Well, part of the deal with the oldies in regards to being bailed out for the ST165 (I was a coupla grand short ) was to finish up working on both me cars and then sell one of them (and keep the other one for road use as I plan on turning the 165 into a psycho-rally beast)
So I put to you, which one should I keep? On one hand I have a really neat-o ST162 that I've spent ages fixing and tidying up after years of abuse at the hands of some young tosser, on the other hand, I have a TA-23 that I am planning to stick a 5S-GE into (I also have a spare 2TGEU lying around that I can use temporarily if I like).
Downsides of the TA is that it's a pile of crap, and needs more work than the average K-series engine would need to just start up. Downsides of the ST162 is that is chronically finds new blemishes and parades them about : causing my brain to haemorrage until I strip the car to bits again and replace more stuff...only to realise other stuff needs replacing and hence blowing my budget and making me not put the whole thing back together because I take more shit out of it than I can afford to repair/replace