Crate engines to assemble yourself

[patrickt]

Originally Posted by ERA Chas

G. Forget all the creative ideas about seminars, sleep-overs, satellite offices, hand-holdings etc. I think your intent is to have less to do with the customer-the suggesters don't get that. They want to be at your supper table....

No, you don't have to take me home for dinner. BUT... I would expect a good three days of work, three hours in the morning and another three or so hours in the afternoon, along with a long lunch. Put me up in a decent hotel; doesn't have to be fancy -- dinner I can handle on my own. During the day hit all the basics on the build but also highlight the "obscure" points that my FE has, like that goofy oil plug behind the distributor, along with fun trivia like the jiggle plug, along with an outline of the most commonly made FE mistakes. Entertain me with a few war stories, examples of the stupid things customers have done, etc. and I would feel quite comfortable in bumping a $15k FE build up to a $20k price tag. Most of us would be doing this for the fun of it; most of us are not not going to rebuild an FE, nor are we going to go in to the engine building business.