Originally posted by Barry Weeks:
I found it now on the map, pretty much straight east of St. Louis. This might be a stupid question, but is a '88 Maxima with a blown engine worth the time and gas to drag it home to Minnesota? Must be a pretty nice car or you wouldn't be doing this?
5 speed maxis seem rare at best in MN/IA, and the automatics that nissan put in these cars (made by borg warner) are made out of tissue paper, at least thats what it seems like to me. Nissan even factory detuned the 3.0/Auto cars by ~30 HP because of how fraile the automatics are. I paid $202.50 for the '88, its midnight black with a black interior, PW, PL, PM, PS, PB, power sunroof and no rust (also rare in minnesota cars).
The motor going into it is essentially going to be free, the '90 maxima I was driving before it ate its last auto is worth more parts than whole so I'm pulling the motor and dividing the rest.
