When my engine overheated and blew 5 weeks ago, I had to look for another longblock or spend some serious green going through my 4.0 and rebuilding the entire engine. I decided on a 4.6 engine conversion instead.
I started looking through all of the usual channels in the area and on websites. I found a seller who happened to have a longblock 4.6 at a price which I thought was reasonable, and close ebnough to East coast of Florida, where I could pick it up and save on crating and shipping charges.
I went over to pick up the engine and immediately was concerned because it had a GEMS 4.0 intake on it. I was told by the seller that it was only his intake, off of his D1 so that it would work with his truck. I could switch over my intake, and everything would be fine. Okay, I bit and went away with it.
I brought the engine the next day to the dealership, and they ran the engine numbers; and verified it was a 4.6 block, and new heads. But out of a P38, not a DII ... A GEMS motor, not a BOSCH.
It took a 2000.00 parts bill to change enough parts over to make this engine BOSCH compliant. Once the engine was installed, we had no compression on number 3 cylinder. Add another 1500.00 for dissassembly, cleaning, valve job, and reassembly. There was so much carbon on the heads that the exhaust valve was stuck open. (And the seller had told me that there was only 4k miles on the engine since the rebuild and brand new heads. Now that all of the little things are taken care of, we are looking at another week of fine tuning and reprogramming the ecu, and I might get my truck back. I talked to the seller, and now his story has completely changed. He is telling me that I told him I had GEMS, he told me he had a GEMS, and that when I saw the Different intake, he once again told me it was GEMS. I paid through Paypal, but with the engine almost all done, and a month gone by, I don't think I will get anything back. I was completely F'ed over by an independent, who I thought had a good reputation in the Rover community, and a Dealership has been doing an engine swap they should not actually even be doing, and discounting me and charging me book because they like me. Complete 180 of what I thought would happen. Good luck with your project, Marcus. And Happy Rovering.
