Engines on eBay

[Gelf VXR]

Seen a couple of engines for sale on ebay here in the UK

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Chevrolet-Freshly-Rebuil...

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Chevrolet-New-Forged-str...


Is the seller any one on here?

[ArnieVXR]

Seen these guys advertise before. Hats off to them for being able to put together a dyno'd stroker with all new parts for £8250, given the current exchange rate. Their labour costs must be very low.

Has anyone bought from them before or heard of their work?

[stevieturbo]

ArnieVXR said:

Seen these guys advertise before. Hats off to them for being able to put together a dyno'd stroker with all new parts for £8250, given the current exchange rate. Their labour costs must be very low.

Has anyone bought from them before or heard of their work?

To me the advert reads you are buying the engine, nothing more.

Any dyno time, ecu etc etc will be extra.

[steve2568]

Not too far from me all, I may be in need of an air con compressor so may have a spin down if the kettle is always on and see what they are all about

[ArnieVXR]

Even for a basic crate engine, I'd struggle to buy, ship and pay duties on the parts. Let alone assemble them. A 415cu short block is €5K from Summit Racing. That would end up being £5K stood in your garage. The CNC heads would be £1.5K. Then there's the intake, rocker covers, rocker assembly, etc, etc, etc.

I was adding up the cost of my LS2 6.8-stroker. Thought is was under £7K. Turns out I ended up paying quite a bit over £8K.

[anonymous-user]

Personally I don't understand the appetite for these oversized, stroked Frankenstein creations when OE engines are so good and fully developed. An LSA crate engine can make close to 800hp with nothing more than a cam and an LSX 376 is a fantastic platform for adding a pair of turbos for an 'easy' 1300 - 1500hp. Sometimes the end result is more than a sum of its parts.

[ArnieVXR]

Is that American BHP? There's no easy 1500hp to be made with petrol and an LSX376, unless your happy with replacing it regularly. Maybe those sort of numbers come with E85 or a 25% Methanol mix.

One eBay engines, there's a number of suspiciously attractive engine drop outs (LS3 and an LSA among them) up at the moment. Two different advertisers with almost identical wording and pictures that are clearly from the U.S. I'd avoid them...

[stevieturbo]

wormus said:

Personally I don't understand the appetite for these oversized, stroked Frankenstein creations when OE engines are so good and fully developed. An LSA crate engine can make close to 800hp with nothing more than a cam and an LSX 376 is a fantastic platform for adding a pair of turbos for an 'easy' 1300 - 1500hp. Sometimes the end result is more than a sum of its parts.

Because not everyone wants forced induction, some racing classes heavily penalise forced induction. Many kit cars will not have room for forced induction.

And I suspect all those wanting a n/a or n/a stroker engine at that money really dont want 800...or indeed 1300hp.

[raving]

If its a chap called Kyle I believe it will probably be a load of ste if its anything like the chap I know had done

One rattled like a bd & the other one st itself

Then someone rang me to say do you know this chap ? , Hes had a 2k payment and cant get hold of him

Edited by raving on Sunday 12th March 19:17

[Gelf VXR]

I did message the seller on ebay to ask a question, his name is indeed Kyle

[raving]

Gelf VXR said:

I did message the seller on ebay to ask a question, his name is indeed Kyle

There you go , order your scrap now ;-)

[stevieturbo]

raving said:

There you go , order your scrap now ;-)

Happens a lot here lol It's a shame though.