Yeah The Joser. Sorry about your bad luck. I feel your pain. My B16 in my 91 Civic Si w/ intake was $3500 in 04. Trust me might seem alot but never had major issues w/ this motor.

Now as far as bad experiences. These mine. I got my Si Oct. of 04. Valentines Day my stock motor went. Sucked. This guy who was like a little brother to me because his older brother hung w/ my 2 older brothers. Anyways, few months later he did a zc swap for $1500.He said break it in for like 300 miles. I did. Motor lasted exactly 1500 miles.
Car was down like 6 months while saving up for a swap. This time this shop name Extreme Motorsports in St Mary's County, MD
did the swap. It was a so called LS B18A. They charged me $3100w/ enjo mounts. I had more issues than enough from Day 1. My 1 & 2 gear was over to the left like a 5.0 Mustang is.So 1st & 2nd smacked my knee.The dizzy was wrong, 5th gear kept poping out gear,my air filter was directly on the tb. No intake. They said if I wanted a intake I needed to relocate my batt. in rear. The engine smoked like crazy. Even when they were doing th swap it took them like almost 2 weeks because they couldn't even get a stock header so the owner Dan said do I want some DC headers since they're having trouble finding a stock one. Of course it was used. They installed my Thermal R & Develop. & cut that up some. Only good thing they did was let me borrow 1 of their rides to get to work. It was so bad w/ swap that every Sat except once since swap was done I had to take my car there & they knew my name 1st hand.
Like I said don't feel bad. Been there.
Since my B16 swap haven't had any major issues. I'm so happy w/ swap. The money I spent on motors alone since 04 I could've had a B18C 210 hp or even a K20.
Sorry A little Long. We all live & learn the hard way sometimes.
Hope you get your ride straight because now days you really can't just throw hard earned money away in this recession.