Cool hey thanks. Only thing about AB long block is that it has everything on it that you need for complete overhaul. Turner's engine you have to piece meal. Thoughts?

 

lol no doubt sir! Hey I'm down wit it! But I may go with Atlantic British...there long block has everything associated w/ Block. I wouldn't have to go fishing for connecting parts! Thoughts?

 

 

There's not a huge way for a shop to cut costs on *quality* motors.

The interesting thing about buying a new motor or buying someone else's rebuilt motor is that you are still going to have to pull your old motor *out* of your Disco 2 (to install the new one).

Well, at that point you could take your old motor over to where your local racetrack kids are having all of their motors rebuilt from the track (because the true track kids will find the cheapest, highest quality engine rebuilder so that they have more money for track time).

I used to do that with my Nissan 240sx motors (4 cylinders). Sometimes those rebuilds labor+parts were as little as $450. Mind-blowingly cheap rebuilds and they'd stand up to extreme track abuse.

Or you could do the work yourself. I spent ~~ $2,000 in parts to rebuild my Disco 2 motor.

A shop like Turner or Atlantic British is going to give you a quality motor, and they are probably going to inspect and pressure test its block and heads which not every rebuilder will do.

So what I'm trying to point out is that you can pay for quality or you can take matters more into your own hands... but it probably isn't fair to ask a shop to deliver a quality rebuilt motor for much of a discount. There's just a crapton of labor for rebuilding a V8.

For example, our Rover V8s have 3 layers of piston rings (5 rings per piston). That's 40 rings! And you've got to mic 16 of them (each ring has a gap to handle thermal expansion and you have to measure that the ring gap is large enough for each cylinder).




Of course, then you are going to pay to reinstall the motor back into your Disco 2 (unless you do it yourself, of course!).