My wife needs a new car and I need help

[htchbck]

Try hopping onto the Fiero forums and tell them you want to keep the Iron Duke in it instead of a 3800 series II supercharged. Lol their *really* friendly

[bobbyspider]

^i agree about that. I have been part of vw and toyota forums in the past and they weren't very nice and god I think the jeep only guys are the worst of all lol

[htchbck]

^^ awesome news!!! There are a lot of us mechanics out there that just like to do stuff for folks, just for the fun of doing it ourselves and satisfaction of a job well done and another car saved! It not just festiva folks who are great people lol. But I will say that the ratio of great people vs. snooty people is waaay higher here than on any other car forum I've ever been on (and I've been on a lot!).

[bobbyspider]

update on the omni/car situation

check this out. im a part of turbododge.com forum mostly because the car came with 2 trailers worth of extra parts that im trying to sell, including 2 glh turbo motors incase anyone is interested.

anyway just out of curiosity i posted a need for help to change the head gasket and track down the no start/spark prob. i let the guys know in the post that i didnt have alot of money to offer but would work something out in money+parts.

this was a move of desperation and i didnt expect anything to come of it but i did it anyway and left my number in the post and let it be.

i was responding to a post in the for sale section where my parts are and a unrecognised number shows up on my phone... i thought it was a telemarketer so i almost didnt answer but when i picked up it was someone from the dodge forum and sounded super excited. he called me so fast that i didnt even get a chance to finish my post!!!

so he asked a bunch of questions and told me he was a professional mechanic and he would love to drive the 1.5 hrs and help me do this . i ask him how much and he said eeh... whatever i just want to help!!!!! i just couldnt beleive it (i insisted that i pay him something for his time though). so we set up a date to do this and bam its done. he gives me a very specific list of parts and says well ill see ya on the 25!!! i cant believe it i found another forum community like this one. i thought that the turbo dodge forum would be snooty but i was way off

[bobbyspider]

^ I hear ya on every point bro. I should just take the omni cut it in half and cut a festy where the back window starts and hybrid them haha

[htchbck]

^^ If she won't even take an MkII 'scort then I doubt the Rio will settle too well with her either. If it wasn't for her apparent disdain for the '91-'96 'scorts I recommend a BP swap into one of those, then it would be SUPER familiar to you. Thats what we are leaning toward, finding a dead-ish '91-'96 wagon and swapping in a BP/ATX combo. Even stock though, the engines and other systems and the way they work are quite similar to a festiva.

[crazyrog17]

Kia Rio?

[chrisofna]

Colt Vista? Kinda minivany though.

[Movin]

7096 Portland Road
Salem OR 97305
Tel: 800-550-8441
Tel: 503-393-0242

Could be rust free out here.
they will email pics
just an add I saw, not me.


1983 Ford Escort
Price: Call or Email for price Vin: 1FABP1325DW106430
Mileage: 181,916 miles Stock #: 14498
Exterior: TAN Engine: 4-Cylinder
4 CYL
Interior: Transmission: Manual
Trim/Package: Fuel Type: Gasoline

[rbrown]

This should be perfect for your wide - A 1986 Escort GT! If you cross your eyes, it has 4 doors.

I would love to have another. Had a 87 and I so could do things to it now.

[bobbyspider]

sadly i expected that to be the case as is the rarity of the rest of the cars she likes (pacer, citation 2, chevette, old renaults...) id lean toward finding a chevette idk

wheres dad i thought he got my wides email, were you gonna giver her some ideas or maybe scare her straight... perhaps straight into a festy ha ha just kidding

i just want to know the pros and cons to some of these older compact/subcompact cars such as the non-existance of the 81 escort

[FestYboy]

good luck there!!! those are rot fodder from day one. any survivors, well, they don't exsist.

[bobbyspider]

heres a link to wiki that has the rite pic of the earlier 1st gen escorts these are the ones she likes

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:81-85_Ford_Escort.jpg

[91mcnasty]

Duh silly

[FestYboy]

yea just checked that is a (u.s.) mk2 and she hates it. the composite headlights are the dead givaway

both are mark 1 scorts, one was a gt, the other with the listing # was a 4 door first gen. Wiki lists mk1 from 81-90