[bpu699]

I have been working on mine for over 2 years... not every day, not every weekend. Simply working on it when life allows... it’s taking forever.

I keep seeing threads on here with folks rebuilding a motor and reinstalling in a month...

How??? No job? No kids? No wife?

There’s ordering parts... usually about dozens of times...

Machining work... that’s weeks to months...

Getting the right tools, researching...

Documenting, taking pictures...

For example, testing and balancing the CIS system easily took 2 full weekends. Sure, next time I could do it in a couple hours... but not the first time. And you need to clean the injectors, which means you have to build a contraption to do so. And then it leaks...and then you need more copper washers...and then...

The engine tins... have some rust. So sand blast, prime, paint, that’s a day...

The blow off valve has rust. So sand blast, vht paint, reseal, new nuts and washers, reinstall... that’s a day...

Rebuilding the motor, even with Wayne’s book, takes forever. Mostly due to the immense fear of doing something wrong. You triple/quadruple check. You buy bore gauges, micrometers, etc...

Perhaps a carbureted motor is easier, but a turbo seems to take way longer...

So realistically, from when you started dropping the motor, to when the car was driveable? How long?

And I figure 20% or so never go back together...