Man I'm not having a good week. First my friend backs into my car, now my engine lets go. I need a 12A engine or a cheap rebuild kit for a 1982 12A. Any help that you can give me is greatly appreciated. I need the parts ASAP since the car is my daily driver. My budget is limited to about $500 canadian.

 

im sorry dude, i know how u feel, my car is my daily driver and i milk it everyday, if it goes im screwd...ever since i moved out of mommys house

 

thank goodness I stil live with mommy because my daily driver has been down two months first month was saving money second month is waiting for parts to come in. it cost me about $600 dollars all together, they should be in in about two weeks hopefully.

 

my bro's car has been down for months. Hes been driving our moms car.lol Its an escort and he did an engine swap. for some reason he cant get everything tweaked just right. Now its at a shop waiting........

 

I live with my parents still, so its not like I don't have a car to drive. But they are fed up with letting me drive their cars. I originally bought the car to have running in only a month or two. So I'd only be driving my moms van for that amount of time. Well it turned into 11 months that I was driving her van. I drove my car a month and a half, and now here I am again, driving my moms van. So like I said, my parents are fed up with it.

I may have located an engine though. So its looking pretty good right now.

 

Are junkyard 12a's an option?

 

Unfortunatly not a real great option where we are ('85 and I live in the same town). The only one in the junk yard has a V6 in it...

And the rest of the yards in the area have none...

 

What yard has one with a V6?? I know Dover doesn't have any 1st gens, but this other yard owned by dover thats out near blenheim has 2 with rotaries. Ones a GSL-SE and the other is 12A powered. Neither engine is good (12A is seized and 13B is pretty much stripped). The 13B spins freely though, almost too freely.