[1968SWTs]

If it only were a 75 !! I bet it could get a BAR sticker if someone just invested the time with a ref and all the missing pieces .. But outside California it has great potential.

Nice of pyite20v to care about a buyer getting a bad deal like a few rust buckets on here, and my mom buying a car with sawdust in the cracked block when she was 18. I have met mrbmw2002 in the past and he is trustworthy and his post should clear it up (it is accurate)

The original posting is still available online and the post agrees with that. A 3.6 conversion is VERY expensive compared to a 3.2 conversion - you can spend $6,000 for an engine, $500 for a patrick flywheel for the 915 (unlike the bolt in 3.2), $1600 in clutch parts, $200 custom crossmember, custom sheet metal (call it $200?) ..and that tranny is worth $3,000+ and the quaife , custom headers with heat have got to be at least $1,000 - all of that and the mocal cooler and "bluebird" bumper, oil lines would have gone into his longhood - call it $12,500 total for the parts for his longhood. He took a risk by buying without eyes and PPI, then paying for shipping. With a free car with it, then $1200 in head work at a machine shop plus $1,000 labor
The prior owner simply said :

"engine likely needs valve guides as oil consumption has gone up. Anyway, my wife tells me that it has to go"

- so actually a flipper would have been perfect - someone willing to roll the dice versus endless tire kickers.


btw, to Matt's point above - my softy was determined to have a bad engine because the local Porsche "expert" thought a loose rocker arm boss was a rod knock. After a carb rebuild (and the rocker arm repair) it has been running extremely well for a year and a half.