blew my engine
Eight-thousand is not unreasonable. A lot of people forget all the extras that need to be replaced when a new motor goes in as Emery pointed out. Listen to this guy, he knows his stuff. If you have any doubts or questions call up AMS, Buschur, or STM and they will be more than willing to help you out.
Yeah at first your like it doesn't cost that much, but after you break it down it's not much less.
I'd look around other close reputable shops, you can prob get it for 1k-1500 less. I wouldn't buy a used motor either you never know the condition.
I'd look around other close reputable shops, you can prob get it for 1k-1500 less. I wouldn't buy a used motor either you never know the condition.
thanx yall i just bought the carl ike 3 months ago was kinda hard on it but not too bad just seeing what it had ya know. then excessive white smoke was coming out the end mitsubishi told me it was the turbo and majestics extreme motorsports told me its the pistons?? im confused but dang this is killing me
It truely is a waste of money, especially for drag racers. I can get a stroked out 302 stang (N/A or power adder) for about half of the price of my car and twice as fast. Kind of depressing.
back to topic- It is a hell of a lot cheaper if you build an evo before it explodes, 4500 is what i was quoted, but I could see it costing 7k ish
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If the short block is still usuable, you save alot of money that way. If a rod exited the block, which i dont think it did in your case, that will cost another ~$1800-2200. YMMV. Machine shop is easily $750-1300. Mine cost $1300 for machine shop labor. Just so you know im not talking out of my ***. Labor on removing engine, and putting it back + various other random necessary labor = $1500-$2000, YMMV. Hell why not...timing belt 60k bits = $$$. Plus all those things STM listed...$3000-4000 for the shortblock internals upgrades. Again YMMV, H-Beams, I-Beams, what have you.
Its gonna be at least $7k. At most $9k. Huh, car needs to be tuned? whats that? Thats another $200-400. Don't forget shipping charges, engine wont walk over to shop aka Buschur, AMS, what have you...and then walk back. Wait at least 2months before you see car again.
Its gonna be at least $7k. At most $9k. Huh, car needs to be tuned? whats that? Thats another $200-400. Don't forget shipping charges, engine wont walk over to shop aka Buschur, AMS, what have you...and then walk back. Wait at least 2months before you see car again.
Stay far away from them!!!! Majestic is horrible and treated me and my car like ****! They also love to leave customers cars two feet from the road outside and tons of there customers car have been broken into. They also took 2 months to do my clutch and used royal purple tranny fluid like morons. Trust me stay away!
did the OP say his engine was already upgraded internally, if so I missed that,
if the engine was stock internally, just buy a stock used engine again for less than 3 grand. Put it in yourself if you can, if not it's still not going to be over $4500.
sounds like your engine may not be dead anyways, if the same shop that quoted you 8 grand was the one that said its done, I would get a second assesment about what is wrong.
Last edited by SpecialNeeds; Oct 20, 2010 at 06:02 PM.
