RE: Engine decision
I don't buy store brand engines. The store doesn't actually make engines and that discount price comes at a price - quality. Something has to be cut out of the engine to make it that cheap. Generally they're rip-offs of a real engine. Some manufacturer spends the money to develop an engine and then some overseas factory buys it, takes it apart, and makes sub-standard copies of it. Of course that happens with brand name engines too.