Reply to "Transfer a race engine or build a new one ?"

George,

thanks for your reply.

Now to answer you questions :

I agree that taking the engine out and put a stock engine into the customised car would make it a sheep in wolves clothing. And that's a shame. On the other hand it would mean that I can keep them both and I'm afraid that if I have everything newly build that the black Pantera has to go in order to finance the race car.

Suppose I would have a new race engine build. How much USD would that cost taking in account that I have a new stock 351 C engine and who would be the best choice to do the job ? Would it be better to have it build in the U.S. and would I get enough information about the parts so that I can have it maintained by a local shop ?

I'm not very worried about the rules since the series I run have 3 divisions. A division stock engines, a division for engines with only part from the era the car was build and a division for engines that are heavily modified. The only thing that isn't allowed is a turbo engine.

The last question is the most difficult. I'm afraid that it will be impossible to get that information from the vendor since he was acting a an agent for an unknown owner. I have a lot of invoices but strangely mainly bodyparts and small parts but very little on the engine. This is also what I'm afraid of. Building the engine in and having to watch it blow because it wasn't purpose build. It's clear that this would be my worse nightmare because then you have to rebuild an engine and the value of the black Pantera is gone.

Maybe somebody on the forum here knows the car or even has build it. From the invoices I know that it was build in 2005.

Carlo