Good thing I have three more engines on the way.

Yeesh, I"m obviously doing something wrong.  I've been looking for an
89-91 13b for 6 months now, haven't found a deal I can warm up to.
Too expensive, too far, or too likely to be junk is all I can seem to

find.

Where are you Bob? There are lots of second gen cars in so cal.
Think about buying a car.

Chicago, but I'm in LA 3 or 4 times a year to visit my sister and other
family.
If I could find something out there that would limp it's way back home I'd
probably jump on it.  There are lots of deals around, my hangup is on not
getting burned.  There's a guy down the street that has a 13b I could
probably
get for $500, but it came into his shop with low oil pressure, and
running hot.
It's a take-it-as-is deal, which I won't touch, given the history.
Deals like that,
or worse, seems to be the rut I'm stuck in.  When I first started
looking last
year there was no rush,  I had plenty of airframe work to do.  Now that I'm
(hopefully) within 3 or 4 months of  FWF it's becoming more of an issue.
I may have to either lower my standards and hope for the best or pry my
pocket book open a bit wider.  Being the incurable scrounger that I am,
it'll
probably be the former.

Bob V

If it runs it can't be that bad. Have him pressure test
the cooling system. If it don't leak the expensive rotor housings
are OK. Low oil pressure can be a lot of things but that
is cheap to fix.

You will get a near perfect engine if it will go from LA to
Chicago.

I found a bargain one time. A guy had a 2nd gen turbo engine that he
could not get to run right after three or four years. He wanted to
give the whole car to me. I took it.  Turns out it had a $20 cracked
leaking rubber air plumbing elbow buried down under the intake stuff
that nobody found. When I took it apart the engine was near perfect.
There are a lot of mechanics out there that know nothing about
rotaries and they just want out from under.

Paul Lamar ...No rotor no motor.

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