If 65 years of experience has taught me nothing else, it's taught me to be wary of things that sound too good to be true. The $1,000 engine, especially with such low miles, sounds like a really good deal. It has lots of goodies. Why is he dumping it? If you look through this forum, you'll find lots of threads that contain "I bought what was supposed to be" in them. Most of the visibles mentioned can be picked up fairly cheap on eBay. The credibility of the internals are an unknown, as are things like the competence of the builder, proper break in procedure, etc. If you buy it and have to spend the $$$ to pull it out and make it work, have you really gained anything?

Personally, I think you're dollars ahead spending the $3,000 to know what's in it and have it done right. Just my .02¢.

Oldman2

I may be old, but yada, yada, yada........