[Singleton]

1966 Tri-power setups generally sell for $1500-$2500, not $15,000-$25,000.....

[P@blo]

Jim Taylor did a write up in HPP many moons ago and proved the tri-power was slower compared to the 4brl quadrajet. It's cool to see one though but not an upgrade by any stretch. And not near as cool as a dual quad either.

You say rum running speed machine and we see big bubba written all over. Not really a big market for bubba out there either, investment wise just so you are aware. Guys want machine shop invoices and your fingers off type of deal but its your engine and can make it into a front yard planter for all I care.

[Gach]

So, let's say I would sell my motor with all the accessories, Plus the real Tri-power GTO set up, for 25 k

With out getting into a whole tutorial, I know you think what you have is worth allot of money, Thats never going to happen. I

[78w72]

Watching those high end auctions causes delusions of grandeur, its called barret jackson syndrome- Where guys with average or even very nice cars see a car the same year or type as theirs that is a super rare or super low mile original or no money spared top of the line restoration sell for crazy prices, then think their run of the mill not rare car with an average paint job or resto-mod is worth anywhere near as much as those cars. Then you get those guys thinking or claiming their car is worth anywhere near that price. It can ruin the market or be a fast reality check when the car doesnt sell or even get any tire kickers.

Same goes for engines, 428s are nice, but nobody really caress what year or vin# it is since once its out of the car it will never be original #'s matching again. The engine is worth the average market value that is less than half the stated $25k that butler gets for a fresh built engine with top of the line performance parts.

[Gach]

Mike my guess is, you don’t have the money to do the rebuild on this motor. Or better question is, whats your budget. ?

[242177P]

Originally Posted by Gach

Mike my guess is, you don’t have the money to do the rebuild on this motor. Or better question is, whats your budget. ?

He's filling out applications for credit cards, Harbor Freight and Lowes.

Except the websites he gave his personal and financial information to were actually 'ladingyang.com' and 'bannisterdome.xyz'. I expect there are already several debts (in Mike's name) that he has yet to become aware of. Calm before the storm.

[dataway]

Who's got 20 pages in pool?

[tooski]

Originally Posted by dataway

Who's got 20 pages in pool?

Here's my post trying to get it there.

[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.