what to do with GE

[hornet7288]

I am going to be swapping in a GE in the next month or two. Once the GTE goes in I can't decide what to do with the GE. It is the original engine and has never been rebuilt. I burned a valve and had the head rebuild and resurfaced. It was put back on a torqued back down to 75 ft/lbs on stock bolts. It has a small vacuum leak in the lower to upper intake manifold. There are some random small things I need for the swap I could either buy from a partout OR take off of the GE. Should I keep the GE complete and sell it as a running motor or part it once it comes out and use the parts I need for my build? It does burn some oil since the rings are original as far as I know. Thanks guys!

 

[hvyman]

I would just sell it. Its not really going to do anything to resell value with the orig motor esp since the resell value on our cars is already pretty low.

 

[hornet7288]

You think it is still worth selling as a whole if I take random things off such as some of the EGR components and maybe other little things? I planned on keeping a list of what all I take off of it to pass onto whoever buys it if I do sell it as a complete motor.

 

[RazoE]

sell it as a whole, sometimes us NA guys blow an engine and since it's our DD, we need a new one ASAP...

 

[barkz]

not a 7m but u get the idea lol

 

[89nasupra]

I hear they make excellent boat anchors.

 

[hornet7288]

haha I am probably going to just take what I need off of it and if it's tons of stuff just part it and if not then sell it as a whole. I hate to part it because it's such a pain, but the motor also runs very well.