I was told to detail an 89 GTA today. I've detailed a lot of cars, and when a chance came for me to clean a thirdgen F-body came up, my eyes lit up. HOWEVER, as I started the engine to drive it into my bay, the car belched out a big cloud of blue (valve stem seals.. yea, I know) and a LOUD constant knocking could be heard. The car itself was quite clean, and the engine bay was clean, too. But when I was finished with the car, a mechanic came over, winced and said, "doesn't sound too good". I asked him what he thought of that loud constant knock (it definately did not sound like a ping/knock). He said, "spun bearing, the conn rod is knocking against the crank". The car was a stolen car, and some of the consoles looked a bit abused as well.


beautiful car.. black, t-tops...MMmmmmm

 

If its a recovery, maybe you can find out how to pick it up for cheap. Especiallly if it is clean.

 

There's a complete 88 TPI engine in the buy and sell for $1300.

If you could get the car for cheap it might be worth swapping engines.

PS. Where do you work age?

 

Even better is the LT1 long block with 40k km on it in there for $500

I need money

 

Alex, I work at First Guarantee Collision in Coquitlam. We're part of Eagle Ridge Pontiac. BUT, I think that I might be quitting by the end of the week because I was told that I'd be starting an apprenticeship, BUT I'm getting the typical runaround getting screwed by empty promises.

 

Ah, cool. I buy all my parts Eagle Ridge when I need dealer parts.

In fact I'll probably be there this afternoon or tomorrow morning depending on when my memcal arrives.

 

Alex- I work across the street from Eagle Ridge Pontiac at First Guarantee Collission. It looks like I'll be working there for A LONG time now, because I just talked to my manager, and it looks like I'm still on track to getting an apprenticeship to be a painter!

anyways.. what's a memcal? if you need parts, maybe I can try and get them for you, unless if you already got the hookups. As for the GTA, the motor is just ****ed.. besides, if I do buy it, it'll be for my future project: the evoluzione body kit. I've already got a Z28.

 

Sweet! Good luck with that, I've always admired guys who have skill with the paint gun.

A memcal is the thing that plugs into the ECM, it holds the PROM and the knock filters and stuff.

I've got all the PROM burning equipment, I just need a spare memcal because I don't want to desolder my working one.

I'm so close, I expect to have my custom chip in next week if all goes well. :lala: