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My hesitation, besides letting a big Company fail to honor their warranty, is if I put in a used engine for around $3k (removing labor expenses as a variable required for any solution), how much confidence can I really have this won't happen again?
At that point, wouldn't it be worth getting a built engine and going forced induction in one step? I don't even know if I have the confidence to put a supercharger on a stock engine at conservative boost levels if it isn't unheard of for a stock unit to fail.
I feel like I'm almost ready to just write this off, sell the shell for whatever I can get, and go with a different "fun" car. I leased a customized 335 m-sport before going with a cheaper two-car solution of a commuter & sports car that add up to about 1/3 of the BMW sticker price, but now I'm slowly thinking that combination of performance, comfort/features, and warranty may have been worth it.
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