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Originally Posted by Andy Somogyi
There’s tons and tons of 3.0 and 3.2 engines around. The problem is because of parts speculators, there’s no real concept of a market value for them.
Everyone that has one for sale is under the (false) impression that they can ask any insane price they want, and if they hold out long enough, a miracle buyer will come along and pay $15,000 or whatever crazy figure they ask for it.
There are plenty available, it’s just none of them are selling because of they crazy prices asked for them.
So we have a huge stockpile of parts just basically sitting there.
My advise is if you want to sell it, you will NEVER recover your money if you put a Porsche engine it, never. If you did ALL the work yourself, it would cost about $10,000 minimum to put in a 2.7.
Even then, it will not have much interest to the investor and purist types who want numbers matching all original blah blah blah...
I think you’ve basically got 3 options:
(1) sell it the way it is, probably with maybe $20,000
(2) keep the car, drive it and enjoy it the way it is.
(3) keep the car and swap in a different motor, but do so with the intent of keeping the the car.
I mean, right now, you’ve pretty much got what I have, a 76 Porsche 912 that is, a Porsche with a VW engine (mine came from the factory with a VW bus engine). With a cam and carbs, the VW engines aren’t bad, probably comparable to an early 911T performance wise. It’s not a bad driver.
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Everyone loves to tell you what a motor is worth. I had a 930 Turbo motor a few years ago, running in a 72 Targa. Everyone said it's worth $25,000+
Well, guess what, after it sat on the market for a year, I got $14,500 for it. Everyone, remember them, said I sold it too cheap. Guess I should have held it for 2 years....or forever, if you never sell it, you can value it however you want!
---Adam