[s-cars] Which SB2

[mike claire]

The engine with the backwards pistons was a spare - the engine that's in the
car had a valve problem but the pistons were OK.  It's all in that thread.
Toward the bottom somebody got the clarification on that.




On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 1:11 AM, JC <jc at j2c3.com> wrote:

>
> IMO that 2nd car has a giant "CAVEAT EMPTOR PROJECT CAR" warning sign
> painted on it. Current owner has been posting various places about it - he
> seems like a really straight / honest / open guy, not trying to BS anybody
> about any of the issues, but the car sounds like it could have more
> 'downside surprises' lurking from the PO.
>
> Y'know when somebody put pistons in backwards, well, you never know what
> else they mighta done... (BTW torquing the bolts with oil is my least
> concern with that car).
>
> Not that that should stop you (I bought my car expecting 10x more hidden
> $hit to be wrong with it and have just been happily surprised...) Current
> guy sounds well intentioned and reasonably well principled about the work
> he
> was trying to do on it. It certainly seems like a cheap way to get a
> project
> platform car with a lot of parts, then step one would be to pick up where
> current owner has left off de-funkifying any of the screwed up stuff.
>
> Here's most of the current owners story if you haven't already seen it...
> http://www.motorgeek.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=22626
>
>
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