Let's say I'm a poor motherfucker. I don't want to have to go through the bullshit process of buying and selling old junkers left and right whenever there's a catastrophic issue that would cost too much to repair. I have access to a garage (Not my own, kek.), and I am willing to work on the car, going as far as to even rebuild the engine and reinforce the frame through welding. What car should I buy?Also, I'm serious about rebuilding the engine. I've had two cars fail on me due to compression issues, and this was clearly the only solution, but they were Volvos, so even if I had the tooling, that process would've taken an eternity, and there were so many damn steps you would've needed to take, you better not have made a mistake. They were both 5 cylinders, and I waited until 2 cylinders failed on each one before I gave up driving them. The vibrations were incredible. There are so many things you can simply replace on a car, but compression issues are the nail in the coffin.What kind of equipment would I need to rebuilding an engine, anyway? I pretty much just have a normal tool kit, along with a few niche tools. It's cheaper to buy new tools than to pay someone else to work on the car, though, so even if all the equipment needed would total to $3000, I could theoretically just keep working on the car until reaching a truly catastrophic failure.
Anything with an SBC
If you live in North america, the 1973 through 1987 C10 and GMC pickups are the answer. They're exceedingly simple, straightforward, they had a super long production run combined with it being an American pickup truck and America so there's millions of them out there, aftermarket support is already such that you can probably build the entire thing out of parts that weren't made from GM and it's somehow still growing, if you're determined to do literally everything yourself I don't know any other car that has this much going for it aside from high dollar muscle cars like 1st Gen Camaros and Chevelles and chargers. I suppose the YJ and TJ Wrangler and the first generation Cherokee might also fit the bill but to my knowledge they don't have a full selection of replacement metal. They also don't make V8 noises
>>28115506>1973 through 1987 C10 and GMC pickupsI looked these up. They're all expensive classic cars now.
>>28115506>>28115512As stated in OP, I'm a poor motherfucker. I don't want to spend more than maybe three thousand dollars on this piece of shit, so it would likely be a car from the 90s through 2000s. With this being the limiting factor, I want this to be a car I can take apart without having a heart attack over complexity and making sure I didn't do anything wrong. I'm a pretty intelligent guy and willing to learn, but I don't want a car that's going to take 12 hours to replace the radiator on, for example.
>>28115495Something pre-recession from the early-mid 00's>new enough to not be plasti-death'd>old enough to be simple>not a 90's car with absurd wiring buses>not an 80's car with rube goldberg emissions controlIt's going to be a buick/chebby/oldsmobile/pontiac with the series 2 or 3 3800 V6Go for buick or olds, the owners are better and not nigg-erAny toyotas for your price are going to have 6 gorillion miles, any reliable trucks will have six gorillion miles and also be on the 17th mexican owner
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>>28115495realistically whatever car you get and you do the work on it once the next time its gonna be way easier so you shouldnt factor in how easy taking the motor out is for a car purchase. if you ARE that worried you should take a bus, im not trying to be mean when i say that. or get a lease
>>28115515A GM station wagon might be the way to go. They're cheap AF, they generally haven't been hotrodded or beaten hard and AFIK, they have generic 350/200-R4 drivetrains and a lot of space under the hood, so getting to and removing shit, is not an issue.
>>28115777>, is not an issue.A comma here is extremely incorrect. You place a comma before so, but not before is.
>>28115495>I have access to a garage (Not my own, kek.), and I am willing to work on the car, going as far as to even rebuild the engine and reinforce the frame through welding. What car should I buy?Literally anything.
>>28115495Anything from before 1980's. Everything before then was designed to be very easy to work on. After 80's, computers and other electronic components have only gotten more and more complex, to the point that most modern car problems tend to be issues with the computer rather than actual mechanical faults.
>>28115803>to the point that most modern car problems tend to be issues with the computer rather than actual mechanical faults.I know this is bullshit from firsthand experience. ECUs are extremely reliable.
>>28115791Stop with all that retarded fag talk.
>>28115826It's obviously grammatically incorrect, annoyingly so. There are tons of instances where commas are optional, but you really have to fuck up to place a comma where it fundamentally doesn't belong.
I just bought of these a couple months ago, OP. This is what you need. Everything is dead simple, there’s not even an electronic AC module to go wrong on mine thanks to the manual climate control lmao. There’s like 4 computers in total including like ABS and ECU lol.Cars are simple, comfy, efficient, and reliable.
Bump. Whenever threads like this are started, people often give very specific answers. What would be nice would be more general answers and what cars to specifically avoid.
>>28116895You were insanely vague and provided little criteria to choose from a huge fucking swath of cars. What do you expect?
>>28116979Also, if you're saying you're "completely serious" about rebuilding an engine, then ask what tools are involved with it, just save us all the trouble and buy something nonrunning so that you won't ruin a perfectly good car for someone who actually has a shot of keeping it going. You have no idea what you are getting into.
>>28115826Stop using commas, like a faggot.
>>28116983>then ask what tools are involved with itSorry. I just like having conversations with people. I don't know what those tools for actually pulling an engine out are called, but I've had two cars fail due to compression issues, which is why I've been thinking about this, since if I knew how to do it, I could get those cars running forever.
Literally pick any car and go nuts. Fuck around and learn things the hard way, find out why it sucks to work or shit that require specialty tools/procedure
>>28117065I'm already somewhat familiar with working on Volvo V70s from the mid 90s to mid 2000s. I even changed the radiator on one with some help, but I did most of the work and research. I've got two of them that don't run due to compression issues. One of them is only able to run on 3 out of 5 cylinders.
>>28115495Your problem is that you're buying the wrong Volvos. Get a redblock car, there's like 3 moving parts and the engine bay is massive.
Old subarus. You can pull an engine in 30 min. You don't even have to remove the hood.
>>28115829I will, continue. to employ the :punctuation-shotgun: In all of my (posts) you pedantic prick
>>28115495>Let's say I'm a poor motherfucker.Well, then you aint working on no cars./thread
>>28117840You dumb fuck. Poor people who aren't retarded or welfare niggers work on their own cars all the time. They can't afford to send them to the mechanic. Basic tools for working on cars aren't that expensive.
>>28117840Also I say this because nobody will want you working on their car if you don't have proper tools, which will include at the very least, about $1000 in wrenches, sockets, screwdrivers, gear/bearing pulleys, jacks/axle stands, engine hoist, greases/cleaners/sealants, small tools like hose clamps wire strippers crimpers, an air compressor and air tools if you want to seriously get anything done, a professional torque wrench set that will set you back several hundred, a scan tool which will cost hundreds, compression test kits, a welder, endless engine/model specific timing kitsbelieve me dude I have tried, nobody gets into cars to make money, its a loss leading hobby
>>28117843Poor people are busy working, they don't have a spare afternoon to fuck around and risk further destroying their broken car and they HAVE to send their car to a mechanic because its a safer bet than doing it yourselfI am a poor person, what d
>>28117850what do you honestly think someone on 4chan is going to do, be smart?*
>>28117848>which will include at the very least, about $1000 in wrenches, sockets, screwdrivers, gear/bearing pulleys, jacks/axle stands, engine hoist, greases/cleaners/sealants, small tools like hose clamps wire strippers crimpers, an air compressor and air tools if you want to seriously get anything doneAside from the gear/bearing pulleys and engine hoist, I have all of those things. All of this stuff does cost around $1000 total, but for most car work, you really only need a cheap $100 to $200 toolbox. I also have a few cheap accessories I bought off of aliexpress that I've added to the toolbox over time, like an extendable magnet and different sized extendable mirrors, along with a few additional adapters.>Poor people are busy working, they don't have a spare afternoon to fuck around and risk further destroying their broken carA lot of poor people work, but have a good amount of free time. Employment isn't always available. Mechanics are expensive. There was one time when I slightly messed up installing new injectors into my dad's Volvo, but it did run for several hours. We ended up reinstalling the injectors correctly in a burger king parking lot after getting a ride from a family member. Every other repair job we've done was done successfully. I even have a digital shop manual for 90s to 2000s Volvos that gives part numbers and directions for removal and installation. The shop manual only cost me $20.
>>28117881>you really only need a cheap $100 to $200 toolboxWhy do you want to suggest poor people get themselves into even further losses and headache instead of going to professionals for help
>>28117944Bitch, I am poor.
>>28116914Are you insane? No. Those are not easy to work on. I own one.
>>28115495240/740/940 are the easiest cars to work on. Lots of parts still cheap too.
Get any Panther body. These things are easy to work on and parts are dirty cheap
GMT400 if midly poorGMT800 if poorGMT360 can be had for free right now.
>>28119508Body on Frame TrailBlazer Check Facebook at least in my area people are unironcially giving them away. Never found it challenging to work on. Extremely cheap parts.
