As some of you probably already know I bought an 02 P5 with a smoking problem. I have pretty much narrowed it down to faulty oil rings.
I could put rings in the engine without pulling it. The parts/labor cost for this is around 4-600 dollars. This is all assuming the crank is good (it has a slight knock when cold, quiet when warm), and the bores are square. I'm not confident in either of those since the engine has 160k.
Or, I could buy a JDM import engine on Ebay for 800 bucks. Swap it in and run it. Sell extra parts/old engine and make a little money back.
Right now I'm really leaning toward just replacing the engine.. The JDM engines have a lot less mileage, and the car would be down for a weekend instead of a week or more. I have a good engine hoist and the means to do the job pretty easily.
Does anyone have any experience with JDM engines? JDM engines corp has one for a little over 800 shipped.. I've read good and bad about this company. I can also get one one on Ebay for around 900 shipped, that has been compression/leak-down tested.
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I could put rings in the engine without pulling it. The parts/labor cost for this is around 4-600 dollars. This is all assuming the crank is good (it has a slight knock when cold, quiet when warm), and the bores are square. I'm not confident in either of those since the engine has 160k.
Or, I could buy a JDM import engine on Ebay for 800 bucks. Swap it in and run it. Sell extra parts/old engine and make a little money back.
Right now I'm really leaning toward just replacing the engine.. The JDM engines have a lot less mileage, and the car would be down for a weekend instead of a week or more. I have a good engine hoist and the means to do the job pretty easily.
Does anyone have any experience with JDM engines? JDM engines corp has one for a little over 800 shipped.. I've read good and bad about this company. I can also get one one on Ebay for around 900 shipped, that has been compression/leak-down tested.
https://www.ebay.com (commissions earned)
https://www.ebay.com (commissions earned)