saturn!
#1
10-02-2012, 08:17 PM
saturn!
hello all, my name is kevin, i am a 20 year old college student from northern wi. I have owned my 1993 saturn sw2 for about 8 months now, I got it for a steal at the chevy dealership for 500bucks, its a good thing i new the dealer! so far I have only Had to do minor things, valve cover gasket and a lower balljoint and to a front wheel bearing. I have browsed the forum a few times before, But I decided to sign up because im probably really going to be browsing and posting alot in the next few days. I am doing a front sub-frame swap. I got in a fender bender with a tree a few months ago and my saturn survived... but just barely. The suspension itself actually had minor damage, slightly bent sway bar and tie-rod end, but the front subframe took the most of the damage, pretty bent up, so bad that the front tire was smashed up against the fender. After I trailered it home I hooked the rear of the car up to my mothers truck via a chain, and the drivers side of the car up to my old mini-van. I then hooked the front passanger side of the subframe (the damaged side) up to my sisters boyfriends jacked up pickup truck with a ***-along winch. after about an hour of wrenching the ***-along to a tension that started skidding my mothers 7000Lb truck along the gravel The frame was actually straight enough to allow a tire to fit inside the wheel well. and ive been driving it like that since, it eats up a tire about once every 3 weeks, and the damaged frame is now getting ready to snap, I would just buy another car, but i am a college student, and therefore pretty broke! haha. so Im buying two saturn parts cars for 600 dollars to swap the frame and suspension onto my saturn wagon. wish me luck!!
#3
10-02-2012, 10:25 PM
Welcome to the forum indeed. It's nice to see a college student that's not afraid to get his hands dirty. You can make money off fellow students if you want to like I did when I was in college. I changed oil, rebuilt carburetors, changed brakes, fan belts, what ever the hell it took to make my party money. And I always had party money!
