At 09:31 4/6/99 -0700, Stuart MacMillan wrote: >Before you spend $10,000 on your Westy talk to some of the list >vendors!!! That seems like a lot unless you are putting in that Porsche >engine! You should be able to get your tranny rebuild for under $1000, >and the engine for $2500-$3000, and I have found extremely competitive >parts prices from vendors here. I'm only looking at $3000 or so right now, got a camshaft bearing about to go plus some random odds-and-sods. It had a new VW transmission (in Scotland) at 85k, head and bottom-end work at 90k, transmission rebuild (I got royally taken by the dealer, mea culpa. I'd have done a lot better with Todd and gotten a better job.) at maybe 155k. > >I am researching engine options myself, since my '84 has over 200k and >can't have long. I am really torn between rebuilding a 2.1 core I have >sitting in the garage or installing an Audi 5000 engine, or even the >Eurospec, both of which would cost about $2500 more to do. Yeah. Same dilemma. I find the Subaru conversion strangely attractive -- but I've developed tendinitis and can't work on the thing, need it running etc. etc. I'm going to get a stock 1.9 rebuilt locally (Boston Bob, I think) and hope to get rich enough to put any engine I want in it later on (I talk to the treeeeeessss, that's why they puuuuuttt mee awaaaayyyyy). cheers, david David Beierl - dbeierl@ibm.net |
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