rev up your engines, Scott Simpson says
what do you think about modern v8s Camaros and challengers are they worth
the money, well I don't think any new car is worth the money cuz they charge too
much money for them, they are good engines, you know if you're talking about
Camaros and challengers, realize that those are still old fashion designs
those v8s, those aren't even overhead cams those are pushrod engines and that
pushrod technology has been around a long time, they put on a lot of
horsepower, they're pretty strong engines now that said they're complete gas
hogs cuz they're an old fashioned pushrod engine that weighs a lot, old
technology, they're gonna go through gas like no tomorrow,
and as for are they worth the money that's the thing, you pay a lot of money
for those things, as they age their resale value goes down, I personally
can't see that a lot of them are gonna be collectors items because they're
pretty much cookie cutter mass-produced cars, you go way back and get a Dodge
Challenger or hot charger those things are worth a lot of money, but most of
them got wrecked because they didn't handle that well, so if there's any of them
left that are in original condition they're
worth a lot of money, but these modern ones the kind of cookie cutter like the Dodge
Challenger, those hellcat engines, now you can buy it what's called the hell
crate engine, they now sell them like dodge that
they'll fit any of the older trucks from the sixties and the seventies, they'll just
bolt right in, so a lot of guys are doing that their getting the old ones putting the
new engines in, they're good engines
there's no arguing, Abe from an 83 says, if I baby my engine
can the timing belt go longer, interesting question cuz changing the
timing belt on some model cars cost a fortune
what wears out timing belts are two things, one is the torque of the engine
as you accelerate real fast the crank is pulling the cams on the top and there's
more stress and the other is just flat-out age, their rubber base timing
belts, as they age they crack they stretch and they start bouncing around
inside and the more vibration they have when they bounce around of course more
friction eventually they snap off, so to some extent if you baby the engine
and drive it normally, yes it could last somewhat longer, if you have an
interference engine I would just go by straight time and mileage if it's got
you know 80,000 miles or more on an interference engine I'd change it, if
it's more than six to eight years old I change it, just because you don't want to
ruin an engine, but if you have like a Toyota
with a non-interference engine, sometimes I've seen those things with 250,000 miles
and they've never been touched and they're still going and since if it breaks it
doesn't hurt anything, then you don't care, nike see says Scotty is it worse to
fix a CVT transmission or should I get rid of it now,
see how much the car is worth on the market, see what it cost to fix it, you'll
probably see that the cost of fixing it is more than what the car is worth, and
if that's the case and it still runs somewhat, sell it and get rid of it, but that's
it all depends on the year, how much money you have invested
in it, you know if you're really upside down in the car, you might want to try to
get it fixed, because if you can't even sell it for what you owe on it, then
you know you might decide, gee well I'll get it fixed and try to drive
until the wheels fall off, but if you can get any amount of money for it now and
it still runs halfway decent, definitely get rid of it, Adrian Lopez says do
you think a 1983 Datsun 280zx is a good car, they were
great cars back in the day, you know that was revolutionary sports cars the 240 260
280, they were just they say the bee's knees for sports cars, a sports car that
was fast, fun to drive, and it didn't break down, like all the other sports
cars did in those days, you got to realize that's old what are we talking about now,
37 year old cars those are old cars, if you're gonna get
it as a toy go right ahead just decide what you're looking at, what
you're paying and what you get for the money if it's restored and stuff and a
mechanic like me checks it out and says yeah they did a pretty good job
restoring it, go right ahead, or if it still runs at least maybe looks a little
ragged, pay a little bit of money for it or if it doesn't even run, then you gotta
decide, do I want to put an engine to fix this stuff in it, depends on the
shape it's in, but they were solid cars and they are collectible item so,
play it by ear to see how much you're gonna pay what you're gonna get for it
and how far you want to go fixing them, Moika says, what do you think about Alfa
Romeos are they good cars what are you thinking about them, I used to work on them
all the time, people thought Fiat were bad,
Alfa Romeos broke even more and had even more problems, Alfa Romeo pulled out
of the United States decades ago, I suppose they're trying to sell them here
now, it was always a high-tech company if you have an endless supply of money
and you want to buy one of those new alphas, sure they're fun to drive around
you know they're real zippy little cars, but value goes down fast, they have no
resale value and they're typical Italian cars, you know they're gonna fall apart
as they age cuz that's just how those things are, so if you never want to miss
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