99gst with fixed crankwalk, Good buy or no?

[99MITSUGST]

I have a chance to buy a 99 Gst for $6500. Now the car is mostly stock, a chic drove it. Her dads making her get rid of it because shes got 3 cars. That leads me to believe shes spoiled and had every mod done professionally. It had crankwalk but the dealer fixed it by installing a new engine probably in 2000-2001, not sure. She said it was replaced at 50k miles, and its on 87k right now. Its a bada$$ car, honestly i used to work for a speedshop before and i've seen some pretty shitty rides. Now my question is what are the chances that the new engine has crankwalk or will get crankwalk because i'm scrounging to get this car and I DONT need any problems with the f'n crank! I'm going to try and have a mechanic check for it, Do you know if the crank will move if the cranks exposed and pushed by hand left or right? Sorry this is so long i'm a newbie.
Thanks for all your help.
Steve

 

[Sil-Eighty SE-K]

if it runs good now...buy it....that just the risk u take with buying crankwalk prone DSM's.... that is a really cheap deal....especially with a new motor.....i paid up the wazzo for a 91 gsx.....but it only has 79K on it and is prestine.....and with the 14B and 6 bolt motor....it made it all worth it

 

[99MITSUGST]

i'm about to go off to college and i wont have the money though. Thats my problem. I thought about putting away money for a 'just in case my crank is fu<ked fund' and invest in a first gen motor. I've replaced motors before(383 in a 70 corvette w 150 shot-freaky fast) and its not a hard task but i heard you have to replace ecu and bs like that is it really hard? or just a matter of taking one out and puting the other in?

 

[99MITSUGST]

i'm about to go off to college and i wont have the money though. Thats my problem. I thought about putting away money for a 'just in case my crank is fu(ked fund' and invest in a first gen motor. I've replaced motors before(383 in a 70 corvette w 150 shot-freaky fast) and its not a hard task but i heard you have to replace ecu and bs like that is it really hard? or just a matter of taking one out and puting the other in?

 

[Gigaah]

I'd ask if they have proof the engine was replaced.

 

[RamenPride]

this is one of the very few, if not the first, time I've heard of a 99 crankwalking. a DSM in general is not a good car to have if you're looking for something reliable.

 

[WhiteCloud]

That's a good deal on the car; buy it. I paid $6700 for my 96 TSi AWD from a private owner, 78k miles. If you want to buy a DSM you have to take a chance it might crankwalk. It is a very minimal chance, but still it is there. As the above people have said, I have heard of *very* few 99s that crankwalk.

It is ridiculously unlikely that you will have 2 7bolts in the same car that will crankwalk, unless you are driving the car like a madman and leaving the clutch in for the duration of every traffic light.

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[siceclipse]

CW is like black widow spiders; even though only 1 in 100 people who are bitten by black widows dies, people are still scared shitless of them.

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[Defiant]

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No, you aren't. Nor is anyone else.

Sorry about that.