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Wow! Sorry to hear about your misfortune.

This makes me want to do my engine myself next year even more, even though the last rebuild I did was ages ago, and I'd be in over my head and need to seek lots of help, at least I'd know I'd have covered EVERY thing I'd be concerned about compared to if I just threw the engine at a builder.

My last car, I had a simple turbo kit installed, that should have cost me about 8K in total and take about a week to install and tune. Well, 4.5 months later, after MANY screwups and returns to the shop, I finally got my car back running, but with terrible power numbers, and the tuner and I didn't see eye-to-eye, so he refused to do things I asked him to do (there was no one else in the area to tune my car so I was stuck with this shop), and after selling the car to buy my Pantera at a huge loss, a different tuner was able to unlock the old tuner's tune (one reason I went with that ECU was because it was Open Source and I requested the tune NOT be locked, but the tuner locked it anyways)and he was able to get an extra 80 safe HP without touching anything accept his laptop.

Live and learn, tuning I know nothing about so my story doesn't really apply to yours, but next year I plan to rebuild my engine, and I'm still debating on whether to send it to a builder or rebuild it myself.

I'm sure there are builders out there that you CAN throw your engine at, and get back exactly what you want, I know I'm going to do a lot of research and ask a lot of people about it all before deciding.
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