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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MustangChris" data-source="post: 784235" data-attributes="member: 10830">no offence taken, javi; but the last thinbg i wanted was a $9,000.00 lawn ornament sitting in my driveway with no donor gas tank, no donor interior to resell, no front wheels to re sell, and an IRS that i wouldnt have used anyways....cost for donor car: $9,300.00things i would have used: engine, computers, tranny, driveshaft (probably would have replaced the driveshaft with an aluminum one anyways)what did i buy?engine and computers.... what do i need a totalled steering rack, bad control arms, bad struts, two bad wheels and tires, interior that was left in the snow and covered in glass, an OEM IRS unit, smashed body pannels for????i asked to buy the engine, computer, and tranny. they said if i bought all that, i would have to take the entire car for $9,300.00..... that tranny and shitty body and snow-soaked interior was not worth $3000.00 to me.would the donor car have saved me money on my rear suspension? no. front suspension? no. aftermarket gauges? no. front mount heat exchanger? would have gone with aftermarket anyways. coolant tanks? came with the package i bought, resold them and bought aftermarket units. .. . . there was litterally no use for the donor car outside of getting code-enforcement called on my parents' house.I assure you, i did this swap the "easiest" way i could have without having electronics-based-experience (didnt want to learn to splice harnesses together on a $6000.00 project)my largest problems (and this is a common hot-rod problem) is making all the aftermarket parts fit properly, and finding time/money to work on the damn thing. . ..no offence taken, i know i made the right choices in this project.</blockquote>