Identification of this?

[MR.C]

What's the asking price?

[LiamB]

Currently 5k, I’m after something I can update and drop a zetec in just unsure if it’s a good start point

[Euan Hoosearmy]

There's a few threads on here about the cost of an engine swap. It may be cheaper to buy a car with the engine you want. It's not the cost of the engine that kills, it's all of the ancillaries.

[Captain Colonial]

14 minutes ago, LiamB said:

Currently 5k, I’m after something I can update and drop a zetec in just unsure if it’s a good start point

 

Without someone doing a comprehensive inspection, that's either fair or a pipe dream.  Sorry, but that's the truth of it.  Whatever you think an engine swap might cost, you can probably double it and add 50%, so perhaps £2.5k-ish in this case.  You could find more "genuine" Westfields for that much or a shade more.

 

“It's unwise to pay too much, but it's worse to pay too little. When you pay too much, you lose a little money - that's all. When you pay too little, you sometimes lose everything, because the thing you bought was incapable of doing the thing it was bought to do. The common law of business balance prohibits paying a little and getting a lot - it can't be done. If you deal with the lowest bidder, it is well to add something for the risk you run, and if you do that you will have enough to pay for something better.”

 

John Ruskin

[Captain Colonial]

3 minutes ago, Euan Hoosearmy said:

There's a few threads on here about the cost of an engine swap. It may be cheaper to buy a car with the engine you want. It's not the cost of the engine that kills, it's all of the ancillaries.

 

Beat me to it.