yeah so your wrong again!
i paid 400 for a roller and had close to 5k in the engine bay and 1k in misc parts. had a slight problem with the oiling system and a guy offered me money for my engine so i sold it to him. thats close to 6500 in a complete car that would be a damn good roll car and an all right dig car.
Now that engine (2.0 NA block) makes close to 550 at the crank on a good tune mild boost setup. the engines are fine depending on the what you put into them mod wise
Hell the world record for a long time for a NA 4 cylinder was held by a neon with a 2.0 engine in it. it ran low 10.1x. Maybe, just maybe, you should not talk about a engine when you know nothing about them.