dude salvage places are probly the most expensive because there TRYING TO MAKE MONEY they all get paid to work there!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
find some one privatly selling a hunk of shit supra with decant 5m-ge engine, and swap it...
1750?
thats almost a brand new engine...
http://forums.celicasupra.com/showthread.php?t=13132
this guy can make you 190 crank hp and a 3.0 liter 6m-ge engine replacment engine for under 1500 i believe...
check it out, if a scrap yard wants 1750 for an engine thats been sitting for ever tell them to get f*ed... there not even worth dick on the market,
im currently trying to give just a block away(no cylinder head) for free and no one will take it.....
plus why do you have low compressing?? if its a BHG it should be easy to just replace a gasket rather than the whole engine...