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Ahhh, it's been a long two weeks.
We looked at a car 100mi away, and as we test drove it.. the radiator blew. Cracked the filler neck clean off. I won't tell the whole story up to this point unless someone wants to hear it.
The seller put a used radiator in it, charging us $50 more including labor (we were going to buy a new one, but ah well, he wanted to get rid of it), and got it running OK.
We knew it had ATLEAST bad rings when we got there, and it was smoking pretty heavily, but we decided we liked it and bought it. My mom drove it home, and I drove behind in the '90. We were going alright... then we got on a road with lots of hills and twists and turns, and no way of getting off... and the temp. started redlining.. and by the time she found a place to turn off, the second radiator went, too.
Had it towed from there for the last 50mi, and it's FINALLY sitting in the driveway. Now that there's a second vehicle I'll have something I can actually work on.
I won't be able to post pictures until tomorrow as the ones I took were awful.
Black
5-speed
Nice tan interior
Steelies
218K mi
Rear wiper/defrost
No underseat tray
Clear-coat is mostly gone, 3 penny-sized rust spots, and a few dents. No rust anywhere else.
Overall a nice car, rode nicely down the road. Coated my car behind in odd grime as I followed. Coolant in the oil, some odd use of a plastic oil can with a tube going into it in the middle of the engine..
CAN YOU SAY ENGINE SWAP? Looking into a B6 as it seems something I could learn with..
Found a 16-valve B6 kinda locally for $250.. 16 is from the MX-3, right? Is it better to get a Tracer/323 engine?
Just happy to be home and it's time for some sleep! :p
~Spike
We looked at a car 100mi away, and as we test drove it.. the radiator blew. Cracked the filler neck clean off. I won't tell the whole story up to this point unless someone wants to hear it.
The seller put a used radiator in it, charging us $50 more including labor (we were going to buy a new one, but ah well, he wanted to get rid of it), and got it running OK.
We knew it had ATLEAST bad rings when we got there, and it was smoking pretty heavily, but we decided we liked it and bought it. My mom drove it home, and I drove behind in the '90. We were going alright... then we got on a road with lots of hills and twists and turns, and no way of getting off... and the temp. started redlining.. and by the time she found a place to turn off, the second radiator went, too.
Had it towed from there for the last 50mi, and it's FINALLY sitting in the driveway. Now that there's a second vehicle I'll have something I can actually work on.
I won't be able to post pictures until tomorrow as the ones I took were awful.
Black
5-speed
Nice tan interior
Steelies
218K mi
Rear wiper/defrost
No underseat tray
Clear-coat is mostly gone, 3 penny-sized rust spots, and a few dents. No rust anywhere else.
Overall a nice car, rode nicely down the road. Coated my car behind in odd grime as I followed. Coolant in the oil, some odd use of a plastic oil can with a tube going into it in the middle of the engine..
CAN YOU SAY ENGINE SWAP? Looking into a B6 as it seems something I could learn with..
Found a 16-valve B6 kinda locally for $250.. 16 is from the MX-3, right? Is it better to get a Tracer/323 engine?
Just happy to be home and it's time for some sleep! :p
~Spike
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