[Supras] good rebuilt engines?

[Matt Freitag]

20% failure rate?!  That's terrible really.  I don't really know/trust anyone locally either, but I am looking into it.  Thanks for your remarks Bob.

M@
89s

I would be hard pressed to suggest either...
> 
> Not that I have any personal experience with these guys but if you have a
> local shop do the work you know that all of the 6 pistons are the same size
> and that someone didn't cut a corner
> 
> Call me a cynic but I have seen small block Chevy's that had 7 10 over
> pistons and one 20 over piston.
> 
> If someone out there has personal experience their opinion should carry more
> weight than mine but I have installed both AC Delco and Jasper reman'd
> engines and I have had about a 20% failure rate.
> 
> Bob
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Supras-bounces at supras.com [mailto:Supras-bounces at supras.com] On Behalf
> Of Matt Freitag
> Sent: Monday, May 01, 2006 4:58 PM
> To: SUPRAS at SUPRAS.COM
> Subject: [Supras] good rebuilt engines?
> 
> OK, after being mostly absent for a bit I coming back. 
> 
> Where is the best place to get a rebuilt shortblock from?  Any 
> recommendations?
> 
> Ron's Precision Machine has them for ~$1329.  Thunderbolt sells them for 
> $775. 
> 
> I haven't actually made up my mind whether I will be buying a 7MGE, 
> 7MGTE, or both.  I have a 7MGE that is now junk and a 7MGTE that is 
> rebuildable though it does need a crank kit.  I'm going to build one 
> turbo car and one NA, but I haven't really decided which one or both 
> gets the new engine.  So I am trying to find out both who has the best 
> PRICES on rebuilt shortblocks and the best QUALITY on rebuilt 
> shortblocks.  The NA car needs to be done cheap, the turbo  car needs to 
> be tough.
> 
> My thanks to anyone with any help!
> Matt
> 89s
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