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Originally Posted by rastta
Not sure what motor you're shopping for - but with these cars and the inherent issues, I'm not sure I'd trust a used motor. This is why my car has sat for a year (well that and Covid) waiting to get the engine rebuilt. The cost of the rebuild is going to cost me 2/3s the cost of the car since it's a 2005 3.6.
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I found a used motor with 66k miles for $3500. For a dedicated race car like this, I almost consider the motor as a consumable, but of course like any consumable you want to squeeze the most life out of each replacement as you can.
This time around, I'm doing the IMS retrofit and 2qt baffled deep sump kit before the new motor even goes into the car. I'm hoping I can extract a year or two (maybe 20-40 track days) from the motor, but we'll see. I'm also planning on doing a tear down of the old motor if I can to see what exactly happened and make sure I'm taking any reasonable precaution on the new one.