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Re: B-body 4-speed conversion cost?
[Re: BobAsh]
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11/25/13 06:33 PM
11/25/13 06:33 PM
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JohnRR
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Joined: Jan 2003
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A Banana Republic near you.
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Hi. I have a friend who has a 1968 Road Runner clone, and he would like a four-speed tranny. He's young, with lots of spare time, handy with tools, but with really a small budget.
He's from Czech Republic, like me, so: - even professional work is usually cheaper here than in the USA - shipping is kinda expensive, but it's possible to save by shipping all items at once in a container, or in the trunk of some car being imported. So it's really prefferable to find lots of stuff on one place.
Restoring stuff is not a problem, originality is not a problem. If an A833 from a 1970s truck works the same as the one in a Road Runner, it's good enough for us. Ugly stuff needing work to be useable is perfectly fine.
He was looking at $3,000 conversion kits online, and was ready to ditch the whole idea, as this is too much money for him. I say it can be done much cheaper, with lots of work invested. But how much cheaper?
Thanks a lot!
Once you add in shipping not much less ....
Unless you have a US contact/shipper that will collect all the parts you buy ... one piece at a time .... after spending hundreds of hours online looking for the cheapest parts possible.
That said 3k is insane unless that includes all rebuilt/refurbed parts ...
Last edited by JohnRR; 11/26/13 09:39 PM.
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