Which remanufactured engine company?

snipped-for-privacy@gmail.com wrote: ( 1977 Toyota Celica )

Looking for remanufactured engine, considering two rebuiilders:

Jasper Engines <

West L.A Engines quoted around $1270 with a 3yr./unlimited mile warranty. Jasper quoted $1831 with a 3yr./75,000 warranty. These are longblocks.

Do one or the other use better parts and that is the difference in price. I know the old saying, "you get what you pay for". What would you do? __________________________________________________________

Ask both to give you a written list of parts and processes used in rebuilding your engine. Based on that information, get the engine you think will be least likely to need warranty service: enforcing a warranty is a lot of grief no matter who issued it.

Consider finding a rebuilder near your home who will provide the same quality of parts and workmanship as the other two. Then if you ever need warranty service you can personally deliver the defective engine in a pickup bed instead of shipping it by rail.

Good luck.

Rodan.

And you not likely to find much info on a small outfit like the LA people. I do have a Jasper engine in my car. It was put in about 4.5 years and about 70,000 miles ago. I highly recommend them. At least in my case it was expensive, but worth it. I suspect that most of the bad stuff you heard about them was old information.

That's another great response to Jasper so it looks like Jasper wins! Thanks for the input everyone, I really appreciate it.

---Chad