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TheCamel 12-31-2003 02:19 PM

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TheCamel 12-31-2003 02:24 PM

Car has 160k on the clock, runs like a champ, all of the drivetrain is good, just a little rough, for $250 I am not complaining.

banzaitoyota 12-31-2003 02:24 PM

MaD tIgHt yO@

twstdmtl 12-31-2003 02:44 PM

Are you gonna sell parts off of it or be a greedy boy and use them yourself https://www.nopistons.com/forums/pub...IR#>/smile.png



Let me know cause I hate my power windows right now. I want your door panels and the window cranks and the windows https://www.nopistons.com/forums/pub...IR#>/smile.png



I ahvebeen meaning to ask you... DO you have your skyline in DE?

TheCamel 12-31-2003 02:47 PM

No I sold the Skyline, and I will be parting the car out, stay tuned, I have to pick it up next week

Rob x-7 12-31-2003 02:56 PM

wheel covers, cool!

1Revvin7 12-31-2003 03:00 PM


Originally Posted by Rob x-7' date='Dec 31 2003, 03:56 PM
wheel covers, cool!

Yea I want those!!!! https://www.nopistons.com/forums/pub...1047683785.gif

Rob x-7 12-31-2003 03:15 PM

let me bring up a point here, so is it better to part that car

out and have one less FC on the road, or is it better to do a V8 swap

to it?

TheCamel 12-31-2003 03:19 PM

I may part it out to a shell and dump a V8 in it, not sure, 350 w/ powerglide https://www.nopistons.com/forums/pub...DIR#>/ohmy.png its all up in the air right now, I have an 86 base now that I will be selling the motor and trans, and this one o will be selling the motor and trans, so anything is possible

j9fd3s 12-31-2003 03:52 PM

yah its a little rough but for 250 its not bad.



rob: better to have 1 more fc even if its a v8....

Rob x-7 12-31-2003 03:56 PM


Originally Posted by j9fd3s' date='Dec 31 2003, 04:52 PM
yah its a little rough but for 250 its not bad.



rob: better to have 1 more fc even if its a v8....

I concur 100%



one day a rotory may live under the hood once again, but once a FC is parted

and scrapped, its gone forever

Nemesis 12-31-2003 04:01 PM


Originally Posted by Rob x-7' date='Dec 31 2003, 03:56 PM
I concur 100%



one day a rotory may live under the hood once again, but once a FC is parted

and scrapped, its gone forever

Is it better to have two crap FC's or one nice one? Two super ghettofied FC's or one nice car? Sometimes they have to be sacrificed for the greater good. https://www.nopistons.com/forums/pub...DIR#>/wink.png

Rob x-7 12-31-2003 04:08 PM

well, obviously is one is wrecked and beyond reasonable repair it

will be parted, but that car camel bought looks fairly decent.

TheCamel 12-31-2003 04:09 PM

I look at it more this way, I rescued this car from a field, it was going to end up a rusted pile of scrap sooner or later. if I can part this out and keep fellow FC owners in decent parts for a good price, there is no foul. As most of us know there are not too many FC's in the junkyards anymore, and finding used parts is getting harder and harder each day. The motor was worth the purchase price in my eyes, and it may find its way into someone elses ride who does not have the funds for a rebuild. So even though it is one less FC on the road, it may save the lives of many more FC's, think of it as an organ donor https://www.nopistons.com/forums/pub...DIR#>/cool.png

TheCamel 12-31-2003 04:12 PM

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It has some rough spots, the funding to put it back in shape to make it roadworth outweighs the value of the car if I were to sell it.

Rob x-7 12-31-2003 04:14 PM

it would make a fine car, it looks all there and rust free.

Nemesis 12-31-2003 04:41 PM

I want the shell. No sunroof!!! https://www.nopistons.com/forums/pub...IR#>/bigok.gif

TheCamel 12-31-2003 04:47 PM

Well I still have to go pick it up, I did not have a trailer to bring it back when I went to look at it, its up in NJ. once I get it back here I will clean it all out and see where I stand. I might just get her ready to sell

twstdmtl 01-01-2004 02:16 PM


Originally Posted by Rob x-7' date='Dec 31 2003, 01:15 PM
let me bring up a point here, so is it better to part that car

out and have one less FC on the road, or is it better to do a V8 swap

to it?

I have said it before and I'll say it again https://www.nopistons.com/forums/pub...#>/biggrin.png



Everytime someone puts a piston engine into an RX-7 an angel loses her wings and dies! It's an abomination... https://www.nopistons.com/forums/pub...R#>/violin.gif



I believe in the organ donor theory expressed by Teh Camel. Good parts cars are hard to come by.

DaddyMac 01-01-2004 09:16 PM

well, if it goes bad, you will always have the shift leveler for a dildo, then you can chrome plate it and give it to your s.o. https://www.nopistons.com/forums/pub...IR#>/bigok.gif

Racer X 01-01-2004 10:49 PM


Originally Posted by DaddyMac' date='Jan 1 2004, 07:16 PM
well, if it goes bad, you will always have the shift leveler for a dildo, then you can chrome plate it and give it to your s.o. https://www.nopistons.com/forums/pub...IR#>/bigok.gif

LMFAO https://www.nopistons.com/forums/pub...1047683785.gif https://www.nopistons.com/forums/pub...1047683785.gif


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