rebuild engine
 

Buy or build? That is the question.

Re: rebuild engine
 

Does the engine number match the car frame number or title?

Re: rebuild engine
 

Depends on your machine skills and/or size of bank account. Can you do the work yourself? If not, do you have any experienced machine shops within a comfortable drive distance from you?

Since I have 2 really good machine shops semi-nearby and a thin checkbook, the answer is "rebuild".

Re: rebuild engine
 

How much do you want to spend?

Re: rebuild engine
 

I always like to rebuild my own. I take the parts to a machine shop and I put it together. That way I know what I get. There many "rebuilt" engines out there with a valve job and new rings.

Re: rebuild engine
 

buy a done motor. no 6-12 month wait. pop it in and go.


a basic tractor motor..............

Re: rebuild engine
 

I love my Burtz engine. I have no hesitation about driving the car anywhere. I have the original engine for the car sitting in my basement shop. It will go with the car when I sell it, in 2044. I will be 100 years old then. There is nothing wrong with the original engine that I can see.