I met a guy with a freshly completed, professionally-built 3.2 conversion street car the other day...he said he had about $35K into it. And, he bought the project car pretty cheap ($5K) with some of the conversion work already well underway.
I have been contemplating the conversion issue myself for quite some time. I have a bunch of money into my /4 already, and to do a race-prepped conversion the way I would want it would probably bump me well up over $30K into the car. And it would be a hell of a project in terms of time and energy beyond the money. I probably wouldn't be able to drive it for a good 6 months if not longer, at the rate I do things.
For $20-25K I can buy a hardcore, fully sorted 914/6 race car, ready to drive, probably even with a trailer too. The kind of car that somebody spent $40-60K to build.
No contest....unless my 2.0 blows up and forces the issue, I will be buying my /6 rather than building it.
Chris C.
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