[Evans, Marv]

I agree you should get the engine back from the mechanic. The way I ended up doing my 2.7L engine was I disassembled it, looked around for pieces & parts I needed and bought them when I found them at a good price. Eventually took all the pieces from the disassembled engine and the parts I acquired to an engine builder & let him do the machine work, assemble it, & supply any things he found it needed in the process. At the time I saved about $3K on the project.