<VV> Engine Rebuild followup/clarification

[slmizel@juno.com]

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 just 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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