[DMCForum] Re: $1000 Kapac Engines

["therealdmcvegas" <dmcvegas@xxxxxxx>]

You sell short blocks & long blocks seperately?!? Hell, I had no idea!
Detail, and prices, please!

-Robert



--- In DMCForum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, James Espey <james@xxxx> wrote:
> They did have some - 50, according to the documents I found - PRV's 
that 
> were DeLorean-spec engines with starter, Ducellier alternator and 
a/c 
> compressor (no pressure plate) for $3475 each - this was back in 
late 
> 1983. In 1992 they were $4500 and in 1993 went up to $4975 (manual 
trans 
> engines). I can scan and post these documents if anyone wants to 
see them.
> 
> If Kapac ever sold any complete engines for $1000 or less, no one 
I've
> ever talked to has known about it, unless someone was "backdooring" 
them
> out of the Columbus warehouse. I'd be curious if this is something 
you
> heard or something you know firsthand.
> 
> I was told by someone, maybe Dick Ryan or Bruce Benson, that for a
> period of time CONSOLIDATED (not Kapac) also advertised a similar, 
but
> non-DeLorean-spec engine (B27's I think) in AutoWeek or Hemmings, at
> what price I don't know.
> 
> If anyone is interested, I can post the differences between 
the "Full",
> "Long Block" and "Short Block" DeLorean engines that are sold.
> 
> James
> 
> Marc wrote:
> 
> > And Bob, those engines that DMCH has stacks of used to
> > be for sale by KPAC for $1000 (sometimes LESS), fully
> > loaded! WITH the FI system, WITH the water pump, WITH
> > the alternator, all ready to just drop in the car.
> > When you remove all of those expensive parts, and try
> > to sell just a long block for 6K they wont move that
> > fast...

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