New car, planning stage.

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First, I was brutally leveraged by fellow members to buy this car. I
went and bought it from a fellow member near Waldport, a 14 hour
road trip! I am not sayin its curvey over their but 30 miles were
single lane paved and most of a 100 miles you could check your own
tail lights while driving!! Great time!!

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Thanks again to JWT101 for putting a great deal on this site. He mentioned the reason
for sale was the engine burning oil. You can barely see through the fog in the rear
view mirror, even with good clean windows, it does clear up, probably the cat lighting
off and cleaning things up. I wondered if it was guides leaking or if there is a ring problem
so I took a look inside the combustion chamber with one of the boroscopes. This is a pic
of the screen with the piston and cylinder wall.

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All four pistons look like this but number 2 and number 4 were obviously a little
worse.

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With this much oil washing through it opens a lot of options, I could overhaul this motor
I could get a donor aspire and swap in the engine or???

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It really runs nice, drives great and may make a great little car for my wife
to learn to drive with handicapped controls. After seeing the amount of carbon
in there I decided to pour two cans of justice bros in the cylinders and leave
it set overnight, so I pulled it in here and did just that.

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Yesterday I looked back in the cylinders and things were gooee with all the top end
cleaner down in the oil pan. I put plugs back in it and poured another can in the gas
tank. As I was leaving the shop the toxic fog was probably ridding the city of all bugs
spiders and pigeons!! The cleaner in the oil pan started to boil on the hill, and even wide
open throttle it would barely run. Finally got it flushed through the pcv and it really
started to run! It has good power and the idle smoothed out . Really big difference.
The idea was to free stuck rings and clean all that carbon off the back of the valves.
Today I will evaluate the success, but my gut feeling is I will have an oil burner
with nice clean Parts!! So what to do with this nice little automatic???

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Handicap controls on bpt swap... Or lifted klze/awd swap mud toy? It's gonna need a wing. Looks clean from here, I'm jealous!

[sc72]

Very nice looking car.

[KJ4YXY]

Like 'em rims!!

[91mcnasty]

very nice car!!!

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Ha ha, yes, the "rims" are ice black chrome covers, auto z had them 5 dollars off..

about the direction to go, I have not done conversions, only know what I read here.
I have tons of experience working on these engines in their respective cars but 0
experience putting something else in a festiva.
I want the best mileage possible, for any of my cars and dependable. In that regard
I like the B3. The auto at this altitude is a little slow. I could build the B3 for altitude
or ???

[WmWatt]

Those are the high 88'-89' seats. That's how I tell the early ones.

[drddan]

Ha ha, yes, the "rims" are ice black chrome covers, auto z had them 5 dollars off..

Black Chrome ...FTW!

Nice score on a nice car Movin" !!!!

[jwt101]

Glad your happy with the car. Hope you can get it back up to par and running around again. It was nice to meet you and glad you made the journey out here. Keep us posted nice to see it all clean again.

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^^ Thank you! I grew up over there, Its a good thing I had help along
to drag me back to Klamath, I still love the country over there!

Got all the lights working on it and used it last night to rescue daughters
paper route eagle summit. It run good and still gets great gas mileage,
It should hold together until I figure out the best engine option for our
needs.