16mmclaws5

And your car looks so cool , I'm trying to figure out, since I have to pay my mechanic for labor because 1. I don't have engine pulling tools and 2. Never done it before and don't know how. My mechanic says it will be 11.7 hrs of labor and it will cost about 1000$ for the swap, the motor I found is only 500 bucks and has good compression but the mileage was unknown and it was a 12V V6 that they had, anyway I'm wondering how much more labor it would cost me to do the 1.8 T and what the benefits would be. Thanks for putting up with my newbie questions. And hybrid nice to know you are close, what area do you live in?

grillage

I had a 94 Cabriolet with a bad engine and did my first engine swap with it.

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It isn't really all that hard to pull one out and put another in. When you get into a different engine it gets complicated quickly.

Hybrid_Hatch

I'm in Sugarhouse.

16mmclaws5

Cool, I'm in Farmington, we should meet up sometime and give me some advice, and I want to see your car and more of what you've done, it looks awesome😎

varia

if Dave takes you under his wings, you are set1

16mmclaws5

I am going to buy the engine from the scrapyard sometime this week, does anyone know if they usually negotiate on their prices at all?

grillage

Worst they can say is no.

I negotiated on my 012 transmission a couple years back.

The yard should be happy to sell a 12v V6 at all.

16mmclaws5

Update. I bought the motor, I was able to talk him down to 400 and Im excited to get my car running right, hope after the engine work I won't have to pour any more money into it to to get it on the road.

CRAZY_RUSSIAN

dang, thats a pricey 12v. make certain to use G12/13 coolant

16mmclaws5

Really? What is the going rate for 12Vs?