Hi guys. First post so be nice 
Tomorrow I am heading over to check out an EA Falcon as my first car. I was just wondering what advice you guys could offer me. Ie. What to look out for, whats good whats not, and whats a decent price to pay.
I'll give you the run down on the information about the car I have so far.
Its a 1990 EA Falcon-S Series 2, 5-speed manual.
It has 206,000k on the clock, but a new cylinder head was put on it 6000k's ago, and a new radiator about 1000k's ago. It has receipts.
Its been lowered (King Spring lows?), tinted (Darkest legal) , and has extractors (Genie?) and an exhaust (2.5inch).
Standard mags, but it has some decent yokohama's on it apparently.
The firewall has been welded around the clutch cable as well (Could someone explain what that means). Also has a new pedal box.
Comes with stock radio and the pioneer 6x9's in the back, nothing else.
It does have a cracked dash (covered by dash mat easily)
Its dropping a small amount of oil, about the size of a 20c coin a day. He believes that its comming from around the timing cover area, and is most likely comming out of the timming chain tensioner. Apparently its a cheap part then from ford and any mechanic would be able to replace it in under an hour.
There's no rust, and has been garaged 24/7 for the entire time he has owned her until about two months ago until the XR8 took her spot in the garage. Has a heavy duty tow bar package and has a few spare parts and mechanics manual that he is going to throw in with it.
Price he has given was $2000, but I made a thread on another forum asking what car's would be good to look at with a budget of $2000, so im not sure what the car would be worth.
So thats all the info i could gather. From my research it seems as though he has down the standard mods most people do with there EA's (eg, extractors, exhaust etc), but being on my L's actual power isnt a major concern. Ive read the EA's have had some big problems regarding blown heads and stuff but they were in the earlier series. I am after something that will be reliable, as I dont plan on spending a $1000 a month to keep her on the road. My uncle will be coming to check it out and he is very experienced with cars, but I am just looking for a few pointers from you guys.
Thanks for any help
Tomorrow I am heading over to check out an EA Falcon as my first car. I was just wondering what advice you guys could offer me. Ie. What to look out for, whats good whats not, and whats a decent price to pay.
I'll give you the run down on the information about the car I have so far.
Its a 1990 EA Falcon-S Series 2, 5-speed manual.
It has 206,000k on the clock, but a new cylinder head was put on it 6000k's ago, and a new radiator about 1000k's ago. It has receipts.
Its been lowered (King Spring lows?), tinted (Darkest legal) , and has extractors (Genie?) and an exhaust (2.5inch).
Standard mags, but it has some decent yokohama's on it apparently.
The firewall has been welded around the clutch cable as well (Could someone explain what that means). Also has a new pedal box.
Comes with stock radio and the pioneer 6x9's in the back, nothing else.
It does have a cracked dash (covered by dash mat easily)
Its dropping a small amount of oil, about the size of a 20c coin a day. He believes that its comming from around the timing cover area, and is most likely comming out of the timming chain tensioner. Apparently its a cheap part then from ford and any mechanic would be able to replace it in under an hour.
There's no rust, and has been garaged 24/7 for the entire time he has owned her until about two months ago until the XR8 took her spot in the garage. Has a heavy duty tow bar package and has a few spare parts and mechanics manual that he is going to throw in with it.
Price he has given was $2000, but I made a thread on another forum asking what car's would be good to look at with a budget of $2000, so im not sure what the car would be worth.
So thats all the info i could gather. From my research it seems as though he has down the standard mods most people do with there EA's (eg, extractors, exhaust etc), but being on my L's actual power isnt a major concern. Ive read the EA's have had some big problems regarding blown heads and stuff but they were in the earlier series. I am after something that will be reliable, as I dont plan on spending a $1000 a month to keep her on the road. My uncle will be coming to check it out and he is very experienced with cars, but I am just looking for a few pointers from you guys.
Thanks for any help