returning old challenge car

Started in rearing the 86 saab 900 turbo. It is almost like starting a fresh build. All the rubber hoses were original 1986 pieces in 01 now they won't hold up now. I taught my daughter how to drive in this car and she drove to in high school. The pinion bearing is toast and locks up the car rolling backwards. I have another transmission to install. And some remnants of the last 100$ parts car.

I am not sure where to start with the budget. All the repairs are just maintenence items. The plan is to drive it down.

Stan: If you end up needing any more parts, let me know. I just bought another '87 Turbo parts car over the weekend.

In reply to stan_d:

Welcome back, Stan. Looking forward to seeing more of the older Challenge cars.

Removed the engine and transmission now to clean a bunch of grime. And swap the transmission. I hope the box I stashed years ago is good.

I sent a pm to power.

Post up some pics of your adventures! I'll be (someday) pulling my C900 engine for an auto>manual swap once I get parts car(s) home.

Pulled the gear box out of the barn. Both inner drivers are bad part of bell housing is broken and it is a short ratio. #6

I swapped the primary chains front broken box (bad pinion bearing and pops out of 1st and reverse. ) #7 to the other box. Cleaning up parts to swap inner drivers out.

A lot was done today. Swapped the inner drivers and installed the transmission to the engine. Replaced the water pump and steering rack. Discovered the exhaust manifold gasket is bad.

I broke a wiper arm. Now to find one.

Engine installed.

Need help with budget. This car was last used in 2004 challenge. After that I drove it and then gave it to my daughter. She drove it for a year. Then hit a deer. It sat till 2012. I bought a parts car for 100 and installed needed parts. Then it sat till this summer.

In the process of getting Ready I have changed the transmission replaced all radiator hoses. Rear brakes and calipers. I have had to work on just about every system on t he e car.

My question is starting point for the budget. Non driving examples of saab 900 are 400 by me.

I removed the nos.

It moved under its own power today.

Cool!

Oh, this applies in this thread as well:

stan_d wrote: Need help with budget. This car was last used in 2004 challenge. After that I drove it and then gave it to my daughter. She drove it for a year. Then hit a deer. It sat till 2012. I bought a parts car for 100 and installed needed parts. Then it sat till this summer. In the process of getting Ready I have changed the transmission replaced all radiator hoses. Rear brakes and calipers. I have had to work on just about every system on t he e car. My question is starting point for the budget. Non driving examples of saab 900 are 400 by me. I removed the nos.

I'm just going to WAG this, maybe people can agree or disagree.

used at the 2004 challenge, establishes value at $2004. Hit deer, plus driving/sitting for 10 years easily chops the value in half. I'd say you started at $1002 + 100 parts car, so total = $1102.

If you can sell the NOS, I'd say that counts as whatever you sell it for negative on the budget.

Day started rough. Broke my new s5 by sitting on it. Then the paint orange pealed badly. Also while masking This happened.

I did get the alignment done.

Took her out for a test drive. Runs and drives good a little squeaky. But this is first time driving at speed.