Are you on any Pontiac forums? Might find a donor engine or car there, or ebay. Might find something close enough to make the trip worthwhile.
At least it's something you feel you can tackle.

I hate cars, too.

That's why I drive a truck!

I'm on a couple of Pontiac and Grand Prix forums, got some generous offers but they are too far away to pick up, looked on eBay and they have several engines but most of them have over 100k miles and the cheapest was 600 bucks plus freight.

LOL! Be careful Dart, I'm close enough to hand deliver some bad karma to you. I'm right next door to Gadsden.

Oh well, gotta go start working on the wreck I guess, it ain't gonna be fun but I bet it'll be interesting.

WOLF

Good luck with it. That's more than I've got the energy or knowledge to tackle. LOL
It's a cool car though, and worth reviving.

I don't hate cars. I hate the people driving them. Or engaging in an activity which for lack of a better term is deemed "driving" but is more like "merely failing to collide with anything at a high rate of speed."



The Jedi Master

Yeah, guess I should have said I hate doing major auto repairs.
This will definately be a learning experience, I've built a lot of engines over the years but not one of these and never a front wheel drive.
I started doing more research yesterday and on the advice of the folks at the GP Forum I went to, of all places, a high performance company and they had the high end FelPro gasket set for less than $150.00 bucks.
I call Standard Crankshaft Company this afternoon and talked to their tech guy and he said they gaurantee their regrinds to be within .0002 of the low end of the journal specs. and the micro polish is at least twice as good as the factory finish.
They also supply Clevite 77 main and rod bearings with their kits, which are some of, if not, the best bearings you can get.
Price on the Crank kit with shipping is $205.00 and they pay the return shipping on the core.
I'm starting to feel a little better about this now that I have some numbers to work with which aren't as bad as I was expecting.
Hopefully I'll have the engine out by the weekend and can see just how much damage their really is.

WOLF

I bit the bullet a couple years ago and got a new Dodge Charger along with the factory lifetime bumper-to-bumper warranty ($1800 more). Anything that goes wrong with it for as long as I own it will cost $100 per repair. Since I typically drive my cars for +10 years this seems like a pretty good deal to me.

My '92 Corvette cost >$9000 in repairs over 9 years - leaks, brakes, A/C, tranny - twice!, and it sat in the garage most of the time since I worked from home. Frackin cars!


G/l on the repairs.

I've switched out a few engines, one was a tear down and repair, the others were rebuilds. Not too many left over parts...

WC


Faceman said, "What you drive is what you project."