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Originally Posted by ngarover
been said before but, good buy at 500 bucks if you can do the work yourself. Body looks good, can't see the interior... You "could" find a donor engine. I've pulled 5 engines out of these now and put in 2, The first times of course tricky and requires that you have a place to do the work, an engine lift, a helper (to move the engine/trans around) yes, you pull them both as one unit... Your also going to need an engine leveler cause it comes out (and goes back in) at a 45 degree angle... And of course, once you have it out you might as well address all the other issue your going to then see... rust, grim, mounts and engine shocks, the normally hard to reach rear hoses etc... By the time your done you will have spent more money than just buying a decent running one for 1500 to 2k still won't know how good the engine is, chance doing something silly like not seating the torque converter back into the trans and blow the trans pump after oh, lets say 5k... Not to mention the pint of blood you'll end up donating to the car. But even after all this... still a fun buy for a tinker thats willing to learn and have a little fun doing it.
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When I did the transplant in my car, I separated the engine and transmission. No offense, but it was really easy. The whole point of me potentially buying another car is not to buy some 'decent' car that runs and drives. I already have that. There has to be some cars out there in awesome shape for dirt cheap because they need a motor. Granted, that might not be THIS car, but that car is out there somewhere. I have an awesome motor with compression numbers in the stratosphere. Now I need everything else.... Does that really seem like a crazy idea?
02-06-2012, 08:10 AM
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