[notfarnow]

Hey folks,

I recently bunmped into a guy from my neighborhood with a nice scruffy '70 911T. I had seen the car parked at a local garage for the better part of the summer... turns out the engine was being replaced with a good used longblock. We chatted for a while, and he mentioned that he had the old engine in his garage. He ended up offering me the engine for a price so low that I couldn't refuse. So... he's dropping it off this weekend and I have yet to decide what to do with it.

Here are the details, as explained to me:
-2.0 engine from a 70T. As far as he knows, it's the original engine. He bought the car on ebay a few years ago. At the time, he was told it had the original engine but has never double checked.
-He recently removed this engine because he was told by his mechanic that the wrist pins were bad. He did not make the diagnosis himself so he wasn't able to explain much more than that.

Anyway, the engine is not really useful to me because:
a) I don't have a Porsche yet
b) when I do get a Porsche (next fall?) it will be an SC.
It was so cheap I bought it anyway. I figure at the very least, I can familiarize myself with Porsche engines by doing a teardown. I'm going to get Wayne's engine rebuilding book and then dissassemble and inspect the engine.

My question is this: Once the engine is torn down, what should I do with it?

1)I was thinking I could sell it off in pieces... cams, heads, case crank etc... The only problem there is I really can't assess whether parts are in spec without sending them to a machine shop. Is it worth trying to sell them as-is, with just a visual inspection and good pictures?

2) I could bolt the thing back together, using Permatex Blue in place of gaskets, and sell it on ebay as "WOW!! FRESH REBUILT PORSHE ENGINE!!NR!!"

3) I could make a really, really cool lamp.

Thoughts?