price of used engines

steptoe · Post by **steptoe** » Sat Dec 12, 2009 10:03 am

I have been amused at the price of some used engines or rather the wide price spectrum on one suppliers published prices. A mate used to work at a dealership where one of the vehicles with the near highest priced engine was sold , serviced and repaired with emphasis on repaired. He HATES one in particular. Funny, how in the same breathe he mentions a citrus fruit, or rather you didn't get just one, you got the whole tree!

Now, what have I also found on the list? Cheapest engine price from is $395 ! That is for an AU Ford 4.0. EJ22 at $795 up to the EJ25 at $1750. The turbo variants go up to 2250.

Then, what's this near the top of the high prices?? $4 2 5 0. You are thinking Luxury, prestige or high performance. Nah, seen Lexus 4.0 V8 for as little as $1000. Must be rare and hard to get a good one....a xxxnival ......I understand $4500 on an 05 Hilux 3.0litre Diesel but not much less for a people mover donk??

phillatdarwin · Post by **phillatdarwin** » Sat Dec 12, 2009 11:03 am

try to buy a kir v6 and u will be looking at around $8.000 just for a new one as all the 2hand ones are around 4000-5000 as thay will not last 50,000 from new a very bad engine as the liner are just glue in and over time that slip and blow the head gasket lek water in the oil engine rs.
as for inport engines in comes down to price on demand,If i was going to but a late model engine it is just as cheap to but a complete car out of japan iiport it for racing only .
remove all the parts and place on a car u are building and sell the rest .
as shipping is not that hi from japan to aus and u can get a complete car for about $500-$1500 with all the good bits on it .
for all up cost of about $3500 landed in Australia port ..
the importers are just ripping us all off in Australia for engines we buy .
just Google japan car sales or the auction and see what car go .
this is just from what i have look at on the net .

AlpineRaven · Post by **AlpineRaven** » Sat Dec 12, 2009 2:12 pm

It really depends where you go, if you go to pick a part style wreckers you could be spending around $150-$250 for 2nd hand engine.These prices are based as Melbourne wreckers, I know you can get EJ20 & EJ22 from Jollys in Dandy just under $200.
Cheers
AP

phillatdarwin · Post by **phillatdarwin** » Sun Dec 13, 2009 9:57 am

we do not have them up hear in darwin

steptoe · Post by **steptoe** » Sun Dec 13, 2009 11:38 am

Sort of raises questions. Are these engines so rare because they simply not getting wrecked in a way that engines can be saved, not many in the first place, or so damn needed due to other reasons the price goes up, portion of the price includes a warranty?

The Falcon 4.0 are so plentiful and generally don't die easily unless cooked or you fit an aftermarket dizzy in t that chews out the accessory drive shaft teeth - nasty! Even the buy one at any milk bar Commodore V6 is 300 bucks more than the Falc motor

AlpineRaven · Post by **AlpineRaven** » Sun Dec 13, 2009 1:12 pm

It really annoies me when I see good engines like EJ20 going in a crashed that I saw a few weeks ago only done 185000kms
Cheers
AP

tex · Post by **tex** » Mon Dec 14, 2009 12:33 pm

Yeah but I've had to install one of those $300 falcon engines. It was straight from a taxi and you could turn the harmonic balancer with your hands. We put it in the bloke drove down the road turned around and decided to rebuild the original engine. Although at picked I've seen the whole car go for half that. The exception being they buy the taxis for the gas system so they pay more for them.

steptoe · Post by **steptoe** » Mon Dec 14, 2009 12:58 pm

yeah, you gotta wonder the labour cost of removing engine and its fluids, storage, pack and send . Sorta makes engine itself really cheap!!

T'subaru · Post by **T'subaru** » Mon Dec 14, 2009 1:11 pm

Fortunatly I decided to get my rx on the road for winter and went shopping for a low mile import ea82t. I wasnt happy with what the importer had in stock and ended up leaving with an ej20t for future use and also for 100.00 less than an ea. Must be demand and rareity as they told me ea82 na's go all day at almost 1000.00. I was quoted 795.00 for an ea82t, paid 695.00 for the ejt. Begining of thanksgiving week my mid 80's toyota 3/4 ton 2wd dropped a valve and I thrashed for 6 days to get the rx on the road. Dont plan on buying used ( unless import ) and soon will be converting to 22re from a celica gt I have sitting. No pricing on web site but here is a link if curious. I think I would rebuild before buying used..same as it never was.
http://www.foreignengines.com/

banger · Post by **banger** » Mon Dec 14, 2009 8:56 pm

yeah i got a ej25 quad for $770 low klm import
and quoted 1250 for a ea82

phillatdarwin · Post by **phillatdarwin** » Wed Dec 16, 2009 10:12 am

it is so nuts that a et82 cost so much

steptoe · Post by **steptoe** » Wed Dec 16, 2009 1:07 pm

You'd think the original cars fitted with EA82Ts would be so thin on the ground that the number of EA82Ts available would out number the cars dropping the price..... but some of us 'understand' wreckers and their pricing policy

YouTube · Post by **El_Freddo** » Wed Dec 16, 2009 4:26 pm

It would be the opposite steptoe - as the number of cars to wreck drops, the prices of the motors that come from them go up... Its a strange supply and demand thing - not a consumer supply and demand, rather the importers supply and demand. It makes sense to me.

Cheers

Bennie

Cliff R · Post by **Cliff R** » Thu Dec 17, 2009 3:26 pm

Just been through an engine replacement for a (to use terminology already used) xxxnival or kir v6.
All up just over $9100. Of this $5100 was labor and gasket/bolts which had to be from the original maker of the car (as above) or warranty was void.
This was a brand new short engine imported by a VIC company from Korea and reconditioned heads from the same company.
The $5100 as said was to put it all together and back in the car.

phillatdarwin · Post by **phillatdarwin** » Fri Dec 18, 2009 11:21 am

i are u going to sell it before it drops it guts agean
we fitted one of then in a car 3 months a go and in 3 week the water pump drop it guts .
it is not the heads that go no them it is in the block as the cyc move in the block .
the glue just lets go of the liners.

Cliff R · Post by **Cliff R** » Fri Dec 18, 2009 4:45 pm

In our case the new short engine was bought solely instead of any used/old block as this new engine is of the superseded type without the earlier issues of the cylinder sleeves moving.

phillatdarwin · Post by **phillatdarwin** » Fri Dec 18, 2009 6:24 pm

did thay fix it with the new engines
i did not think the new block are the same as the old as the one we did was not the same.
just do not buy one >fixed