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I always appreciate real numbers so I thought I'd share mine for anyone pondering this work. I did everything myself except the heads and honing the cylinders. I price shop across a number of vendors and worked pretty aggressively, most nights and weekends.
Motor came down for a single broken headstud. No other symptoms but car came to me with zero history, yet low miles. My rebuild menu was set accordingly.
Started disconnections Jan 18, had her on the road April 10, so lets call that 12 weeks ~3 months. The later month being during lockdown sped things up some but during the first few months I was working and traveling a lot.
Total spend about $5750 with details attached. Approx $1500 clutch & flywheel, $3500 motor, rest on misc/maintenance. Plenty of optional extras (powder coating, etc) but also restraint exercised in not replacing things that were a-okay, not splitting case etc.
Thank you to all those who contributed time, parts, tools and encouragement!
Nice job. Having a shop do a 'basic' (ie OEM level) top end is a ~12k job here... a big chunk of that being labor. So your #'s make sense given what rough shop labor rates are for the drop, disassembly, sublet, etc.
I'm building a very hot 2.8L mag case 911 motor and the parts costs alone are eye watering... labor will be the minority of the cost. It's crazy what N/A HP costs!!!
Yup you put your finger on why I DIY. I'd rather buy the best tools money can buy, sublet when needed and still come out massively ahead of paying someone to do it. To say nothing of the fact I enjoy the work and now know how the thing works.
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