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On 21 Mar 2003 at 15:19, orntar@att.net wrote: > so no problems with BAP? or is it just no personal experiences with em? seemed > like a good company. their longblock is about $1000, then i can add > counterweighted crank and full flow oil kit. is there a more economical solution > to a new stock motor? i talked to my local vwflaps/machine shop and they said to > get a rebuilt longblock with new case is about $1000 as well. so i may be going > with BAP. Just lack of experience. At least that's where I'm at, and I'm guessing that's why no one else replied. The big rebuild companies are really a crap shoot. Some engines can be good and others bad. I would NEVER want to be a company that tries to work in this kind of market. Imagine trying to deal with dozens of inexperienced people every day calling in to complain that the rebuilt engine they installed didn't work right. In most cases there was probably something wrong with the installation that the rebuilder could not have prevented. Who's to blame? My guess is that these people become really hardnosed after awhile. I had one of these owners at my place once. They were disappointed that things didn't work out well. I looked at the engine. Wires hooked up to the wrong places, wires left off, wires broken, fuel lines leaking, generator installed wrong, vapor hose hooked up wrong (gas tank collapsed & fuel sender crushed--I forget the details.) Well, you get the picture. I told them all this, fixed what I could in a few minutes, because I knew they weren't going to pay me to do anything. And they still were pissed that they had gotten a rotten engine. Was it really a bad rebuild? I really don't know and I don't think it would be possible to tell by then because it had been too abused in the few hundred miles that it had been driven already. In the condition it left my driveway I'm sure it didn't last out the year. I told them that, but they didn't want to throw good money after bad, so I'm sure that car has long since been crushed, burned and melted down. If it were my car, I certainly would have been willing to spend $100 for an afternoon's work to get things to a state where the car might run for at least a few more years. I guess the moral here, if there is one, is that I don't think it is a good idea for an inexperienced person to think he can just buy a rebuilt long block and install it himself and get good results. I'd suggest you get all the work done at a local shop with a good reputation so that there is just one place to point the finger at when things go wrong. -- Jim Adney jadney@vwtype3.org Madison, WI 53711-3054 USA ------------------------------------------------------------------- List info at http://www.vwtype3.org/list | mailto:gregm@vwtype3.org