Re: your craigslist finds, ricers, personals, stupidity, etc
I would put $100 on its a POS and more problems than they even let on.
You can see the hood pins in the picture, likely left off and caused the hood to come up, even cheap Autozone hood pins work, so it was owner error. If they are using those hood pins its likely got other cheap mods slapped on it, like a smaller pulley without supporting mods. After all the factory hood latch is suppose to work with that hood, so pins are needed.
Some 98s still had the vacuum tranny and were weaker than the 99+ models, so its probably on its way out, especially if owned by a kid that had no idea what he was doing and just dogged the piss out of the car everyday.
