to the poster that mentioned 'two weeks' in and out.
here is the kind of work that sometimes gets done on major, big bux
expensive conversion jobs .... that go out in two weeks..
these are real examples..
the customer is not even notified that one of his syncro fuel tank
straps is 90 % rusted though.
( when the time to deal with it is when the engine and trans are out.
You can replace the lower tank straps with engine and trans in, but the
tank has to come out to do the upper trans straps...his was in bad
shape. And the conversion shop was 'right there' for hours. Never even
informed the customer, or gave him the opportunity to deal with it
during the job. )
( in a similar case.....big bucks job ....shop had the van 6 weeks, 3
of the four syncro gas tank straps were replaced with stainless ones,
but one rusty one was left in. How does that happen ? )
( same job ....not even getting 1/3rd throttle cable travel. When that
is fixed...throttle lever hangs up with throttle half open. )
back on the 'two weeks ' thing..
Relays left bouncing around on the ends of their wires under the back
seat. ( on an over $ 10K conversion job ).
A generic heater hose size hose used on a subaru engine oil
cooler..barely an inch from a header pipe..
when the correct part is the shaped genuine subaru hose. The generic
hose kinked, then split , from heat mainly, being so close to the header.
To do *really* neat good complete thorough, well sorted out engine
conversion work takes a ridiculous amount of time.
I have watched myself and a tech and wrench -savvy customer spend 80
full hours installing a subaru engine into his syncro van ..
and that was after the engine had run in another van ..after the wiring
harness and all the mounting and everything was figured out and done, .
The 'conversion' part of the job was well done..yet we put four and a
half 10 hour days into it ..the two of us.
that's like 150 man hours ..
just fine tuning the installation, never mind do the whole conversion.
It was nigh perfect when we finished.
On 4/20/2012 2:32 PM, Jean-Marc Spaggiari wrote:
Hi
I sent my car to a "specialist" Jan 3rd to do a subaru conversion.
It's a place where they are used to do conversions but not used to so
recent engines.
Let's say you have some bad luck and some parts are late or wrong.
Knowing that we are still talking about a specialist, how long is a
reasonable delay to do this conversion? I know Small cars is taking
about 2 weeks for a turbo conversion, so with some bad luck and
investigations required, what can be the worst case scenario? One
month? After that it's really abusing? Two months? Just want to have
an idea.
Thanks,
JM
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