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Originally Posted by bgkast
I don't see what your problem with salvaged engines is either.  When you buy a used car the engine is used, but you check its condition...same thing with a used engine. A good used engine probably has another 100K left in it, and it's not really hard to swap it in. |
As someone said, a junkyard engine is like a box of chocolates... With my luck, I would end up with 240joe's old engine.
IMHO, it's a waste of time to play around with old engines and hope they will last 100K miles. I would probably consider putting a junk engine in a $1000 beater, but it would be a waste to put one in a nice clean car. Reman engines are relatively cheap, and it takes just as much work to put in an old one as a new one.