I can get locally  what is billed as (87 rx-7 turbo 2 bare motor) for
$75.  I lack perspective is this a good core price?

Matt

Matt Naiva

You might get one or two good parts out of it.
Perhaps the rotors and the e-shaft are OK.
Would be a good practice engine for you taking
it apart and putting it back together.

If you want to spend a bit of time you can turn
it over with an electric impact wrench on the
front nut and check the compression in the lower
spark plug hole. You never know it might be OK.
Stranger things have happened. Take the schrader valve
out of the compression tester and look for three 80 psi
pulses in a row and repeat as the engine turns over.

The exhaust port should huff three times in a row
and repeat.

I knboiw a few guys that got engine out of a junk yard
and flew them for 600 hours.

If it has been stored out side water has probably got
inside and the steel and iron parts could be badly
rusted.

Paul Lamar