This was my wifes car, and unfortunately I never drove it and didn't really pay much attention to it. I figured, it's a Honda no way she'll break it. She got regular oil changes. Problem was, it must have been leaking oil.
I borrowed it from her b/c it gets better gas millage than my Eclipse and I was heading off on a long trip.
I should have checked her oil before I left, but seeing that I had no clue it had any sort of oil leak, and as far as I knew it was fine.
I drive for about an hour back to my home town, and stop it my house to pick stuff up for the weekend.

The next leg of my drive was about 3 hours so i figured I'd check over all the fluids, oil was 2 quarts down... Put in 2 quarts, started driving it away... and there was this knocking sound, which got louder, and eventually the car had absolutely NO power. I managed to get it turned around and back to the house... it would stall out everytime I let the rpm's go low, I basically had to coast it in gear, and the only thing that seemed to keep the engie going was the fact that the wheels were moving and it was in gear....

Now, it was towed to a garage yesterday, and I'll find out for sure if it was the engine today... only other option I can think of is that it jumped timing (which would be awsome! b/c I don't really want to have to buy a new engine for it!)

NOW... back to business...

The quotes I got for an engine install were like 2300 for the engine and get it installed, this engine was 1575 w/ 80,000 but it comes w/ a lifetime warranty. The warranty includes paying for labor if anything else should go wrong with then engine. I found another w/ 100,000 miles on it for 700, but it only had a 30 warranty.

OK, people who keep just rattling off an engine code and don't give me any other info AREN'T HELPING!

If you know enough about this to suggest an engine, at least tell me what other stuff I'd have to swap out, and about how much you think I could round up the parts for it.

Here's another deliema, KBB says the car is worth 3800, my wife owes 2300 left on the car, and the mechanic said I could get 2500 for the car even w/ the engine blown.

I just don't know what's worth it... Was out pricing SI's yesterday, and for payments equal to what she pays now, she could get an '02 SI.... Or another ex, 01, 02...

So I'm debating if it's better for our situation. If I do the engine swap, and stay w/ the same engine, it's almost not worth it! But then again, I have no clue what kind of $$$ we'll be getting into if I go w/ a B18, or b16 or any B-series for that matter.

THX