Asside from looks, they are actually very different. 2000 is tip/fwd and the 97 is manual/quattro. I picked up the 97 mainly due to my thirst for manual/qauttro, and the price tag was unbeatable @ $1500. After I saw the sport cloth interior it was a done deal. I'm not a fan of the silver used for 96-99. If I keep it long enough it will get repainted, pobably pelican blue, black, or white.

 

$1500?!?! YOU THIEF!! lol. I actually strongly prefer the earlier silver to the later one. The later one is more typical and the older one has more of a metallic, camouflauging pearlish-ness to it, if that made any sense at all...lol

 

Yeah I see what you're saying about the pearlishness. It didn't move when I bought it, so I sort of took a chance. It ran, but it needed a clutch. The seller attempted to take the tranny out to do the clutch and never hooked the center drive shaft back up when he decided to give up and sell it. So I worked slowly over a couple weeks, put in a new clutch, flywheel, half shaft, valve cover gasket, battery, plugs, fixed the wastegate arm on the turbo, cleaned the throtle body, replaced a few burnt out cluster bulbs, engine mounts, sway bar links, tihgtened the lose control arm bolts(!!?), new belts, front brakes, wheels, brake light switch, cleaned up the paint and detailed it. So I have at least $500 in it. Still not bad, but I'm sick of working on cars for a while!

 

blasphemy. you look like your ready to do some off roading in that beast. drop it to the pavement.

 

Yeah yeah... It's on stock shocks and is bouncy as all hell. It's gross. Can't wait to get around to that!

 

i need to do that where how much and how to do it?

 

Sort of like this. But our switch is more simple looking. ECS has it, but I got mine localy here. I paid $9 for it.

 

this one?
http://www.pap-parts.com/prodinfo.as...43%20945%20515

 

Yup, but confirm wether yours is a 2 or 4 pin switch. Thats the one I got originally to find out that mine is a 4 pin. They should have fixed that on their site, guess not.

 

is the the brake pedal switch or ebrake?