What do you think?

I have found a guy in my area with a 98 firebird with the 3.8 v6 in it with 140000 miles on it. The automatic transmission has been rebuilt, the car has full power options, leather, t-tops, factory chrome wheels, and pretty much any other option available. All of this for a low price of $3500 maybe a little less. HOWEVER.....As best that he can tell and the dealer mechanics that worked on it, it has a blown head gasket. The guy has traced the low compression and overheating to the gaskets. So i'm thinking to myself...."self....hmmmmmm"...Whether that is good, bad, healthy or otherwise i don't know. It seems like this might be a fantastic deal and ill just pull the heads off myself and take them to a shop for rebuild, have them planed and everything....maybe even a port and polish for an extra kick out of this old motor. But im wanting some more opinions. Is it a pain to pull the heads off this motor? Are they expensive to have work done on them? Am I crazy? Things like this. My 89 camaro, despite being in wonderful shape minus the paint, is aging and will need to undergo and transmission rebuild and probably an engine(305 TBI also with 140000) rebuild as the motor runs strong but acts funny on occasion and worries me. Its just an old car and other things on the car are starting to fall apart, all minor but they certainly add up. Im going into college and will be putting a lot of miles on whatever I drive and cant realy deal with or afford a motor swap with a high powered and low gas economy motor. Would you say that a 3.8 with a complete head rebuild would last another 50 or 60 thousand miles? Would you say that I should get it....or keep what I have. Im posting this in both the camaro and firebird forums just because I dont know which will give me the better answer. Thanks for any and all help.

well, i dont see anything wrong with the car that is serious enough to not buy it. it can certainly be fixed.

however id like to point out the irony that your buying a car because your 89 is getting old and will need work, but your buying a new car that is already in need of work. just kinda funny.

ya know it really is...they even have the same mileage at 140000, but hopefully the 98 with be a little bit of an upgrade from the 89. Maybe ill just buy it as an investment and just buy it and sell it.

he your going from 89 to 98, that 89 backwords, ha how ironic

he your going from 89 to 98, that 89 backwords, ha how ironic
I think someones been into Grandmas cough medicine?!?!?!?! :eek7: :grinyes:

If you get it you could just mirror your name and become 98nosreporamac

Looks like you have a friend 88 :grinyes:

woo hoo letsparty!!!!!!!! i have a friend, ill bring the cough medicine

Maybe ill join in later....ill bring the Codine!!! :grinyes: :grinyes:

lol alright and il bring my little friend- heres a pic- http://ccmp.chesapeake.org/twiki/pub/Sandbox/WebHome/kittylime.jpg

Wow, now that's priceless

No it has a price..humility.

Thats frekin sweet....

thats what i look like after drinking a few bottles of grandmas cough medicine, except i dont look so pissed, people do some weird things to their cats, for example...... http://www.ebaumsworld.com/cattrim2.html

Interesting....

Thats the coolest cat I have ever seen :cwm27: :lol2: :lol: . I'm going to go shave my cat exactely like that, be back in a minute

I hate cats like that, freaking looking, lol.

Freaking looking...FREAKY you mean?
lol

Yeah, I just dont like hairless cats.

Very unique thats for sure..

you may like it but in that pic the cat dosnt seem to like it, oh and i didnt know people regularly do that, i thought just one person did it took some pictues then the cat killed itself due to humiliation.

We had to do that to my cat.....when its hair is too long and gets oily and sticks together.
Dont worry, we took it to a vet to get it shaved.
What this has to do with Camaro's ill never know?!!?! :sly:
Its funny :rofl:

it has everything to do with camaros, its funny and that makes it kick ass and ya know what else kicks ass????.......camaros, you see its all in the same boat

it has everything to do with camaros, its funny and that makes it kick ass and ya know what else kicks ass????.......camaros, you see its all in the same boat
Wow I cant believe I didnt see that before..... :banghead:

lol, i thought it was pretty obvious.

lol, i thought it was pretty obvious.
:biggrin:

you guys r nuts lol, anyway the 3.8 is a nice jump from what u have the only thing better is going to a v8, the shop work may cost u a bit depending on where u go and how much things in your area are (price of living wise) everyone tries to stay competitive in price range, hell for the money your spending to fix that new car u could rebuild or do a swap into your old car if nothings really wrong with it, but i understand wanting a newer car. its a good price and not a bad problem that needs to be fixed, i would go for it. :thumbsup:

umm philly who u talking too?

wait nevermind i just checked and realized what the post was really about

lol.....our sperts of random crap are throwing everyone off...I better stop talking to you 88.
lol