as some of you know my camaro (father, son, holy spirit, amen) got water in the block and is totaled. i was looking at a formula firebird that needs body work but my parents, who are helping me out because i'm a college freshman so i relly dont have my own money yet, are getting all mad it me becaue the car needs work. and when im honest withmyself, an lt1 isnt relly much of a dayly driver anyway. there talking me into a 4.8l 97 thunderbird. i might have to give in, because at least it's a v8. I can live with it. But first i have to look at a $900 96 firebird i found on cregslist, but for the price it might be a lemon.
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Not to sound mean or anything, but when I was a college student I worked 2 part-time jobs: working for the Public Library, and in the Gym. I was making minimum wage on both of them. I was able to buy 2 cars.
Maybe try and see if you could raise enough money to buy the car that you want.
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x2 buy the engine and fix her up. i waited tables and was a substitute teacher all through undergrad and gave me enough for some mods until i graduated and got a real job, you can make it happen.pacesetters|full 3" borla exhaust|3" stainless e-cutout|slp cai & ram intake|c/f whisper lid|tbs|eibach|kyb|stb|sfc's|adj.lca's & phb|slp fan|b&m t5|180*|z06 17x9.5|8000k hids|hptuners|d/s rotors
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im doing as many hours as i can at cici's pizza (lame). but this summer i start film school, and that will be 12-21 hour days working on movie sets, so i will be living off my loan till i move to LA and start working on movies for real. But i have to say this. I test drove the car today, i expected it to be an old man car. The color was beautiful, it was like a navy blue with teal flakes. And it had this crazy cold air intake thing intake and a great exaust system, and driveing it it felt like a beast, and sounded like the devil haveing an orgasm. i actually rely like it even though it is pure evil. i will still always be a f body person at heart but i am happy with this tbird till i can afford to finance a 2010 camaro.
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A 3.8 Camaro will whoop that T-birds @ss, with a low toned exhaust.LOL My inlaws have a 96 T-bird, I think it is a 4.6 engine, there is always somethig going out on it. I thought my Camaro was bad on problems. They also make a supercharged version on the T-bird, suppose to be like the SHO or something like that.08' L76 6.0L 4X4 Chevy EXT.Cab LTZ Vortec MAX with Snug top cover, Dynomax exhaust,Hptuners& K&N intake
96' Camaro M5 to A4 conversion, alot of mods . GT35R Turbo full suspension. Built engine
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You might having better luck getting a new engine for your Camaro. Those Thunderbirds are notorious for having problems and require a lot of upkeep.'99 Camaro
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'90 Audi Coupe Quattro
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Originally posted by StrtRacer98 View Post:tdown: thunderturd
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the garadge with the car even tryed to find me an engine, but they were worried the one they found wouldn't last. It's been there like a week scene they said it was totaled, and they said sence then they tryed everything to fix it but nothing woked. i found out it was overheating, and i didn't know it because the temp gauge broke. It worked like 2 weeks ago.
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2k is more than enough for an engine & labor to have it installed. $900 for fwd engine (prbly less) $150 for gaskets to x-fer F-bod componets over (gaskets & such) $50 for beer & pizza for friends that help pull old & install new enigne.1978 Formula 461 in progress of being built :rock:
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