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Non Compos Mentis
Join Date: May 2001
Location: Off the grid- Almost
Posts: 10,637
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My reason for stuffing a 3.2 into an early car was simple-
I found a clean, low mileage '87 that got hit in the nose pretty hard at an insurance auction.
Buying the entire car meant that I had the engine, complete wiring harness, DME box (guarenteed to match!) along with aluminum banana arms, brakes, flares, yada yada along with a great assortment of fasteners, with plenty of parts left over to sell at John Walker's swap meet, further reducing the cost of the transplant.
For a non-mechanic like myself, this worked out much better than scrounging up individual parts.
I recently saw another early car sitting in a back yard near a rental home I have. I'm debating if I should go knock on the door and see about the possibility of doing it all over again.
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