Oh yes. It doth add up.

I figured around 2K for my conversion. Ha ha ha ha.......

Well by the time you add up a new HO2S relay and sensor, (~ $200),
belts, pulley, gaskets, hoses, coolant pump, exhaust parts, mounts
etc. etc., it really adds up.

But......

Much like the woman in the old Clairol commercials, my "new" engine (
~ 96K km's) probably says to itself:

 "I'm worth it".

A *new* engine? Well, IMHO, new parts are in order unless there's a
comparable well thought out substitute. Again IMHO, with the exception
of some parts I've basically designed (cuz they don't exist AFAIK) I
prefer to do it right at the beginning. It will "pay" for itself in
the long run.

(says the now "expert" engine conversion specialist! --- LOL! Not!)

Neil.

On Sat, May 17, 2008 at 2:16 PM, Mike Collum <collum@verizon.net> wrote:
> Scott Daniel - Shazam wrote:
>>
>> Certainly seems that you brand new Boston Bob engine would be very worthy
>> of
>> new oil tower/breather valve - didn't one guy say they were 90 bucks ?
>>
>> That's not that much more of an investment considering what I imagine his
>> new engines cost.
>
> I'm reminded of what Senator Everett Dirksen once said, which went
> something like, "A billion here, a billion there ... pretty soon turns
> into real money".
>
> Mike
>

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