Today I finally got around to running a carfax report on the VIN that was on the tag that my new motor came from.
It turns out that the vehicle had 130,000 miles on it when the salvage title was issued, not 62,000 like the salvage yard indicated. Awesome! My motor has over twice the miles I thought it had.
On the other hand, there's an extensive service history showing that most work was done at the dealer, which means that it spent it's live soaked in Mobil 1 synthetic oil. Visibly, the motor is in excellent condition, so maybe I'm getting worked up over nothing, but now I have to at least crack the main caps and connecting rods to see what the crank journals and bearings look like. :(
Another oddity is that the carfax shows that the milage jumped from 43,000 to 93,000 miles in a 14 month period. Holy frig! I guess one bright side is that most of the miles are apparently highway miles.
I guess it's time to start pricing stroker kits.
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