Please read http://www.brickboard.com/RWD/index.htm?id=774219 for what happened to me brick.

To summarize: one of the protruding bolts holding the thermostat housing on my '89 740 Turbo (B230FT) broke off at the end as I was tightening one of the nuts. It is now flush level with the housing, with no thread to screw a nut onto it. The same thing happened with one of the two protruding bolts that hold the water pump in place.

I had the car towed to my mechanic who looked at the mess I made. He wouldn't even take the job. He said that even a machine shop may damage the cylinder head/block while extracting the bolts. He recommended I take a tax write-off and get rid of the car.

What do you guys think? I love this car, have invested hours and hours of work and hundreds of dollars worth of parts into it to make it run so well. And now, this!? Besides wanting to ripp my own head off, I really need some solid, good advice. Please, if you've read my previous post, what do you think I should do? Should I bring the car to a machine shop to extract the bolts and insert new ones (is this even possible? How can you insert new protruding bolts without going into the engine??), or should I just get rid of it and call it a loss?

HELP!?