they are quoting $11K, yikes
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Ouch! I can feel your pain all the way across the Atlantic Ocean.
just curoius, can you even get a boroscope down to the cylinder wall without removing the head and multiair section
I'd have thought you'd just take out the plugs and go in that way.
Just want to hear yall thoughts
Firstly, condolences - this is not a nice place to be. Your car is the worst possible age for this to happen. Any newer, and you'd have a warranty claim; much older, and you'd just scrap it.
You've been unlucky; this sort of problem doesn't happen often (thankfully).
I don't know how the garage repair scene works in the USA, but in Europe, most folks would be looking at a secondhand engine at this point, either to swap complete or to salvage the bottom end from. Availability is so good, one chap here who regularly fixes crashed cars gave one away for free. Folks handy with spanners could buy a wreck, take what they need, then sell what's left on ebay and show a good profit.
An alternative is to have it repaired by a specialist engine rebuilder, but finding someone local to you might be problematic; I'd expect most shops in your neck of the woods would be more familiar with big block V8's than engines which are more like an Italian designed sewing machine; you need to work to much finer tolerances to rebuild these properly.
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