eh, I hear ya on missing things when buying a car. I was so anxious to get a tib, I got one without a moon roof. Looking back, I shoulda waited.

Also, my tib was sold to me with a rear brake installed wrong (wasnt sat right and wore on an angle). Also, it had a hole in the flexpipe. I also noticed that the vinyl pinstripe was covering painted on pinstripes :angry: . Ohwell, you cant check everything I guess...

 

Man, you are lucky, cause your Tib's previous owner did care of your Tib.
I don't think that 250lbs woman did a lot of autocrossing, drifting, drag rasing smile.gif

I think you can go to a junk yard and find there AC and CC for your Tib.

Mine Tib's previous owner didn't care about my Tib. When I bought mine problems started to pop in two months and they continue to pop up 02.gif (now I have my Tib 2 years)

 

what no pics of the tib in your picture trail pade thingy

 

I just ran it through a handwash/interior clean yesterday for a roadtrip to see a ProPain concert. w00t ! smile.gif
I could scoop a few pics of it.

Ugh...its plain, white, has a lady stripe down the side of it. Plain 5 spoke rims. Kick arse winter tires on it I run all year round. Nokian Hakkapeliitta on the back,
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Kumho KW 19's on front.
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It's in beauty shape however seriously thinking of getting paint job in Sept before the winter.

I'm working moocho o.t. right now to build up some liquid $ to pay for package of:
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Wants:
I'd like the 99 tail for the hatchback, thad'be tres kewl.

...it's not much but it's quiet, no rattles and good mileage and gets a few looks, not laughs. heh heh

 

welcome, sounds like youre really likin it despite the overlooks, thats good.
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hehe, tres kewl... tongue.gif

 

welcome to the site mang

 

Enjoy your stay. I had a 98 Grand AM GT and I can honnestly I would take a Tiburon over the GA any day of the week. GA was a good car, but the Tiburon is 10X the car the GA was.

 

I'll tell y'all what the "Viking Funeral" is.

I parked my ol' 88 G.Am in my pal's sandpit near a bunch of other junk cars.
Made sure there is fuel in the tank.
Pop the hood, add to the engine a liter of oil so it is "overfull".
Take stick and place it between seat and fuel pedal so pedal is pressed hard against the floor.
Cut top rad hose.
Well this quad-4 is one tough engine. I had an oil pressure gage sitting off the head because at one time I did not trust the dash gage.
Start er' up and let'r fly apart. I jumped up in my pal's Komatsu loader and sat there while
"RRUM RRUM RRUM RRUM RRUM RRUM RRUM...." the engine bounced off the rev limiter at 7500 down to 7000 back to 7500 rpms.
I could see the pressure gage read about 60 lbs.
At about the 5 minute mark the rad hose was spewing steam so high into the air you would think it was a steam engine from the 40's. haha...
At the 9 minute mark the oil pressure gage was going down 60, 50, 40 and when it his 30 the engine labor "GRRRRRRRR.." which I figure was about 4000 rpms then...

BOOM!

Connecting rod through the pan and onto the orange hot header...FIRE!~!!!!!! *AAHHH*

Oh man I was frantic, the flame was probably 7 feet higher than the car. Thinking "OMG, the fuel lines are hi-pressure rubber and there's 3/8 tank fuel left, If I don't get this thing out she may explode and cause the other cars to light on fire"

I started the loader up and drove to a wall of sand, fuel pedal right to the floor I had that loader going and got back to the front of the car I dumped the sand into the engine bay hoping to snuff it out. NOPE! Had to get another pile of sand and dump it in. Then I had to grab underneath the car bumper with the loader bucket and lift the car, shaking it making it jump off the bucket to get the sand to fall thru. *BAM BAM BAM* well that wasn't working either.

So I drive around the driver side of the car and lifted it up on its side so I could see the engine. Still...FIRE on the firewall, everything covered with oil, burning. OMFG THE FLAMES ARE licking the rubber fuel lines. "AAAAHHGHH!" I grabbed sand with my hands vigourously throwing sand on the firewall like splashing a dog with water to eventually snuffing out the fire. *WHEW....* Hoo, my heart was coming out of my throat.

Heh, I look down on the ground and the connecting rod was folded in 1/2. It made a small crater a few inches deep. The con.rod cap snapped right off and the rod pulled away clean from the piston ripping the wrist pin off like it was made from soft plastic. rolleyes.gif

The little quad-4 didn't deserve that funeral...........but it was fun. he he he

 

^OMFG This guy is absolutely crazy, he belongs here. I tried to explain this story to my girlfriend while I am reading it and cracking up. She couldn't understand or comprehend the words connecting rod, oil pan, fuel line, wrist pin, or piston. Needless to say I find this hilarious. However, I think this requires pictures to fully appreciate the artistic value of it.

 

lol, ok, so you killed your old car, but where did the name viking funeral come from?

edit: lol here's one example!! http://www.ookami.co.uk/html/viking_funeral.html

or this more boring version http://www.runestone.org/vkgfuner.html laugh.gif