought it off, but suffice to say the alternator packed up on the way home and the car has needed a lot of work to get it right too...(!)I bought the car mainly standard, it had some aftermarket wheels on and very hard japanese suspension.
Yes I've spent a lot (the garage outlines that!) I didn't realise how much until the garage arrived....but remember it's over 5 years so it's not like I'm a lottery winner, and I'm also not a 'sit on your bottom and pay the money' person either, I've done a good deal to the car myself. How it looked in it's first year.
ENGINE
In the first year I spent time
'getting it right'. That included renewing all the ignition components (from plugs to copper cap, magnecor leads etc., major fluid and oil changes, cambelt, all the basics). A friend and I did most of this, I only gave up with the cambelt!
Arguably the most important things you can do IMHO is get the basics running 100% first, I do this with all the cars I buy.
Plus a couple little mods like a TRD thermostat. Dynoed at 145bhp on the button at this point.Added induction kit
(Blitz mesh - yes now reported as a poor filter but at the time not much else was going) and exhaust (quality buy - 2nd hand custom exhaust from another owner who couldn't stand the noise!). Amazingly the car then dynoed at 160bhp on the same dyno.Then I added a Fensport Pulley
- significant change in power delivery and new dyno figure of 180bhp. This is basically the best you can do on a fairly standard set-up for an SC....give or take 5bhp or so IMHO. A boost gauge fitted at the time shows a healthy 12-13psi, the stock engine in the car is a good one!More to come.
T
The engineering is incredible, I find it hard to believe this would ever wear out.
New standard clutch 
