[YolandaTheHonda]

BaltoTheWolf, I'll most likely wait for a while to swap out the transmission as I am a (mostly) broke 18 year old looking for the most cost effective solutions that will give the best return on investments.

Varn, I would love to have used a more simple solution like that, but the sub frame of the car was far too rusted, it was just rotting away from the wet, very salty winters of upstate NY. Elapsed time this whole situation from finding out the sub frame is rusted through to getting the new car has taken less than a week. So Yolanda is currently sitting in my driveway as I still need to pull out my aftermarket speakers and head unit.

Cripple Rooster, if I could do a redneck engineered repair that I had confidence in to take the car across the country to the middle of nowhere where I know no one and would have very little extra funds to accommodate fixing the car should something go badly again, I would. But the new car is already more fuel efficient, is a more solid car that I have confidence in, and will be a better base for cost effective ecomodds