[tom s]

I would say if a shop rebuilds your engine with forged rotating assm and hyd roller cam it would sell for the 7-8 thousand range without the tripower.That is with the shop doing everything and have invoice to prove it.Others can second guess me.Tom

[b-man]

Originally Posted by tom s

I would say if a shop rebuilds your engine with forged rotating assm and hyd roller cam it would sell for the 7-8 thousand range without the tripower.That is with the shop doing everything and have invoice to prove it.Others can second guess me.Tom

Agree.

However any engine either freshly built and never run or even a low miles nice performance engine are all a hard sell and lose value the minute you plunked down your cash to build them in the first place.

No matter what’s listed on the receipt nobody’s going to give you anything close to what you paid to build it, period. A 428 HO isn’t a high value engine that enters the realm of 421 Super Duty or 455 SD, 455 HO and 400 RAII/RAIV Ram Air round port engines that can bring 5 figures.

A nicely concourse restored 1966 Tri-Power may command up to $4000 from the right buyer but most nice complete running setups will be in the 2 to 3 thousand dollar range.

An average at best 1979 Trans Am that’s displaying non-stock personalized owner modifications (1976 facia painted semigloss black, etc.) may at best bring 20k, the 100k cars are almost non-existent and cost more than that much to build. Forget about putting your car into that high priced category, it’s simply unrealistic.

Since plenty of quite knowledgeable members have taken their time to present thoughtful guidance and solid advice and you’ve chosen to question or worse yet ignore it altogether I’m closing this thread, honestly I see no point in continuing on with this convoluted discussion.

I’m sorry to say it but this thread has turned into a complete waste of bandwidth.

Final take from what I’ve read here would be don’t build it yourself.

Closed.