Until someone starts manufacturing a repo, they'll demand a premiun. Funny how certain parts just take off. If somebody was making a better reprodcution of these mats, they would't bring the coin they do.
It takes a certain type of buyer for some of this. The mats sold to a collector, he's got...
Running Stainless Works long tubes on this car, so the sound is more pronounced than yours with manifolds:
Swap the plugs over, see if the ticking follows. Easy and free way to check. Don't do what I did and assume it was an adjuster, could have saved myself a lot of aggrevation.
It looks like it really had 2 owners to me, the first never titled the car, probalby a dealer. I don't see any red flags here, but the second owner had a clutch put in it pretty early in it's life, car obviously pullied and tuned with it's mods. That said, it wouldn't be any concern to me if the...
Swap banks, if it follows it, then you know. I'm still amazed at how distinct of a metallic knock it had. Doubt it would have been the case with stock manifolds.
I was actaully referring to my response. I try to get the point without getting into the weeds with it all. :)
LIke another member mentioned, drive it for a while, see how you like it. If it does't already have one, put a good aftermarket shifter on it, makes really fun to bang the gears on.
Congrats on the purchase.
First question, did I pay a fair price? Market is still inflated post-covid, but the market is the market.
Question 2, I saw a new VMP 3 (I forget the liter size) blower advertised for $1700; does that sound like a correct price? Even for a used blower, that...
If it's intermittent, it's not going to be a header leak. If you can pin it down to a side, simply swap them over to the other side and see if it follows. My car:
Was like somebody smacking 2 marbles together, very metal on metal valvetrain-like noise.
May have been me. :)
It's why I suggest putting in a set of plugs on that side that's exibiting the tick. Mine was drivers side, very noticable and able to pinpoin the side it was coming from.