marlaman

It is about goddamn time! allright so i have been fixing the shitty *** calipers on my 91 lumina daily driver this week because it started sounding crappy and whatnot and had to do a ton more work than i origanially thought. so today when i was dicking around in the junkyard i saw a nice new addition--added this very week.
a grey 87 n/a. exactly what i have aside from this one is being parted out--luckilly nobody around here knows about it so basically it's MY parts car.

for those who don't know i've had my baby for 2 years and been working on her slow and steady since the day i got her. she got put on hold when i went up to college and now since i dropped out i can put some good money into her now. for this i am grateful.

but anywhoo~~~ the parts car, has everything i needed for the interior of my car that i somehow broke in tearing stuff out, and has an engine in her that was told to me as "it's blown or someshit". since i knew this car had been in storage for the last 5 years and heard this i just smiled and offered to buy their blown engine so perhaps i can rebuild it :-) yes i allready did the poor man's compression test by mysaelf out in the cold and lonely junkyard and while cranking the rotors around with a few plugs pulled out of the holes... whoosh, whoosh, whoosh. both sides have at least decent compression and from my audible skillage i know that it's not a weak compression either.

so i basically hit the jackpot on a flooded engine that was in storage and since i'm a daily forum reader will be able to get it working in no time i'm picking this little jem up come monday. pretty sweet deal for me.

anybody out there need to buy my old blown engine? core--and whatever else you might like!--only engine components for now though.

Happy hunting everybody. and happy late thanksgiving.

M

reboot

wow sounds great.. lucky find indeed! ah i wish my luck with my car will change soon..

Zero Cylinder

i think by sitting they can gain short periods of compression, so it may still be blown.

Digi7ech

iTrader: (1)

Cool find. Even if it's blown I bet you can find some one which wants it for a core.
I know Jrat is looking for cores but we're in Arizona.

marlaman

hey zero cylinder---i have no heard that before, care to show me where you found that? and in my opinion and expirence it sounded like it had good compression all the way around and was definetly a flooding problem. i think i'll go nab a compression tester just to be sure next week. and yes i do know that normal compression testers are not what should be used on the rotary but it'll give me a better idea still.

Zero Cylinder

let a blown engine sit for a couple weeks, start it up, it'll run for 30 seconds....then die again. another 2 weeks, same thing....

marlaman

cool never heard that before thanks.


but they said at the Junk yard they couldn't even get it started. so i have my fingers crossed. either way i'm getting another core for 300 bucks.