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Originally Posted by OK-944
Yup...me too - about 6K into my project over the past 18 months. Figured less than half this at the start - but that was then...and this is now. The rabbit hole intervened!
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OK944: it sounds like you’ve proved the classic rule of “work out your best estimate, then double it”.
I was talking with friends about an 82 SC on Pelican’s Cars For Sale forum right now; it’s said to need a “broken head stud” repair and is listed for $25K. We were trying to figure out what freshening that motor would cost (in parts and sublet only; no charge for our own labor). In 2015 dollars, as-in when I did the same job on mine, ca. $6K was the amount. Yes, there are many variables in that. I did split the case to bearings, chains and reseal, but the engine’s ancillaries were all good. How much have parts prices or machine shop costs gone up in the intervening six years? Dunno, but I doubt they’ve decreased. I wonder, too, if the current massive increase in air-cooled 911 values is a bubble which will burst? The amount of money being spent, particularly on BaT, beggars belief, at least mine. BaT has been a market-maker, no wonder Hearst Publishing saw it as a good investment.
John