Porker 944 is about $3k.
But it takes 13-18 hrs something of that magnitude.
Good looking car but that's more than some are worth.
Porker 944 is about $3k.
But it takes 13-18 hrs something of that magnitude.
Good looking car but that's more than some are worth.
The Spec twin disk in my C5 was around $1500 just for the clutch, by the time you figure out the upgraded clutch master to get rid of that plastic crap, a bleeder kit, some odds n ends, it got expensive quick. And that was just for a crappy SPEC clutch.
Pffft. Shop Merc parts. I need to get two proximity sensors for my car. Regular GM ones with the same part number from the manufacturer with a different plug are about $100. The Merc part is $900 each I need two and since it is an updated part I need a new harness for all the rear sensors. Ya this is adding up quick. These are not even "race parts". The continued price of being able to drive these types of cars.
Another universe I won't be venturing into............
mr2s2000elise said:From my Si forum:
That was painful to read... From all the people saying "buy your own parts and have a shop do it" (most shops will refuse to install customer supplied parts, for all sorts of reasons) to the guy who can gat an Exady lightweight everything on eBay (lower s0ec than OE stuff) and ranting about the labor therefore being $2600, via some sort of convoluted logic...
Horsepower costs money - in more ways than one.
I think one of the most telling aspects of this thread is the pervasiveness of the assumption that the figure must involve labor.
Isn't this the story how Lamborghini started makes sports cars? This is from memory or a dream so I may be completely wrong.
Ferruccio Lamborghini was a manufacturer of tractors and was doing OK for himself. OK enough that he owned a Ferrari. That Ferrari needed a clutch so he went to Ferrari to buy a clutch and he was going to put it in himself. He was shocked at the price of the clutch when he noticed the manufacturer of the clutch (some mark or label) was the same company that made clutches for the Lamborghini tractors. He knew how much he paid for these similar clutches and thought that he needed to be in the high end sports car business if this is what they charge for a clutch.
Here's a story that's a little different than what I recall but it is still a Ferrari clutch that got Lamborghini started in the sports car business.
@scott_h you're saying JG should start manufacturing his own sports cars........well he does own a lawn tractor.
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