Well I've been doing OK, but considering I paid 13K for the car in 2000 with 75K on it I better have gotten a good one. The front diff blew with one payment left. The first 5 speed swap cost me a total of $200 for pedals and driveshaft mods. After I blew 5th gear out of the first 5speed someone who owed me money paid $650 to get me another 5 speed. About a year later that 5 speed started grinding going into 2nd gear. So I spent the big bucks and got the six speed. Other than that I replaced the struts, timing belt, hoses, and knock sensors at 100K. About 20K later I replaced the replaced stock struts with Koni/ groundcontrols and at about 130K I blew the motor at the "Reading Incident".
All in all with the exception of the conversion to 5 speed and the NOS thing, I've only had to "Mantiane" The normal stuff. No broken window stuff, no failing hood struts, and ..................Well I did do the wheelk bearings ut who hasn't
I guess I just beat the crap out of it and it treats me fairly.
