I'm not closed minded, prove that these things last longer, seal better, then I'll beleive it. You read a bunch of ballyhoo on the internet and it becomes gospil? hardly. Must be a west coast thing, no one here runs em.

But back to the main topic. If a salvage motor is damaged beyond what you want to spend to fix it, why not move on and find a better one? I don't bother with conversions if the motor is of need of major repair to start with.