Engine rebuild time? Options

[burlybryan]

I've been doing an economical "freshening up" of a used 2.0 engine with good compression (but unknown history) with hopes of not splitting the case for a full rebuild. I have it torn down to a short block and pulled the lifters/tappets. 4 look flat and nice, 3 are noticeably dished/concave and one is concave with some galling or pitting around the perimeter. Pics attached of one of the concave lifters and the one with the perimeter damage. Common knowledge would say that the lifters and cam are not salvageable, but I wanted to hear it from the 914World audience. Would you guys re-use these and roll the dice or pull the trigger on machine work and new components?

If the latter, anyone have recommendations for a shop in Minneapolis/St. Paul. I'd rather not use Further Performance or Auto Edge. There's a small shop named Midwest Vee that reportedly does rebuilds on air cooled.

Thanks.

Bryan

[emerygt350]

If you were doing it all yourself (besides the machining) it won't be that bad. Take it inside and do it slow over the winter? The case is super light and you could treat it like a puzzle to keep you occupied for the coming dark dreary winter months.

If you don't feel you have the time or can justify the money right now, go ahead and put them back in where they were. It just means that eventually you will have to do it but if you are not racing or driving across Asia, meh, it was running before and it will just follow that same trajectory it was on. Maybe get some better oil in that thing. Mobil1 euro is what I use, but vr1, am soil, etc might buy you more time.

When you do rebuild you will want all new components anyway. It isn't the parts that are expensive.