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Welcome, nice car! :)

Rod knock, probably.

Buy a house. Much better way to use that money.

You should do a compression check. I would be surprised if you didn't damage something else when it overheated. If your head gasket is fine I would recommend retorquing the head bolts. You should still flush the coolant. Define "funky".

You fail. IJ has been one of the most helpful people in this community. Just because he said something you didn't want to hear doesn't mean you should go make [incorrect] attacks at him. Welcome to my ignore list.

And of course you shouldn't assume your motor is toast without checking it out first...

Amusing, but in the end a waste of five minutes.

And you kept driving it [into the red]? :aigo: Check the coolant level, thermostat, water pump. Check for coolant in the oil or oil in the coolant. You should be reasonable sure that it isn't a blown head gasket before you turn the car on again, IMO.

I'll be needing to find a job too. Perhaps Raytheon. Currently I'm writing drivers and such for avionics at Garmin.

You can't afford the car. Period. Either put it in storage or sell it.

I'm looking forward to it. I've gotten a bit sick of the dreary winters here in Oregon. To clarify, my fiancee is living there on her own while I finish my degree at Oregon State. She is studying Atmospheric Sciences and is a weather geek, so she couldn't be happier being dropped in during...

Yeah, I thought of you when I saw signs for Yuma on I-10. :) The apartment she'll be moving into is near the Catalina Hills, a much better part of town.

So my fiancee is going to start grad school at the University of Arizona next week, so last week/weekend I took [paid] time off work to help her move. We left Beaverton early on Thursday (August 9th) morning in two vehicles, my fiancee's parents driving the second one. We stopped in Stockton...