I'd pay $ 1,200 for a complete used AAZ engine ..
that's a fine deal..
even if it needs work.

and most used VW engines need work on them anyway , even going through ,
 unless they are fairly fresh on a rebuild. ....
like say 50K on a rebuild .or 70K maybe.

mostly though ....they need work anyway.
and $ 1,200 for a 'complete' aaz that's not blown ..
that's not an unfair deal at all .

 I just had to share about this one 'aaz from hell' I call it, that I dealt
with.
it went on forever...
It ran when purchased .......but it would've very likely blown without going
through it.

yeah.......lol.........on this engine I now have runinng ..
just about every part on it ........was tired, corroded, or had something
wrong with it.
Perhaps it was an exteme case.  And it started as a 2,500 dollar 'good used
engine' since it was 'a little rusty' .

They're great engines for what they are.
Quite toyota like, almost, for a pre-chamber VW TD engine.

so it's not a bad deal at all, Didn't mean to make it sound like it's
something other than that.
The price is plenty low enough.
I've paid $ 3,000 for the same engine before.   So factor that in ..
and they often really need work anyway.

scott