Now this is what I call a nice Bench Test Setup

[Rolf-Dieter ✝︎]

Anyone out there have a set up like it for our Pagoda Engine?

[Rolf-Dieter ✝︎]

Some day I like my engine to look like this wonder what it would cost me ... complete tear down and rebuild like new? Would $20K do the job? there is always the unknown ... I know it too well

Photo below taken by RM of an engine bay (the car was sold for over $200K US)

[Flyair]

R-D

I have no doubt that with $20K you could do better if you leave it with Dan

[Jonny B]

Don't do it like the RM picture, so many things wrong.

[mbzse]

Don't do it like the RM picture, so many things wrong

Very sage advise Jonny. Fortunately for any restoring aficionado, we have the M-B Factory picture out of the sales brochure (see attached).
Useful in many ways, to show surface finish, colour and which direction certain items were mounted at the factory.

Re: the RM pic you refer to, one would think that people now would use the "original waffle pattern style" firewall mat, as it has been available (as a repro) for a couple of years now. Makes such a visual difference.

The totally changed routing of the vacuum pipe from inlet manifold to brake booster on the RM car also does not go well with me    
/Hans in Sweden
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[Rolf-Dieter ✝︎]

Thank you Hans for the M-B Factory picture out of the sales brochure. Great reference!

Thank you everyone else!!! Any of you have been quoted prices for engine major rebuild (ball park numbers?). I've heard numbers like $12K to $15K of course there is always the unkown what one might find inside once taken apart.

I know it is a stuped question to ask "How much will it cost me?" My customers always asked me this question for major inspection of large rotating machinery. I always responded with disassembly and reassembly time and cost estimates (including a contingency even on the foregoing since we always found issues like frozen hardware to be drilled out, major re-alignment etc.) as for replacement parts it was always an unknown until clearances were recorded.

Perhaps a better question would be "what have you fellows paid recently for a major engine inspection/rebuild?

[Cees Klumper]

Rolf-Dieter,

Maybe you  can check with Metric Motors. A few years ago as I recall a full rebuild, top and bottom, was in the neighbourhood of $5 or 6 thousand. May have gone up a bit, but prices used to be quoted in their website. Add the cost of ahipping and you have your number.

I happen to have such an engine stand built specifically for our series engines, with even a tachometer.