New to me 1988 Cutlass Ciera xc

[NCTyphoonKid]

Just picked up this 88 Cutlass Ciera XC yesterday, fully loaded with gauge pack, floor shift bucket seat, Buick 3.8 engine. Can’t wait to clean it up and get it running. Planning on making it my daily. Supposedly the previous owner thinks it has a bad ecm but I haven’t started digging into it to find out

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[78C10BigTen]

My friend had a gutless a little newer that we beat this piss outta! Good lil car

 

[Rob Goblin]

My grandma had a 4 door same color and year. I drove the out of it. I had no idea they made a 2 door bucket seat floor shift. I’d like to see interior pics when you get around to getting into it.

 

[NCTyphoonKid]

These are from last night I’ll get some better ones later

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[NCTyphoonKid]

My friend had a gutless a little newer that we beat this piss outta! Good lil car

I expect it to handle like a go cart little car big engine should be fun

 

[NCTyphoonKid]

My grandma had a 4 door same color and year. I drove the out of it. I had no idea they made a 2 door bucket seat floor shift. I’d like to see interior pics when you get around to getting into it.

They didn’t make many coupes I can’t wait to drive it

 

[bucket]

Super rare!!! I've seen a few 4-door XC's in the wild over the years, but never a coupe. Just pictures on the internet. The good folks over at a-body.net would like to see this one too.

 

[NCTyphoonKid]

Super rare!!! I've seen a few 4-door XC's in the wild over the years, but never a coupe. Just pictures on the internet. The good folks over at a-body.net would like to see this one too.

I looked at there site some last night but haven’t joined yet. Did join the Ciera page on Facebook

 

[RecklessWOT]

These are from last night I’ll get some better ones later

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That's actually pretty friggin cool. Never knew such options existed

 

[CorvairGeek]

The 3.8 Buick (not to be confused with the 3800 when redesigned, 1989) used a nylon coated, pot metal, camshaft timing gear, which was a disaster in a 90 degree V6.
Pull the camshaft position sensor and see if it has failed.

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Cool car though. I have two Buick Century's.

 

[NCTyphoonKid]

The 3.8 Buick (not to be confused with the 3800 when redesigned, 1989) used a nylon coated, pot metal, camshaft timing gear, which was a disaster in a 90 degree V6.
Pull the camshaft position sensor and see if it has failed.

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Cool car though. I have two Buick Century's.

Yes I’m aware of that disaster at some point I will be changing that out I don’t believe it is causing my no start. Pretty sure the module is junk. I’m going to swap it out and see what happens

 

[NCTyphoonKid]

I absolutely hate people it’s so hard to find coupes and here are two side by side both FE3 cars the gray one only had 80k on it. Unsure about the black one as it was a digital dash car

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[CorvairGeek]

That's too bad. Wouldn't surprise me if the digital dash car has the voice module that talks through the left front speaker too.

 

[NCTyphoonKid]

The Ciera is alive looks like the gray delta 88 gave it some good vibes with its coils and modules

 

[NCTyphoonKid]

Interior progress

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