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Originally Posted by Matt Monson
You seen what a Polo 4 costs? To manufacture these engine today would be around a $40k engine. Just getting the casting pattern for the case and hitting a minimum production number would be well into 6 figures.
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Sand cast aluminum case would not run you close to those numbers. Years ago I used to cast parts for G Force racing truck transmissions and I did engine cases for them as well. A pattern would run you between $6-8K per side. One off production aluminum case halves including heat treating another $2500-3500 per set and then machining costs. Price goes down significantly for quantity. Costs get amortized but I would make any quantity from one set to as many as needed.
I made far more complicated parts than 964 engine case halves. Mostly defense mil spec parts for Helicopters and it wasn't cheap but no where near 6 figures to start up production.
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