Legal Question in Civil Litigation in Indiana

Last summer we took our engine to be worked on at a place that specializes in working on our type of vehicle. After the block was removed we awaited notification on the diagnosis, but months went by without returned calls and ignored voice messages. The only contact that we had was when the individual working on the vehicle was attempting to collect monies without having done any work. We finally arrived to retreive the engine block. We were directed by the manager of the individual who was to be working on the block to pick up all our materials in a designated area.

The last four months we've been working on this engine by ourselves, purchasing each individual part and today we went to finally put the engine in the car and it doesn't fit. We called Chrysler with the serial number on the block and come to find out, we've spent the last four months spending over $1,000 and repairing someone else's engine block. It came out of a blue, automatic...ours is a red, manual.

Do we have a right to sue the individual or the company and if so what exactly do we sue for? The original part or a comparable replacement, all the hours spent working on it, time, energy, grief...what exactly are we entitled to sue for?

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