Need Subaru assistance

Shift518 Automotive
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My Scooby is literally on its last leg bros. Pissing oil everywhere and basically everything is wrong with it.

I saw this:
http://albany.craigslist.org/cto/1509313690.html

None of the small problems bother me like shocks windows ac and such. The transmission thing is what i have concern with. Anyone know what it might be or if i could grab up a cheap and i mean real cheap tranny for this car.

Think i would be able to drive it around town for a month or two with the tranny in the condition its in?

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i can talk to the guy that rents out the garage next to use, he has 2 or 3 sitting inside as parts cars

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look for something else. this car is pretty much good for a field car now lol.
what is your price range?

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I just had $300 cash in my hand. I only need a car to last me till spring which my scooby will hopefully do.

Thanks for the advice though 20wrx09.

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here is one for $400
http://westernmass.craigslist.org/ctd/1483247401.html
it only needs some ghetto rigging to start it:lol

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ohh look at that. Might have to contact them

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good luck:thumbup

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For a beater look into a late '80’s/early '90’s Buick Lesabre or Olds 88.
Those cars make awesome beaters and they run forever with the 3.8.
http://albany.craigslist.org/cto/1467529643.html
http://albany.craigslist.org/cto/1504044124.html

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can. not. beat. obd1. japanese. economy. cars.

done and done*. seriously*.

get a corolla/sentra/accord for $600 and beat its ass til it blows up, betcha it’ll take a while :rofl

*excludes wear items such as brakes, exhaust, axles, fuel lines, brake lines, rocker panels, doors, etc etc

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Rust eats those older Japanese cars though.
For some reason those old GM tanks dont rust all that bad, even for being 20+ years old.

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Accord? Civic. My beater 2 winters ago was a '93 4 door with over 300k miles, 5 speed, got it for $200, fixed some small things, drove it alll winter and sold it for $1,000 the following March :rofl

My beater this year, '93 Civic hatch 5 speed, 190k miles, got it cheap, thing runs fucking awesome and gets 35+MPG!

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oh yeah civics fo sho

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Wrong on both counts.

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See this is what i need. I have owned 2 egs before there is nothing i cant do with them

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Find a mid 90’s Corolla, DONE. And, as always, don’t listen to PJB.

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Oh yeah, thats right. Youve seen the cars Ive worked on and/or friends have owned.

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My family owned a 93 Grand Am since new. Car rusted out before the engine/tranny failed. However, my 95 Corolla, that has been in Upstate NY it’s whole life, only has a minimal amount of rust.

Conditions ‘up here’ in the ADK are worse than what you are used to.

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Grand Ams are complete shit. I never mentioned them and Ive worked on dozens of them.

I said Lesabres and Olds 88’s. Good solid cars with 3.8’s.

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Ok, sure. Not as good on fuel as a smaller Japanese car, though.

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PJB is right about the 3.8 lasabers, 88’s, even the early 90’s centurys with the 3.3. Those centurys are a TANK! They can survive multiple jumps! Stay away from 3.1L and Series 2 3.8L motors (intake manifold issue)

I’d rather grip some wood grain and slab it out all over da 518 than bomb around in 1.6L of non-vtec fury :rofl