Unless you prefer to tour via tow truck.
Doesn't take much brains, what's cheaper three fifty gasoline versus a two dollar air filter?? Gasoline versus two buck a pop plugs?? Three hundred dollars oil changes or five thousand dollar engine??
Same with engines. Don't screw around! Go with a Goodwrench engine when it comes time. I learned a shocking lesson with GM turbohydromatic transmissions. They cost more. But the reman included hardened clutch drums, hardened new reaction shaft, servo with stainless steel liner, totally new designed clutch packs, friction and steel, and a brand new aluminum valve body designed to eliminate micro-porous passage to passage leakage which caused early intermediate clutch failure. Then GM's vendor puts the transmission on a machine worth more than the entire block a street corner rebuilder's building sits on, and does real life intricate multiple function pressure testing. They do not screw around. When I was doing production quantity alternator rebuilding, I gave a sigh of relief when I came across one with a factory reman seal. I wouldn't have to toss shells with three broken off screws, automatically toss ground down rotors and stators into the dumpster. Paid premium prices for untouched worn-out factory cores. Computers have taken over the burden of timing events and so the crankshaft timing orientation is the base of all other functions.
If your camshaft to crankshaft timing loses index by one single miserable solitary tooth, the engine stalls, or loses power so badly driving is impossible. Changing the timing index relationship between ignition spark to camshaft should yield an obvious answer. You didn't have to change the relationship between crankshaft and camshaft orientation did you? Merely ignition timing to the rest of the world.
