CARBS!!
It's a stingray mate, if you cast your mind back a year or so we had a thread on here about guitars and I posted it up there. You play too don't you? Ibanez...?
I remember more than a thread about guitars/basses,,,
I got a few of the stuff,,, a cheap yamaha-like wooden lump [first bass], a cheap Ibanez RG-270 guitar for house riffage/demoing/quick recordings, a 1963 Hofner 173 guitar [it really has a sould and when you play it, it plays along with you
] a modified ESP LTD F-205 bass with an EMG 40DC and an EMG HZ [hybrid active-passive setup] which got spanked by my friend's music man sterling which I helped changing the pickup for a SD basslines series one,,, that thing really humiliated my mahogany LTD so I decided to buy another LTD, this time it's an SM-405 but it's made outta swamp ash [like the sterling] and maple, it's neckthru and stringthru and comes already loaded with all active EMGs,,, I'm still waitin for it to come to my house,,,
back on topic, I'd suggest, if you gotta rebuild the engine [I know you'd prefer not to,,,] get the head properly done and lighten the flywheel so to make the engine a lil more revvy,,, it is good and avisable to take the time and effort to take each engine to its best shape, something you'll never have with the engines comin outta the factory,,,