I'd pay $ 1,200 for a complete used AAZ engine .. that's a fine deal.. even if it needs work. and most used VW engines need work on them anyway , even going through , unless they are fairly fresh on a rebuild. .... like say 50K on a rebuild .or 70K maybe. mostly though ....they need work anyway. and $ 1,200 for a 'complete' aaz that's not blown .. that's not an unfair deal at all . I just had to share about this one 'aaz from hell' I call it, that I dealt with. it went on forever... It ran when purchased .......but it would've very likely blown without going through it. yeah.......lol.........on this engine I now have runinng .. just about every part on it ........was tired, corroded, or had something wrong with it. Perhaps it was an exteme case. And it started as a 2,500 dollar 'good used engine' since it was 'a little rusty' . They're great engines for what they are. Quite toyota like, almost, for a pre-chamber VW TD engine. so it's not a bad deal at all, Didn't mean to make it sound like it's something other than that. The price is plenty low enough. I've paid $ 3,000 for the same engine before. So factor that in .. and they often really need work anyway. scott |
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