what should i charge for a complete fi system for 73 2.0 Options

[914_teener]

Do tell Kev... You big tease.

Hi Jeff,
I totally agree with your evaluation of parts and issues.
Bottom line, buy it at the best price & quality then sort out the problems.
Tom

I basically agree with Jeff's list as well....but only if Jeff sells them to me.

That's adds a little body to my experience and context to my snarky response.

When I bought my car about 6 years ago it "seemed" to be running fine.

Shortly afterward everything ...well almost every FI part decided to fail or needed service of some type. It had never been serviced in almost 40 years.

Why would anyone expect to pay full value for stuff that was ripped out because nobody wanted to invest or service it?

My car runs perfect with the D-jet parts that are on it. To get it running that way I spent about $1,000 and a bunch of hours learning and troubleshooting what was wrong.

The later part of the above is the stuff that is hard to put a value on it.

If one of the posters had 3,000 posts and listed and showed the vac guage on the MPS clearly showing the parts, their condition ect...someone might gain more confidence that it actually was running and has or had been serviced. If injectors sit for a while...that's not a good thing. It's a crap shoot. Fully 1/3 of old injectors fail when pressure tested and usually at the body. They are unsafe and unusable if failing there and I wouldn't install them in my car if I didn't test them first. That's a hundred bucks right there.

Sooooo,,,,,what are they worth? It depends.

[JeffBowlsby]

The $2-3K for a working, reliable, verified, original equipment FI system, is definitely a contender with the other alternatives and likely the least expensive, long term approach for a stock 914. All parts are still available for future maintenance.

Carbs are generally considered a big deduct in terms of a 914s value and leave lingering questions about whether the cam has been changed, to say nothing of warm-ups, drivability, maintaining tune or whether the car meets smog laws if those are a concern.

Aftermarket EFI systems require a custom harness, lots of custom fabrication and tuning, and then no one understands the install as well as the installers, so you generally have a potential deduct in resale value compared to a stock system in addition to the initial cost and installation. Remember the value of your time in the equation.