It's just sooo heavy. 4,400 lbs on the Challenge scales. There are way better chassis out there for your powertrain. Especially with those highway gears.
It's just sooo heavy. 4,400 lbs on the Challenge scales. There are way better chassis out there for your powertrain. Especially with those highway gears.
I want it!! How bad was the rust on the floor-pans and frame? I want to drive it home to NY though, any chance you or someone you know would accept money to swap the trans? Time to research how much used/rebuilt 4l60e are going for....
It's honestly not rusty at all. I repaired the only big rust spot a few pages back. I know a guy at work that rebuilds GM trans on the side, he'd probably do it for $300 or so. I just have zero interest in pulling that engine...again...for the 3rd time...though I might recoup a few of my missing sockets 
Wife would flip if that thing showed up in the driveway again!
i think that's owner number 3 after you selling it right now, i met owner number 2 while he had it and it was starting to get rough from abuse by then.
Too bad, it was very nice when i saw it in person at the challenge.
In reply to maschinenbau :
Unfortunately I didn't find any free sockets, just fiberglass and suffering
In reply to DirtyDiesel :
I have it now, supposedly it has a new tranny in it, and I just put a new engine in it
Oh, Sweet! It lives again, and we get to watch the continuation. Woodie, what are your plans for this?
Great! What’s going on with that water pump? Opti is still present but there’s no longer reverse-flow cooling on this engine?
In reply to conesare2seconds :
The reverse flow cooling is still there, and what's wrong with the waterpump?
In reply to Indy-Guy :
Still trying to decide that, right now I'm just chasing down little problems, I managed to get a obd1 code reader and scan it
The Roadmonster saga continues!
When it traded the car to the next owner, I included an OBD1 to USB adapter Guess it got lost before you got the car. I was using a program called EEHack to tune the old engine. Alternatively you can read engine codes through the climate control. Can't remember exactly how but you can google around.
You found FIBERGLASS on it?? Geez it really got abused since I last had it... The body was straight when I had it, minus one rust patch that I did with actual metal a few pages back. Poor wagon. Hopefully the interior is still as pristine as I remember it.
In reply to maschinenbau :
Plastic around the radio was stabbed out with a screwdriver, looked like someone tried to take it out, driver and passenger door panels are totally shot and the speakers were ripped out, I got donor ones from a 92 Ford escort, but the seats are immaculate
Debating whether or not to sell it, it needs a lot more work, but I already dropped about 1000-1500 on the engine
That breaks my heart about the interior. At least those comfy road sofa seats are still good.
I have the flares that open up the rear wheel openings if you feel like stuffing huge meats back there
In reply to Woodie :
I cant figure out if you are having watet pump issues but if you need reverse flow pump i have a good one from my L98 i took off when i converted to convention i think. Youre welcome to it if you nned. Free....just pay shippping.
Woodie said:In reply to maschinenbau :
Plastic around the radio was stabbed out with a screwdriver, looked like someone tried to take it out, driver and passenger door panels are totally shot and the speakers were ripped out, I got donor ones from a 92 Ford escort, but the seats are immaculate
The guy i knew that had it at some point between Maschinenbau and Woodie had it loaded up with boomdy-boom speakers and subs, he probably ripped it all out before parts with the car.
It's running a little rough, I think I got it down to some vacuum line but I cannot for the life of me find where it goes, I have it running to the canister under the passenger fender but I'm pretty sure it didn't run there before
The vacuum line that runs off that little black box
Which little black box?
Sorry. I put on my reading glasses and took a better look. The awesome-looking orange paint bedazzled me, I guess.
It does not like the cold, it surges pretty bad till it warms up. Still surges at idle which is annoying
In reply to Woodie :
Sounds like a vacuum leak
In reply to Indy-Guy :
Problem is nothing is stock, the egr has been deleted
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