The Sentra Phase One: test drive

Well, I get her home and check it out. It appears to need a clutch cable, 4 tires that aren't different sizes, and the OBDII reader says it may need a knock sensor or maybe the timing is too high. That's it!!! I hate to chop this car up. It probably gets 30+ mpg and will probably run forever. I get the Sentra gurus over and they are excited. The clutch cable just needed an adjustment and I ordered 4 Falken Azenis. Done, right? Wrong. Sentra guys aren't having it and the SVX Lemons team wants H6 power. After hearing about beam bending, headers, intake cams off 91 models tht you can get at Pull-A Part for $20, I started to visulaize the "we should have brought a car with a carburator award" that the SVX won in New Orelans. ..."but you can sell all this stuff and make like 8000 dollars!" We'll see...