Blew motor on my 92 deville 78000 miles

[mattyss]

My motor blew for good on Saturday a 4.9 in a 92 deville . I love the car and i think because I like it so much I keep making bad choices and putting way to much money into it .Ill post a picture up so everyone can see .Its a really nice low mile car and besides from the bad motor its a 8 out of 10 (with the bad motor a 1 out of 10 ).I went around today to get some prices from having a shop do the whole job was around $2700 with a re manufactured motor like a jasper job . the cheapest motor i found was 350 on ebay and there's one in a yard near me for 700 either one of those I can have installed for $450. I'm into the car for around 3800 right now its not worth that in perfect shape is it crazy to put at least another $1300. into it or cut and run at this point and sell it for whatever
I figure if your into to bikes you must be into cars at least a little so I value any opinions

 

[umairhashmi]

Junk it and stick with japanese reliability.Americans dont know how to make cars that last

 

[WuzzaCBXRider]

I'm the 2nd owner of a 91 Coupe that now has 84,000 on it and have never had any major problems. One bad injector, a window regulator and a trunk motor, shocks, tune ups, tires and general maintenance has been it for me. The car is so nice that if I blew the motor I'd replace it. Having no car payments is REALLY nice.

 

[Tool]

depends on how clean and reliable the rest of the car is. that is low miles to have an engine blow, was there a lot of hot rodding going on

 

[mattyss]

Maybe a little to much hot rodding .the car did have some decent power

cbx the coupe has the 4.9 or the 4.5 ?

 

[WuzzaCBXRider]

Same as yours, 4.9. Couple hundred ponies. The later Northstar had 300 ponies with those trick heads.

 

[KROOZER]

(umairhashmi @ Jan. 02 2007,22:52) Junk it and stick with japanese reliability.Americans dont know how to make cars that last  

+1 I agree. Unless U are retired and have nothing else better to do.

 

[mymaster]

junk it

 

[bitabur]

If you do decide to replace it, look into going with a northstar... those are nice engines.

 

[Warputer]

I would say keep it "IF" you could do your own work on it .

 

[BusaWhipped]

If you really like the car and plan to keep it for a few years, replace the engine. You won't be able to get reliable transpotation for under $3,000. I'm surprised that you only got 78,000 miles out of that motor. I had a pre-northstar Seville that had 198,000 miles on it when I traded it in. The engine was still going strong.

+1 on the Northstar. I don't remember what the milage was on mine when I traded the car. Mid-100,000s and going strong.

 

[mattyss]

northstars are great i wish this had one. Guess im going to take the plates off and list it someplace as a parts car and get rid of it .thanks for advice

 

[TheAtomicAss]

I'd keep it. It doesn't really matter what the car's worth, as long as the structure and interior mirrored the outside.

I'd even go for a new crate Northstar with a supercharger and a transmission to match.

Seriously, though, if everything else is in good shape I wouldn't hesitate to drop 10K into the powertrain.