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Nope - won’t pass the certification test. 4.8 never found its way into a car chassis. As you mentioned, the engine must be the same year or newer. It also has to come from the same class (car or truck) and retain all of the emissions components that came from the donor vehicle. Once certified a plate with the donor

Found one of these in a local Pick and Pull.  Pulled the headrests and got $150 for em on the ‘bay.  

Yep. Glad I dont need one of those $500 cars now, but to be fair - this thing would have been at least a $1500 car 2 years ago that maybe you could have got for $1250. It’s practically a steal now.

Truer words never spoken!

I know not this rust you speak of - out here in CA until fairly recently you could still find sub-1000 drivers that were serviceable.  Since Covid - forget it.

There just aren’t these $500 deals you speak of anymore. A couple years ago they were getting fewer and farther between but yeah it’s practically impossible these days. 2 years ago I scored a very clean ‘05 Hyundai Santa Fe with 105K that needed a radiator and an A/C compressor for $700 but havent seen anything like

I’d never thought I’d see a late 90's Explorer here on NPOND, let alone hit the Nice Price button, but here we are.  You nailed it.

And by “washed” you mean dropped in the Atlantic until the next Presidential Election?  Thats about the only way you’re going to get the smell out of this thing.

Seen that interior? That place has been a vermin party pad packed tighter than a Tokyo subway car on more than one occasion.

Came here to say this. In ‘86 I was a senior in HS, my best friend and I qualified for the Plymouth Troubleshooting Contest (competition where students diagnose and fix identically bugged cars) and the local dealership lent us a brand new one off the lot so our autoshop teacher could bug it to test us.

Guess someone was absent on “GLUE” day!

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What Gravitas.

Nismo:

Haha, I used to flip the ENG/MET switch on the ‘84 Buick Century I had and go “HOLY CRAP KIDS WE’RE DOING 130 - DON’T TELL MOM!”

I can smell him from here.

So in that instance you can say that you were dumber than a box of hammers.  Well done.

SWISSIN CAMARO! SWISSIN CAMARO! SWISSIN CAMARO!