you dont say what year it is but a used engine is in the 500 dollar range. if you can get the car cheap enough and do the swap your self its well worth it.
tell the seller you asked around already and inflate the cost of the engine swap to knock the price down even lower, haggle haggle haggle.
i beat the tar out of the guy i got my car from, because all the work it needed was in the 2000 dollar range for a shop to do it all, they wanted 1800 for it, i paid 800. i fixed it all for about 800. now i have a car that blue books for 2500.00. and it only cost me 1600, worked out good for me.
