By the time your done dicking around with this "top dollar" engine, you could have pulled your broke engine, repaired it with stock pistons, carrillo's and slapped everything together and had it running.
Mine blew up first weekend in April, and was running the last weekend in May; 5 weeks. Your creating a lot more work for yourself.
How much did you pay for this engine?
Well, I wasn't planning on all this. This all sorta snowballed once I got it in the garage and off the pallet. The first thing I noticed was the "smell"
Lol
There had been rodents nesting in the valley buried by the CP3. I had always planned to delete he EGR so that was the first order if business and I saw the amount of buildup and became fairly concerned. I have done several deletes for local guys and my own and this was hands down the worst I'd ever seen. So I took the intake off down to the heads just to see.
Getting back to the rodents nest...I removed the CP3 to clean it and the "remnants" around it, I didn't want to smell it every time the engine got warm.
The deeper I got the more concerned I became and the whole time I'm calling this guy who sold it to me and I felt I was getting the run around.
So deeper I go into the block.
The heads came off and looked good, the cylinders look fine after a deep cleaning and I'm starting to feel like what you just said, man I shoulda just tore my block down and re-built it.
Take into account here I was getting a complete engine, literally everything but the alternator and A/C and I paid a bit more cuz I was keeping my core engine
But this little gem cost me $6950!!!
Pretty much enough for pistons, rods and some if not all the machining I would need, that left me with oil cooler, oil pump, water pump, bearings, cam, crank inspection, full gasket kit etc to find finances for to purchase to complete my build...the cheapest parts list I could muster was about $8000 without machining costs, so this whole drop in idea seemed like the way to go
It's a long, dumb and boring story, with a potentially happy ending.
I just got off the phone with the seller. He said that due to the damage on the upper and lower pan he can issue me a FULL REFUND! Or (and he'll find out Monday) he might be able to issue me a refund for most of the money and I can keep all this shit for cores!
Talk is cheap though, we'll just see what the end result is in time. If this guy does honor a refund I will be extremely relieved and will be pursuing building my engine post haste
