Greetings from a newbie. Here is my situation: I have been put in contact with a gentlemen from my church who owns a 1981 308, I'm pretty sure it's a GTSi, the two-valve model. How exactly he came to be in possession of this car I'm not sure. At this time the car has been garaged for about the last nine months, it lost compression and began knocking awhile back, he took it to one of the local high-end service places and they started talking about an engine rebuild, he is in a state of career transition so it's just been a garage queen ever since. Supposedly the service shop found some metal in the oil filter, which I have to assume was aluminum.
We are assembling a group of gear-heads from the church to try and get this car running again, but with a tight budget, none of us has a lot of money to donate to the cause, we just have our time, tools, expertise, ingenuity, and can-do attitudes. :wink:
The upside is that, since the car is not a daily driver, and is currently a non-running garage queen, we really have nothing to lose, and pretty much unlimited time to spread out both the work and the cost. Right now we are at the very start of this project, we haven't turned a wrench yet. Actually I haven't even seen the car yet, I'm just doing some information-gathering, but I thought I'd introduce myself and our situation here since I may be popping up with various questions in the future.
One of my first questions is, does anyone know a good source in the U.S. for an oil filter for this car? The service shop dissassembled the one that was on there, so that will have to be replaced before we can even crank it and try and diagnose the problem.
We are assembling a group of gear-heads from the church to try and get this car running again, but with a tight budget, none of us has a lot of money to donate to the cause, we just have our time, tools, expertise, ingenuity, and can-do attitudes. :wink:
The upside is that, since the car is not a daily driver, and is currently a non-running garage queen, we really have nothing to lose, and pretty much unlimited time to spread out both the work and the cost. Right now we are at the very start of this project, we haven't turned a wrench yet. Actually I haven't even seen the car yet, I'm just doing some information-gathering, but I thought I'd introduce myself and our situation here since I may be popping up with various questions in the future.
One of my first questions is, does anyone know a good source in the U.S. for an oil filter for this car? The service shop dissassembled the one that was on there, so that will have to be replaced before we can even crank it and try and diagnose the problem.