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NEVER EVER EVER NEVER sell ANY tools! Try to keep the broken ones, too! Those are the words my dad gave me. And he was right. I’ve had the ocasional odd-ball tool come in handy. You never know, one day, you’re gonna wake up to the wife complaining about a busted water line in the house and you’ll say: “Hmmm, that’s just some regular old pipe, I can go to Lowe’s (or wherever) and get a new hunk of pipe.”
So you go down to Home Depot and purchase a new chunk of pipe and some fittings and realize: “Damn, the pipe isn’t threaded.” Well, won’t you be glad when you remember that *I* told you not to sell your tools? You’ll be able to put a Die on that pipe and some cutting oil and thread it yourself.
You just spent say $15 on a chunk of pipe, $600 in gas with today’s prices, and 2 hours of your time in total. And a professional plumber quoted you at $800.
WARNING: I AM NOT A PLUMBER AND DO NOT KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT THE TRADE! This is merely a “for instance” illustration of why I believe it to be important to keep all tools. If you fix your own plumbing, and make the problem worse, *I* can not be blamed.
If you decide to sell, break it up. It doesn’t wound like anybody in the world can really put that complete set to good use and will prefer a smaller addition to their toolbox.
Anyways, I’d like to see the kit too.
It’s better to just trade the thing in than to mess with engine swaps. Now, somebody correct me if I’m wrong here, but I think that once you swap the motor and then decide to get rid of the car down the road, no dealer would give you what it’s actually worth. They don’t know who did the engine swap or rebuild, and they don’t know what the quality of the workmanship is/was. Especially if it’s a shade-tree mechanic job. I would expect the same problem with a private sale to another private owner. If you start telling the average, know-nothing Joe that you swapped engines, or rebuilt it, they could start thinking about the quality of the work and wonder why you had to do it in the first place. Then there’s the hurdle of getting them to understand something they simply aren’t interested with.
If it was me, I would check professional Service Info for any OEM Recommendations on services that I might have over looked. I’ve seen cars get their old feel back with just a really good, thorough servicing.
If I still wanted more guts out of it after that, I would look into investments in Cold Air Intake systems as well as Exhaust Systems. An engine is (BASICALLY) just a big air-pump. Think about it, if I told you to go run a mile around a track, you could most likely do it fairly well. But, when I put a straw in your mouth and tell you to breathe through that only, you’re going to have a heart attack. My point being, to a certain limit, an engine that can breathe better, will run better. When looking into exhaust, you have to also look into what kind(s) of emissions garbage is going to be required equipment.
Hope I helped,
~Jason
I know this is obvious, but just in case I want to say it: Don’t breathe too much of those exhaust fumes. That’s bad for your health. Be safe!
You said you have a hole in the air intake system behind the cone filter. More info?
How does the MAF look? I know that the oil on those cone filters can cause MAFs to get build up on them. Don’t remember what that causes (still in school, not actualy doing this professionally yet).
I’m stumped so far, but very interested to know more.