[tholyoak]

You don't need new fuel rails and 60h of labour is a bit on the absurd side.

A 2001 is cheaper to do than a 2000 as other components need to be upgraded to work with the 7.8 DME and CAN bus system on the earlier cars. The nice thing about the 2001 is all of the CAN bus network is there, it just uses a 7.2 DME.

In general you will need
Engine
Clutch and flywheel
Exhaust
Air filter/intake system

Depending on the year you will also need other components like fuel pumps, DME, other system controllers and rewiring.

For a pre-2001 car I if you are paying someone else to do the work I would probably go with one of Jake's big bore motors.

For the later cars I still like the 7.8 DME with the variocam plus, that I don't think is present in Jake's conversions. The variocam plus gives a lot more range in cam timing as well as more valve lift that the earlier variocam heads don't do with there simple all or nothing ramp system of cam timing adjustment.

At this point if you are going to do a swap, go with the 3.8 the only difference is a small difference in the initial cost of the motor, the rest of the expenses are the same.

-Todd