Crate engines to assemble yourself

[patrickt]

Originally Posted by tcrist

You could not even quote the cost to the customer/owner.

Yeah, you could... but it would be expensive. FWIW, some of my contemporaries have opted for what they call dream/fantasy vacations. For example, you fly down with one of the Major League teams, you get to hang out with them, take batting practice with them, and pretend you're a major league ball player. It is not cheap, and you gotta be a real big fan to go for it. I could see Keith doing the same thing with one of his engine builds. You would fly down, hang out at the shop, participate in the engine build, take a boatload of pictures/videos, and it would add maybe a third more to the build cost. Frankly, I think it would be cool to do, but he's catering to a very slim market. To a lesser extent, most guys that have ERA do their car fly up there and wander around, gawk, ask dumb questions, gawk, make stupid jokes, gawk, and then fly back home. I'm sure they're thinking to themselves "man, there's somebody with more money than sense" and I think ERA just wraps that nuisance in to the price....