Thread: Help find out whats going on with my 1st front left cylinder

We have been telling you the cheapest most affective way to go about your issue and you keep throwing money at the situation that doesnt need to be spent. Scotty knows what he is talking about. To buy a rebuilt engine from zzp is rediculous. Yea your car might be rust free but i took a look at engines in your area for anywhere from 350-800 bucks. You ignorance obviously indicates you wont be puttin it in yourself not because your not capable but because you go ahead and say something like you did to someone im sure you would be coming back to this thread asking for help during the swap process. Engine rebuild is stupid and a complete waste of money. Crate engine is still a waste. Yea you might have a good running engine but hey guess what i guarantee like he said you trans is shortly going to say goodbye. And thats more money you have to spend. So with your attitude thats another 3k for a rebuilt trans from a company and another 500-1000 to put in. We are not here to make things harder on you we are trying to help but you and your fathers ignorance is clearly blinding of that. With your attitude your going to put 10k into this car befor you know it when its worth maby 4 tops even with a rebuilt engine and trans rust free. With that kind of money you could get a low mile engine, a rebuilt trans, get heads, cam, turbo, and be pushing 450+ hp. But hey like others have said its your money waste it if youd like. This thread is dumb i hope noone else tries to help this guy.

Ooooooh get em

mint or not, your car aint worth more then 2 grand book value especially with no engine. look it up son, its a old f ing car, not new, its 13 years old. if you got the mind set that its worth some retarded money your nuts lol

mint or not the way you are talking you will still spend more the zzp way then the cars truly worth.


and most of us know what it takes to have these engines rebuilt, we are all telling you its not worth it. dont bother buying or rebuilding a block unless you are planning for some HP if stock is all you want, then get a used engine, these bottom ends can and do last a long time when taken care of.

the arrogance and ignorance is all on you sir.

This kid is retarded. Your car isn't worth much, sorry to break it to you.

Respect the OP please. He might not be doing stuff the expected or way most of us would suggest, and that's fine. Different strokes for different folks.

Think about how Snowflake posts, especially his TVS thread. Nick takes a different path, as this OP is doing.

Originally Posted by wild2crazy

Exactly Thanks alot Bill.

I'll take the way i choose and they don't like it too bad. I'am not going to call anybody out on it.

Ok found out some news today.

Crank Bearing was shot in the same cylinder that was replaced so i'am guessing that was not fully checked when the job was performed the first time just to replace the one piston. Changed mechanics now.

So now its onto a fully rebuilt engine for about $3200 3year warrenty unlimited kms which should be good could have got a used for 1500 with a one year warrenty but hell its time to dump some $$$$ into this car in the engine department. i get some pics of the bearing and piston in the next couple of days.

Trannys held up pretty solid so far so hoping that patttern continues. with 260k on the tranny iam amazed that other than oil and filter changes that it held up this long with zero issues. knock on wood

your nuts, buy the used engine and spend that money on a built tranny.

you can take the mirror apart and clean the mirror and glass of most of the stain. clears it up nice till you find a working one. i just cleaned mine and dont care if it dims.