How would i tell if there was a difference in the amount of miles on the engine of a car im looking to buy, than there are on the car itself? or is this question retarded?
... if so please proceed to ::slap:: me for my retard status

 

id say ask and ask for receipts!!

 

Well, you can tell if the engine has been swapped by matching the engine number with the number on the chassis. Also, the engine bay won't appear as clean as the stock motor, like vacuum lines would've been rerouted and certain bolts will appear to look different than the other bolts. Maybe a few things missing here and there on the engine.

After I got my engine swapped, I was able to tell it was another engine because they left some loose wires here and there, a pen left in the headlight, some pieces of rubber vacuum tubing.

Next, you can usually hear if the engine has been abused or not.

Ultimately you will not know exactly how many miles is on that motor. You can't tell a 100k mile engine from a 130k mile engine.

The number of miles the engine isn't as important as where and how those miles were driven. An engine with 10k which that driver redlined every gear everytime he drove the car would sound worse than a car that was driven below 3k rpms for 100k miles.

If the car has been fixed up, it is likely that they fixed it up for more than show. I doubt anyone would get an exhaust system just for the sound, rather they want the power that comes along with it. If they just wanted the sound, they'd just replace the muffler.

 

ahhh loose wires! thanks alot man! this dude was saying it was the original engine... but i knew it! haha thanks so much dude i owe you!!