Bought my first s-body and first non-BMW RWD toy

1990 200SX with 55k miles (unlikely ha)

Being on the other side of the country I was fairly worried about wasting time going to see it but it turned out to be a pretty good car. Boot lid is rusted away but other than that rust is fairly minimal and it's an original Irish car.

It's completely standard except for a shitty steering wheel and a welded diff

Plans are for it to be a cheap low budget but fairly sweet looking daily








There's a few issues to sort out:

Turbo gasket is blowing
Speedo and temperature guage have a mind of their own
Body wise it needs a new boot lid plus there is a small rust spot on the roof and one on the inner sill both can be fixed fairly handy.
Interior needs a strip, wash and a big air freshener


Can't afford to spend much on it but after that ideally what I want is:

Cheap Coilovers
Cheap Wheels
Kouki Kit (depending on how much they go for nowadays)
Respray (most likely staying red, possibly a darker red tho)


After all of this she should be a very nice road car


Also I'll be pulling the engine anyway (may as well paint the bay) - so was thinking of doing the big end bearings, purely because of the horror stories I've heard. Their cheap enough anyway plus I really don't think the mileage is genuine. Thoughts on this? Anything else I should be doing to the engine reliability wise?