HI Taz,
I think we are in the same ball park with different approaches. I checked around oil sampling would cost about $25.00 (depends on company who does it). The actual test gives readings and will tolerate some trace pariticals or properties of contamination. The contaminates do have tolerances and the Spectrometer will disclose them. Wile it's not made to correct problems, it will give an idea of the overall condition of the engine mentioned above. If the trace elements exceed the tolerance then of course engine teardown is needed. I really feel for this guy unless he knew everything up front. Now it would be a different story if he was told about the situation in advance... Some dammage may have occured but if trace levels of the contaminates are within tolerance, "keep going". Changing oil will not remove trace elements because if wear is occuring it will return on a resample. So for the price of 2 samples ($50.00), I think I would know to run it or rebuild it. This would not be a candidate for a S/C or Turbo though as you stated, unless it was completely torn down and rebuilt. I dont have much hope either on long tern useage of this engine.
BTW How do you like the MSD Coil packs? I used the Nology wires and thought about changing to MSD Coils too. Hows the burn pattern with the Plugs? I ran the 8 Series in my Supergasser and it was a lot of fun working with it, crank trigger,2 step etc. We know how good MSD is...
Nice to hear from you Taz!
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