Thread: bigburban's silver 99 gtp coupe

I found a motor in pa, hopefully I can get it in the next week or so.

Either way I need to really think if I want to swap the cam and heads over, but I am pretty sure if I put a motor in this it will be all stock other than a hai.

At least put the headers on as well.

If it were me, I would get the motor, tear it down, inspect the pistons and if everything looks good swap everything over, put on all new gaskets and get a proper tune so it doesn't happen again, then call it a day.

You don't know anything about the motor, so a proper inspection is key anyways, so why not do it right while its apart.

well I found another one in jersey. 90k miles, everything included for 600. apparently its a wrecked car, but it still runs. So I would bring my scan tool and verify that everything is good before I bought it. At this point, I don't want to have too much money invested in this, so I figure I could part out the good remaining stuff from the old motor, sell the cam and headers and come out even more or less. Also, being stock motor wise would make it easier to sell in the future.

Sell... what? You gotta keep it foreva!

More Mods.

I spy with my little eye...

A 3800!

Originally Posted by bigburban

It's missing... something... I just can't quite figure out what.

ha! yeah. thats worse is the only thing i found so far are the rings. pretty sure the cam is doneski

Ruff week. Lost the brakes on my DD on the way into work yesterday. the stream of wetness is brake fluid lol

Your luck has to turn around, hope it's an easy fix.

rear drums? wheel cylinder most likely, relatively simple and easy fix.

at least it didn't result in a crash, could have been alot worse.

Originally Posted by TLSheff

rear drums? wheel cylinder most likely, relatively simple and easy fix.

at least it didn't result in a crash, could have been alot worse.

wish it was that easy. The retaining pin came off/broke on one of the shoes. bascially, it bent the piss out of the backing plate. I have to pull the axle shaft out.

FVCK, when it rains it pours. Damn bro, do you have any upside down horseshoes in your house!!!

Oh snap. I had a similar issue on my 79 Mustang many years ago. I was driving and everything was fine then *tink* GRINDNOMNOMGRINDNOMNOMGRIND.... oh ****.

Luckily I knew a guy who owned a salvage yard, so I got replacement parts off a old GT and had it back together over the weekend.

Well, got the new motor yesterday and got it in and installed today. Runs great. Still have a few small things to do before i can start dd'ing it but at least it runs! Lol

Let the luck flow your way Sir.

a few pics from this weekend

Great work!

What did you use to shine up the black plastics and hoses and such under the hood?

i soaked the engine with simple green, then used an air hose with an attatchment that will spray water under pressure to clean everythnig off. when it finally dried, i uses regular tire shine on it.