Rennat;1115473 said:
the problem with buying a 3rd party engine from somebody who crashed there car is that they normally crashed doing something insanely stupid with the engine. drifting... haulin ass and lost control, stuff like that... sometimes yeah they werent, but... i would still be VERY cautios of that engine.
and CAT, you could have a machine shop assemble it from the oil pan to the head, your a 4x4 guy so i would expect you know how to take apart and re-assemble stuff... droppin the engine in is easy.
I wasn't thinking about the Supra hobby owner, but the driver who uses the car to get to an from work each day who gets tagged in the rear on the highway/stoplight, or T-boned in an intersection where the engine comp is left intact, or hit while parked on the street.
I am not concerned with the assembly part of the rebuild, I have rebuilt both the 22re and 3vze(truck engines), which the 3vze(3.0 V6) is a lot more complicated(mentally, a lot of little crap and vacuum lines to have to keep track of). The 7mgte looks straight forward, similar to the 22re. The only thing I haven't done on the 3.0 is bother with shimming the valves, and tend to pay the dealer to do that, since the Rt-head is buried under the intake.
Right now I am basically being cheap, and not wanting to spend money on a rebuild if I want/need more power in the future. I also don't have any experience w/Supra's power/performance other the TT I test drove back in '95 when I was considering buying one(instead i went to grad school). I was also expecting it to be cheaper to rebuild the engine than buying one(which is usually the case), and I am finding it isn't, or at least not as economical as the truck engines.
