Z28/TA_love

im lookn at a 95 z28 m6 its was in amazing shape when i looked and drove it i mean it is flawless... it was the smoothest shifting car i have ever felt lol not even kidding.... so the i was gettn ready to get it and over teh last weekend he calls and said he blew a head gasket... he said he'll take off 2 grand of the price but is it worth it...he said as soon as he blew it he had it towed all the way back to his house but would that still have messed up the engine? please let me no if it is worth buying still and any other suggestions about it please help me out here

SparkyJJO

iTrader: (11)

I would look into how much it would cost to put a new ls1 engine in it. If the total price ends up being about the same as it was before I'd go for that. Sure you wouldn't have the car running right away but you'd have a brand spankin' new ls1 to play with afterwards

Z28/TA_love

its and LT1 imma stick with an LT1 and i was talking about the head gasket

Quickin

To take both heads off and replace both head gaskets can cost you between $400 and $800 in labor and $150 for very good gaskets. BUT.....you better make sure nothing else was messed up. Depending on what part of the gasket blew and what took place, the engine could be perfectly fine or the engine can be a total loss.

If you can still start the car and it runs just as good as it did when you drove it, than it could just be a blown gasket. Is he losing coolant through the gasket (coolant getting sucked into the cylinder(s), when idling are there bubbles coming up near the radiator cap (cylinder exhaust is being pushed into the coolant system). Or maybe the blown part of the gasket is leaking cylinder exhaust around the head somewhere. If a gasket blows real bad a cylinder can take a big gulp of coolant and hydralock a cylinder and that would/could be a total engine loss.

Weird that he would take so much off the price, ya know? He may just want to be getting rid of a damaged car now.

Have someone check it for you. He may have taken it for one last HARD drive and blown it real bad.

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Z28/TA_love

thankz a lot that helped out soo much i appreciate it man imma go check that out and see about it again thanks a lot

Quickin

Glad to help, report back with your findings

DBEST369

sparkyjjo r u serious? an LS1, he can just instead BUY an LS1 z28 but he WANTS an LT1, cuz lt1 owns

SparkyJJO

iTrader: (11)

I forgot the 95's had the LT1 not LS1. My bad.

DaGeneral

iTrader: (3)

Admit you ain't ready for the LS1



jk

DBEST369

ya i was really wondering what u were talkin about. but sell that v6 n get a v8, thats what u need to do

SparkyJJO

iTrader: (11)

I don't have the money to do that. I'm just happy to have an F body to begin with.

<--- 150% broke

Z28/TA_love

lol you could have atleast gotten it in a 5 speed instead of auto man! lmao

DBEST369

yes true but both of us coulda gotten our V6's in stick but we had auto remember

SparkyJJO

iTrader: (11)

It is what was available, and I don't think learning manual in a campus parking deck and downtown Akron OH is a good idea (only driven manual 4 times and am not exactly good at it).

Once I replace this one with an LS1 it'll be a manual I'm sure.

Sorry for not having the money to get something better...

MrEddie

I had a Olds overheat and blow the headgasket and destroy a piston back in the early 90s. My uncle replaced the piston with a junk yard special but that thing burned oil since the cylinder wall was gouged. I carried a case of the cheapest oil in the trunk and refilled when needed - it got me through that last semester though.