Engine Porn
 

One of these days, Prodriver.
I have been drooling over that engine for a while.
From the little I know, it looks like you built this one to last.

It's a beautiful engine. So clean... just waiting to purr.

My luck it'll sell and, a week later, I'll need an engine.

I factor $18K, to include install and ancillary parts...

$18K/60 mos/5.75%/$346

Sell that existing engine for $3K...

$15K/60 mos/5.75%/$288

If you can get a better % rate, better still. I just pulled the 5.75% from... air. If you can get more for the existing engine... better still.

Someone could sell their existing and running engine for, what, some thousands of dollars. Take that quid... get a personal loan... pull some cash from the jar... would take the sting out of $15K all at once.

That's less than a car payment and, if your (my/his/hers?) car is in great shape, maintained and, appearance-wise, beautiful... I'd be considering it.

I think I'm trying to talk myself into this. :confused:

Tick tock tick tock tick tock tick tock... ;)

I haven't made a car payment since 1978 sure would not think about borrowing money for a repair. I'm going to buy another new 2500 hd next year have to write a ripper for about,70 k for that. Will be a little painful 😨. I make my car payment to a quality brokerage account and earn myself interest rather than pay the man

Ever confirm what happened?

9 years since I was in Jake Raby's 1st M96 engine rebuild class.

Can you put 3.2 engine in this 2.7

Yes external size is the same

Like I've said before, if my car was a 5 chain engine instead of the 3 chain version I would have bought your ready to go engine instead of having mine rebuilt with the 3.6 LN Nickies. Those alone cost $5k and have a minimum 6 month wait due to the precision platers used by LN. One day someone will get this and be very happy!

Quick update. After ignoring the car for a the past two months I've decided to swap out the engine.