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Rebuild vs Swap?


Dobbskel
01-13-2005, 10:21 AM
I have a blown Head Gasket on my 1989 SR-5. I noticed that it is cheaper to get a low mile replacement out of Japan, then to rebuild. Only hitch is the replacements are only 1.5L instead of 1.6L. Is there much of a performace loss that is worth rebuilding or not. I have 130,000 on current motor.

84trueno
01-27-2005, 10:42 PM
u can always rebuild the jdm motor and bore it out but dont no how much that cost getting mine done for nothing

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