[Marsal420]

I just bought a 88 Celica GT-S from a friend of mine for nearly next to nothing. And it seems that it has a engien problem. The engine tends to knock extreamly bad. He told me the engien was pretty much dead but for sum reason i dont think it is. I drove it home with the engin problem and then when i got it home , and i then put it on sum ramps and drained the oil. What i didn't get was the oil was cold, it wasn't warm even since i drove it for like 5moin prior and didn't even take the time to let it cool down just left it running and drove it on some ramps. So what me and a friend r thinking is that , the oil pump is done, and possibly there isn't any oil getting to the upper part of the engine.

If you understand what im saying please let me know what u think or maybe you have other information on what it could b.

Also what does a used Gt-S engine usually run or possibly a re build kit?

Thanks