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Subject:Fwd: Oil Change. Zetec
From:Jim Akiba
Date:Thu, 6 Dec 2012 19:15:18 -0500

You'd have to swap the engine, but the whole package/system is not lost.
That's the point of the Bostig to begin with, your eggs aren't all in the
engine basket so to speak. Percentage-wise and dollar-wise it's small vs
say another flavor of boxer powerplant where a majority of the conversion
investment would be lost if the engine failed due to neglect.

On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 5:16 PM, Dave Mcneely <mcneely4@cox.net> wrote:

>
> But this one came from Bostiq, or they did the work, and it cost more than
> $300.  The point was to compare what would be lost due to maintenance
> neglect to the cost of oil changes.  The whole package is what would be
> lost, not just the cost of the block.
>

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