someone is selling a motor: $1300/obo.. w/ 77k miles on it about 1hr away from me, mine has 69k boosted, i was thinking about buying it and do a slow build on it. what to offer him??

 

how about 1300?
are you thinking thats high? Its not.

 

Search the Marketplace and see what others have been asking/offering. Check some of the online sellers of used parts, like SlideGood or junk yards.

 

i dont think its high but if hes got best offer...im not the one to give top dollar on it, id say if he lets it go for $1000 and i drive to get it, would that be worth it?? i kind of think so, and i think typo on miles, actually 73k, not a super diff. but little bit. now im thinking about how much more to invest to rebuild??
thanks.

 

buy mine for 500!

I have it in seneca.
80k ish miles
Boosted for about 20k of them on a vortech at 7.5psi
non rev up

great price!

 

wow really? doesnt matter if its been boosted anyways rt? bc im going to do a rebuild, why are u selling anyways??

 

hey cux, u got a pic of ur ride?? ever go to any shows n our area??

 

I have several on here...cant access photobucket at work to link you.

I have been to a few shows. Car hasnt really run o nthe road for the last year..less than 500mi.

Selling because I have a built motor in my car and no longer need my original.

 

thats no tranny correct?

 

OP, buying as cheap a unit ( like the ones mentioned above) is your best bet if you plan to build it.

On your question of price? Well obviously the skys the limit, why not build a Crower stroker etc.. but realistically, youre looking at about 3 grand for some CP pistons, crower sportsman rods, new bearings, cometic gasket, arp head studs, etc.. then youre looking at 1600 in machine shop labor to balance deck hones and micropolish.. then theres the heads.. you want new seats and seal? New springs? Basic clean and zero miles work.. basically a built engine is usually about 6 grand. You jsut need to decide if its gna be turb o r not before you order rods and pistons ( compression at 11:1 na or 8.5:1 FI).
I believe the core charge is generally about750 800 bucks as long as you send in adecnt block and crank.. or jsut pay the core and have it outright.

Unless youre a machinist or mechanic, it may not make sense to slowly build an engine. you can slowly compile parts i guess, but it whe it comes time to machine, its all er nothing kind of.

jsut my 2 cents, as i went thru this recently. ( actually I still am).

 

so u get to chill on the Z forums during work also??LOL
hey, so u did the same thing im thinking about doing??

 

but would it not make sense to have 2 engines? besides the other taking up space, i have a truck as my dd, but in case something happens to the built motor, i can have a back-up one if i want to getR back on the rd fast.. just thinking about it all
and i have a good friend thats a mechanic also, so that would b super helpful

 

id say 98 percent of the ppl on here are in the same boat.. watch how many emails you get during 9-5 from thread replies.. and it drops off 100% as soon as ppl get home during evening hours.

 

Yeah, no wonder American productivity is in the tank, lol.

 

+1 (also at work)

 

depends tho, im an underwriter, if im in between files waiting for the next, i sit.

If i had to mill thru toiling tasks all day long, well, id get paid less and hate my life more.

Unless i owned the place, then thats a never ending job, been there did that, would never do it again..... but alas i dont own this place haha, so ill take my medium-big bucks gladly and enjoy my forum time like a big ol nerd.

 

(lifeguardingwhilecheckingzforumz)

 

Meh, if you do some research, the studies show that American productivity isn't actually that bad, and Americans work more hours than their foreign counterparts. You have to remember that in France, for example, they get about double the weeks of vacation. That and they are less productive in the hours they do work.

My theory is that we have just become used to criticizing people for not being perfectly efficient all the time, and technology lets us see the slack. (ie. facebook) In prior times, people made a lot of phone calls and read books on the job, etc.

 

OMG blah blah blah...does it seem like people love to blow money on overpriced parts.


here is my rant on g35driver

http://g35driver.com/forums/6044152-post30.html

motors on car-part


MOTORS FOR REBUILD

$100 rebuild only
http://newhaven.craigslist.org/pts/2474890522.html

$250--- rebuild only
http://southjersey.craigslist.org/pts/2471656112.html


$800 RUNNING condition

http://philadelphia.craigslist.org/pts/2531073366.html




Give you an idea of what motors with less miles than the other dudes is worth

2006
Engine
Infiniti G35 51K $1050 Carguts USA-SC(Blacksburg) 1-866-839-2708


2007
Engine
Infiniti M35 30k A $1200
Butler Auto Parts - PRP-MA USA-NC(Forest-City) Request_Quote 1-800-835-4645 ext 200

2006
Engine
Infiniti G35 47K $1200 Bishops Auto Parts USA-SC(Chesnee) 800-248-0391




I might be a noob but i could teach you guys a thing or two about saving money and still enjoying life...gawsh who wastes money when they plan to rebuild it anyways.


edit: found a HR motor for less than $800 with 40k miles...WOOT WOOT...maybe i should be a middle man and sling parts to members and build me an EPIC LS7 G35 Sedan thanks to you guys.

 

sittign at work here reading this...

+1 to you can pretty much only collect parts, once its time to build you kinda need to do it all at once and have a goal in mind.

It is def a good idea to have a second engine if you want minimal downtime, and then also once you swap in the built motor you can keep the stocker as a spare to throw back in in case somethign goes awry