Well, I finally have another Del Sol. I had one during paramedic school, but blew the motor driving back and forth to El Paso from ABQ... didn't have the money to rebuild it, so I traded it for a working blazer. Now that I'm settled as a medic supervisor, I decided to pick up another one. Flew out to Lubbock and picked her up yesterday, then drove her home

93 Del Sol S

My main plans are to get new wheels and tires, new suspension (it's pretty well shot right now), source the parts for AC and cruise... And then just have fun with it. Oh, and get a new ashtray assembly and glove box, and put the rear window correctly on track. That's really all that was wrong with it when I bouth it. Rather unmodified too.

If anyone has any advice or parts lists for what I need to add in cruise, please let me know. I've been researching it but can't come up with a hard parts list.

 

I used to live in San Antonio a few months ago and I can tell you that when I bought my del sol, there were about 5 or six wrecked ones parting out on CL.
I know it's a long *** way from NM but it might be worth a weekend drive.

AFAIK for CC you'll need an intake from a car with CC (so 95 or later I believe) as well as all the stuff to hook it up.
You could try to find a wrecked sol or even do a 97 Si swap, it's got the D16Y8 motor so you'll get a few extra ponies and VTEC

 

looks a little rough condition wise.

Good to see it is still in OEM shape rather than riced out and cheaply modded.

 

You must not have seen the dent in my quarter panel then !

I like the look of these cars, so many people ruin them with a ridiculous amount of plastic and more wings than a German Triplane

 

i used to own a del sol and whenever i removed the targa top the car felt unstable like it needed roof support.. so i never took the top off.. too much body movement and unstableness for me

 

Honestly it's in much better shape than the majority of the ones I see for sale around here. A few dents and the inside needs a little work. But it's a twenty year old car lol

 

Really? I love the car without the top on it. I take it off every chance I can.

 

Danggg what a commuter you are. I go to school in lubbock, the drive is crazy

 

ALL Del Sol years had Cruise available. My 93 Si has it.

If the rear window is tilted, likely the cable broke. Takes longer to get to it than to replace.

 

Not the first time I've done it lol. But the first time I've done it not in an ambulance. It was a LONG drive though

 

Nice I've got 2 donor sols if ya need parts. I drove to Lubbock to pick up a sol aswell. Mine are the only ones in my town lol I live bout 3 hours from Lubbock in Wichita. i need to go to Santa Fe and open a honda junk yard there's only a couple junk yards I saw when I was over there

 

If you have teh ash tray and glove box I might be willing to see if you'll part with em lol. And I need to raid the junk yards and see what I can get locally eventually. Just got out of the hospital after having my gallbladder out (it ruptured) so I haven't even felt like crawling into the Sol the last week or so.

 

looks decent, don't know too much about adding cruise control but bump for the new whip

 

Yes but Si and VTEC trims only, the S doesn't have cruise.

OP the car looks nice and if you want to find parts i'd suggest more TX searches on CL, i saw many of them in the Austin/San Antonio area

 

Which means 93 and 94 cars are viable donors especially since your previous post about needing a 95 or newer intake would be needed is inaccurate.

The intake is not part of the cruise control system.

 

Ouch bro you good now? The ash trays always breaks in these things. I only have broken ones but mine is good but can't let it go... Glove box is ghetto rigged its using a coat hanger on the bottom so it works or normally. It works by like I said its ghetto. Lubbock seems to be a good place to find del sols so if your willing to travel they might have a couple in the yards