You're a day too late and a dollar short, Scott. Everyone needing a running AAZ will be asking you for a $1200 deal. I expect that is about what you would charge for a used AAZ in similar condition to your customer's  right? ;-) Don't forget to include the car.

BenT

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On Jun 17, 2011, at 12:01 AM, Scott Daniel - Turbovans <scottdaniel@TURBOVANS.COM> wrote:

> 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