I May Have A New Pizza Delivery Project Car Soon...

[85 Cutlass Brougham]

Well, I don't like her in "THAT" way, but she is a friend, and in a bad spot. She's a single mom with no job and no car, and not a bad person, so I have a hard time not helping. I have had to finance her for repairs before, and unlike some other people, I have never had trouble getting paid back for anything I lent her. If she didn't have the money to fix a dangerous issue, I would do it myself and let her make payments because I could never live with myself if she had an accident and it hurt or killed her or her child for want of $50. It's a complicated situation, but I am a giving person and have done more for other people for less. If it were just a water pump like I initially thought, I probably would not have charged her for labor and just told her to go get her life together and that would be thanks enough. You'd have to know me for a while to get me and how I roll, as many of the normal rules of how people are do not really apply to me. I probably have done more favors for people with car trouble than jobs I have gotten paid for. When I ran the pizza place, I did water pumps, radiators, A/C systems, Brakes, etc for my employees for free numerous times because I needed a driver that night and it was easier for me to fix the car than be a driver down. Plus, I liked working on cars more than slapping out pies, and it gave me a change of pace.

Anyhow, how about a B18A or B18B swap instead? Then again, it would use more gas than a 1.6. Also, no fart cannon for me! I would probably use a 2.25in single exhaust terminating in a stock VQ30DE Maxima's single muffler instead. It should be plenty quiet without being too restrictive since even the least powerful VQ made 190hp, and later ones are over 250, all in a quiet family sedan.

 

[Coveted]

i would go z6 for sure, you can do tasteful mods to it to gain too, like run a y8 intake manifold with a b18a throttle body.
you could port the head yourself.
all kinds of little things, but who really needs more then 135hp and vtec in a 2000lb car haha

 

[85 Cutlass Brougham]

I will probably just put the cheapest running engine I can find in it, plus a 5 speed swap. It needs other things too, so I have to make it drive as good as I can on a limited time and cash budget. However, that does not prevent me from keeping my eyes open for good deals and slowly assembling a stack of parts to make it better at a later date. I always walk the import aisles at the U Pull It anyhow, so I may stumble upon some more interesting parts along the way.

 

[78mali350]

so how did this whole ordeal ever turn out? or your car situation in general?

 

[85 Cutlass Brougham]

I am not doing anything until the Cutlass is painted and the roof is fixed on the back of my house. Right now, I figure I need another car about as much as I need a hardcore crack addiction, so I guess I will wait.

 

[78mali350]

ah sounds like a much more urgent plan