Hello all,

I realize I'm a newbie here but I have a question related to my sister's 94 Honda Accord LX. Her car has recently had a timing belt failure and I was wondering what the most inexpensive motor swap to do on her car would be. From what I understand there are bent valves, so an entire engine rebuild would be neccessary and so a shop has told her it would take 1,100 dollars to fix!!! I know that I could do the work myself and just fix the head for rather inexpensively, but I was wondering if there was a "better" motor that could easily be swapped in her car that would be about the same cost has just buying a whole new engine. Her car is an auto, btw.

Please help, she only has two payments left on this car and it will be hers, and people should keep in mind that I have good mechanical skills and I have friends who have dealt with Honda's, so throw me out some ideas!!!

Thanks,
Vince.