should i store my engine with oil? Options

[i love porsche]

right now my engine is jsut sitting, and it will be....hopefully untill summer latest, i was wondering if i should store it with or without oil?

[type11969]

"the stainless steel construction helps with the flux dispersal . . . "

Perhaps my favorite movie, child of the 80s here.

If you really want to go all out, you can get those dessicants that screw into the spark plugs. Instead, I would leave it with oil in it, pull the rockers, shoot some wd in the chambers, screw the plugs back in, seal up any other locations where air could easily get through (head PCV vents, crankcase breather), and forget about it. Springs can lose their "springiness" if left compressed for a long time, and, those open valves leave a nice passageway for air to get in. Through the winter you should be fine, but humid weather could let those barrels rust in the spring/summer.

The 914 engine I put in my beetle was seized only because the car I pulled it from sat for so long with the engine in one position that the open exhaust valve allowed that barrel to rust to the rings. I had to use a sledge hammer to get them apart! Granted that was probably 5+ years of sitting.