What would you recommend as a first car?
Armin H
I am going to be getting my first car soon and i need to do alot of research before i buy it. My best option right now is a 83 porsche 944. I am looking for a sports/muscle car that is about 1500-3500 dollars, sort of unique and preferably old (70s to 80s) what would you recommend based on those factors?
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Are you sure you can handle such an old car? Can you work on the car yourself?
If you bring home a beater, most likely that you will, then it'll be very costly to have repairs done by mechanics. You should open your budget range to maybe 5000 dollar so you can buy a better condition car.
Porsche 944 is very nice in my opinion but parts are very expensive and are hard to find. You should buy something more common like the miata (best choice), 240sx, Mr2, AE86, and some old mustangs.
I brought a beater MR2 home and now I have exhaust fume in my cabin. Its not great to get carbon monoxide poisoning and then go off the road. I considered that event extremely lucky since I didn't collided with other objects, animals or other cars. Trust me, I've been in worse situations with this car. I'm not saying you'll get such a bad car, but chances are higher with the years and budgets you have listed compared to other "boring cars" like the civic.
I don't mean to rant, just giving you my two cents. I hope you buy a good car. Remember to test everything like engine compression, brakes, heater, AC, blinkers, windows, and exhaust leaks. Yes, dark humor, those listed things are the things I didn't check and had problems with. Good luck =]
Are you sure you can handle such an old car? Can you work on the car yourself?
If you bring home a beater, most likely that you will, then it'll be very costly to have repairs done by mechanics. You should open your budget range to maybe 5000 dollar so you can buy a better condition car.
Porsche 944 is very nice in my opinion but parts are very expensive and are hard to find. You should buy something more common like the miata (best choice), 240sx, Mr2, AE86, and some old mustangs.
I brought a beater MR2 home and now I have exhaust fume in my cabin. Its not great to get carbon monoxide poisoning and then go off the road. I considered that event extremely lucky since I didn't collided with other objects, animals or other cars. Trust me, I've been in worse situations with this car. I'm not saying you'll get such a bad car, but chances are higher with the years and budgets you have listed compared to other "boring cars" like the civic.
I don't mean to rant, just giving you my two cents. I hope you buy a good car. Remember to test everything like engine compression, brakes, heater, AC, blinkers, windows, and exhaust leaks. Yes, dark humor, those listed things are the things I didn't check and had problems with. Good luck =]
I have a 1999 Monte Carlo super sport Z34 and I want to rebuild it into a mean sport car?
Kevin Beas
What should I get and put on this beautiful car? Its black and it has a v6, my friend sold it to me for $500 dollars because it wasnt in the best of shape and had 183k miles on it, I have seen some pics of these 1999 monte carlos suped up and turn into mean beautiful looking muscle built sport cars, and this car wasnt very well taken cared off, so I want to do it a favor and restore it myself, and turn it into something to be proud of, any suggestions on parts are anything will be appreciated, the dash is also pretty bad, I was hoping to rebuild the dash and so on. Thanks!
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Well let me start off by saying that year of monte Carlo isn't necessarily a muscle car anymore. Later models of the monte Carlo (after year 86'- late 87') they turned them into v6 front wheel drive cars. In order to turn it into a genuine muscle car, the frame would have to be COMPLETELY swapped or customized to turn it into a rear wheel drive. (this will run into the ten thousand dollar range!!) your car has a transversely mounted v6 with a trans axle, not a normal rear drive transmission, so it will have to stay a FWD car unless you're very wealthy and plan on getting a whole new frame (or custom building one) with a high powered ls motor, transmission, drive train, rear end, etc and just adding your car's shell to it like a pro stock dragster (which wouldn't be worth it IMO) as for other mods, you can do the typical bolt-ons to gain about 50-60 horsepower MAX with all of them done right. I'm pretty sure that year has the 3400 series v6 with roughly 160hp stock? Give or take..so you can start with a cold air intake, (5hp gain, $200) a cat back or full exhaust system (pipe, muffler, cat, resonator, tips about 6hp $250-$300), headers (...$ and about 10 more hp) sway bars, and suspension kit (for tighter steering, reduced body roll and tighter handling/turning) about $300-$400 total (strictly handling, no power gains) and some z rated tires, and anything from this point up will run into the thousand dollar range if you do any actual machining and REAL power mods to the motor (fuel pump, bore over the motor, ported heads, new forged internals (for running a turbo or pro charger), oil pump, oil pan, throttle, throttle body, valves, springs, cam, lifters, flywheel, fuel injectors, ecu, fuel line mapping programmer etc..etc.... All of these mods at the end that I just listed are ones that cost thousands of dollars, and are usually done by people who have a lot of experience, know EXACTLY what they want, and are usually done to a motor that is a lot more powerful from the beginning stock stages (which yours is not). All said an done, your car is just not worth this type of work. It isn't set up in an ideal muscle car fashion by any means, and quite frankly is just an every day driver, slow, fwd car, not a genuine type original monte Carlo MUSCLE CAR like they were back in the 70s and 80s ( they did this with the impala too, it's a shame.. :( good luck though with whatever you decide to do. I really hope you value the knowledge I've just given you
Well let me start off by saying that year of monte Carlo isn't necessarily a muscle car anymore. Later models of the monte Carlo (after year 86'- late 87') they turned them into v6 front wheel drive cars. In order to turn it into a genuine muscle car, the frame would have to be COMPLETELY swapped or customized to turn it into a rear wheel drive. (this will run into the ten thousand dollar range!!) your car has a transversely mounted v6 with a trans axle, not a normal rear drive transmission, so it will have to stay a FWD car unless you're very wealthy and plan on getting a whole new frame (or custom building one) with a high powered ls motor, transmission, drive train, rear end, etc and just adding your car's shell to it like a pro stock dragster (which wouldn't be worth it IMO) as for other mods, you can do the typical bolt-ons to gain about 50-60 horsepower MAX with all of them done right. I'm pretty sure that year has the 3400 series v6 with roughly 160hp stock? Give or take..so you can start with a cold air intake, (5hp gain, $200) a cat back or full exhaust system (pipe, muffler, cat, resonator, tips about 6hp $250-$300), headers (...$ and about 10 more hp) sway bars, and suspension kit (for tighter steering, reduced body roll and tighter handling/turning) about $300-$400 total (strictly handling, no power gains) and some z rated tires, and anything from this point up will run into the thousand dollar range if you do any actual machining and REAL power mods to the motor (fuel pump, bore over the motor, ported heads, new forged internals (for running a turbo or pro charger), oil pump, oil pan, throttle, throttle body, valves, springs, cam, lifters, flywheel, fuel injectors, ecu, fuel line mapping programmer etc..etc.... All of these mods at the end that I just listed are ones that cost thousands of dollars, and are usually done by people who have a lot of experience, know EXACTLY what they want, and are usually done to a motor that is a lot more powerful from the beginning stock stages (which yours is not). All said an done, your car is just not worth this type of work. It isn't set up in an ideal muscle car fashion by any means, and quite frankly is just an every day driver, slow, fwd car, not a genuine type original monte Carlo MUSCLE CAR like they were back in the 70s and 80s ( they did this with the impala too, it's a shame.. :( good luck though with whatever you decide to do. I really hope you value the knowledge I've just given you
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