
Originally Posted by
niky
Performance-wise, it depends on how much of the engine is changed. If it's just a change of a few parts, other parts may have become compromised and limit performance or reliability down the road.
If it's a total rebuild by an experienced mechanic (best to look at performance shops instead of Rapide), then the motor will come out like new.
I've driven quite a few B16s, and you can rev those things to kingdom come without blowing them... might be the angle the car was sitting in the hole he was trying to back out of that caused oil starvation in one of the pistons. And revving hard to back out of something isn't really advisable anyway.
Or it could be he damaged the oil sump getting into or out of that hole, for some reason. It's more likely that than anything else he did that caused the engine failure.