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Subject:Re: Fwd: Oil Change. Zetec
From:Dave Mcneely
Date:Thu, 6 Dec 2012 19:36:47 -0600

Jim, I assume you are speaking as if you do all the work yourself, as in a kit install from Bostiq.  If Bostiq does the work, would that not be a different kettle of fish?  mcneely

---- Jim Akiba <syncrolist@BOSTIG.COM> wrote:
> 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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David McNeely