It varies from year to year but possibly at least ten members a year lose their engines or damage them from missing the oil pressure has left. There are some threads about adding a warning system you cannot miss.
You are perhaps one of the fortunate ones. It is hard or impossible to know how long you where without oil pressure. The cam bearings should be checked as well perhaps. Others with more experience than myself may quote on that. The cam and rocker interface as well I suppose.
Since you did not blow the coolant out the rings probably still have their temper. Depending on your location buying up a car with a good engine but other major issues cheap might be the way I would go. If fortunate selling off some parts of it as well may make the cost very low. I guess it depends somewhat on your time and space available to do an engine swap.
I kind of stress this as there is a possibility of more work and money going into what you have. Also there is a chance the engine you have in the car is a rebuilt as well. Measuring the cylinder bores or the presence of crosshatching in the cylinders may indicate it also has some value as well. The condition of the crankshaft at your indicated overall milage indicates it is a possibility I imagine.
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