First time I bought an engine sight unseen, but the offer was too good to pass up on. But I’m sure this project will be behind schedule and over budget once again.
First time I bought an engine sight unseen, but the offer was too good to pass up on. But I’m sure this project will be behind schedule and over budget once again.
I hope your eternal project car is a hoopty-ass shitsmobile otherwise you’re in for a bad time.
Depends how you look at it. The car is pretty mechanically sound aside from the fact that this is engine number 4. I probably never should’ve bought it but I’m committed to bring it back from the dead once again.
Okay, what the hell happened to engines 1-3?
Engine #1 died because the previous owner had a major accident in 2004 that shattered the oil pan and tore off the front suspension. It was replaced with a remanufactured engine. The car mostly just sat for the next 15 years and engine #2 barely had 40k km on it. Not sure what they did to it, but it had rod knock when I bought the car. It subsequently grenaded on the highway. I just wanted to get it back on the road ASAP and got engine #3 from some guy’s backyard for 100 bucks. It wasn’t really worth putting a lot of money in, so I just slapped on new bearings on and put it in the car. Surprisingly it lasted for 5 years of daily driving but now it lost compression on cylinder 2.
I will be taking my time with engine #4 though, this one will actually turn out nice and I don’t plan on replacing it ever again.