i just saved a 99 tiburon from the scrapper and want to make her great again

 

welcome.gif to the site! How did you save it from being scrapped, and what are your plans for it? Sounds like you have a bit of a project ahead of you.

Feel free to ask any questions you might have. We're a great group of people here. smile.gif

 

Welcome. Tell us your story.

 

Yeah, sounds like a great story.

welcome.gif to the site!

 

I was looking for a budget gas saver, and looked at 50-60 cars. Looking at around 1500 bucks or so. Ninety percent of what I looked at was a peace of crap. Was trolling craigslist parts side and found the tibby as a parts car that was going to junk yard in a week. Offered dude 500 bucks for it and got it. It had no compression on 1-2, and had decent on 3-4. Spent 1/2 day checking the obvious, and was puzzled.
Timing was good, no oil in tail pipe, no water in oil, spark plugs looked clean, and motor turned freely. Decided gasket or head sealing problem, snatch head off and found a coolent hose blown on bottom of hose, where it wasn't visable. Head was warped. Between 1-2 is a gap with a straight edge of heavy 1/16 of an inch. So have looked for heads, but there 150+ used. Found an whole engine for 400 bucks with 61k on it. Going to grab that I think.

Plans for car, Is a few mods here and there performance wise, and straiting body up and fresh coat of paint.
Going to try to keep it simple/stupid, ....lol....doubt that will happen.

Thanx for the response's.

 

Great deal. It's nice to have tons of cheap engines sitting in junkyards everywhere. smile.gif

 

Nice rescue.

 

nice and welcome to the forum!!

 

laugh.gif Nice job cool.gif