Honestly I wasn't trying to be rude, I was just in this guy's shoes 6 years ago.
I was 20 and had just bought my shell of a ix with a broken rocker arm. I even bought the car with similar dreams of rallying the crap out of the car.
So like the op I had a bad engine with a unknown history. At the time I decided it would be way easier to just slap a new top end on the thing and be done with
I guess I can estimate the cost of just slapping a new head on
Resurfacing the head-80$
Victor reinz top end gasket kit -100$
Headbolts-20$
Used head 100$
Oem head gasket (didn't trust Victor reinz) 100$
In the end I failed the headgasket change once so I had to get another gasket set, Headbolts and head gasket
So after 6 months I got the engine running and the bottom end turned out to be trashed....well shit
So I looked on Craigslist and was able to buy a running 325ix engine, with around 100,xxx miles top and bottom for 250$......hooked up the engine to the trans and It has been running ever since
Oh and now I have an extra engine to rebuild(aka you could still fix the valves and sell it)
If I just got a job working minimum wage and spent the same amount of time at the job, that I did on the first engine, than I would of had enough money to buy another car
There was a thread were people were comparing m42 to boat anchors in value. I'm sure you could get a running engine from somones swap project for around 200.
But it's your project and kept up the awesome attitude
I was 20 and had just bought my shell of a ix with a broken rocker arm. I even bought the car with similar dreams of rallying the crap out of the car.
So like the op I had a bad engine with a unknown history. At the time I decided it would be way easier to just slap a new top end on the thing and be done with
I guess I can estimate the cost of just slapping a new head on
Resurfacing the head-80$
Victor reinz top end gasket kit -100$
Headbolts-20$
Used head 100$
Oem head gasket (didn't trust Victor reinz) 100$
In the end I failed the headgasket change once so I had to get another gasket set, Headbolts and head gasket
So after 6 months I got the engine running and the bottom end turned out to be trashed....well shit
So I looked on Craigslist and was able to buy a running 325ix engine, with around 100,xxx miles top and bottom for 250$......hooked up the engine to the trans and It has been running ever since
Oh and now I have an extra engine to rebuild(aka you could still fix the valves and sell it)
If I just got a job working minimum wage and spent the same amount of time at the job, that I did on the first engine, than I would of had enough money to buy another car
There was a thread were people were comparing m42 to boat anchors in value. I'm sure you could get a running engine from somones swap project for around 200.
But it's your project and kept up the awesome attitude
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