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Old 06-25-2009, 06:45 PM
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Originally Posted by kingdoc1 View Post
...You could do the transplant in a weekend and use you current rusty car for parts. You win both ways!
Make that a pretty long weekend. I swapped the engine in mine and it took somewhere in the neighborhood of 24 hours work - and I'm a fairly fast wrench. Of course it wasn't a straight pick & replace - I had to take a lot of stuff off my original engine and transplant it to the donor.

But yeah, kingdoc's suggestion is a good one, and very do-able...
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