What's a good price for this?
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I'm looking for either a 1.6 or 1.8 vvc 'K' series engine, gearbox, ecu and wiring loom.
Speaking to a few breakers they will sell me a 1.6 with everything else for between £450 and £650. This sounds pretty good, but I get the impression that they just want to sell me anything they can and aren't bothered if it's right or not.
Speaking to a more specialist (Rover) breaker. The guy was much more helpful
and would sell me the lot including a 1.8 vvc for around £1100. The advantages I see are that he seems to know what he's talking about, knows what fits different models and even guessed the car I was building straight away.
Problems,
I budgeted £1100-1200 for the complete donor.
This breaker is nearly 300 miles away.
Any advice, ideas and comments welcome.
Speaking to a few breakers they will sell me a 1.6 with everything else for between £450 and £650. This sounds pretty good, but I get the impression that they just want to sell me anything they can and aren't bothered if it's right or not.
Speaking to a more specialist (Rover) breaker. The guy was much more helpful
and would sell me the lot including a 1.8 vvc for around £1100. The advantages I see are that he seems to know what he's talking about, knows what fits different models and even guessed the car I was building straight away. Problems,
I budgeted £1100-1200 for the complete donor.
This breaker is nearly 300 miles away.
Any advice, ideas and comments welcome.
tombs said:
Who was the Rover guy?
Andy at www.roverbreakers.com
Why know any better / cheaper?
He did say he might be able to do me a deal on all the other donor parts I need too. The engine is the main concern as there are plenty of 1.4 engined cars out there for parts.
Flintstone said:
Mate.
There was a 1.8 in the Pistonheads classified for 150 quid (can't do pund signs, using a french keyboard at the moment).
It would need a rebuild but that would mean you could tune it.
Thanks Paul
For the money he wants + loom without ECU and other bits that are extra it doesn't seem worth it. The rebuild and tune will add at least £700.
£1100 low mileage (less than 10k) guaranteed, with all the bits I need is looking more and more of a bargain every day.
B19GRR
I'm glad you have 'barged in'.
After a fair bit of looking around, I had an offer of a 1.8 vvc (160bhp) the other day for £1100, however I also found that I could get a 2lt Turbo for about £900 - £1k.
Last night I'd more or less talked myself into the turbo. 200bhp etc. From you are saying, if the turbo is much heavier then there's not going to be that much more performance is there?
The 1.8 is lower mileage and again from your post, as a later engine, it is going to be more reliable than the earlier ones.
Why do we have to make decisions like this.
I'm glad you have 'barged in'.
After a fair bit of looking around, I had an offer of a 1.8 vvc (160bhp) the other day for £1100, however I also found that I could get a 2lt Turbo for about £900 - £1k.
Last night I'd more or less talked myself into the turbo. 200bhp etc. From you are saying, if the turbo is much heavier then there's not going to be that much more performance is there?
The 1.8 is lower mileage and again from your post, as a later engine, it is going to be more reliable than the earlier ones.
Why do we have to make decisions like this.
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