My cheap Rivi

Will get more pictures soon. for the price paid its very clean and nice. leather is in excellent shape. Only a few small issues with interior:

Pass side seat controls popped out of seat?

Drivers door round vent thingy missing 1 flap

Console rear upper vent missing...

Outside that as far as Im aware I got an engine issue.

Hey, that's the color of my hood.

I've seen a similar Riv here at the tower where I work. Looks good.

Now how much did you pay?

and no matter what condition Rivs I see, the actual headlights always look good.

wow that interior is in great shape.
ed morad can get most of the interior stuff for you.
...and by engine issue you mean it's not S/C? maybe for the price you got it for you can drop in a S2 motor/tranny?

Well unless I can get a motor and transmission with under 60K miles on it with computer and all necessary things for $800 or less it will stay N/A.

As for price I paid $500 for it.

guy originally wanted $1K but its not worth it... Obviously...

Wow, nice! That interior looks like it's made out of cream.

I like the color

Looks excellent, you stole it for $500. What's so wrong that you didn't think it was worth a grand?

Well it only blue books for $2500 in excellent shape. Fair puts it at $1800.

To pay $1,000 for it then an $800 motor and figure my times worth something, not a good deal.

I did get the plug wires and battery in tonight. I got it to start! Yay!

The noise it makes is something ferocious though... Im not sure WTH it is but it doest sound good.

It has a loud like cackle and it idles wonderful? Whatever it is its in front in the heads to the left *I think*...

Going to try and have a mechanic look at it tomorrow to get an idea. Normally I do all my own work as I can (if I know whats wrong!) but being its cold out I might just let the shop do this one. If its not worth repairing I will just do a motor swap.

Bottom like is if I can repair it by dropping the oil pan or through the valve cover I will do it. If I gotta pull the head off- then I will just swap motors. The head gaskets and Intake gaskets are pricey IMO.

BTW the car has almost 119K on it. And yes everythign seems to work but the radio- which Im replacing anyhow.

Your motor's NA - maybe the balancer?

Albertj

cracked exhaust manifold? I'd agree with Albert on this one, though.. the balancers are known for going out.

Balancer , or maybe a flexplate , but probably the balancer.

i think i still have a video i posted when my balancer went bad. see if it sounds similar.

https://rivperformance.editboard.com/series-ii-engine-transmission-f4/problem-2-front-main-seal-blew-see-pg2-t3665.htm?highlight=main+seal

Score thanks for the info.

So I will look at the balancer closer tonight.

The flex plate... Mmmmm that will suck. I gotta pull the motor or at least separate the halves to do that one

What I get out of the video's is this:

If the noise is still there at higher than idle RPM probably the balancer. If its not probably the flex plate.

Moved pertinent talk to the proper category.

More pics to come...