another might buy story

[myk]

i have been off this forum for awhile due to the fact that i was givin my talon some tender love and care. well just after a week of paying the last of what i owed for repairs, it was stollen! but none other than by my FATHER!
so yeah shit went downhill, and all was horibal there for a few months, but now i am back on track with my passion for automobiles. i was getting some sort of vibe to just save up for a lightwieght rear wheel drive car that the driver can be one with, not just stick to a rutine 13 sec run(my fwd turbo talon). and after i got some dough saved up i started lookin for an older school corolla, well just today i spotted a 240 chillin at a used car lot/repair shop for sale! but it wasnt with the other cars, it just happened to be one of the new mechanics that was lookin to get rid of it(He just got a 88 rx7). well i was talking to him and he said it needs a new head gasket, so that means it doesnt run...and that leaves me with a few options that i could use some well apprieciated guidence on.
btw its a 89 ka24e, open rear end, needs new tires, five speed, from the apiller forward its black 93 body parts, but the original color(cabbin back) its gold.
the first-should i buy it for a few hundred(hes asking 5, but i can get him to lower a hundred) and fix the head gasket, and and drive it to save up for an sr?
the second-should i buy it pull the motor for ebay, and save for an sr swap(less time to wait for the swap)
the third-just save for a car in better shape?

bein 16 and working full time this summer, i could have the car finished by fall. plus i have a 95 4X4 toyota pickup(5 speed) that is dificult to drift due to a bustid leaf spring but it will do while my car waits.
in my position, what would you do?
thanx-myk_

[Ghettokracker71]

EDIT:Sorry misread something.

[myk]

i dont know if you cought the fact that my dsm was stollen, and my pops has sold it, i forgot to say sold it, i see no money out of the dsm :down: .so no i am lookin at driven the yota while fixin the 240, the yota came from my mom outa guilt for my dsm bein gone for good. is the sr20det hard to swap with a ka24e, you know the common power stearing beef, and all the accessorie gaz? still opinions on the original question welcome.

[S14DB]

yeah, turbo the 240 so your dad can sell it. The shell price isn't that bad. Seeing how your dad has respected your cars in the past I wouldn't put in any money into a car for 2 more years when you can own the car.

[mjjstang]

drive the 240 ur not gonna get much for the engine

[myk]

i dont live with my pops, specially after this last scene he pulled, but yeah i geus the shell price isnt bad at all. i will have to go back there in a day or two and let the guy know whats up, keep up opinions if you got any.
thanx-myk_

[nocomedown]

4-500 doesnt sound bad for that, especially if the only thing wrong with it is the head gasket (albeit thats no minor issue). just make sure that theres no rust hidden on the car and all that business, but if i were you (which im not) i'd definitely get it.

[Andrew Bohan]

i wanna hear more about you dad stealing the talon

[Ghettokracker71]

i wanna hear more about you dad stealing the talon

Yeah something about that doesn't make sence.

I'll also agree with be careful of how much you put into your next car seeing as your dad could just as easily do the same thing to a turbo 240.

If the shell is that cheap,then you could fix the KA24E or drop in a KA24DE for cheap,and that way when your ready for SR in a while you've already changed over the P/S lines and what-not. I wouldn't drop an SR in a car after what happened with your talon...not for a while man.


BTW sorry for the mix-up with my earlier post,I misread something,it was late I couldn't sleep,lol.

[Wei240]

did your dad pay and register for the talon?
if he did, then it's not stealing since it is technically his car...

but sucks either way

[the head]

learn to spell

[myk]

i had the bill of sale when he took it from my work. i went in after school(to work), got off late that friday night, and sure enough no talon in the parking lot. i will edit this here with the whole story of my car getting stollen off dsmtuners.

ok so here was my original post a night or so after my car was jacked, btw he wont be able to steal any other car of mine, i am not stupid enough to ever let him take any of my car keys ever again.
my dsm is gone

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it all started when my parents devoreced. i lived with my dad until things got too bad then i moved in with my mom. after 10 months wihtout seeing my dad, he offered to buy me my talon, if i moved back in with him. before he offered this he claimed to have changed and whatnot for the better. the turn off was my living situations would have to go back to not being able to see my mother less than 4 days a month again. i proposed 50/50 visitation and he said 50/50 doesnt get me the car. so i said wahtever and mumbled what he wanted me to say, so he bought me the car. a week later my parents had to go to court to settle some custidy issues, and the judge brought me back to his chambers and talked to me one on one, found out that i would be better off living with my mom. so i went back there and things were fine, until...(all that happend two thursdays ago-to this thursday in court) i stopped by my dads house friday to get my name tag for work, and as soon as i step in his house, he says, put the keys down i will take you to your moms. i said no i dont have time for this and left, laid some stripe in front of his house, and went to work. i came out of work on friday night to find i have no car. got a ride and got home, called him and he said he took "his" car when the bill of sale was in my pocket, and in both our names.
he is giving me 2 weeks to come up with 1700, where as i paid 400 of the car, and then another 386 in parts for the thing.
he has destroid our relationship over 1600 worth of car(he gave me 100 bucks for the water pump) after those 2 weeks the car is going in the paper...so if there is anyone in the omaha neb area looking to buy a well taken cared for talon...look for it in the paper.


i hate my dad!

[nocomedown]

err...not meaning to pass judgement or anything, but thats pretty shitty to live with your dad just because he's offering to buy you a car. i dont see how you couldnt have seen something like that coming when that's the way he tries to earn your affection.

[Ghettokracker71]

Well nocomedown he can't change the past,hes just gotta try to firgure out the best decisions to make now,for the present and future.

Myk-sounds like your dad just wanted his son back,after all he just lost his wife. I don't agree with him bribing you to live w/him for a car,but then again it is kind of understandable. Thats really shitty that he took it back though,the judge told you to move in with your mom,right? You were just doing what the law told you too,you had already moved in with him and were being forced to move out.

Hope things are starting to look up for you soon.

[myk]

well i am heading back to the mechanic to tlak to him about the car. my dad didnt loose his wife(i dont know where you got that from). and can anyone tell me if i take out the old and tired ka24e and transplant a ka24de in, will the trannys mount up? i know the power stearing will have to be rerun. thanx in advance.

[Ghettokracker71]

my dad didnt loose his wife(i dont know where you got that from).

From this:


..it all started when my parents divorced...


Divorce=loosing wife,last I checked,lol.

The SOHC engine WILL bolt to the DOHC according to a recent thread about the subject.

[myk]

the devorce was seven years ago.
06-13-2004 08:46 PM
Ghettokracker71 :whip: owned

[matlock]

Regardless or not if they were divorced 7 years ago he still lost his wife. The way your story is worded it seems like the divorce was recent with the custody issues and the bribing for the car and stuff. Either way good luck with the 240.