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| metro117 | Nov 2 2014, 03:19 AM Post #1 |
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Hello everyone I recently picked up 93 xfi with 193250 miles for $200 and Im pretty excited. Surprisingly it made the 116 mile trip from Thousand oaks to my house. The inside was mostly stripped but the owner had most of the interior panels. No rust under the car and has minimal dents. Im pretty sure it has a burned exhaust valve because it is pretty hard to start, has a shaking idle, and the exhaust makes a chuffing sound. Did the paper test and it does get sucked in periodically. Ran a compression test and got 180 165 60 for cylinders 1-3 respectively. also has a code 51 for the egr valve. The car does not overheat. changed oil in both the engine and transmission(oh man it needed it), new plug wires, pcv valve, spark plugs, and air filter. Its my first beater to get back and forth from college and should be a fun learning experience to work on it. Today I found another xfi in my town and the owner wants to really get rid (his wife really wants him to junk it). Its transmission lost 2nd. I was really thinking about buying it as a parts car to keep the cylinder head, pistons with connecting rods, alternator, starter, coil, distributor, multiple interior parts ect. I was wondering it if there is anything else i should keep. Its hard for me because im limited on storage space and once i take the parts I need, i might junk it. I live in a condo and they are pretty strict on multiple cars out on the street. I'm also really limited on tools, money, and work space. (college student and only able work on cars on the side of the road :/ ) Where is the best place online to buy parts that low in price but still have decent quality? Thank you all for your time and help. Hopefully a metro guru lives close to Santa Maria, CA XD
Edited by metro117, Nov 2 2014, 03:26 AM.
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| nathan298 | Nov 2 2014, 04:45 AM Post #2 |
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| Car Nut | Nov 2 2014, 04:52 AM Post #3 |
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Welcome aboard Metro117. Good advice given by Metronomicon. Save the whole engine if there's any way you can. Might consider pulling the window regulators out of the doors. No way to save the whole car back at your parents place? Maybe they have a farm with lots of room & wouldn't mind 1 extra "junk" car?
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| Old Man | Nov 2 2014, 06:14 AM Post #4 |
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junkyard you might want to contact--good reputation for price, shipping, etc http://www.geopartsused.com/ |
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| MR Bill | Nov 2 2014, 09:53 AM Post #5 |
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Welcome to GMF |
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| brsja | Nov 2 2014, 10:33 AM Post #6 |
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Hi. Most of the interior comes out very easily, pick the best of each panel/clip/carpet, etc and scrap the rest. Tach Cluster? Door handles and I second the door regulators. Windshield wiper motor and transmission (linkage). Wheels/rotors/drums if you can, and maybe calipers and brackets for spares (extra set just in case you need to rebuild one). Check the CV boots on your car, maybe keep the axels as spares, especially if you have a torn boot...but reman axels are the way to go unless you have lots of time and no cash. If the tranny is bad and you have limited space... find a good home for that, but keep the head, alt, starter and as much of the engine as you can, check the exhaust on both, we got a brand new exhaust (6 months old) off a parts car. Keep any little parts that are broken or missing on the good car . We had to use the exhaust manifold and air cleaner off our parts car during an engine swap, due to broken plastic and bad threads. Headliner backer board if your board is damaged, so you can recover with felt. Again interiors get trashed pretty fast at the yards so keep the best of all of it and swap it out, no need to store it very long when space is tight. All I can think of. Edited by brsja, Nov 2 2014, 10:42 AM.
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| Mythstae | Nov 2 2014, 10:37 AM Post #7 |
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No board in a 93, 89-94 had vinyl headliners, IIRC. |
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| brsja | Nov 2 2014, 10:39 AM Post #8 |
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Thanks Myth, just brainstorming, no actual experience with the 94 and older cars. |
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| Mythstae | Nov 2 2014, 10:50 AM Post #9 |
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| Murf 59 | Nov 2 2014, 11:26 AM Post #10 |
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Welcome to the forum. |
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| metro117 | Nov 2 2014, 05:35 PM Post #11 |
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Thank you all for your input. Just picked up my second xfi. The transmission is missing second gear. But the owner did have new axels installed. The windshield on my car is cracked, but on the parts car is fine so hopefully I can find a way to swap it out. Now the fun begins
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| Bad Bent | Nov 3 2014, 01:00 AM Post #12 |
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Welcome to your new forum, metro117! How about compression test the engines, swap the better block into your favorite body, reassemble both of them and sell the one you don't want to someone on base?
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