Are cheap Chinese engine kits any good?

I blew my engine on my bike (96 Suzuki Dr200) from what I believe was all the oil leaking out on the highway and subsequent failure (sounds like it spun a bearing or dropped a valve). Anyway, its locked up and nonfunctional now and I need to rebuild it. Parts are so obscure for it though that the cheapest (and sometimes only) available parts I can find are brand new extremely cheap (65 bucks) kits consisting of the piston, rings, gaskets, block, etc. Have any of you had experience with these? I don't want to use it if I have a choice, but I may not.

Anonymous2020-02-27T18:50:47Z

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The Devil2019-11-11T23:47:32Z

Find a used engine from cycle salvage. You have all winter to swap out the junked engine.

Anonymous2019-11-11T02:30:39Z

.  All the oil leaking out has more to do with GASKETS. No motor handles that misuse.

I would not bother rebuilding it.  It is HOSED!  Buy another bike. It will be cheaper and you can go up in size and newer.  Don't muck up this time with lack of oil.  Maybe get another Suzi and many of the parts should be transferable over.(basically the same design and screw sizes.)

?2019-11-11T00:20:41Z

The easy way is to check mc junkyards for a bike that t-boned a car or truck or train and crunched the front forks but has a perfectly ok engine.

thebax20062019-11-09T12:20:19Z

Buy a different bike.

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