[Elombard]

In my mind it is a lot of work to do the front trunk. The dis assembly and cleaning so it can be painted is very time consuming. I had to draw the line some where. The engine compartment is the same, not hard just time consuming, I did not want to drop the motor for this project. Even if you do all that the underside and interior have not been Painted to match. If you look carefully Porsche did not paint these areas that well either.

I figured if something happened and I kept the car I could do the trunk and engine compartment in stages. Maybe next time the clutch was done or something..... To do a full on rotisserie color change is just a huge undertaking and not really in keeping with my idea of looks good from 10 feet reliable fun driver. A car done with a full rotiserie paint, perfect interior and panel gaps, all new trim, the brakes and suspension is a $60K car maybe. At least that is what I have seen some of them go for.

I also think that a motor like this if you are starting with a worn out 3.0 would probably cost $10-12K if you did it yourself, $15-20K to have a good shop build it as this one has.

A glass out bare metal repaint would be $10K if you just dropped it off, more to do the back date.

I figured this car has most of the "hard" and expensive stuff done for an R group track day car, the other things, brakes, suspension, paint the front and rear compartments could be done over time and with used bits in some areas.

I appreciate your thoughts.