Oooh i'm so excited i just bought a 98 with 63,000 miles for $4000. It's red with black flames and white licks, and the running horse emblem is painted in the flame on each side. The manual transmission only has 30,000 miles. It was stored winters. I can't wait til spring, until then i'm driving my 88 5.0 liter.
It was quite a challenge just driving it home, the tires are not for the snow, my 88 does much better. It's got a superchip, true duel exhaust, goodyear eagles. The guy said headers, but i dunno if he put some on or if he was talking about the stock ones. Before spring i'm gonna do pads and rotors on all 4 wheels and put in synthetic oil. Is there any other maintenane i should do to it? I'm gonna be driving this car for the next 5 years or so while in college and want it to last and be reliable. What about synthetic manual trans fluid or rear diff? Anything?
Just do basic tuneup stuff.... plugs, wires, cap and rotor (not sure if you guys still have distributors, I don't), filters, fluids, etc. Ash
Bjam: I agree with Asha'man do the basic tune up stuff, I also agree you should start using synthetic for the oil and tranny stuff. Just be warned that some people have posted that changing from dyno to synthetic oil caused leakage and some other problems. I myself switched to Amsoil at 45K with no ill effect. Finally I HIGHLY recommend you do an engine flush prior to putting in synthetic. Good luck with a great car. Doc4444
Yeah I would do plugs, wires, fluids(oil,tranny,rear diff, etc), air filter, fuel filter, brakes. all that stuff. I use mobil1 synthetic, I haven't had any problems yet with the 98.
I like! What size rims are those? I'd like a set of tires with white lettering once I burn through the summer set I have. 15" - pick and choose, 16" - limited selection.
They are 15 inch. and the tires are Goodyear Eagles. On my El Camino I have Cooper Cobras with white lettering that look really good.
u know when I read flames I'm like, oh god what's this thing gonna look like? but it lookes bad ass man, nice
yeah, same here, i saw flames and thought to myself "oh boy, this has gotta be hideous", but its nicely done!
eh, I'm not a big fan of black flames on red. it's a well done job, but I just don't like those two colors put together. nice car though. have fun. I love my 98.
I read flames and the first thing that jumpd to my mind was "gawd this is gonna be hideous".But it looks kick-ass man...I'm lovin' it!
Well everything works on that and its quiet and the ride is much better and it has air conditioning thats hooked up and it looks nice, the 88 is primered right now. Anyway i would rather drive my 82 El Camino SS than either prolly, sorry.
