well it took this long for me to get it in to a shop that i trust to work on my car,

and they got it all taken apart and didn't give me an estimate for 3 days. so i was starting to get ticked that they were taking so long.

but turns out i wish i never got the estimate. just over $5,000 total. pretty much every little thing that could have broke did just that. so it'll probably be in there for a while because i really just don't have 5k+ just laying around. i talked to the guy that owns and runs it as well as does a lot of the work there and they are going to order the parts ($2,300 or so) and store the car in garage in the back with the ferraris, vipers, bentleys, ect. that they always have coming into the shop. until i give him the green light to start the labor.