Hey guys! First of all, happy holidays for all of you!
Ok, so basically i need an advice on what to do with my contour. Its a 99 v6 se. i did a few things to it: 2.5" stainless manifold-back exhaus, lowered 2.5"(the cheap way with ebay springs), high flow air intake, 5% in the back and 20% in the front professional tint, konig prophet 18" rims, full color LED underglow. I had the car for almost 4 years now. A few days ago it started to develop a very quiet tick at certain rpms. But as time progressed, the tick became more obvious and at a wider rpm range. I think (pretty positive) its the rod bearings. So i have a delemma: what do i do with the car?
i have options:
1. junk it and get the most money i can out of it (its prolly gona be like $300, if even that)
2. part it out and junk the rest
3. fix it for $1700 (thats how much a used engine and installation will cost).
4. rebuild the engine (very labor intensive and expensive)
I would sell the car anyways in a few months because of the insurance costs (i will ride my sweet zx6r!) so id really rather do option 1 and 2. And living in an apartment in NYC, i do not have any means of installing the engine myself (even though i saw some pretty cheap engines in the range of 400-600 on ebay).
So can you guys please give me your input on what to do and the consequent financial gains/losses im will face.
the car is currently on ebay item number 260337945630
thanks guys
Ok, so basically i need an advice on what to do with my contour. Its a 99 v6 se. i did a few things to it: 2.5" stainless manifold-back exhaus, lowered 2.5"(the cheap way with ebay springs), high flow air intake, 5% in the back and 20% in the front professional tint, konig prophet 18" rims, full color LED underglow. I had the car for almost 4 years now. A few days ago it started to develop a very quiet tick at certain rpms. But as time progressed, the tick became more obvious and at a wider rpm range. I think (pretty positive) its the rod bearings. So i have a delemma: what do i do with the car?
i have options:
1. junk it and get the most money i can out of it (its prolly gona be like $300, if even that)
2. part it out and junk the rest
3. fix it for $1700 (thats how much a used engine and installation will cost).
4. rebuild the engine (very labor intensive and expensive)
I would sell the car anyways in a few months because of the insurance costs (i will ride my sweet zx6r!) so id really rather do option 1 and 2. And living in an apartment in NYC, i do not have any means of installing the engine myself (even though i saw some pretty cheap engines in the range of 400-600 on ebay).
So can you guys please give me your input on what to do and the consequent financial gains/losses im will face.
the car is currently on ebay item number 260337945630
thanks guys