RE: OT: Beater Help

From: Pindell, Timothy (TPindell@otterbein.edu)
Date: Wed Jun 23 2004 - 15:43:40 EDT


My little sister has a Daytona and she's singin' the same song. Runs great
but it's got a serious custom rust job that's going to send it to the
boneyard soon.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: DR CHALLENGER [mailto:drchallenger@hotmail.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, June 22, 2004 11:02 AM
> To: dakota-truck@dakota-truck.net
> Subject: RE: DML: OT: Beater Help
>
>
>
> my 85 k car with the 2.2 went to 130k miles, strill ran very
> well but the
> body was gone
>
>
> >From: Gary Hedlin <garyhedlin@sbcglobal.net>
> >Reply-To: dakota-truck@dakota-truck.net
> >To: dakota-truck-moderator@bent.twistedbits.net
> >Subject: DML: OT: Beater Help
> >Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2004 00:44:36 -0500
> >
> >
> >I've been looking around lately for another beater while I have my
> >truck totally gone over this fall/winter. I saw one today,
> an 80 Dodge
> >Shadow, and even though I can get it for $250, I'm a little
> hesitant.
> >The car has the 2.2l?? 4 cylinder, with 101k on it. Has anyone here
> >delt with these engines? How many miles do they typically
> hold up to?
> >
> >I went to allpar.com and they had a lot of info on the 4 cylinder
> >engines, but I didnšt see a life expectancy on the motors
> >
> >If I can get 4-6 months out of the car I'll be happy. But I
> don't want
> >something leaving me stranded somewhere. After I get the
> truck back I
> >have visions of a nice dragster using a 3.9 magnum!! :) All
> I'll need
> >is a cutting torch and a little creativity! :)
> >
> >
>
>



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