"I have been very successful at reclaiming some pretty badly seized engines, but I'm not going to pretend they ran as well, or lasted as long as a top-to-bottom restoration job."
Jerry, do you think the engine shown in these pictures will run OK and reliably if it is assembled as is or does it require a rebore, crankshaft regrind, valve job, etc?
I'm trying to see it from the owner's point of view, considering the cost of a full gasket set and labor to do the assembly and installation and maybe having to do it twice.
I hear of guys with those engines taking them to recycling yards because they can't even give them away. In that case there might be a better core for him to start with. I spoke with an old guy from the Oakland California area who had been in the auto repair business for decades. When he retired recently he told me he had about 20 of these engine cores he put in the local advertizing paper as freebies and in the end he had to load them up with a forklift and take them to a metal recycling facility.
