Anyone know this company, Complete rebuild for 1,255.00 Options

[clark2]

I am trying to talk my dad out of rebuilding our motor 73 1.7 because I know it will be at least a year before he gets that thing done. Anyone ever hear of this company, seems like 1,255.00 for a complete rebuild is pretty cheap am I missing something?

http://www.importmotor.com/Store/ProductDe...arSelected=1973

[Brando]

Import Motor is actually not a *bad* company to buy aircooleds from. A few years ago I was going to buy a 2.2+ from them for my ghia. Lost the car before I could get the engine. So I called and talked to the guy who runs the show. Appearantly they have been doing work with aircooleds for a very long time. The guy who runs the show even wrote with some help the guide, in essence, on rebuilding type 2 and 3 engines (i have it at home, will give the book details when I get there).

Most of the internals on your engine they will replace. Actually, the way it works is you buy an engine from them, install it, and send them yours as a core. It's a bit more if you don't send them (core charge) but their worksmanship is probably on par with Rimco. If you go to their website you can see a listing of all the parts that are new in the engine you buy from them. If you buy an oversized engine (not to stock) you're getting more newer parts and some other addons. As he had explained to me, the engine is 99% gone through. You save money by buying some parts that are used but in excellent shape. The parts they reuse from cores are only used if they are in premo shape.

But then again, that's from the horse's mouth. Or horse's ass, if he was lying. I can't attest 100% for that, only saying what I was told.

Best part is, you get a warranty and if you're local, they can send someone out to deliver it in a day or so. Right to your doorstep.