<VV> Engine Rebuild followup/clarification

[Geoffrey Albert Clarke Johnson]

Surely you can find one around that needs to be built.  I always like to 
have a spare useable engine around to keep the cars on the road.  Maybe you 
could locate a 95 or 110 locally that needs rebuilding that could be had 
for cheap.  Also who knows just how good your engine is... run a 
compression check.  It could be close enough to need it but still working 
ok.  Heck maybe let them pull the heads and see what stuff looks like in 
there while it is out, at the very least you can have it resealed and 
shrouds done.

-Geoff Johnson

--On Friday, September 10, 2004 6:57 PM +0000 "slmizel@juno.com" 
<slmizel@juno.com> wrote:

> Clarification:  the guy at Federal Mogul offering to do the work is a
> close personal friend (His kids go to my school...I am an administrator
> at a small Christian school).  I have heard of him taking other people
> engines in and having them do the once over to them...He is an engineer
> and this would not be an official Federal Mogul project...though it would
> use many of their parts that they apparently have lying around (the
> prices he quoted are what he would be charged for the parts and the part
> numbers are the internal federal mogul #'s as far as I know).  He did
> talk about re-sleeving the cylinders if they were worn.  I had never
> heard of sleeving them...just replacing or boring them out and using
> oversized pistons...but they have apparently done similar work on VW
> engines.  I don't know where they get this stuff, but he just emailed me
> this morning to let me know he had located a Felpro set of engine gaskets
> we could use for free on the project...the guy he got them from j! ust
> requested that we send him the old ones...I don't understand why...but I
> have no doubt that my friend is on the up and up.
>
> Having said all that...the general consensus is that I shouldn't try to
> fix what isn't broke!  Several people said I should send him a different
> 140 engine so that I can have a "fresh" one on the back burner...problem
> is that I don't have an extra 140...and I am barely scraping the money
> together I need to get the one I have back in the car!  :)
>
> Thanks for all the advice!  Any further thoughts are welcome.
>
> Steve Mizel, St. Louis
> CORSA
> Show-Me Corvair
> 65 Corsa Vert 140/4
>
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