[tortuga]

I'm thinking with shop rates here in Commiefornia up around 200/hr it only takes 50 man hours to burn through 10 grand, at which point you are probably half way through trying to fix a ($11K) problem engine with no guarantee of success?

I'm thinking it almost makes more sense to buy a COMPLETE SORTED TRURN-KEY engine and put this one on a stand to slowly go through it myself (with the help of machine shops)...

Problem is everyone has their favorite engine builder and the reviews range from wanting to let the guy marry his daughter to pending litigation.

I'm on the fence as to weather its time to just move on to something less mysterious? Sucks as i thought that a little car with a big simple engine would be really care free, but boy was i wrong...

Steve H
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