Would you convert a rare CGT (an 87.5) to 10VT?

[Mihnea Cotet]

Agreed on the paying customer and AC aspect, I don't give a $hit about AC
as we barely get more than 25 degrees C in Belgium during summer. :-)

And I won't be opening a shop offering conversions to paying customers
anytime soon, of course I'll do some as you do but nothing really
professional anyway, and your point about 2B doing this professionally with
functioning AC is true, I must admit they are the only ones in the business
to offer this, and as long as there's demand but only their offer, the
price will be what it is! However, I think that if some of us really
tech-geeks on the list would get together to make a real business in order
to offer such conversions, costs could be a lot lower than $12k and it
would also include a reasonable profit for those who'd do it but I guess
dreaming is always an option :-)

Mihnea

At 16:49 17/01/2003 -0500, JShadzi at aol.com wrote:
>Mihnea, while I agree that its not the toughest thing to do (I've done
>many, and can complete one in pretty good time if needed), but the thought
>of doing one for a paying customer who expects to have a perfectly running
>car with AC is another story, the 2bennett cars are done properly, while I
>agree that they charge a lot to do it, the fact that no one else really
>does them for any price reflects the complexity and expense with these
>kind of swaps.  While you're fine with living with all the quirks and
>oddities of your own car, a paying customer won't accept anything less
>than a factory installation, BTDT.
>
>When you open up a shop and have customers lining up to have you do turbo
>swaps for 2000Euro, let me know, but realistically its not possible, its
>just not enough to compensate for the effort required to do it right.
>
>But like I said, I don't know the guy, the shop, or anything, so maybe its
>the deal of the century just waiting to happen  ;)
>
>Javad
>
> >Javad,
> >
> >
> >While I agree with you a turbo engine swap isn't the easiest mod on our
> >cars, I'd gladly do it for 2000 Euro (labor), provided the guy has a proper
> >working place, as I lack any... and sometimes I even think 2000 is too
> >much... Really, once you did it once, doing it again is a lot easier and I
> >don't see why 2bennett ask over $ 12k for doing this when it can be
> >properly done for far less... and doing it yourself is even cheaper, free
> >labor :-) When you have both cars wiring diagrams, there's no big fuss to
> >make about the wiring and such, at least I find it very easy to do, and the
> >MC engine has an easier wiring harness than 20vt's...
> >
> >The price is really what would make me cautious...
> >
> >Just a thought,
> >
> >Mihnea