kirks5oh

just took the car apart and found the rear head had one of the bolts facing the lower intake that had its head sheared off and the stem was loose??? i'm assuming that is the root of my problem as the lower intake gasket looked ok. the machine shop (johnson motors) that is literally 1/2 mile from my house wants $125 to mill both heads and install valve seals---this sounds reasonable??, and it is literally 1/2 mile from the homefront.

some of these are incredible. food coloring in one of his drinks will typically turn his urine that color. there's a whole book written by hayduke titled 'revenge'--most of the pranks you would not want to do on a friend. we used to do the old trusty milk carton joke. hide an open milk container somewhere and wait--obviously not one for you being that you live there. perhaps the most cruel one is to go to the dorm room community laundry area. people typically put their clothes in and go away to study. put a couple of pieces of pizza in the dryer with someones' clothes, and presto--you've ruined an entire set of clothes

guys, i'm doing a cylinder head job, hopefully this week on my trusty '90 3.1liter grand prix. i'm trying to do this as cheaply as possible to appease the wife who wants this car gone, and to get a new one, but i'm attached to this heap. i guess i should probably get the heads planed flat to assure they aren't warped, and replace the valve stem seals. who can do this as cheaply as possible??? thanks guys kirk

yep, i understand the intake and exhaust ones are slightly diff lengths. i know its probably cheap to have the heads re-sealed, but the wife gets pissed with the thought of me spending another red cent on that car. funny, how i spend tons on the cobra and she doesn't bat an eye.

that's what i was thinking. i'm giving this car one last chance. i love the car, bought it for $3k in 2000, with 75k miles from an old lady, and it has been awesome. i just bought a head gasket kit $50, and the bolts $25, as well as plugs $15, and some gasket maker for the edge of the lower intake. i just know its going to be a bitch to get the rear exhaust manifold/head off the car, and i'm not sure how to get ALL of the oil/coolant mix out of the car. thanks for the help guys

the commentators are acting like someone died, or something.

if it doesn't sell here, it would sell in a heartbeat over on svtperformance.com at that price

that is a great, great price. make sure you've 'un-married' it from your car

i got the upper intake and a lot of other shit off the car, i should be getting the lower intake off the car monday. i can't decide whether or not to do the head gaskets if i find a leaky lower intake gasket. more news to come.

good question, i guess i'll find out as i tear the car down. i was driving on the freeway, and then all of the suddend the car studdered hard. i couldn't get power, and then the car stalled. i looked at the temp guage and it was pegged. there was no coolant in the reservoir. pulled the oil dipstick, and there was the telltale milky combination that means coolant in the oil. i was able to start the car last night for a brief second to get it into the driveway. it seemed to run kind of rough?? i'm assuming it should be obvious once i take the lower intake off, if that is the culprit???? thanks for your help kirk

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i would normally do this as well, but this is a 17 year old junker that the wife doesn't want a single penny more sunk into. the head gaskets are cheap, i can do this over the course of a couple weeks, and if it doesn't work, just junk the car. i just sank money into the car to change the front/rear brakes, the muffler, and both CV joints. if the new headgaskets don't work, or the piston rings are fried, or a bearing gets spun, i will junk the car with no hesitation kirk

thanks guys. the car is old ('90), has 145k miles on it, and the wife has threatened multiple times to junk it--this might put her over the top. head gasket kits including bolts are around $50, so i'm just going to go for it, and probably not machine the heads or anything like that. i'm sure the rear-facing head will be a bit difficult, but i'm in no time crunch as we have an extra car for daily driving in addition to my wife's explorer. i don't really need the car, but i'm attached to it, and wanted to give it to my grandfather this summer.

guys, i've got a '90 pontiac grand prix (3.1 v6, non-turbo) that decided to blow a head gasket today. anybody ever change one of these?? how hard is it?? can it be done with the motor in the car?? my automotive repair ability is above average, but by NO means professional

so it is only going to be available for XBOX 360??

they're all over ebay. i wouldn't trust an old nintendo. they do sell top loading game systems that play nintendo games, and also allow for old nintendo controllers to plug in

i actually might be tempted. i was always a big fan of the old transams with the bird on the hood. not sure if the wife would let me though.

if its as clean as you say it is, your price is reasonable

this is probably a more accurate statement of my sentiments

i DID call it a ghetto, but did not say it was the worst part of columbus--it is definately well below average. and when i refered to the lowest of the low, i was refering to the people that occupy the bottoms portion of west broad, near the hospital where i work. the whole point of my thread is that it is located in a part of columbus where i would not want to take a nice car to, and park it there for several hours and hang out. i guess i should have specified that. i am sorry if i offended you

those are still great #'s wease.

i pretty much answered your question, and i was trying to be nice to you. i'm a resident orthopedic surgeon who takes care of uninsured patients with broken bones--sorry you couldn't comprehend that, dickhead. i'm not trying to act all tough and macho, im simply stating a fact--most of the 'thugs' we get are 140-160lbs soaking wet. but i've seen plenty patients where we get an x-ray of their femur with their jeans on, and can clearly see a knife in their pocket on the x-ray. now fuck off douchebag.

food poisoning usually comes out both ends. i'm assuming the original poster may be sitting on the crapper right now.

we take care of people who "are minding their own business", and get shot, assaulted, and run over by cars, resulting in broken bones. we specialize in dealing with people who do NOT have health insurance--the resident clinic. these are the people who live in the bottoms, and they are a rough and ragged crowd--definately people i don't want to deal with outside a controlled environment (the hospital). not that i'm a big puss, i'm sure i could kick most of their asses. i just don't fare well against knives and guns, and these days, you pretty much assume those kind of people are armed with something

are you refering to me?? i guess you could call me the 'original poster', or 'kirk' since that is obviously my name. you just used the word 'poster', which could mean anyone including yourself, jeff. i've worked at a lot of the major hospitals in this town, and several of them are in bad areas (children's is located around where you speak of, mt. carmel west, and grant hospital are all in areas you would not want to hang out in). the whole idea of my post is that i would not want to hang out at sonics. from all the hype about the creation of a sonics on this website, i expected people with nice cars to be hanging out--not what i found. i'm originally from a suburb just south of cleveland where we had Swenson's hamburgers (it is not unlike sonic). on a nice weekend day, everyone with a nice car would show up and talk cars. i love how everyone jumped in this thread to list the most dangerous part of columbus they know. i deal with the lowest of the low on a daily basis, its my job. when i'm away from work i don't want to be around trash.