WT heck, someone quoted a price for something I have no intention of doing anyway, and I replied more like a larger figure 12k as I would not be using 2nd hand parts even if I entertained that idea, and bugger me I'm suddenly quoted as saying I have posted a budget of 12k.
I tried to play nice and explain why I'm not going down that path and blow me down that's just not good enough.
try to research info on what's the go with improving a particular engine and info on doing something entirely different flows in, why.
And to be fair some useful info did post up and Thank-you very much for that.
I notice I'm not the only person who posted a thread of this nature and got something else in reply.
but someone out there, insists I do it his way.

not going to stick a v8 in my car reguardless of what it may cost so leave it be.
what was the reason the gen 1 engine used 1 litre of oil between changes, hummm let me think, it was their own accepted build quality wasn't it.