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at least down here in Miami. but, with all the other "Extras" that came with it, you got a hell of a deal!
: Yesterday I loaded up the truck with all sorts of toolz and connected up the "half-truk" trailer. The half truk is a matching Mazda pickup bed that came off my last Mazda truck that was totaled when some idiot in a Jeep pummelled into the front right wheel - mounted on a short boat trailer with a custom axle and matching 5-star 15" wheels (the same as what's on my Mazda truck and painted Bayside Blue Metallic to match the truck. Lookz sweet - but enough about that.. So Vik and I (vsaini here) trucked on down to Seminole Florida from here (Gainesville) and made our way to the gold site. A 1994 Z32 with 63,080 miles on it had been in an accident in late '99 and the owner was 3 days late on an insurance payment because he was our on vacation and forgot. The fault of the accident was the other driver, but the fault was undeterminable by officials so he got screwed in the deal. His original post for the stuff was on Z31.com - my dad was surfing around there for a tranx for my brother's Z31 and he stumbled across this.. The guy wanted $1500 for the tranx AND engine! I was only interested in the engine and he was willing to sell it for $700. So we were off.. We got there at 11:30 and took an hour lunch around 1:00 and the exhaust, driveshaft, tranx were out and the engine was ready to pull by 3:00. The owner was willing to deal and he said that for another $300 I could take the tranx with me and I told him that it would have to be with the driveshaft. So he agreed. When we were out to lunch, I pulled the extra $300 for the deal. We get back and I assemble a beam to lift the engine out with, BUT - And your gonna laugh your ass off about this - we couldnt lift the engine by hand. go figure - I didnt think the engine could have been that heavy. Four of us (two on each side of the beam) trying to lift was futile. We could raise it only a few inches, enough to move it forward a few inches to remove the rear hoses and wiring harness, but no dice on the pull. We try and figure out a way to get it out of there without the hoist, thinking that there's no place to get a hoist and we finally give up and hit the phonebook by 4:00.. We found a rental place that had a hoist, picked it up, set up the hoist, pulled the engine, set it into the engine cradle I built, took the hoist apart and returned it just in the nick of time at 5:30 while the employees were closing up shop. So here's the list..
: $1000 bought me:
: VG30DE
: Tranx
: Driveshaft
: Alternator
: AC compressor
: All plastic undercarriage pieces
: ECU (hell yea)
: Starter
: PS pump resovoir
: radiator fan : and at the very end he was just telling us to take whatever we wanted. I wanted to grab the differential but I was getting tired at this point with all of the rushing we were doing, but I am sure he would have let it go too.. : So now I am off to start tearing into this engine -
: I am going to convert this VG30DE to a TT spec motor.. I'll keep everyone posted as things develop. I didnt expect to get all of this stuff so cheap and in such great shape and the money left over is putting me very close to the finished product, a NA->TT conversion. I have been keeping tabs on my expenses and once everything is finished, I will give the "bottom line" total. But I tell you now, its gonna be way cheap after everything is said and done. I am hoping to recover my losses yesterday (the $1000 dollars) very easily with the sale of my current engine and tranx, which are in perfect working order. :) : L8R
: Ash
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