That's not Clairol Neil, its L'Oreal! :) On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 9:12 AM, neil N <musomuso@gmail.com> wrote: > Oh yes. It doth add up. > > I figured around 2K for my conversion. Ha ha ha ha....... > > Well by the time you add up a new HO2S relay and sensor, (~ $200), > belts, pulley, gaskets, hoses, coolant pump, exhaust parts, mounts > etc. etc., it really adds up. > > But...... > > Much like the woman in the old Clairol commercials, my "new" engine ( > ~ 96K km's) probably says to itself: > > "I'm worth it". > > A *new* engine? Well, IMHO, new parts are in order unless there's a > comparable well thought out substitute. Again IMHO, with the exception > of some parts I've basically designed (cuz they don't exist AFAIK) I > prefer to do it right at the beginning. It will "pay" for itself in > the long run. > > (says the now "expert" engine conversion specialist! --- LOL! Not!) > > Neil. > > > > On Sat, May 17, 2008 at 2:16 PM, Mike Collum <collum@verizon.net> wrote: > > Scott Daniel - Shazam wrote: > >> > >> Certainly seems that you brand new Boston Bob engine would be very > worthy > >> of > >> new oil tower/breather valve - didn't one guy say they were 90 bucks ? > >> > >> That's not that much more of an investment considering what I imagine > his > >> new engines cost. > > > > I'm reminded of what Senator Everett Dirksen once said, which went > > something like, "A billion here, a billion there ... pretty soon turns > > into real money". > > > > Mike > > > > > > -- > Neil Nicholson. 1981 Air Cooled Westfalia - "Jaco" > > http://web.mac.com/tubaneil > http://tubaneil.googlepages.com/ >
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