QUOTE(Root_Werks @ Oct 22 2004, 04:47 PM)
So what's so expensive about them????? I did a whole thread were I put together a 914-6 for like the 5th or 6th time for about $6k, new windshield, price of car, flares, paint, 7&8x16 fuchs, oil tank, new targa seals etc. etc. etc. Yeah, this one only has a 130hp 2.2, but it is still 130 STOCK hp. Give me a wasted spark ign and 32mm vent's and I would bet 140-145hp.
The engines I find are just ones by chance. I don't look for anything specail. The last one I had was, wait, the one before that was a 2.2E, wait, so was the one before that as well. So 160hp STOCK. I haven't ever paid over $1k for a 911 engine. All have been great runners with the worst worn vavle guides maybe puffing off a little smoke on a cold start up.
So C'mon you two. Lets here it, how much do you have to spend to get 130hp out of a type 4 engine or better, 160. I paid $600 for my 2.2T engine, 130hp and $800, $1000 for the last two 2.2E engines at 160hp.
Prove me the idiot here, make me believe you can pull down a 4cyl and make it put out 130 for under $1k.
Or, make me believe you can put a 5.7 in a 914 for less than a $600 911 engine that you only have to drill a few small holes into fo the oil tank. Straight bolt up stuff.
C'mon, I double dare ya! :finger2:
The engines I find are just ones by chance. I don't look for anything specail. The last one I had was, wait, the one before that was a 2.2E, wait, so was the one before that as well. So 160hp STOCK. I haven't ever paid over $1k for a 911 engine. All have been great runners with the worst worn vavle guides maybe puffing off a little smoke on a cold start up.
So C'mon you two. Lets here it, how much do you have to spend to get 130hp out of a type 4 engine or better, 160. I paid $600 for my 2.2T engine, 130hp and $800, $1000 for the last two 2.2E engines at 160hp.
Prove me the idiot here, make me believe you can pull down a 4cyl and make it put out 130 for under $1k.
Or, make me believe you can put a 5.7 in a 914 for less than a $600 911 engine that you only have to drill a few small holes into fo the oil tank. Straight bolt up stuff.
C'mon, I double dare ya! :finger2:
What's so expensive, Dan... is doing the conversion right.
Anyone can cobble shit together.
-Rusty