Worth buying to do a transplant?

[satyajitmenon]

http://boone.craigslist.org/cto/3718736666.html

:hmm:

 

[2timer]

Worth buying to do do a transplant?

You'll have to buy doors and eventually paint. Think about that before you you pay for for it.

 

[jlee]

Paging JCH13.

 

[JCH13]

You rang?

What do you want to transplant?

 

[iamwiz82]

I don't think so. I can find them for free around here. People pay to have rollers removed, to be honest.

 

[JulesMaximus]

Would be fun to throw a V8 in that.

 

[slugg]

Not worth it. You can find "complete" Miatas for $1k, albeit blown motors, a ripped top, bad brakes, and other things... But you'd be replacing 95% of all that with your transplant, anyway.

 

[2timer]

Not worth it. You can find "complete" Miatas for $1k, albeit blown motors, a ripped top, bad brakes, and other things... But you'd be replacing 95% of all that with your transplant, anyway.

+1 to this. I I take back my original comment, better to get a complete car in need of major work than a roller, because then you have all the parts to salvage.

 

[phucheneh]

You might as well learn to build a tube frame and form sheet metal...

That car is scrap for anyone who doesn't specifically need what it has to complete another car. Basically, suspension/steering. Or bodywork; but it's not a collector car...it's a Miata. Solution for Miata with rusted-out floor pans or quarters: new Miata.

 

[manimal]

unless you can find running donor car with HORRIBLE rust issues and swap everything I wouldnt do it. Too many little things missing. Im stupid enough to probably buy that though. I love challenges lol

 

[Throckmorton]

Transplant what, basically a whole new Miata into a gutted shell?

 

[BrunoPuntzJones]

+1 to this. I I take back my original comment, better to get a complete car in need of major work than a roller, because then you have all the parts to salvage.

It's not even a roller, it doesn't have wheels or tires. It's a dragger.

 

[satyajitmenon]

Yeah. It was the rum talking/posting yesterday.

Was thinking about a Ford 5.0 V8 swap from an Exploder, and a T5 tranny. But y'all are right. There are definitely better donor miatas out there.

 

[SpatiallyAware]

Legality aside, that thing is ONLY good for its vin number and title.