I guess I'll throw a little something into this argument. I have a 2.1 in my
with 200,000 plus miles on it. I've been trying to get the original
headgaskets to blow so I can have an excuse to stick an inline-4 or VR6 in
there. She's still going strong.

Having owned many vehicles with converted powertrains, I can say w/o
hesitation that I was most happy with same make swaps versus the
cross-species variety. I can also say from experience that you basically
marry your swap. It is rare that you can ever get all the money you put into
it. Collector value is most definitely affected to the negative.

To each his own. Now if I can only afford to put a VW W8 engine in the back
of this thing.....

BenT
FORMER owner of:
57 MGA / 67 MGB engine
54 Bug./ 1960 356 engine
74 FJ55 Landcruiser / Chevrolet
68 Camaro 6-cyl / Corvette 327
67 Karmann Ghia / 2.0 914 Type 4
58 Single Cab / Corvair flat-6
71 240Z / Chevrolet 350
76 914 / 911T flat 6
69 911T / 3.0 911 flat-6
68 Westy / Transvair (Corvair engine and trans)
76 Sterling (VW) / Ford Pinto V6
baaahh.. that's all I can remember for now