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Hi Sean,
I've got a nice 4a-ge (115HP) boxed down here in South Florida but that's way too far from you.
As you may or not know Japan has been flooding this country with their used engines heavily for the last 10-15 years. The Jap government REQUIRES that any engine over say 40k be recycled and from what I hear Jap authorities will not allow the owner to re-license his car till that old engine is replaced.
So the Japs dump these engines on the USA market big time, since most Jap engines are NOT required to have EPA garbage, emissions lines, EGR's, Catalytic converts etc etc these engines have increased horsepower as a result.
When you are contempleting your replacement engine be sure to include these "J-spec's" in your engine source/search. In most cases these engines will have less mileage than most engines found in Amerika's junkyards.
Look into Wikipedia for the "4a-" series engines and read up before hearing all this "unsubstantiated" info you will no doubt hear over the Internet.
You will find that alot of early engines have low HP ratings which may have been what happened to your car if the engine was replaced.
Tread carefully my friend, a informed buyer is less likely to be scammed.
mr2tim
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