Originally Posted by
BoilerUpXFire
Josh, I love you man, but I need to be brutally honest here...
If you were offered much more than 20-25 for your car, you should take the money and run all the way to buying that E55, it is simply not worth that much in any sane person's eyes. You have a car that would get beat by a lightly modded SRT-6 for $10K more money. Rare, yes, valuable, maybe. After all, Bob, the first NA V8 had upgraded EVERYTHING on his car, C32 brakes, SRT front, fully adjustable suspension, wheels, etc and he got well under $20k and if I remember it was for sale for a while. Remember, you are talking about either buying a car or performing a major modification that can not be financed through typical sources.
Well said John, I agree. I didn't and wont take the offer because this one's mine. Too much I've done to it, good and bad.
Regarding Bob's though, it's a poor example. Yes he modded it, but it didn't start by the key... His push button was 3-7 tries to start every single time.... Had the stock TCU so was torque limited at 290? going in?.... His cruise control didn't work, and it never would have worked with a manual... So I respect Bob, I really do. Him and Jim were my inspiration, but these would be full 100% factory turn key with the necessary adjustments for it.
Originally Posted by
BoilerUpXFire
I was offered a full SRT-6 swap retaining my manual trans for $10-12K turn key, I was also offered a 55K conversion around $20-25 turn key. There were many members here who were offered these conversions, and you see there are only a few in the world. You are talking about doubling the purchase price of the car for an NA V8, and I don't think many will bite. The ones that really want to do it, will do it themselves, they will still need you for ECU work, which is an invaluable service you are providing, and I thank you for it!
Who in the hell were offering these!!??(pretty sure I know), Good thing you didn't take anyone up on it lol. I would have to be in IN finishing it for you right now lol.
Those are very close to my prices as well. If I'm dumping a motor in, that's obviously a lot cheaper since I don't need to go out and buy a car lol.
The difference between those that were offered before, and those I'm offering now... I proved the manual capability, and to date, me and JimmySkullz are the only two 100% factory rolling V8's. (The guy in Germany with a manual wont confirm). Other's with V8's said they were, but I mean 100%, not 99%. Cruise control was factory, and therefor counts lol.
Originally Posted by
BoilerUpXFire
I am not trying to be a Debbie Downer, just don't want to see you quitting your day job to persue something you may only do a handful of times...
(don't hold it against me when you are pricing my future ECU work LOL
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I appreciate it John, I will be quitting my day job, just not yet. I'm already pulling more in monthly than I do working for the government lol. It will just take a year or two of sustaining before I take the leap of getting the business fully supporting my family.
There really is a ton I have to offer for the ECU work, it surprises even me lol. But I'm trying to expand. I want to invest in Dimsport so that I can tune, invest in a rolling dyno, and between those, my extremely talented welder/fabricator, and the ECU capability, I'm hoping to have a really stong business. I haven't even done much talking about it on the MB forum, the guy in Illinois saw my sig and saw a guy tell me how easy it was to copy info from ECU to ECU and my response to said guy lol.
And no worries man, no grudge here. I need the opinion's of others, I just need people to understand where i'm coming from, and how what I'm offering is different.
I really need to make it to a GTG, it would really help my case if I let people drive this beast..