View Poll Results: What do you guys think I should do?
Keep 2.8, fix exhaust leaks, prepare to spend $$ on tranny
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0%
continually buy beaters, trash them until they die. Repeat
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0%
buy 2nd gen TA, my most favoritest car, and hope it lasts through college as a daily driver
1
11.11%
buy 4th gen V8 because they are newer and more common, and will last longer (hopefully)
1
11.11%
stay with thirdgen and get a V8, hopeing to find an L69 (keep college kid and $$ in mind, not anything else)
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0%
stay thirdgen, hoping for an LB9... see above^
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0%
stay thirdgen and hope for an L98... ditto^
5
55.56%
definatly buy a V8 F-body with a solid tranny, good drivetrain, but take whatever comes...
2
22.22%
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Help me plan my future... need opinions on a car that'll last me next 5 years...
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Help me plan my future... need opinions on a car that'll last me next 5 years...
So my car is a POS 
... I won't have enough money to fix the tranny when it goes, and if I do it's still a POS 2.8... This will always be my first car, and I'll love it for that, but c'mon... 6 cylinders is 2 short of a real engine... I've come to realize this at about a good time... I have a job... college is 9 months away, and I have some money laying around...
On to the story... I befriended a Ford guy over the weekend, turns out he's a GM at a fairly large Ford dealership around here. I told him I was keeping my eyes open, and he says, "Oh yeah? That body style?... I get them in regularly... V8 you want? Yep, I get 'em for a few hundred bucks..." ... said he would keep me posted. My mother babysits his kids, so it's not like he's going anywhere.
Should I stick with Thirdgen and get an LB9/L69 or an L98... go fourthgen because they are newer/more reliable (next car I get needs to make it through college)... or go second gen TA because those are my most favorite cars? Any car I get is going to be V8...
If I stick with thirdgen, do I go with auto L69 or LB9.. or venture to look for an L98?
I'm thinking L69 simply because I can cam it however I want, it's not figity like FI can sometimes be, and it can be a cool thing, carb that is... easier to mod/fix...
But the LB9 is TPI, which makes power, pretty much start and go... but then again, no lopey idle (which I love...), PITA to mod/work on...
L98... is well... an L98...
Or I could keep my lowly 2.8, spend a couple hundred on the exhaust and hope the tranny (or anything else) does not go out on me within the next 5 years (money is starting to run very short)... (tranny slips bad, fluid is trash btw)
I oculd always do like my friend does... buy a 200 dollar beater doesn't matter what it is (he drives an 85 Delta 88 right now)
... trash it for however long it lasts... and when it's done, buy a new one
What do you all suggest?
Feel free to comment, or fill out the poll if you like... I thank you all for any imput you can offer...
... I won't have enough money to fix the tranny when it goes, and if I do it's still a POS 2.8... This will always be my first car, and I'll love it for that, but c'mon... 6 cylinders is 2 short of a real engine... I've come to realize this at about a good time... I have a job... college is 9 months away, and I have some money laying around...On to the story... I befriended a Ford guy over the weekend, turns out he's a GM at a fairly large Ford dealership around here. I told him I was keeping my eyes open, and he says, "Oh yeah? That body style?... I get them in regularly... V8 you want? Yep, I get 'em for a few hundred bucks..." ... said he would keep me posted. My mother babysits his kids, so it's not like he's going anywhere.
Should I stick with Thirdgen and get an LB9/L69 or an L98... go fourthgen because they are newer/more reliable (next car I get needs to make it through college)... or go second gen TA because those are my most favorite cars? Any car I get is going to be V8...
If I stick with thirdgen, do I go with auto L69 or LB9.. or venture to look for an L98?
I'm thinking L69 simply because I can cam it however I want, it's not figity like FI can sometimes be, and it can be a cool thing, carb that is... easier to mod/fix...
But the LB9 is TPI, which makes power, pretty much start and go... but then again, no lopey idle (which I love...), PITA to mod/work on...
L98... is well... an L98...
Or I could keep my lowly 2.8, spend a couple hundred on the exhaust and hope the tranny (or anything else) does not go out on me within the next 5 years (money is starting to run very short)... (tranny slips bad, fluid is trash btw)
I oculd always do like my friend does... buy a 200 dollar beater doesn't matter what it is (he drives an 85 Delta 88 right now)
... trash it for however long it lasts... and when it's done, buy a new oneWhat do you all suggest?
Feel free to comment, or fill out the poll if you like... I thank you all for any imput you can offer...
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