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Originally Posted by TrickyTriggs
Ok I’ve got a lot of work cut out for me. Good thing it’s winter so I won’t feel so bad not being able to ride. Having said that, anyone that has done an engine rebuild before I would gladly appreciate your support and patience.
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Originally Posted by TrickyTriggs
Anyone have any tips they can give me? Past mistakes?
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I’m in accord with other suggestions:
get used engine for $2-300 and spend 5-6 hrs swapping it in.
I’ve rebuilt about 10 bike engines and around 20 auto engines of my own. For customers, I performed about 50 engine-upgrades on Porsche engines in my shop. I’ll estimate rebuilding that engine’s going cost you at least $500 in parts, if they’re even available. And about $500 in machine-shop services to cut & polish crank (or line-bore cases with new crank), resize rod-end, hone bores and fit pistons and rings. And you’ll be spending about 40-60 hrs of your own time disassembling and ferrying pieces of that engine around to various machine shops.
Here’s my first bike that I rebuilt after 10-yrs. Cost me about $1000 for spare engine and rebuild parts along with $600 in machine shop services (a little hot-rodding with larger valves, radiused seats and higher compression).
Took about a year to build up this car for
Open Track Challenge
